Tim Martin

Chris Cleverley “Broadcast The Secret Verse”

November 15, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Folk-influenced ambient dream pop? However you want to categorise it, it’s one of the best albums of 2022. Cleverley sets himself a high bar in his press release for his 4th album. “‘Broadcast The Secret Verse’ […]

Book Review: Jessica Willis Fisher “Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice”

November 8, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Stories of surviving harrowing and challenging childhoods have been staples of the publishing industry for many years. You have to wonder if there is a point at which reader fatigue sets in from these tales. Fortunately, […]

Small Venue Heroes – The Lost Trades

November 8, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Lockdown had a profound effect on all musicians. For The Lost Trades, a newly established band on the verge of their first tour it slammed the brakes on. Formed in 2019 by Wiltshire based singer songwriters […]

Eliza Edens “We’ll Become the Flowers”

November 1, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Spending time with his album allows it to reveal its tender, contemplative charms – not immediate but very rewarding. Eliza Edens describes her second album as “existentially-minded”. It “seeks to understand what happens after the end. […]

Paperback Riders – Harriet Beecher Stowe “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

October 28, 2022 Tim Martin 0

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly’ was published in 2 parts in 1852. The abolitionist movement was gaining ground and Stowe wrote the novel in the wake of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”