You need only close your eyes for the latest from The Capsules to transport you onto a single cloud in an otherwise clear blue sky, and on what is a miraculously worthy follow-up to their stunning fourth album, the journey is once again guaranteed to be idyllic.
Bandcamp / FacebookA truly exquisite display of refined, musically-articulate emotion, the debut album from anchor & the butterfly is an extraordinary collection of elegant, dignified songs that, with their apparent acceptance of the human condition, slowly burn a single tear-shaped hole in your ageing heart.
Bandcamp / FacebookBearing a noteworthy resemblance to a stripped-back Matchbox 20, the sophomore EP from Belfast’s Arctic Tern is a predominately gentle, invariably captivating affair that thrives on the emotional intensity stirred by the consummate confluence of its keys, strings and vocals.
Bandcamp / FacebookShowcasing an unmistakable kinship with the natural world, Ayla Nero’s latest album marries folky simplicity with mystically-inspired experimentation, ultimately sounding as if it were written and recorded after a life-affirming week split between the company of forest faeries and a percussion-happy tribe living to the beat of nature’s drum.
Bandcamp / FacebookDriven forward by knockout sisterly harmonies, the debut album from Portland trio Joseph could almost have been written a-hundred-and-fifty years ago, its collection of impeccably built, humanly and spiritually aware songs returning the listener to a simpler, less cluttered world.
Bandcamp / FacebookWith its wonderfully magisterial vocals and honest, carefully considered treatment of the memories, hopes and dreams that inspired its existence, Ten Tundra is a prodigious work that radiates with honour, respect and self-awareness.
Bandcamp / FacebookA supreme storytelling effort, Fugitives’ sorrowful, sentimental tales are perfect fodder for the soothing voice of Molly Murphy, which delivers with a natural longing and regret that becomes firmly lodged in the trenches of your consciousness.
Bandcamp / FacebookA brooding darkness rolls through much of Seth Paul Macchi’s The Valley, a claustrophobic melancholy that remains present even when the lyrics suggest a more positive outlook; the self-torment eminently relatable and like a beacon to the listener, as a flame is to the moth.
Bandcamp / FacebookThe debut album from Kathryn Joseph, 'Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled' takes the listener to a bleak Scottish homestead in the middle of nowhere, and after reaching for a blanket to stave off the cold, said listener will likely sit utterly still, transfixed by the haunting vocals and bare-bones production
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