Country/Americana

The Weather Station - Ignorance

Released 5th February 2021. Tamara Lindeman's fifth outing as The Weather Station see the Canadia...

Released 5th February 2021. Tamara Lindeman's fifth outing as The Weather Station see the Canadian singer reconfigure her folk-influenced sound into sleek art-pop on an album which addresses 'climate grief' with a jazzy theatricality and instant hooks. "Shades of Talk Talk and Sensual World-era Kate Bush glimmer through Tamara Lindeman's comeback, which reinvents the Canadian folk-rock outfit as art-pop aesthetes with a sharply surreal line in political commentary." - The Guardian “sophistica...

Chris Thile - Laysongs

Released 4th June 2021. ‘By the time he was a teenager, Chris Thile was already a bluegrass prodi...

Released 4th June 2021. ‘By the time he was a teenager, Chris Thile was already a bluegrass prodigy on mandolin; he’s since evolved into a MacArthur Grant-winning, genre-defying musical genius.’ – NPR ‘The virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile is that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical.’ – Guardian Nonesuch Records releases mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile’s Laysongs.  The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his ...

Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley - Broken Mirro...

CD Released 9th April 2021. Vinyl Released 14th May 2021. Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection is a...

CD Released 9th April 2021. Vinyl Released 14th May 2021. Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection is a timely callout to the power of collaboration, of kindred spirits connecting in crowded rooms. More important, though, is this collision of two profoundly Southern artists, meeting to shed expectations of generation and genre, scene and situation and exchange truth, wisdom, and energy. The real world is more complicated than a pretty digital picture, bowdlerized of blemishes. As Broken Mirror: A S...

Israel Nash - Topaz

Released 12th March. "Music can be the space where people think--even just for a few minutes," sa...

Released 12th March. "Music can be the space where people think--even just for a few minutes," says Israel Nash. "The space is not about changing their lives or political views or their party ticket. It's about creating something that prompts reflection in a moment--and those reflections have other chain reactions."Nash is sitting outside in the sun, thinking. It's something he does often, looking out over endless Texas hills that surround his family's rural home. He's thought a lot over the ...

Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T.

Released 19th March 2021. "On August 20, 2020 the world lost an amazing light with the passing of...

Released 19th March 2021. "On August 20, 2020 the world lost an amazing light with the passing of Justin Townes Earle. Justin was a vibrant songwriter who could play the blues, country, and rock n roll all in the same song.  In his short career, Justin released eight albums and one EP that all manage to sound classic and yet inventive.   Justin's father, Steve Earle, pays tribute to his son by recording an album of songs written by Justin titled, J.T.  The album consists of ten Justin Townes ...

Lambchop - Showtunes

Released 21st May 2021. SK says: 'Strikes the sweet spot between the bubbling electronics and voc...

Released 21st May 2021. SK says: 'Strikes the sweet spot between the bubbling electronics and vocoder of 'FLOTUS' and the stately, orchestrated alt-country the Nashville outfit perfected across their earlier albums.' Kurt Wagner's signature brittle baritone is back, but that doesn't mean we're going to get a nostalgic Alt Country album. Showtunes is a continuation of Lambchop's explorations of new sound worlds and opens up another chapter. Each track is an exciting journey with an uncertain d...

Will Stratton - The Changing Wilderness

Released 7th May 2021. Will Stratton’s rich catalogue is proof that the Hudson Valley folk musici...

Released 7th May 2021. Will Stratton’s rich catalogue is proof that the Hudson Valley folk musician thrives on exploration and reflection. Chart his trajectory over his previous six albums and you’ll find a songwriter not content to stay comfortable or do the same thing twice. From his 2007 debut What the Night Said, which he released aged 20, to 2014’s Gray Lodge Wisdom, a resilient and gorgeous LP which documented his bout with cancer, as well as 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, a de facto love-let...

Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It

Released 25th June 2021. “I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden M...

Released 25th June 2021. “I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It, out March 26, 2021, on Merge Records. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world—or my world—in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in o...