One song, shared daily. Subscribe today... ~ I just took a proper pause from the day to read this beautiful essay from Niko Stratis, one of my very favourite music writers. I almost put 'music' in parentheses there because Niko so often uses life in all its messiness and
One song, shared daily. Subscribe today... ~ A prolific and singular artist, some seven years have passed since the release of O'Neil's self-titled album back in 2017. Despite this, TJO has remained a relentless and enigmatic force, releasing a skewed covers album, as well as numerous collaborations,
One song, shared daily. Subscribe today... ~ One of our favourite burgeoning UK labels, Hand In Hive have a strong but tender identity, releasing great albums from the likes of Dama Scout, Wyldest, AO Gerber, Jemima Coulter and more since their 2016 launch. Having recently taken a short sabbatical, the label
It's somewhat fitting that the very first email we received after announcing 3/6/5 was regarding the release of Soft Power, a brand new album from NYC composer and guitarist Ezra Feinberg. That term, soft power, quite neatly wraps up the kind of music we like to
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