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Album artwork Words by Lady Godiva The Cornish high priestess Daisy Rickman rose and shone with her love letter to the moon, Donsya a'n Loryow, in 2022 and is now back with her second effort Howl, another soulful incantation in a league of its own. Released on the Spring Equinox, her enchanting songwriting incorporates bits … Continue reading Album review: Daisy Rickman – Howl
Pilot, album artwork Words by Brandon Pestano Skydaddy takes flight with Pilot, the debut EP from English-Lebanese London based artist Rachid Fakhre. Created following a period of self doubt and introspection, Pilot is a delicately crafted five track orchestral alt-folk project knitted together with love and care like a warm homemade jumper by a campfire … Continue reading EP Review: Skydaddy – Pilot
Words by Millen Brown-Ewens Oscar Browne’s debut EP packs a tender punch. Seamlessly blending folk with the soft synths of indie rock and roots music, If Only delivers a mature sound that cushions our decent into the wilderness. Far removed from the bustling streets of London that the singer calls home, the paced acoustic instrumentation … Continue reading EP Review: Oscar Browne – If Only
Buck Curran, previously a part of the critically acclaimed and influential psych folk duo Arborea alongside Shanti Deschaine, has been diligently and individually pursuing his own rich and inspired path, weaving Robbie Basho inspired raga with American primitive fingerpicking throughout albums such as 2020’s superlative ‘No Love is Sorrow’, which combined a Popol Vuh-hued sense of the sacred with a … Continue reading Album review(s): Buck Curran – The Long Distance, Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, and Solstice – A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans
Words by Grey Malkin Burnt Paw (Birmingham native and Edinburgh resident Andy Green) has quietly but consistently been releasing a series of beautiful EPS and albums filled with adventurous and dexterous acoustic guitar work, and with songs replete with psychedelic, visionary lyrics and tales, since 2016’s illuminating ‘The Sparrow’s Scrapbook’. Later long players, such as … Continue reading Album review: Burnt Paw – Levitation Songs
Words by Alexandra Dominica With a name to conjure with and sounds to move and shake to, ‘Triple Point of Water’ is a poignant and turbo charged voyage through the psychedelic rapids. Taken from a Brian Jonestown Massacre track title of the same name, Mandrake Handshake are the only root you’ll need in your witch’s … Continue reading EP Review: Mandrake Handshake – The Triple Point of Water
Words by Lady Godiva Stemming from Alessio Ferrari’s vivid imagination and bucolic surroundings, The Golden Pond is Upupayama’s new release following his promising self-titled debut from last year. As the artwork may manifest, Upupayāma (literally mountain hoopoe), a semi-fictional bird, still flies over the most outstanding and lush greenery. A mere glance at the sleeve … Continue reading Album review: Upupayāma – The Golden Pond
Words by Rhys Jones Under the guise of Trappist Afterland, Adam G Cole has carved out an uncompromising and often exciting back catalogue of acidic spiritual folk that weaves Eastern time signatures, ethereal drones and meditative audio journeys, which resulted in 2020’s Seaside Ghost Tales. The double album culminated in a series of songs that … Continue reading Album review: Adam Geoffrey Cole – The Tracks of the Afterlander
Album artwork Words by Grey Malkin East Sussex’s Sairie, featuring Emma Morton on vocals/autoharp, Jon Griffin on vocals/guitar and Andy Thomas on bass, have been steadily releasing a series of beautiful and strange singles and EPs, culminating in 2020’s ethereal and haunting The Cherry Tree. Hearkening back to the early 70’s heyday of acid and psychedelic … Continue reading EP Review: Sairie – The Cinder Sheet
Source: Album artwork Words by Grey Malkin NYC/Philadelphia based Elkhorn - Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner - are becoming increasingly renowned for their cosmic and widescreen, yet often intimate, guitar symphonies, with their melding of Jack Rose/Robbie Basho style acoustic work with sacred Popol Vuh atmospheres. Previous albums have offered beautiful and sonically adventurous improvisations recorded whilst being … Continue reading Album review: Elkhorn – Distances