Jonathan Aird

Hannah White & The Nordic Connections “Hannah White & The Nordic Connections” (Independent, 2019)

November 19, 2019 Jonathan Aird 3

This eponymous debut album features a solid enough set of Country songs in the mainstream style of any number of Seventies Nashville songbirds. Whilst well played and featuring Hannah White’s pleasant vocals, this is an album […]

The Delines + Those Pretty Wrongs, The Stables, Wavendon, 5th November 2019

November 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

The Delines played the second night of their second UK tour of the year at The Stables, which offered quite a contrast to the venues they packed back in February. Back then it would be somewhere […]

The Deer “Swoon” Listen

November 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Leading off with a stately piano line, ‘Swoon‘ is the third single from The Deer’s new album ‘Do No Harm.’ It showcases the band’s psych-folk stylings, as it quickly gives way to a wordy tongue-twisting verse […]

Paddy Nash “Hearth & Harbourage” – Listen

November 15, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

On this warm and richly rounded new song Paddy Nash states the case for the real riches of the world “So all you rambling boys and girls / Trying to find your place in this world […]

Boa Morte “Before There Was Air” (Gare Du Nord Records, 2019)

November 14, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Whichever way you look at it ‘Before there was Air‘ is the very definition of slow-folk. There’s the simple chronology of the release which is Boa Morte’s third album in a mere 17 years – actually […]