Folk

The Staves - All Now

Expected Release 22nd March 2024 It was in December 2022 that The Staves celebrated the 10th anni...

Expected Release 22nd March 2024 It was in December 2022 that The Staves celebrated the 10th anniversary of their debut album Dead & Born & Grown – a strange and beautiful period in the lives of sisters and band members Jessica, Camilla and Emily Staveley-Taylor, making their fourth album All Now with the same organic vulnerability as that first record: except now everything was different, and they kind of were too.  All Now emerges, bold and bright, from a period of quiet, which foll...

Smoke Fairies - Carried In Sound

Expected Release Following on from the release of their highly-praised 2020 LP ‘Darkness Brings W...

Expected Release Following on from the release of their highly-praised 2020 LP ‘Darkness Brings Wonders Home’, which was applauded by the likes of Mojo, Clash Magazine, Q and many more, alt-folk duo Smoke Fairies return once again to announce the details behind their sixth studio album ‘Carried In Sound’, previewed by the wondrous new single “Vanishing Line”.  Continuing to pursue more of that warm and ethereal aesthetic the pair have cultivated since their earliest beginnings, “Vanishing Li...

Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane - The Moon Als...

Released 10th November 2023 Johnny Flynn’s sixth album, and the second co-written with his friend...

Released 10th November 2023 Johnny Flynn’s sixth album, and the second co-written with his friend Robert Macfarlane. Out 10th November 2023 on Transgressive.  Gathers songs that Johnny and Robert have written together since finishing their first joint album, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021). At its heart are the oldest themes of all: death and renewal, darkness and light. The first five tracks are songs of burial, shadows and memory, while the final four are songs of awakening, light and love. T...

The Mary Wallopers - Irish Rock N Roll

Released 13th October 2023 The Mary Wallopers have announced details of their second album and a ...

Released 13th October 2023 The Mary Wallopers have announced details of their second album and a huge tour of the UK and Ireland that runs from November through to Christmas this year.  Irish Rock ’n’ Roll is due for release on October 6th and follows last year’s hugely acclaimed self-titled debut (“these youngsters are all about presenting vibrancy, saltiness and edge via roots music from a bygone age, at a moment when such qualities are all but absent form contemporary pop” Mojo).  If every...

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

Released 7th July 2023 The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is ...

Released 7th July 2023 The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying an...

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

Released 26th May 2023 One of the most important voices in British folk music Shirley Collins ret...

Released 26th May 2023 One of the most important voices in British folk music Shirley Collins returns with Archangel Hill, her third album for Domino. Due for release on May 26th, it showcases another peerless collection of songs chosen by Collins, some from traditional sources but others from favourite writers of hers.  Produced by Ian Kearey - Shirley Collins’ musical director - the arrangements were shared between Collins, Kearey, Pip Barnes, as well as Dave Arthur and Pete Cooper, players...

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay - Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Released 26th May 2023. Vinyl Expected 28th July. Eponymous collaboration between Jim Ghedi &...

Released 26th May 2023. Vinyl Expected 28th July. Eponymous collaboration between Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay - their first since 2018's 'The Hawksworth Grove Sessions' and their debut for Topic Records. Postponed for two years due to the small matter of a global pandemic, finally, as some semblance of normality took shape, in February 2022, the duo headed into Giant Wafer Studios, mid-Wales, with very little rehearsal time and recorded the entire album live, with no edits or overdubs over three...

Lankum - False Lankum

Released 24th March 2023 False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, whi...

Released 24th March 2023 False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s Best Albums of the Year list. Drawing on traditional folk songs, Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new intensity and beauty into ea...