Lisa O Piu – Behind The Bend

Lisa O Piu is part of what appears to be an uprising of female folk-inspired artists. However, she follows not the favoured combination of folk with pop, but an out-and-out pagan folk style that is very much her own. … Read More

Wang Chung – Abducted By The 80s EP

Re-emerging from the 80s Wang Chung – the project led by Jack Hues, which with Dance Hall Days left an indelible mark (and of refined quality) on the easies decade of the last millennium. The new album is the … Read More

The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang

If there is one thing that gladdens my heart more than the post-school coffee and New York Dolls ritual I’ve cultivated, it is coming home to find a new CD by The Gaslight Anthem enthroned upon a pile of upstairs’ … Read More

Ryan Adams To Release Previously Unreleased Albums

Ryan Adams has announced that he is set to release a series of previously unreleased albums.

In a message to fans on his official Facebook page, Adams firstly revealed how he had got a new Ryan Adams & The Cardinals … Read More

The Amazing – Wait For A Light To Come

Falling somewhere between folk and rock, Wait For A Light To Come is the follow up to Swedish quartet The Amazing’s 2009 self-titled debut album. Only six tracks long, the record is what you would call short and … Read More

Night Of Sevens – The Flood Sessions

Night Of Sevens are a band that call themselves a “feral rock ‘n’ roll” outfit releasing part one of their series entitled ‘The Flood Sessions’. My iTunes insists on classifying them as folklore… this could be interesting.

My first … Read More

Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here

Anathema comes from a selection of Metal, Goth crossbreeds like Paradise Lost they have gathered a huge fanbase from over the years and like their counterparts they also come from the UK. While other bands in the doom genre … Read More

Mountain Man – Made The Harbor

Mountain Man release their awaited debut album on Bella Union, the label responsible for bringing incredible talented artists to our knowledge.

The girls – Molly erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath – belong to this category. Their album, … Read More

Mary Gauthier – The Foundling

The acclaimed songwriter Mary Gauthier releases her 6th album ‘The Foundling’ on Proper Records in the UK.

This album is about abandon: “I was born to an unwed mother in 1962 and adopted shortly thereafter,” Mary Gauthier explains. “When … Read More

Elizabeth Cook – Welder

Country music tastes of America, it’s a fact. And you can feel the atmospheres of Southern States in Elizabeth Cook’s fifth album, even if she comes from Florida, a place not often associated to farmers’ work, straw, pipes and … Read More