Folk

LUMP - Animal

Released 30th July 2021. ‘Animal’ was a word Laura Marling threw into a lyric simply to meet a rh...

Released 30th July 2021. ‘Animal’ was a word Laura Marling threw into a lyric simply to meet a rhythm. But it seemed to capture the mood of the new record, and of LUMP as a whole. “There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild,” she says. “And also it fed into the idea we had from the start of thinking of LUMP as a kind of representation of instincts, and the world turned upside down.” It is something childlike and grotesque and filled with possibility, the...

Spiers & Boden - Fallow Ground

Expected Release 16th September 2021. Vinyl due 26th November. By the time John Spiers & Jon...

Expected Release 16th September 2021. Vinyl due 26th November. By the time John Spiers & Jon Boden had hung up their highly regarded hats as the Spiers & Boden duo in 2014 they had earned a place in the hearts of the folk audience that few could rival.  Described by The Guardian as 'the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene', Spiers & Boden first rocketed onto the music scene in 2001, quickly winning a clutch of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and going on to take the folk sce...

Sharon Corr - The Fool & The Scorpion

Expected Release 24th September 2021. With two solo albums under her belt, Sharon looks ahead to ...

Expected Release 24th September 2021. With two solo albums under her belt, Sharon looks ahead to her third studio album, The Fool & The Scorpion which will be released on the 24th of September 2021 and features 10 brand new compositions. Sharon is famed for being the violin playing member of the hugely successful Irish pop-rock band The Corrs who sold in excess of 45 million albums, toured arenas and stadiums across the globe and became a household name on every continent. Driven by songw...

Gerry Rafferty - Rest In Blue

Released 3rd September 2021. From 2006, Gerry started work on a new album on and off, but sadly p...

Released 3rd September 2021. From 2006, Gerry started work on a new album on and off, but sadly passed away in 2011. His daughter, Martha Rafferty, sought to complete a project started by father, culminating in Rest In Blue. Many of the demos left by Gerry included multiple layers of synths, which Martha stripped back to showcase his immense vocal ability. The result is an album brimming with raw emotion, and a quintessential collection of blues, rock, and folk. Some of the demos date back as...

David John Morris - Monastic Love Songs

SK says: 'Morris' vocals recall a wounded Lloyd Cole. His first album without Cornish alt-folk ac...

SK says: 'Morris' vocals recall a wounded Lloyd Cole. His first album without Cornish alt-folk act Red River Dialect behind him was recorded after a months-long stay in a Buddhist retreat in Nova Scotia.' Debut solo album by the Red River Dialect songwriter. Recorded at the Hotel2Tango, Montreal, by Howard Bilerman. Featuring Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Shearwater) on drums and Thierry Amar (GYBE!, ASMZ) on bass, with guest appearances from Tom Relleen (RIP) (Tomaga, Melos Kalpa),...

Peter Knight's Gigspanner - From Poets To Wives

Released 16th April 2021. Peter Knight is a well known folk musician and a former member of Briti...

Released 16th April 2021. Peter Knight is a well known folk musician and a former member of British folk rock supergroup Steeleye Span. Peter left Steeleye in 2013 and after a short time with Feast of Fiddles he started his own band Peter Knight's Gigspanner which has grown and grown over the years and even has a larger band called Peter Knights Gigspanner Big Band. Here we focus on the smaller version of Peters band with a special collection of favourites over the years. None of these have b...

Peggy Seeger - First Farewell

Released 16th April 2021. 'First Farewell' will likely be Peggy Seeger's final original solo albu...

Released 16th April 2021. 'First Farewell' will likely be Peggy Seeger's final original solo album, but mellowing is not her style and she's not going quietly. Her remarkable 24th solo album underscores her importance & continued relevance as a songwriter and performer, cementing her place as one of the most uncompromising and inspiring female artists of any genre and age. There is so much to say about Peggy Seeger: a monumental figure in folk music in the UK and USA; still writing and to...

The Staves - Good Woman

Released 5th February 2021. It’s a decade since The Staves self-released their first EP and a lot...

Released 5th February 2021. It’s a decade since The Staves self-released their first EP and a lot has happened since then. Their third album Good Woman was written and recorded amid major upheaval, heartbreak and bereavement. The new-found boldness, loudness and lyrical directness on this record are indicative of lives forced to become a serious concern. In early 2020 the band resumed touring, unveiling their expansive and exhilaratingly powerful new sound, and previewing these emotionally af...