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Eric Brace & Last Train Home “Everything Will Be”

February 4, 2022 Paul Russell 0

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 […]

Sofie Livebrant “Weep The Time Away: Emily Bronte”

February 3, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

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 […]

Raine Hamilton “Brave Land”

February 3, 2022 Ewan Lury 0

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 […]

The Whitmore Sisters “Ghost Stories”

February 2, 2022 Clint West 0

Sisters Bonnie and Eleanor Whitmore set aside their individual projects to join together for a highly impressive first outing as a duo. Bonnie and Eleanor Whitmore have both established themselves as accomplished figures within the pantheon […]

artwork for Fruit Bats album Sometimes A Cloud Is Just A Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021)

Fruit Bats “Sometimes A Cloud Is Just A Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits And Lost Songs (2001–2021)”

February 1, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

A thoughtful 23 song collection comprising favourites and unreleased rarities Fruit Bats have been the vehicle to showcase the skills of Eric Donald Johnson for two decades, give or take the odd séjour performing as SDJ, […]