Folk

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...

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...

The Unthanks - Sorrows Away

Released 14th October 2022.  

Released 14th October 2022.  

Nighttime - Keeper Is The Heart

Expected Release 20th January 2023. Eva Louise Goodman’s Nighttime project locates itself on a mu...

Expected Release 20th January 2023. Eva Louise Goodman’s Nighttime project locates itself on a musical tree planted on the British Isles, perched atop the branch of folk leaning into sixties rock. Her upstate New York environs don’t stray far from that image. With tempered percussion, floating mellotron, and singing that evokes Bleecker & MacDougal on a fervent Saturday afternoon, her new album Keeper Is The Heart reaches deep into the essence of musicians such as Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle B...

Unthank : Smith - Nowhere and Everywhere

Released 17th February 2023 With Nowhere and Everywhere Unthank and Smith, both from England’s No...

Released 17th February 2023 With Nowhere and Everywhere Unthank and Smith, both from England’s North East, and foremost talents in their respective fields, set out to collect songs and pen originals that claw at the beating heart of the region. Though Rachel Unthank has been immersed in the folk world from childhood, Paul Smith’s route towards folk began in his teens with a love of Martin Carthy, Karen Dalton, Nick Drake and Bert Jansch, especially their fingerstyle guitar-playing. Echoes of ...

Rozi Plain - Prize

Released 13th January 2023. Rozi Plain returns with new album ‘PRIZE’ out on 13 January 2023 on M...

Released 13th January 2023. Rozi Plain returns with new album ‘PRIZE’ out on 13 January 2023 on Memphis Industries. Out today is the first single Agreeing for Two featuring contemporary jazz titan Alabaster DePlume on saxophone. Rozi says of Agreeing for Two:  “This song was started when I spent a week on the Isle of Eigg writing new music . Mainly it’s thinking about how easy it can be to unknowingly make decisions on behalf of other people, thinking you might know what’s best or right for a...

Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Po...

Released 30th September 2022. 'Sea Song Sessions,' is a collection of British maritime folk songs...

Released 30th September 2022. 'Sea Song Sessions,' is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed by a collective of some of British folk music's leading lights : Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter. The concept for Sea Song Sessions came to them in 2021, when they were asked to prepare an evening of sea-related songs for the Folkestone Festival. Boden's celebrated work with Bellowhead (of course no strangers to sea-faring songs) ...

Smoke Fairies - Singles

Expected Release 4th November 2022. Smoke Fairies have announced a new ‘Singles’ compilation to b...

Expected Release 4th November 2022. Smoke Fairies have announced a new ‘Singles’ compilation to be released via their own Year Seven Records.The band first entered a recording studio to record their debut single 'Living with Ghosts' in 2008, since then school friends Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire have penned and recorded 18 singles as part of their incredible body of work. This collection of singles is released on double-LP, CD & digital and comprises all singles the band have rele...