Elfin Bow – (Elfin Bow) Elfin Bow Music Recorded at: Hound Dog Studios, Liverpool www.elfinbow.co.uk Released 18th March 2017 Elfin Bow is very much the ringmaster in this positively creative and interesting debut that[…]
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Category: Album/EP Reviews
Reviews that get the senses going in the glorious field of folk music!
Roving Crows – “Bury Me Naked” Album Review
It was a few years ago I saw the Roving Crows now. I remember in Bromsgrove. Not far from Ledbury (their home turf) andalso not far from where I spent my youngest years (in Kidderminster);[…]
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Geoff Lakeman – After All The Years – A Review
Observational and considered, Lakeman collects a squad of influencing folk artists that bring his rich imagination and celebratory character to life Released 3rd February 2017 Geoff Lakeman, in a rather circular and interesting path has[…]
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Isembard’s Wheel “Common Ground” Album Launch @ Shakespeare’s – 1-04-17 Sheffield
Isembard’s Wheel sit between modern indie folk and more traditional folk fare that should properly interest the industry both as a great live band and one with crossover appeal. Introduction The Shakespeares Pub in Sheffield[…]
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EP Megapost #1- Nottingham, Signals, Velvet&Stone, Lazibyrd, Thompson, Honey&TheBear 2017
Hi all, I have had a large number of EPs sent in my direction and have not yet had the pleasure to talk about what I have really enjoyed this fine year, so here we[…]
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Kate Dimbleby- Songbirds
Dimbleby successfully reflects a range of feelings and emotions in a decent and also unconventional album that has captured her mind’s eye. Introduction Armed without folk instruments as such but with the creative sense of the oldest[…]
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Daria Kulesh “Long Lost Home” – An Album Review
An album of resistance to oppression in armed and peaceful forms. Articulate and personal, it is peppered with tragedy but is in essence celebratory of family and the personalities whose stories are within. Sound[…]
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Almond&Olive – Standing at the Precipice (Album Review)
Almond&Olive deliver an earnest and lyrically intriguing debut with a strong character and rapport in voice Having released this debut last Friday (27th January 2017), artists Almond&Olive that consists of Natalie Alms (Almond)[…]
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Lorcán Mac Mathúna – Visionaries 1916 (album review)
Folk music that tackles some stirring source material that should not be forgotten. There is a roving central passion that brings both a delightful sense of joy and personal isolation to the works within. The[…]
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Look Back: Saskia G-M “Gentle Heart” (review)
This is a “Look Back” post, one that brings an older review (from shedancesinthemind.blogspot.com) here to my new website. Since my writing in early 2016, Saskia Griffiths-Moore has continued to grow with a series of[…]
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