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Careless - Fred's House (26/10/18)

August 23, 2018  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Fred's House
  • Release Date: 26th October, 2018
  • Genre: Folk-Rock, Pop
  • Record Label: Cracking Tunes
  • Tracks: 11
  • Website: https://fredshousemusic.co.uk

The exciting third album for the multi-award winning Fred's House featuring 11 tracks, presented in a scrapbook style packaging with lyric booklet.

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categories / Folk Music, Folk-Rock, Rock Music, Pop Music
tags / Fred's House, Careless, LCM New Releases 2018, October 2018

Under My Skin - Gabrielle (17/08/18)

August 23, 2018  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Gabrielle
  • Release Date: 17th August, 2018
  • Genre: Pop, R&B and Soul
  • Record Label: BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
  • Tracks: 12
  • Website: http://www.gabrielle.co.uk/

The excellent brand new album from London singer-songwriter Gabrielle is her first in 11 years. It marks 25 years since the release of her debut single, 'Dreams'. The #1 single stormed the charts all over Europe and Australia, going gold in the UK and cementing Gabrielle as one of the most exciting new names in pop music. Two and a half decades later, Under My Skin, is sure to remind the world of Gabrielle's signature, heart-warming, soul-stirring voice.

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categories / Pop Music, R&B, Soul Music, Singer-Songwriter
tags / Gabrielle, Under My Skin, LCM New Releases 2018, August 2018

For Everything A Season - Gitta De Ridder (23/03/18)

July 19, 2018  /  Gary Smith

  • Artist: Gitta de Ridder
  • Release Date:
  • Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk, Pop
  • Record Label: Little Moments Records
  • Tracks: 12 (+1 bonus track on deluxe ed)
  • Website:

'For Everything A Season is a collection of four seasonal EPs, that stand as a metaphor for the cycles we move through in life. A release of quality and depth from the Anglo-Dutch singer and songwriter, this is her second release following her well received debut 'Feathers' in 2016. Best described as high-quality alt-folk, with lyrical and musical complexity, de Ridder has a gift for a memorable hook, and a pop sensibility infuses the work. A deluxe box set containing 4 CDs in wallet with fold out page lyric booklet/mini poster.

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categories / Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk, Folk Music, Pop Music
tags / Gitta de Ridder, For Everything A Season, LCM New Releases 2018, March 2018

Just 3 EP - Little Sparrow (13/07/18)

July 13, 2018  /  Gary Smith

  • Artist: Little Sparrow
  • Release Date: 13th July, 2018
  • Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic, Pop
  • Record Label: Little Sparrow Music
  • Tracks: 3
  • Website: http://www.littlesparrow.org/  

Having released her debut album ‘Wishing Tree’ to critical acclaim and spending the next couple of years building on this through many successful live performances, Little Sparrow then decided to take some time out to write and record towards her highly anticipated follow up album, which she plans to release in 2019.

Her inspiration for creating the ‘Just 3’ EP was taken from the opportunity she was given in 2016 to perform on the Tim Peaks Diner stage at Kendal Calling as part of an event hosted by BBC Radio 6 & Radio 2 presenter Chris Hawkins.

Also appearing at the festival was much respected composer and musician Robin Dewhurst and suggestion was made by the organisers that Little Sparrow & Robin (along with cellist Sarah Dale) should create & record their own interpretation of 1980’s Madness single ‘Baggy Trousers’ and in addition perform it at the festival.

When performed live the team at Kendal Calling & Tim Peaks FM had this to say: “Little Sparrow & Robin performed the song live to a spellbound crowd on Chris Hawkins Tim Peaks
FM Show, creating a real ‘Kendal Calling’ moment. (It is) one of the best cover versions we have heard in years!"

Having enjoyed the experience they decided to seize this special opportunity to collaborate again and so, with the addition of two Little Sparrow originals, they have created a new EP entitled ‘Just 3’.

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categories / Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic Music, Pop Music
tags / Little Sparrow, Just 3 EP, LCM New Releases 2018, July 2018

Topspin - Cardboard Fox (08/06/18)

June 06, 2018  /  Gary Smith

Topspin, the new album from Cardboard Fox, leads the band in a subtly different direction. Drawing on a rich variety of influences, including jazz, folk and pop, but always rooted in bluegrass, the album uses a wide sonic palate with many layers of instrumentation and harmony. In addition to the core instruments of fiddle, mandolin, guitar and double bass, the band adds a selection of other instruments, with trumpet, banjo, lap steel, electric guitar and octave violin played by members of the band, and percussion provided by engineer and producer Josh Clark (Kate Rusby, Damien O'Kane, Ron Block, Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys).

Lead vocals are evenly split between twin sisters Charlotte and Laura Carrivick, with backing vocals from the other two band members, Joe Tozer and John Breese. Of the eleven tracks on the album, there are eight original songs, two covers and one original instrumental. The covers reflect the wide spectrum of the band's influences, ranging from legendary American roots songwriter, Gillian Welch's ‘Tear My Stillhouse Down’ to Owl City's synth-pop hit, ‘Fireflies’.

Topspin is the band's third release, preceded by their self-titled EP which won the 2015 Spiral Earth award for Best Debut, which was then followed by the band's first full length album, Out of Mind, in 2016 ("crisp and light, the arrangements delightfully layered" Country Music People). In the five years since their formation, Cardboard Fox have established themselves as a unique force on the UK roots scene and have successfully toured internationally, having performed across mainland Europe as well as Canada and the USA, building a reputation for explosive live performances.

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categories / Americana Music, Contemporary Folk, Folk Music, Jazz Music, Pop Music, Bluegrass Music
tags / Cardboard Fox, Topspin, LCM New Releases 2018, June 2018

Unbridled & Ablaze - Zialand (08/06/18)

May 14, 2018  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Zialand
  • Release Date 8th June. 21018
  • Genre: Soul-Pop, Singer-Songwriter
  • Record Label: Glittermouth
  • Tracks: 9
  • Website: http://www.zialand.net/

Following her recent singles ‘Landslide’ and ‘Shelter’, the latter of which was played on BBC Scotland, BBC Ulster, Soho Radio, Resonance and Juice FM (Brighton), the Norwegian artist ZIALAND (aka Zia Meyer) will release her new album, ‘Unbridled & Ablaze’ on 8th June. 

A new single entitled ‘Running Cold’ is also scheduled for the early summer. ZIa describes 'Running Cold' as “a song about a friend of mine and the deeply painful relationship she experienced with her alcoholic dad. Her pain was a complicated tapestry woven over time, blended together by watching him distance himself from the people closest to him and her profound love for him and the need for a dad. But her needs were never met because he always chose the bottle. She was the one who found him, barely conscious as he was slipping into a coma. Blood on the floor, on the walls and in the bed. She was the one who cleaned it all up, stayed by his hospital bed and was there as he fought the inevitable. His death wasn’t pretty. "I wanted to honour her and pour some love onto all that pain by writing her this song, bringing a kind of witnessing and a reckoning to it.”

Other highlights on the album include ‘Fever’ (“about living in exile, the vulnerability and precariousness of life in that existence, not knowing what comes next”), the aching ballad ‘Don't Look Down’ (“about a good man losing his partner to illness and his way of loving her is by showing up and being there in all the ways he can”), the powerful ’Shelter’ ("a love letter to my daughter”) and the intense torch song ‘Cleaved’ (“longing for your soulmate, the one you know is out there but not the ‘where’ or ‘how’ or ‘when’ you will meet”).    

Zia thinks of the album as being about “‘in-between' moments, when something is ending and something new beginning. That moment where you finally give way to the transmutation. For anything to move and transcend, something else needs to die or be let go of. To me, these moments are imbued with both the deepest of grief as well as a most delicate beatitude and rapture. I think I’ve always been on the hunt for these moments because they are so elusive."

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categories / Soul Music, Pop Music, Singer-Songwriter
tags / Zialand, Unbridled & Ablaze, LCM New Releases 2018, June 2018

Accidentally On Purpose - The Shires (20/04/18)

April 21, 2018  /  Gary Smith

  • Artists: The Shires
  • Release Date: 20th April, 2018
  • Genre: Country, Pop
  • Record Label: Decca (UMO)
  • Tracks: 12
  • Website:

The biggest selling UK country act of all time, The Shires, announce their highly anticipated third album ‘Accidentally on Purpose’, due for release on 20th April 2018 through Decca Records. The trailblazing duo will also be hitting the road this summer, performing their new music across the UK, including London’s Royal Albert Hall on 18th May. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, The Shires’ new album combines massive country-pop choruses and emotive words about their whirlwind journey, relationships and their time in the States. Increasingly, US country music is taking music influence from the mainstream with pop-inspired hooks, a sound that The Shires’ new album reflects. “Accidentally on Purpose is full of personal songs that really sums up the whirlwind journey we’ve been on together. From the first day we met, we’ve been crazy dreamers with big plans, who really believed that Country could break into the UK mainstream. For all those dreams, we never imagined it would all happen so quickly and we’re so proud and excited to be releasing our third album.” – Ben and Crissie, The Shires

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categories / Country Music, Country-Pop, Pop Music
tags / The Shires, Accidentally On Purpose, LCM New Releases 2018, April 2018

Jupiter Calling - The Corrs (10/11/17)

September 21, 2017  /  Gary Smith

 

It has been two years since they last released music but the wait is over for fans of The Corrs as their new album lands on November 10.

Jupiter Calling comes two years after White Light and twenty years after the Dundalk band's hugely successful second album, Talk On Corners. Caroline describes making the album as "the most freeing experience we've ever had in the studio".

The album isproduced by T-Bone Burnett and he had them play live with minimal overdubs accompanied by bassist Robbie Malone and guitarist Anthony Drennan. He also insisted the studio source 40 spools or rare two inch tape and a 1966 Ludwig drum kit.

“I love The Corrs' deep, generous spirit,” says T-Bone. “I love their writing and their singing and their playing. I love the people of Ireland – their music, their literature, their art- and The Corrs are the most soulful exemplars of that mystical land.”

The Corrs also play a headline show at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on the 19th October.

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categories / Folk Music, Pop Music
tags / The Corrs, Jupiter Calling, LCM New Releases 2017, November 2017

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