Paddy Hanna is Ireland’s answer to Richard Hawley. Full of jangling guitars and a crooning vocal, Hanna’s latest track, ‘Austria’, channels the Sheffield musician so much it could be the track Hawley never wrote. Keeping in line with his Hawley…
Plucky guitar sounds greet the listener at the opening of Adam Cleaver‘s latest release, ‘The Salt Mine’. Quickly, Coldplay-esque electric guitars burst onto the track; a warning that this London-based musician is not content to be labelled as a mere acoustic…
Warrilow is a musician who understands the power of the understatement. Basing his sound mostly around acoustic guitars and a drum kit, the songs on his debut EP, Chief, are no less powerful for a want of noise. Yet when…
Often folk bands run the risk of sounding a little simple, but Bristol three-piece Foreign Affairs escape this pitfall through using just about as many words-a-line as they can get away with in their latest release ‘Sell My Soul (I…
It’s not unusual to come across bands matching acoustic guitars with layers of harmonies, singing about lost loves and heartbreak. But what makes Cornwall’s indie-folk duo different is that of the pairing of Sarah Dollar and Jon Rixon who, by…
While the nineties had a certain Gallagher declaring that he was “free to be whatever I / Whatever I choose”, 2015 has The Rising’s Tommy Overington throw society to the wind with a defiant “I’m gonna leave this all behind”…
Hailing from Los Angeles, The Rebel Light create music to match their sunny world of California. Beginning with some Beach Boys-esque harmonies, new track ‘Strangers’ incorporates jangling guitars with trumpets and hazy vocals, which emulates sixties American pop music to…
In their own world where genre seems to be a fluid concept, Time For T pack a rather astonishing amount of influences into their four and a half minute song, ‘Long Day Home’. Ranging from folk to rock, with even…