Dublin-based songwriter and poet Christian Wethered shares “The First Thing”, from his new album “From The Balustrade”, due ...

Declan O’Rourke has never been especially easy to place. There are moments in his music that sound unmistakably Irish, others that reach towards the great singer-songwriters of the 1960s and ’70s, and ...

Around this time last year, Spitzer Space Telescope, the London-via-Michigan songwriter Dan MacDonald, released his single ...

Five of the ten songs on Darren Hayman’s new album, I’m Your Team, begin with the word ‘I’. Given that the details he has shared about his recent past include the loss of a close friend, mental health ...

Guitarist Peyton Pinkerton speaks to Thomas Blake about the making of Silver Jews’ masterpiece The Natural Bridge, one of the ...

Gwenifer Raymond’s new single “Bird Songs for Atomic Skies” marks her Fat Possum signing, a mutant rag where folk horror ...

Arborist’s “Looking For Love”, his first self-produced record, explores love and its absence, with Belfast as a microcosm for ...

Oren Ambarchi’s “Cooked” is two side-length pieces of mysterious beauty - ensemble improvisation at its most accomplished.

For the significant milestone of a half-century of musical releases, English folk legend Martin Simpson decided to drop an album that is, dare we say, perhaps a career best. We had a great time ...

Last year, Avery Friedman delivered her remarkable debut, New Thing. In his review, Thomas Blake opens: “New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, is all about change and ...