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About Fiona Golden
Born and raised in Chicago by way of Southern California, I now reside in London and spend my free time at gigs, collecting vintage fashion, and putting my medieval history degree to work at pub quizzes.
Album Reviews

The Pleasures “Enemy Of My Enemy”

August 19, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
A cynical litany of love gone wrong. Born from hectic writing sessions late at night, The Pleasures have offered an album that critically examines where the blame lies in lost love. The Melbourne-based duo, Catherine Britt […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

August 4, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
In her 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That”, Joan Didion wrote that young adults always have the curse of “conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before”. […]
Album Reviews

Sugarfoot “Cosmic Norse Americana”

July 17, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
An apt introduction to introspection. If, at first, a pandemic brings your career to a screeching halt, stick to your sound and get the band back together. Six years after their 2019 album “In The Clearing”, Norway’s […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Margo Price + Maya Lane, Scala, London – 18th June 2025

July 1, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Ahead of her upcoming release, “Hard Headed Woman”, Margo Price took a pre-emptive victory lap in Europe last week and ushered in her new era of rhinestone-studded classic country. Heralded by her single, ‘Don’t Let The […]
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Classic Clips: Kacey Musgraves “Burn One With John Prine” – Cayamo, 2015

June 27, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Songs dedicated to other musicians, especially those that have made an impact on the artist, can be so special. This week’s classic clip is a deep cut from Texas-born singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves and was inspired by […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0
Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0
Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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A stripped-down, soul-baring indie folk journey, minimalist in sound, maximal in emotion. Nobody could accuse Eric D Johnson (aka Fruit Bats) of resting on his laurels or being lazy. This is his fourth album using the […]
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Hayley Thompson-King “Large Hall, Slow Decay” – Listen

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What do you get when you mix trained operatic vocals with Joe Cocker’s soul shrieks and blend that vocal with a lo-fi vibrato heavy rockabilly country sensibility?  You get Hayley Thompson-King.  And what do you get if […]
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Roddy Hart and The Lonesome Fire “Swithering” (Middle of Nowhere Recordings, 2016)

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“Swithering” is an unusual title for and comes from a Scottish word meaning to be uncertain about things, which, according to Glasgow based Hart, summed up the album process for him. It was a different way of […]

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