and pain will be on every map, just like North is and pain will be in every year, just like August... ...is such a perfect turn of phrase you wonder how nobody has ever written it into song before. Bruised and understated, drifting out into the evening from the mouth
Fionn Regan is one of those songwriters that I'll always have time for. We're creeping towards 20 years since the release of his all-timer of a debut album The End of History (released 2006) and while nothing since has quite grabbed me in the same way,
'epilogue' is, suitably, the closing track on Pale Spring's most recent EP, murmuration. the lower-case letters are deliberate, the titles are deliberate, the whole thing quietly leaking out into the world like the palest of murmurations, just enough to volume to catch your ear, just enough
I'd been meaning to check out the new EP from London's Imogen and the Knife since seeing a flurry of excitement around the release of its first single earlier this year. The EP finally dropped last week and it makes good on such buzz, a beautifully
somnambulant - adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sleepwalker As a musician, composer, visual artist, and poet, Keaton Henson has spent more than a decade releasing beautiful, often tremendously sad works into the world, enhancing his reputation as a truly unique artist while rarely playing live or committing to many
We first found Memorial through their collaboration with Lomelda, the project of Hannah Read who we've championed for many a year here on GFP. 'Guardian' one of the single from Memorial's Redsetter, was a particularly beautiful moment in an album truly full of them.
For nearly three decades now Yoni Wolf has been crafting songs and records from the deepest part of his idiosyncratic mind, twisting words and pictures into colourful knots and releasing them in the form of a question. The Well I Fell Into, the eighth full-length WHY? LP, will be released
Though there was an excellent solo album from Al Menne last year, it's been almost a full five years since we last heard from Great Grandpa, so long in fact that we'd just about given into believing that we'd maybe never hear from them
We've been long-time fans of Sinai Vessel, the recording project of Asheville, North Carolina's Caleb Cordes. Since the release of 2017's Brokenlegged LP, Cordes has quietly assembled a collection of songs as warm and playful as they are heavy-hearted. There's a raw
Quickly skipping past any potential jokes given recent news from the UK, 'The Fences of Stonehenge' is, in fact, the brand new single from New York band Wild Pink, the collective led by John Ross who we've been writing about on GFP since their 4 Songs
Just something frayed and beautiful for your Monday listening today. Lifted from a newly-announced album, 'Late Fragment' is a gorgeous instrumental from Dialect, the recording project of Andrew Hunt and the follow-up to 2021's Under~Between LP. Gently skewed and effortlessly pretty, the new track is
Pull me apart Put me back together again If any two lines epitomised Cassandra Jenkins' astonishing breakthrough album An Overview of Phenomenal Nature it's those above. A gorgeous reflection on the triptych journey of loss, grief, and regrowth, it came at a time when Jenkins was all