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Soul Asylum “Hurry Up and Wait” (Blue Élan Records, 2020)

April 27, 2020 Ewan Lury 0

Soul Asylum, the Grammy award-winning band, are back for the first time in four years with their album ‘Hurry Up and Wait’, sporting a different line-up to their most successful era of the early 90s, but […]

Peter Oren “The Greener Pastures” (Western Vinyl, 2020)

April 24, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Peter Oren’s latest album ‘The Greener Pastures’ with its mentions of death, being fenced in, loneliness, isolation, phone dependence and its overall melancholic tone, could be seen as a prophet and seer in this age of […]

Lucinda Williams “Good Souls Better Angels” (Highway 20 / Thirty Tigers, 2020)

April 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

The broad-church of Americana sometimes divides us. But one thing that most fans would agree on is that artists like Lucinda Williams personify the spirit and sound of the genre. Williams is the sort of musician […]

Miranda Mulholland “By Appointment Or Chance” (Roaring Girl Records, 2019)

April 23, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Miranda Mulholland has a gift for the co-incidental, and the very existence of her new album ‘By Appointment or Chance‘ is a reflection of this. It see’s Canadian Mulholland return to her folk roots for a […]

Pinewood “All Things With Symmetry” (Independent, 2020)

April 23, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Pinewood is songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Kempe whose debut EP ‘All Things With Symmetry’ is the perfect lockdown music. Listening to these four atmospheric folk-rock pieces feels like breaking through dense woods into a brightly […]