[streaming] Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys – The Ocean At Night

“The Ocean at Night” is the first release from “Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls”, a slow burning dreamscape album by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys! Lucy Kruger is a singer/songwriter from Cape Town, South Africa who now lives in Berlin. Her music focuses on the bare bones of the songs, a slow burning psychedelic…

[streaming] Anthonymes – In A Café At The End Of The World

“In A Café At The End Of The World” by Anthonymes. Anthonymes is Anthony Reynolds and Ian M Hazeldine (Antonymes) “Together, before it was too late, it was inevitable that there would be an intensely attentive meeting of minds and moods between Anthony Reynolds and Antonymes. Both outsiders locked inside a dream-world of remembering, laughter…

[streaming] Kaiya Cade – Garden

Single released as part of the Fox Food Records 5th Anniversary Compilation entitled, “Something’s There But You’re Not Sure.” Feat. Dana Gavanski. Celebrated by the CBC and well-received by Canadian music festivals, Kaiya Cade (full name Kaiya Cade Smith Blackburn) has been actively involved in the music industry since her role as the lead vocalist/guitarist…

[streaming] Claire Cronin – Tourniquet

“Toourniquet” is the opening track of “Big Dead Moon”, the third album by Claire Cronin, out June 14th via Orindal Records. “Big Dread Moon” by Claire Cronin is a record of spiritual urgency. Cronin’s lyrics and melodies draw on the the stranger aspects of early American musical tradition, revealing the genre’s ties to “folk horror,”…

[streaming] Eleanor Murray – This Grand Table

“This Grand Table” is the first track taken from “Compass”, the new album by Eleanor Murray, out May 4th, 2019. Songwriter, producer and artist Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music out of the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in…

[streaming] FOONYAP – Yes/No

One of the UK’s most staunchly independent labels Song, By Toad Records has announced details of another one of its celebrated four-way Split 12’’ projects that’s sadly also its swansong. Matthew Young decided last year to step back from running the Edinburgh label, adding a bittersweet tinge to the 10th anniversary gig at Leith Depot,…

[streaming] Wovoka Gentle – Tell ‘Em, Makoto!

London trio Wovoka Gentle have announced the release of their debut album ‘Start Clanging Cymbals’ on 7th June through Nude Records. Having formed in the summer of 2014, the band wrote and performed the score for avant-garde physical theatre company Stasis’ production A Table, directed by Aniela Piasecka, and went on to provide music for…

[streaming] Michael Timmons – The Games Room

Single released 5th April 2019 on Gargleblast Records. Off the back of supporting The Twilight Sad at their sold out show at Glasgow Barrowlands and on their European tour in November 2018, singer songwriter Michael Timmons continues to exhibit a sparse, angst-ridden sound on his latest single, “The Games Room”. A sound that cuts deep…

[streaming] Curlicues – A New Beginning

First track out of “Private Life”, the new album by Curlicues, releases May 1st, 2019. Curlicues is the alter-ego of Sheffield-based writer and recording artist L.A. Foster. Long in gestation, his first EP, “Orchids”, sprang forth in 2013, its songs the sole remnants of a catalogue of private home recordings, made as The Plums in…

[streaming] Jake Xerxes Fussell – The River St. Johns

Taken from “Out of Sight”, out June 7th via Paradise of Bachelors. On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass), Nathan Golub (pedal steel), Libby Rodenbough (violin, vocals), and…

[streaming] Emily Fairlight – Body Below

Taken from “Mother of Gloom”, out today on Fishrider Records (NZ) and in June on sister label Occultation Records in the UK. Emily Fairlight is a folk singer who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. Fairlight makes self-described “doom folk,” which has earned comparisons with PJ Harvey (for the vocals), Will Oldham (for the writing) and…

[streaming] Agent Blå – Child’s Play

Taken from the new album “Morning Thoughts”, out May 10th via Luxury Records. Like most teenage bands, Agent blå started out competing at open mic nights. Felix Skorvald (guitars), Lucas Gustavsson (guitars) and Emilie Alatalo (vocals) played Joy Division covers against a group featuring their future bandmates Josefine Tack (bass, vocals) and Arvid Christensen (drums)….

[streaming] Flora Hibberd – The Absentee

Born in East London in 1995 and currently residing in Paris, Flora Hibberd has been described as ‘intelligent and measured…there is a profound intuition in her work’ and her songs as ‘deeply rooted in the timeless lyricism of Dylan and Cohen.’ With influences as diverse as Nick Cave, Joan Baez and Jacques Brel, she moves…

[streaming] Lucy Roleff – A Woman’s Worth

Estimable Melbourne folk artist, Lucy Roleff returns to us with “A Woman’s Worth”, the first offering from her new record “Left Open in a Room” – the follow-up to 2016’s, “This Paradise“. Drawing on the stories of women in her life, Roleff ponders on the weight of emotional labour and prioritisation of others, whilst trying…

[streaming] The Roves – Who’s Sleeping On The Throne

Taken from “All Those Freaks”, the second full length album released on Meritorio & Discotif Records on April 12th 2019. Jangly guitar rock and roll springing from the suburbs of North London. Chief songwriter James Wing a long with his little brother Tom and a hard grafted rhythm section in Luke Evans and Brendan Monahan…