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This Is The Kit: Live from the Minack Theatre
New album: Originally a limited release on Record Store Day, a gorgeous live LP capturing the fabulous folk songwriting and feelgood presence of Kate Stables and the rest band on that unique amphitheatre setting overlooking the Cornish coast in May 2023
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Emma Gatrill: Come Swim
New album: Deliciously gentle, subtle, clever and beautifully original alternative folk by the Brighton-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist on a third LP that includes guests Kate Stables and Rozi Plain from This Is The Kit and Conor O’Brien from Villagers
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Part 1 selection of 2023 favourite albums
Welcome once again to the annual tradition of Song Bar’s favourite album releases of 2023. This is Part 1, and Part 2 is also out here. There’s no such thing as a chart rundown or ‘best of’ here, and these come in no particular order. This is all about quality and innovation …
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This Is The Kit: Careful Of Your Keepers
New album: Another peach of an LP from Kate Stables and band, whose voice especially with her acoustic alternative folk, effortlessly caresses the microphone with clarity, beauty, profundity and minimalism, and is produced by Gruff Rhys
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Great albums of 2020: clockwise from top: Agnes Obel, Phoebe Bridgers, Bob Dylan and Sault’s Untitled (Rise)
Albums of 2020 roundup: Out of crisis comes great art. A year of lockdowns, no gigs, alternative sounds, experimentation and surprises. This is the second half of our roundup of favourite albums of 2020. Part 1 was here
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The latest square of nine new albums
Albums reviews roundup: The latest selection includes a big reunion for the Boss. a mass collaboration via Fraser T Smith, Stormzy and more, exquisite work by This is The Kit, and reflective breakup by Laura Veirs
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