First out of the starting blocks this week is Dim Probs, which echoes the warmth and closeness of Gruff Rhys’s career-defining first solo album (2005’s Yr Atal Genhedlaeth) and the stargazing melancholy of 2021’s Seeking New Gods. Written and performed entirely in Welsh/Cymraeg, featuring fellow Welsh artists Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline on backing…
Josh Ritter kicks off this week’s soaraway six with his 11th album, Spectral Lines, in which he finds shared experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of his previous work. Recorded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, it’s an album full of wonder and light as Ritter considers the ideas of love, devotion and…
Josh Ritter’s 11th album, Spectral Lines, finds shared experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of his previous work. Recorded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, it’s an album full of wonder and light as Ritter considers the ideas of love, devotion and what it means to be connected, to each other and to…
This week’s lovelies are headed by Aldous Harding, who came off a 100-date tour last summer after the sleeper success of the internationally lauded Party and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with Party’s producer John Parish, Harding spent 15 days recording and 10 days mixing…
Out on 16 October, The Twilight Sad’s Òran Mór Session is a bewitching companion to last year’s acclaimed album. There are spme wonderful John Foxx’s soundscapes in London Overgrown. Alela Diane has teamed up with Ryan Francesconi to deliver a fine new release. There’s also a couple of folk releases seeing the light of day…