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
Photokem - Tomatoes Things were passing by me today. I was looking for something to share with you, digging through these odd digital crates of songs and records, waiting for something to reach out. Just at it seemed like nothing was going to do so today, something shifted. Sounds crept
"A desire to be unanchored and in a state of constant movement has plagued me my whole life and yet is manifest within me alongside a paradoxical but equally profound desire for ‘home’. The two seem to need each other like demanding co-dependent siblings," Joanna Pocock writes in
Ratboys - Burn It Down As Singin' To An Empty Chair, the new album from Chicago's Ratboys, runs on from its spiky outset, through a series of charming, occasionally boisterous songs, you get an ever-increasing feeling of satisfaction. For more than a decade now, the band have
The day I speak with Courtney Marie Andrews, in a shiny hotel lobby on the wild Welsh coast, as Autumn bleeds into Winter, is the same day that her new album, Valentine, is announced to the world. In the photograph that accompanies the news, Courtney is seen on a cliff-top,
Lande Hekt - Lucky Now We've reached the period of winter where I'm thinking a lot about light. Sometimes I feel infatuated by its presence, mostly by its lacking. Last week I took myself out to the west coast for a couple of nights away and
Gia Margaret - Everyone Around Me Dancing It's been so long since I wrote out the reasons for Gia Margaret's There's Always Glimmer being my favourite album of 2018, that I can no longer find the piece itself. Lost to the weeds of some
And it's a doozy! Featuring new music from the likes of Courtney Marie Andrews, Natalie Jane Hill, Charlotte Cornfield, Bill Callahan and more, Episode 7 is available to stream right now on our Mixcloud page. I even bought one of those silly little microphones, in the hope it
Ye Vagabonds - On Sitric Road And I remember that first evening Singing John Prine till dawn Round the iron stove on Sitric Road With my big wool coat on Feet upon the chair Curled up like a newborn child Peaking out under your hair I felt lucky for a
Clara Mann's Rift LP is a gift of song, a collection of threadbare folk tunes that seems to have drifted in from some other time and place entirely. It's not just nostalgia – though the weight of years passed seems to weigh heavily on the album'
In the eight years since Belgian composer Christina Vantzou released her stunning album, No.4, I've not knowingly listened to anything else from her catalogue. Not a deliberate evasion, sometimes that's just the way of things. I truly love that record, I've spent hours
Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell A day to be truly treasured when we can share brand new music from Charlotte Cornfield, as well as news of a brand new album on the horizon. Unveiled today, via its video below, 'Hurts Like Hell' is the title track from