It’s a bold move to put your catchiest song near the end of an album, where fickle listeners might well miss it. But on her new record, Caitlin Canty takes that chance. It is, indeed, a gentle and generous boldness that characterises Quiet Flame, which spurns electric instruments and drums, and which, in doing so, draws the...
Gregory Alan Isakov is one talented fellow. He writes bruising songs, sings in a weathered voice and has a knack for writing a melody that stays with you for a long time. He also has heart, a deep lying sense of community and a keen eye for doing the right thing. Back in 2012, when his song...
Will Oldham seems to have a million personas, with Bonnie “Prince” Billy being the one he returns to most often. More than that, he records in so many styles, with so many people, it’s sometimes hard to know what to expect. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You lays everything on the line, a window into the soul of...
“They said I should stick to you like glue, after what the two of us went through” The Miserable Rich’s new release, ‘Glue’, is a song unlike anything James de Malplaquet had ever written before. Deeply personal, emotionally raw, it deals with the trauma he and his wife Sarah faced after the death of their baby boy...
Memories are funny things, and while Snows of Yesteryear clearly understand the past, they also have a grasp on the present, creating an album that blends decades, dancing on and finding drama in surprising places. This is a most audacious release, both soft and understated, while filled with drama and heartbreak. It is a most self-assured beginning,...
Another summer, another Cambridge Folk Festival set in the neatly contained grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall Park, Cambridge. A full weekend of music, talks, workshops and general merriment begins with gusto on the Thursday evening. Opening Stage 2 for the weekend is four-piece Scottish band Gnoss, whose pacey set of upbeat traditional songs and contemporary originals charms...
Colin MacIntyre’s ninth studio album, and seventh as Mull Historical Society, sees the Scottish islander collaborate with a range of best-selling and award-winning authors who provided the words from which he weaved the 14 tracks on show. Several took the route one approach of writing about their personal writing rooms, though the results surpass the simplicity of...
Sometimes you have to change things up, and when the pandemic struck Darlingside had to figure out a new way to work, resulting in Everything Is Alive. The old ways of recording simply wouldn’t work, and with Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft locked down hither and yon, a new approach was needed. They...
Developed in the aftermath of a sudden and difficult break-up, it could be easy to peg Madeline Kenney’s new album as one littered with ‘I miss you’s’ and ‘you hurt me’s’; the all too familiar break-up pop which pervades much of today’s chart-toppers. A New Reality Mind, however, is anything but. This is an album where ‘you’...
Allegra Krieger keeps throwing you for a loop, and every time you think you have her figured out, you haven’t a clue, which is what makes I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane such a fascinating experience. You think you’re playing checkers and she’s play chess. From gentle choices both instrumentally and vocally she throws in...
Nicki Nicole is letting an old lover know exactly what he missed out on. The Argentine singer just released...
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