Taken from Kurt Vile’s new album Smoke Ring For My Halo.
Kurt Vile – ‘Baby’s Arms’
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Leave a comment
Category Archives: Folk
Listen to James Vincent McMorrow’s album – Early in the Morning
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 2 comments
An album that certainly flew under my radar until April, Early in the Morning is a superb debut album from Ireland’s answer to Bon Iver – deep, delicate, folky, James possesses a beautiful falsetto and this album definitely deserves more … Read More…
Mountain Man – ‘Soft Skin’
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 3 comments
More sweetness from Mountain Man’s forthcoming album Made The Harbor which is out on the 11th/14th of June (IE/UK). Last week, we had ‘Animal Tracks’. Mountain Man – Soft Skin by Bella Union
Mountain Man – ‘Animal Tracks’
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 1 comment
The wonderful Mountain Man who I caught at SXSW where “three girls huddled around a trio of microphones and wonderful things happened,” will release Made The Harbor through Bella Union on June 11th. ‘Animal Tracks’ is a newly re-recorded version … Read More…
Department of Eagles – ‘Brightest Minds’
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - Leave a comment
Archive 2003 – 2006, a collection of unreleased songs from Department of Eagles will be released in mid-July. Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Fred Nicolaus make up the group who released the gorgeous In Ear Park in 2008. Listen … Read More…
Shugo Tokumaru’s new album – Port Entropy
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 16 comments
The much-slept on Japanese folk artist Shugo Tokumaru deserves your eyes and ears. I first posted about him here in August 2006, but even now, there’s still not much I listen to which sounds like his music – happy, folky, … Read More…
Lissie covers Lady Gaga & plays Dublin this month
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 5 comments
Lissie plays The Academy on the 26th April in support to Joshua Radin so consider this post your forewarning to check her out. Lissie is from Illinois and has an authentic country-folk twang to her voice that I like A … Read More…
Jennifer Evans launches EP tonight
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 1 comment
Salient Point is the new EP from the burgeoning talent of Jennifer Evans. You may remember her from an ‘introducing’ feature last year. Anyhow, She is launching her new EP tonight in Twisted Pepper at 8pm with support from Our … Read More…
Video: Laura Marling – Devil’s Spoke
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 3 comments
New video shot in India from the new album I Speak Because I Can from the now-brunette Marling. The album is released in mid-March. Judging by this, her music has gone in a more pronounced English folk direction.
The Middle East – The Darkest Side
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 1 comment
A band that a lot of people are looking forward to hearing more of are The Middle East from Australia. Back in September I featured the brittle and beautiful sound of ‘Blood’. Now, also from last year’s The Recordings Of … Read More…
Hear a song from Joanna Newsom’s new triple LP
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 2 comments
Drag City are streaming ’81′, just one of the many, many Joanna songs heading our way in the next month. The triple album Have One On Me is released here on February 19th (UK/Europe – 22nd / US – 23rd). … Read More…
