The Silver Darlings: Watermark- Single Launch in Sheffield (review)
A band with fire enjoying their musical influences without putting themselves in a box I recently had the pleasure of attending the single launch with The Silver Darlings, a Sheffield-based indie-folk group at The Heeley Institute (Sheffield) and was more than pleasantly surprised. The Silver Darlings are part of Ankle Breka Records, a growing independent […]
Edd Donovan and the Wandering Moles – Making Mountains (Vol 1)
An artist with old school authenticity and a collection of songs aptly wrapped in the phenomenology of experience drenched in Americana which takes the best aspects of modern music Album: Making Mountains (Vol 1.) Label: Paper Label Records Website: http://www.edddonovan.co.uk/ Release Date: 3rd June 2016 I don’t often venture into Americana I regret to inform. There […]
KARA – Some Other Shore – “a deep thematic album of tragedy and triumph” – review
Released June 2016 KARA return with another excellent album called “Some Other Shore” (their debut was also nautical sounding, “Waters So Deep”). The particularities that make the sound and ideas appealing can be boiled down into the three-part approach taken to their writing and recording of folk music. The first part is that their music […]