2019 – Page 169 – Americana UK

Daniel Norgren “Wooh Dang” (Superpuma Records, 2019)

July 8, 2019 Harold Hogan 0

The opening to ‘Wooh Dang‘, Swedish musician Daniel Norgren’s eighth record, drifts dreamily into focus. With a mixture of birds and ambient nature sounds, as well as strange sci-fi noises, it sounds like a BBC sound […]

Cambridge Folk Festival announce single use plastic ban

July 8, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

It’s less than a month now before the Cambridge Folk Festival opens its gates and this year it features Iron & Wine with Calexico, Lucinda Williams, Graham Nash and The Rails amongst its array of folk […]

Fruit Bats “Gold Past Life” (Merge Records, 2019)

July 8, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Essentially a vehicle for Eric D. Johnson, a sometime member of The Shins, Fruit Bats deliver their first album for Merge Records with a fizzy, at times sugary, flourish. The 11 songs here are bathed in […]

The Hollywood Freeway Ghosts “Flying” – Listen

July 8, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Gordon Tichell formed The Hollywood Freeway Ghosts when he moved from LA to Luxembourg, the band name coming from a song title he’d written for a band that broke up before he could get them to […]

Video: Karine Polwart “Chance”

July 8, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

This powerful take on the Big Country song is the new single from Karine Polwart’s latest album, ‘Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook‘, a selection of covers from fifty years of Scottish pop. This is wonderful and so’s […]