Rating: Canadian Swedish singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall has a lot of prestige to her name as winner of the Western Canadian Music Award, and one of Sweden’s best artists according to Nöjesguiden. Nearly four years after her last album, MacDougall settled…
Rating: Singer songwriter Emma Ballantine‘s recent EP release, Tourist, is the follow up record to her debut, Flying Machine – and is full of optimistic, folksy, melodic outpourings. Recorded at Monnow Valley Studio in Wales, and released on her own label (Shut Up Jo),…
Rating: At twenty-six, the Italian-English singer songwriter Jack Savoretti is already headlining Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and is selling out dates fast on his upcoming tour. It seems there is something about Italian artists – they have a lump in their…
Having enjoyed a successful 2014, singer/songwriter Violet Skies returns with some new material for 2015 in the shape of ‘Liar’. Produced by Ed Tullet, ‘Liar’ is a hugely immersive track, with drawn-out, flowing strings flirting with a sharp drum beat…
I’m often very skeptical about new singer-songwriters; surely there can only be so many capable of bringing something fresh? Clearly, there’s still stuff to be done, as St. Albans-based Freddy Cass proves. As well as a BBC Introducing session, Cass…
There are many reasons to love gigs in churches. There is the sense of novelty, the grandeur; there is the acoustics, and that heart-smackingly magical moment when the first note flies out into the cavernous space and, if you’re sitting…