Folk

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Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage

Released 14th April 2023. Nonesuch Records releases Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage, her nin...

Released 14th April 2023. Nonesuch Records releases Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage, her ninth solo studio album and first of new material since 2014’s self-titled record.  An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis.  There are lush orchestrations throughout...

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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 ...

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James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand ...

Released 13th January 2023. On January 13th , James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Or...

Released 13th January 2023. On January 13th , James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra will release The Great White Sea Eagle, the follow up to James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s The Wide, Wide River - a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. The record didn’t start life as a follow up; in early 2021, Yorkston began visiting his studio in Cellardyke, Fife and for the first time, starting writing songs on the piano as opposed to his usual guitar as he gazed upon the ...

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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...

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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) ...

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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...

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Rachael Dadd - Kaleidoscope

Released 14th October 2022. On 14 October 2022, wildly creative free-form songwriter Rachael Dadd...

Released 14th October 2022. On 14 October 2022, wildly creative free-form songwriter Rachael Dadd is to release her brand new studio album ‘Kaleidoscope’ via Memphis Industries and follows 2019’s 'Flux' which was released to much acclaim and which she was touring when the pandemic struck.  Like so many people disconnected from their communities and struggling through the lockdowns, Rachael Dadd turned inwards, seeking escape through music and connection through song writing, and her hope is t...

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Kathryn Williams - Night Drives

Released 15th July 2022. Singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter Kathryn Williams is proud to a...

Released 15th July 2022. Singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter Kathryn Williams is proud to announce her new album ‘Night Drives’. The collection explores a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation, particular emphasis on the strings and production from Ed Harcourt. It’s out on July 15th via One Little Independent Records. Journeying from leftfield contemporary pop to soft acoustics, Kathryn Williams uses her latest LP to explore a variety of fresh ideas driven, in par...

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Memorial - Memorial

Released 29th April 2022. Indie Folk tinged Memorial are a duo, Jack and Ollie. Neither are in an...

Released 29th April 2022. Indie Folk tinged Memorial are a duo, Jack and Ollie. Neither are in any great hurry, with their song-writing process originally found spent solo, several hundred miles apart in Brighton and Manchester. Voice memos zipped across the internet, all half thoughts and feelings seeking the other’s encouragement. It’s a career not even one year deep, but already they’ve got Lucy Rose batting for their side, US alt-country queen Courtney Marie Andrews taking them on tour, a...

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Modern Studies - We Are There

Released 18th February 2022. "Sensitive, smart, inventive, cultured, brimming with complex ideas”...

Released 18th February 2022. "Sensitive, smart, inventive, cultured, brimming with complex ideas”Record Collector "There’s a charm within Modern Studies’ DNA which makes them, without fanfare or clamour, one of today’s most mesmerising outfits.”Prog Magazine Through the hazy daze of a smoky folk opus, Modern Studies craft rich soundtracks, stuttering Super-8 sketches from a washed-out world of melancholy, hand-tinted and tantalising. Lullaby couplets blossom into gorgeous chamber pop melodies...

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Richard Thompson - (Guitar, Vocal) A Collection...

Released 25th March 2022. 45th Anniversary re-issue of Richard Thompson’s 1976 collection of rari...

Released 25th March 2022. 45th Anniversary re-issue of Richard Thompson’s 1976 collection of rarities with Fairport Convention, Linda Thompson and solo. Remastered and available on 180gram black vinyl. Contains a Download Card.

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Michael Hurley - The Time of the Foxgloves

Released 10th December 2021. Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven...

Released 10th December 2021. Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been workshopping the set at home for the past few years. Friends and collaborators came into town and contributed from afar. The songs are lifted by violin, organ, upright bass, banjo, percussion - but at the center, of course, is the enigmatic Snock, whose songs have grown only more unique and m...

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