Chris Cleverley – “Gods of All Things”- EP Review
Release: 5th December 2025 Label: Opiate Records “The kind of Christmas we yearn for, and the spiritual quiet we often crave. Cleverley’s ‘Gods of All Things’ is a sharp and introspective work, but also warm affair filled with beauty” We have to admit it has been a little while since we last went on an […]
Album Review: Christina Alden and Alex Patterson’s “Safe Travels”
Release Date: 9th May 2025 Quiet and determined, Alden and Patterson’s sophmore album is like the brightest and warmest of family photo albums. Alden & Patterson must have built a very good well of inspiration during Covid. While I was making daily trips to the Co-op for something to do, they must have been meticulously […]
Garfunkel & Garfunkel – Father & Son – 04/12/24
BMGReleased: November 8th, 2024 “A cinematic take on foundational pop music hits. The Garfunkels convey their love of music and each other through an emotive album whose crescendo with Cyndi Lauper’s classic is hard to beat” When the door knocks and we are given an opportunity to take a listen to Art Garfunkel, we take […]
Joshua Burnell – Glass Knight – Review – 14/08/23
A review of Joshua Burnell’s “Glass Knight” album 14/08/23
Lizabett Russo – “While I Sit and Watch This Tree” Volume 2
Still unique in her magical space between Scotland and Romania, Russo’s glass vocals strike an irresistable balance of mind and nature that encompasses an idiosyncratic, beautiful reflection of self. Release Date – 4th November 2022 Lizabett Russo returns with “While I sit and Watch This Tree Volume 2”, a continuation of her multiform presentation of […]
Iona Lane – Hallival – Album Review
Released – March 25 2022 From beyond the rolling mist (and probably a few sheets of snow) the mountain of Hallival stands beautiful as a site of exploration, and in seeing it, a conquest of one’s own very ideas of beauty. Iona Lane’s debut album takes this beauty and transcribes it into a folky exploration […]
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, an EP is out which looks at some incredible stories of science, celebrating them in the warm halo of Findlay Napier and Megan Henwood. The stylings of Glaswegian Napier and […]
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 rock expertise to very good use. Album Launch Date: 23/10/21 If you have been living in a cave for the past few years, then chances are, (without you realising) you […]
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 at a continued bright future for Langford. Release Date: September 2020 It’s been a long time coming, but we have finally got around to reviewing the second album by the […]
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, Ninebarrow, have been keeping themselves busy during the lockdown. Well, when we say quiet, we acknowledge that ever since their debut album they have been anything but; with recognition from […]