I haven't fully managed to wake up today. Neither has the day itself, a blanket of grey and rain that feels oppressive in its relentless smothering. In this environment, the new album from Italy-via-London composer Maria Chiara Argirò comes beautifully alive, lacing the heavy atmosphere with its own
I've been away all week, in Sicily, a small break from the day-to-day, a few days of reading, eating, aimless wandering around towns and cities, trying to find their secrets in the little time we have. This morning, our final morning, we were woken early by an orange
The comparisons that led to me opening an email about the forthcoming album from Jackie West and the kind of reference points I'll always spend the time to investigate: Karen Dalton, Sibylle Baier, Vashti Bunyan, Jessica Pratt. That and the fact that the album was arriving courtesy of
All Of This Is Chance, my favourite album of 2023, begins with Lisa O’Neill on a hillside, muddied and wind-swept. You get the feeling that had it stayed only there, singing of the things it could see and feel, it would still offer something brilliant and peculiar, however, when
A meandering folk masterpiece from its first soft purr of guitar, Jake Xerxes Fussell's Good and Green Again was one of 2022's finest long-players, melding his expert guitar playing with a bruised and wooded voice that drew deep into its world with barely a flicker of
As I write this, too deep into April to really make sense, the world outside my window is a wash of grey. Streaked by rain, and save for a window lit up by the orange glow of lamplight, everything else is a variation of that shade: from the garden below,
three / six / five is a daily newsletter about curious music. subscribe today :) ~ Anything that introduces itself with a stab of piano like the one at the beginning of 'sycamore skylight' has got me. If it's science or magic I'm not sure, but there'
If we think of music as encompassing the whole gamut of human emotion, then it's epicentre – it's beating heart, if you will – can be found directly between pleasure and pain, sorrow and elation. Dig into that core and you'll find the sweet pop music
003: Mike Lindsay - table (feat. Anna B Savage) Inspired by a 122-year-old dining table in relation to Panpsychism - the idea that every object in the world has a consciousness of some degree - the creepingly enigmatic 'table' is the third single to be shared from Mike
Editors note: Apparently the songs/videos don't embed in the email version of these blog posts so I'll include a direct link to listen from now on "We'll sit here with the last of the light," Jess Ribeiro sings in the opening
Welcome to the very first post of three / six / five, the new project from Gold Flake Paint. Thank you so much for choosing to be here... No strangers to guest appearances, having collaborated with Julien Baker, J Mascis, and more over the past few years, the excellent Wild Pink turn
Well, here we go... A little shy of GoldFlakePaint's 14th (fourteenth) year of existence, today we launch three / six / five, a brand new iteration of GFP – a spring-like seedling, and a carefully curated new chapter. Having been on something of a ~hiatus~ since publishing Issue 10 of our