Modern folk rooted deep in traditional music. Seth Lakeman has that ability to create something entirely contemporary from sounds that emerge from traditional music. The instrumentation and approach is firmly rooted in folk traditions, but the […]
Influenced by indie-rock styles Stuttgart’s Oliver Earnest explores the fragility of achieving peace in a complex world. ‘The Water Goes the Other Way’ emerges from the indie-rock end of Americana possibly best exemplified by the fuzzed-up […]
A great soul-blues guitarist takes an unfortunate detour down a psychedelic cul-de-sac. It sometimes seem that the pandemic and associated lockdown, and how this impacted on the time musicians spent on the road and performing, has […]
Let’s counterbalance pain with pleasure. Americana UK’s Chain Gang seems to have disappeared down a rabbit hole of drug addiction and pain, so I have attempted to pull it right out and place it back on […]
A constantly interesting and surprising album of dark folk experimentalism that, ultimately, doesn’t quite satisfy. Don’t be thrown from the barrage of sounds that are multi-layered over opening track ‘Across the Flats’; Mike Etten has followed […]
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