New album: An enthralling collection of 23 cover versions of classic numbers by the legendary British folk singer who tragically died in 1974, featuring diverse artists including Fontaine’s D.C., Emeli Sandé, Aldous Harding, Guy Garvey and John Grant
Read moreKendrick Lamar, Big Thief, Fontaines D.C. to Kae Tempest: Favourite albums of 2022 - Part 1
Favourite albums of 2022: Welcome to the first part of a selection for this year, many of which continue to come to terms with pandemic, climate change and other current issues but also show how music can continue to innovate, surprise and entertain
Read moreAldous Harding: Warm Chris
New album: The fourth LP by the New Zealand singer-songwriter maintains her enigmatic oddness, this experimental folk-pop broadening and instrumental range, but also her voice, restlessly morphing into several personas across these 10 songs
Read moreAnna B Savage: A Common Turn – album review
Album review: The London singer-songwriter’s cleverly titled, superb debut is bird-themed, exquisitely beautiful and intimate. It exposes her rich, deep, velvety voice, one that gently warbles snd smoothly soars from a nest of various mostly acoustic strings. Utterly gorgeous
Read moreAldous Harding to Richard Dawson to Michael Kiwanuka: favourite albums of 2019 – part 1
The first part of our selection of the pick of albums from 2019 by Song Bar readers and the Landlord editor, in alphabetical order by title, not a ‘best of’ or countdown. The second part is here.
Read moreNew albums: Aldous Harding, The Mountain Goats, Kevin Morby, Pete Doherty, Soak, Minyo Crusaders, The Cranberries, Foxygen, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Ezra Collective, King Gizzard, Marina
A bumper selection from the past week includes the beautiful voice of Aldous Harding, superb songwriting from Kevin Morby, The Mountain Goats, Pete Doherty’s latest project and an acoustic rock-out from Rodrigo Y Gabriela
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