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Category: Album/EP Reviews

Reviews that get the senses going in the glorious field of folk music!

by blueestaiPosted on6th April 20226th April 2022Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on The Story Song Scientists – Quantum Lyrics (review)

The Story Song Scientists – Quantum Lyrics (review)

Released October 2021 Sit up, science is about to begin! For those who like to follow the Roud index as much as the Alper-Doger Index,…

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by blueestaiPosted on23rd October 202124th October 2021AcousticLeave a comment on Birds and Beasts – “Kozmik Disko” review

Birds and Beasts – “Kozmik Disko” review

Like the thunderous hooves of an approaching stampede, Birds and Beasts’ second album is a groove-filled, thumping and purposeful sophomore album which puts it’s classic…

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by blueestaiPosted on4th August 20214th August 2021AcousticLeave a comment on Emma Langford- “Sowing Acorns” – A Review

Emma Langford- “Sowing Acorns” – A Review

A fun album that will defy attempts to hold it down in one place. Well arranged and with some seriously confident creations, this disc hints…

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by blueestaiPosted on3rd May 20213rd May 2021Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on Ninebarrow- “A Pocket Full of Acorns” Review

Ninebarrow- “A Pocket Full of Acorns” Review

Timely, persistent and quiet. The natural world continues to spill forth from Ninebarrow’s fourth album, in all the best ways. Those quiet boys of folk,…

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by blueestaiPosted on23rd March 202123rd March 2021Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on Merry Hell – Emergency Lullabies (review)

Merry Hell – Emergency Lullabies (review)

Exuberant and rousing with a few inspired sentimental stops, Merry Hell still have a lot to say with their sixth album.  RELEASED NOVEMBER 2020 What…

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by blueestaiPosted on10th February 202110th February 2021Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on Jenny Sturgeon – The Living Mountain (review)

Jenny Sturgeon – The Living Mountain (review)

An album indistinguishable from the nature it is set in, Sturgeon’s expertise ensures a multi-layered, emotional linchpin of folk Now even deeper into the cold…

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by blueestaiPosted on11th November 202011th November 2020Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on Lizabett Russo- “While I Sit and Watch This Tree” (album review)

Lizabett Russo- “While I Sit and Watch This Tree” (album review)

Russo’s album is a brighter, more focused affair that lets the positive rays of growth bring more optimism to her delightfully individual music. To Be…

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by blueestaiPosted on2nd October 20202nd October 2020Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on The Wilderness Yet – Debut Album Review

The Wilderness Yet – Debut Album Review

Their ears and hearts nested in the traditional, ‘The Wilderness Yet’ provide an album with many brilliant, emotional responses to nature. Away from the bustle,…

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by blueestaiPosted on6th August 20206th August 2020AcousticLeave a comment on Saskia – Are You Listening?” (Album Review)

Saskia – Are You Listening?” (Album Review)

“An album that refreshes and surveys the ground covered up to now. Saskia continues to sculpt her clay of gentle-folk into a pleasing and healing…

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by blueestaiPosted on25th June 202025th June 2020Album/EP ReviewsLeave a comment on Will Pound- A Day Will Come (album review)

Will Pound- A Day Will Come (album review)

Breathlessly broad yet uniting; Pound’s love letter to the European idea and its people touches the soul. Released 8th May (Will Pound Lulubug Records). Will…

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