Odyssey - The Accidentals (18/08/17)
Artist: The Accidentals
Release Date: 18th August, 2017
Genre: Indie Folk-Rock, Folk
Record Label: Masterworks (Colombia/Sony)
Tracks: 13
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No. 79 - Gareth Dunlop (11/08/17)
- Artist: Gareth Dunlop
- Release Date: 11th August, 2017
- Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Folk
- Record Label: Priory Records
- Tracks: 10
- Website: https://www.garethdunlop.com/
Gareth Dunlop's new album 'No.79' was recorded at his home in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.
“We moved into our house in Belfast about 3 years ago. Spending months at a time away from the house, it just felt right to make this record in my own home. As well as it being somewhere I’m most comfortable, it just has a cool vibe and sound to it, and I wanted to capture that. Something different happens when the studio comes to the musicians… it forces you to approach things differently and think outside of the box. The songs we recorded were all written in the months leading up to the session and I think the emotions of the songs were very much still on the forefront of my mind.”
There are limitations to recording in a house and I wanted to use those restraints as an opportunity to be more creative. It made us all use our instruments in a different way… because we didn’t have a string quartet, we taped up the strings on my old piano to emulate a string part on ‘What It Wants’. That was the story for most days... If we didn’t have it, we had to make it. I spent a couple of weeks driving my family crazy getting the house ready and sound treating the rooms. It wasn’t until we recorded the first take of the first song that I knew it would work. Having great musicians and great friends in my home made the process of recording these songs so much more enjoyable.”
The Project - Lindsay Ells (11/08/17)
- Artist: Lindsay Ells
- Release Date: August, 2017
- Genre: Country
- Record Label: Stoney Creek/Red
- Tracks: 12
- Website: https://www.lindsayell.com/
2017 debut album from the country singer-songwriter. Produced by Sugarland's Kristian Bush, The Project comes on the heels of Ell's Worth the Wait EP. 'This new music is the best I've ever done,' Ell says. 'I called the album The Project because that's exactly what this whole process was. I've discovered who I am, what I want to say and how I want to say it. I'm so excited to finally have an album that is me, and I can't wait for fans to hear it.'
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Waiting On You
Champagne
Castle
Good
Wildfire
Mint
White Noise
Criminal
Just Another Girl
Space
Always Kiss The Girl
Worth The Wait
Big Band: Live - Peter Knight's Gigspanner (09/08/17)
- Artist: Peter Knight's Gigspanner
- Genre: Folk and Roots
- Release Date: 9th August, 2017
- Record Label: Self Released
- Tracks: 9
- Website: http://www.gigspanner.com/
The album lineup features Peter Knight, Roger Flack, Phillip Henry, Hannah Martin and Sacha Trochet.
As a trio, Gigspanner, formed by Steeleye Span's erstwhile fiddle player Peter Knight, has built a massive reputation for dismantling traditional music and song and reassembling it into "music of intelligently crafted brilliance" (Songlines).
BBC Folk Award winners (Best Duo) Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin are described by The Guardian as being "Subtle, bravely original...a combination of virtuosity, intensity and charisma"
Their appearances together as the Gigspanner Big Band are a rare but highly sought after affair, thanks to performances of dazzling musicianship and arresting chemistry. Unhindered by the limits of technical ability, they take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British Isles, and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements layered within a wealth of subliminal musical influences “with notes seemingly plucked from the stars and rhythms from the equator”.
"It takes a very special inner peace to have the confidence to do what these five do...no egos, no pretensions, no nonsense - it is music from the heart presented by five top class performers for the sheer pleasure of it" Grapevine Magazine
Wildwood Kin - Turning Tides (18/08/17)
- Artist: Wildwood Kin
- Genre: Indie Folk
- Release Date: 18th August, 2017
- Record Label: Silverstone / Sony
- Tracks: 11
- Website: https://wildwoodkin.com
A family trio – two sisters and their cousin – Wildwood Kin borrow heavily from early folk influences, not least in their hypnotic three-part harmonies. But their extraordinary debut album, delves deeply in to other genres, featuring both electric and acoustic instruments and it boasts inventive electronics and spectral atmospherics.
Guitarist Emillie Key, her bouzouki/keyboard-playing sister Beth and their drumming cousin Meghann Loney all sing, swapping leads on songs they write themselves, and joining forces on harmonies that have remained their trademark.