Another four weeks of new songs and sounds and sentiments, wrapped-up and ribbon-bowed into a sprawling two-hour-plus megamix, from me to you. Some of these are part of an album that was released in April, others are singles from albums yet to be released; all found a way to crack
Mildred – Fenceline The excellent new record from Mildred appeared last week. A four-piece from Oakland, California, they describe themselves as "four singers and four songwriters", which probably means that their greatest trick is finding a way to collate those various tones and visions into one beautifully cohesive set
The Love I Want: A conversation with Charlotte Cornfield Introduction & interview by Tom Johnson Photography by Sara Melvin I'd arrived in Cork early, in the whispering undercurrent of a morning, on what felt then like the first day of Autumn. Waiting to be collected from the airport,
There's a moment, a minute or so into the third track of Louis Gardner's new album, where everything fell into place for me. We can call it an unlocking, a shifting of the light; that moment you look for when spending time with something new, a
Hello, hello. Two new albums, released today, one new single that lingered. Three new pieces from me to you, shared with the hope they find you well, shared with the hope that something here resonates. Happy listening... Wendy Eisenberg - Wendy Eisenberg When Wendy Eisenberg moved from Western Massachusetts to
Hi friends and followers, Spring is here, the light is longer, wonderful new music keeps arriving and arriving. I hope to have more time this month to write about it, but for now here is a brand new monthly megamix, featuring more than two-hours worth of songs that appeared as
I'm out on the very west coast of Scotland this week, in an old cottage, warmed only by the fire. Out across the field, over the dunes, the sea is just a few minutes walk away. You can hear the waves breaking when the wind is right. There
A frequent question that Craig Finn asks his guests on his How I Remember It podcast is whether they view music seasonally, saving specific records for a specific time of the year. A fair amount say that they don't, that they don't hear music in such
Released in full today, True is the new album from Tenderness, the romantic-pop project from Katy Beth Young. Young has spent the past decade and more as part of both Peggy Sue and the Deep Throat Choir and True is her first full-length solo album. The ten songs here find
Carla dal Forno - Going Out We've been covering Carla dal Forno for close to ten years now, ever since the release of You Know What It's Like all the way back in late 2016. Enigmatic and always deeply engaging, dal Forno crafts a subtle type
It's called a megamix because it's huuuuge... Available to stream now, dive into a new mix featuring over 2 hours of music that revealed itself over the 28 days of February. So many good songs from so many good albums – some already released, some waiting in
I've been noticing death a lot recently. I don't mean that to be morbid, although I suppose it has to be. First a relative of a close friend, a colleague's aunt, a lovely man I worked with over the past couple of years, the