Album Reviews
Deer Tick “Emotional Contracts”
Middle age may have arrived but their rock & roll shoes still fit. It may come as a surprise, but Deer Tick have been in existence for nearly twenty years, and ‘Emotional Contracts’ is their eighth […]
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Album Reviews
Malcolm Holcombe “Bits and Pieces”
One more collection of peerless Holcombe vignettes for the road. Musicians often talk of their existential need to create. Making music, they say, is something essential to their being, it is not a choice they make […]
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Chris Frye and the Analog Ghosts “And There We Were in the Flamin’ 20s”
A third excellent, fascinating and contemporary side project by The Bills’ Chris Frye. The Bills are a high-class eclectic Canadian roots music band that incorporates folk, country, some blues and pop in its repertoire. Formed about […]
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Robert Ellis “Yesterday’s News”
Authentic tales of life’s anxieties set to acoustic guitar picking. ‘Yesterday’s News’ is an intriguing album written by Robert Ellis using the freedom he had after leaving his record label and management company after over 10 […]
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Josienne Clarke “Onliness”
Josienne Clarke reclaims her back catalogue. It has become something of the thing to do when someone has notched up a decade or more in the folk world: put out a retrospective but to distinguish it […]