We start this week’s super six with the twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize- and Brit Award-winning artist Arlo Parks, who returns with her second album, My Soft Machine. This is a deeply personal body of work: a narration of Parks’ experiences as she navigates her 20s and the growth involved. She explains articulately in her own…
We kick off this week’s goodies with a reminder of last week’s release of the week, which has been delayed but is good enough to mention again! Fetch The Bolt Cutters, the fifth studio album from Fiona Apple, is astonishing, intimate and demonstrates a refusal to be silenced. It’s as if she has returned to…
We have 8 lovely releases for 4 November to recommend to you. First, The Furrow Collective, featuring the golden voices and multi-instrumental prowess of Emily Portman, Rachel Newton and Lucy Farrell and Alasdair Roberts, release their second effort, Wild Hog, and it’s one of the finest folk albums released this year – we saw them…
Pre-sale of the week is Lodestar by Shirley Collins, out on 4 November. Lodestar is legendary singer Shirley Collins’s first album in over 35 years, and is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16th Century to the 1950s, all recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes. We’re offering Lodestar at special…