Big Machine by Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band is a wonderful album. We'd give it all the stars, if we had stars to give.
'Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs' has all the hallmarks of being stripped-down tradfolk classic in waiting.
In the company of her new producer, Ben Seal, Eliza Carthy's "Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)" demands a cabaret stage.
Dilyn Afon is an aural roadtrip – a postcard – through a place, a time and its people. In our opinion, it's nothing short of a masterpiece.
From universal themes to the tiniest details, it takes it all in, and the listener who choses to spend forty minutes in its company comes out all the more enriched for it. One of 2020’s must-hear albums.
It takes real skill for a musician to compose original tunes that can pass so completely for their traditional counterparts. On The Brickfields, Granny's Attic does just that.
A wonderful album of stripped-down restraint, showcasing the songs as much (if not more) than the singers themselves.
Nick Hart's debut album, Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs, has all the hallmarks of a cult classic in waiting.
Some call it intimacy, but in this case I’d call it honesty. It takes a very talented musician indeed to hold your attention over 14 tracks with no studio trickery to hide behind, and (let’s face it) there are fewer more talented musicians on the folk scene than Martin Simpson.
In creating Live at St George's, Jim Moray has managed to produce both a truly unique gem and a powerful historical document.
Lammas Fair, the new album from Henry Parker, is a highly accomplished collection from a folk guitarist of genuine note.
Percussionist, educator and folk enthusiast, Tom Gregory, pulls the Dust & Mischief Band together for a rousing run through a collection of Christmas standards and not-so-standards.
