Thought provoking words about the struggles of life, over a sparse intimate soundtrack A quote from Cerys Matthews is front and centre of all Moreno’s publicity. “An offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond.” Fortunately, this […]
Pacific North West bluegrass with echoes of punk and funk. The term bluegrass was coined in 1965 for the genre of music created in the ‘40s by Bill Monroe whose backing band was called the Blue […]
Album number ten is a varied collection of quality tunes. There’s nine musicians playing around 14 instruments credited on this album and quite a range of styles and but Brace and his band here manage to […]
Lively folk-jazz settings of the poems of Emily Bronte are quite the treat. Sofie Livebrant lays the responsibility for this, her sixth album, at least in part at the feet of the Covid pandemic. You know […]
An LP that starts well but struggles as it goes on. Raine Hamilton’s chamber-folk album has moments of real quality, but also moments where she seems to lose sight of what she wants the album to […]
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