Category: Folk
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Frank Turner: “FTHC” – Album Review
After shedding himself from the raucous punk topper of Million Dead, and dictating his solo work with rebel folk compromises, Turner has turned back to his hardcore roots with FTHC .. (“but if you haven’t got regrets, you haven’t started yet..”) Still harnessing the epiphany of Billy Brag-esque of coming together for the punk ethos, […]
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alt-J: “The Dream” – Album Review
Ever since Alt-J laid claim to their Mercury Prize for their debut An Awesome Wave in 2012, the percussive indie-experimentalists have been on a globe-trotting journey of a monumental masterclass. While An Awesome Wave showed youthful prosperity and unique divinity in a world empty of breeze-blocks and synth sand-pipes, it seems that 10 years later […]
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Black Country, New Road: “Ants From Up Here” album review – profoundly poetic in a world of uncertainty
The bands’ name originally derived from that of a random Wikipedia generator, but their music is anything but thrown together. Ever since BC, NR arrived in the Brixton, Windmill scene in 2019, their post-rock soundscapes of inflected jazz shook the UK to its core. Unprecedented work of beautifully designed pieces of modern music, it is […]
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Norwegian Nightcap: AURORA
Blend of both ubiquity and originality, Norwegian gospel guru-artist AURORA is a pop mastermind deep in the depths of wispy pop-folk mastery. As enchanting as Into The Unknown itself, her follow-up shake-up album of The Gods We Touch is primed and armed to make anthological history with an album that is just sheer pleasure to […]
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Adele ’30’: Album Review
After an excruciating wait … the definitive voice of heartbreak returns. That’s right. Adele is back. With the album portraying an emotive struggle as she stands at the ultimate cross-roads, the new sounds of Adele is fresh, immersive and simply brilliant. Becoming written gospel at this point, it’s classic Adele at its best. There is […]
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