Lumer launch EP The Disappearing Act

There’s been a sur­feit of tal­ent­ed young bands com­ing out of York­shire’s towns and val­leys – such as Work­ing Men’s Club, The Lounge Soci­ety and Fehlt. And local venues such as The Trades in Heb­den Bridge, Bru­denell Social Club in Leeds, and Tod­mor­den’s Gold­en Lion have been instru­men­tal in sup­port­ing their bur­geon­ing tal­ent.  Lumer are…

Read More

American hope: Hiss Golden Messenger ‘Sanctuary’

The song Sanc­tu­ary was writ­ten and record­ed with a mes­sage of hope; for­tu­nate­ly many of those prayers have just been answered, giv­ing its lyrics an added cel­e­bra­to­ry note.  North Car­oli­na folk band Hiss Gold­en Mes­sen­ger, with M.C. Tay­lor at the helm, has pro­duced a warm and beau­ti­ful slice of Amer­i­cana in this atmos­pher­i­cal­ly rich num­ber. Sanctuary…

Read More

New single Atlantic by The Weather Station captures the mood

The Weath­er Sta­tion has released a new sin­gle and video called Atlantic, from forth­com­ing album Igno­rance (5th Feb­ru­ary on Fat Pos­sum).  The Weath­er Sta­tion is a project lead by Cana­di­an singer song­writer Tama­ra Lin­de­man. This lat­est work is intense­ly per­son­al (Tama­ra also direct­ed the video) and it cap­tures the present mood of uncer­tain­ty, with climate…

Read More

Album Waves of Haste by Hjalte Ross makes its debut

The sim­ple and rather beau­ti­ful draw­ing on the cov­er of Waves of Haste offers a hint of what awaits lis­ten­ers of this new album by Dan­ish artist Hjalte Ross, his sec­ond so far. The illus­tra­tion by Kasper Eistrup is of the head of a young man – per­haps Hjalte him­self. He is lying on a…

Read More

Ed Cosens shares new single The River

Ed Cosens has just released a video for The Riv­er, the sec­ond sin­gle from his debut solo album For­tunes Favour, here it is below. A long-time lynch­pin of the Sheffield music scene, best known as the gui­tarist and co-song­writer in Rev­erend & The Mak­ers, Ed wait­ed to make his solo debut until the time felt right. “It’s only tak­en 10…

Read More

Alabaster dePlume and music to heal the soul

Alabaster dePlume new release To Cy & Lee: Instru­men­tals Vol 1 on Lost Map Records in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Chi­ca­­go-based avant-jazz label Inter­na­tion­al Anthem and the Total Refresh­ment Cen­tre in Lon­don. I had to check if this was the same Alabaster dePlume who sang a cou­ple of humor­ous songs at a Union Chapel day­time ses­sion I attend­ed. Although there could­n’t…

Read More

The Kids Are United – anti-bullying week video

The offi­cial video for Anti-Bul­­ly­ing Week 2020 is record­ed by CBee­bies pre­sen­ter Andy Day and his band Andy and the Odd Socks, the cov­er of Sham 69’s ‘The Kids Are Unit­ed’ fea­tures Princess K (who shared the stage with Stor­mzy at Glas­ton­bury 2019) and the Lib­era Choir with all pro­ceeds going to the Anti-Bul­­ly­ing Alliance. Stars of CBBC’s ‘Andy and…

Read More

As We Leave release new single from upcoming EP

Psych-pop Isle of Wight band As We Leave have just released a new sin­gle from their upcom­ing debut EP, Every­thing to a Point, which will be released on 13 Novem­ber 2020. The new track is called Hope That Kills, a melan­choly and thought­ful num­ber with a floaty, wist­ful feel. It cer­tain­ly dis­plays the matu­ri­ty of…

Read More

Hjalte Ross shares latest track Thinking About You

If you haven’t heard Dan­ish singer song­writer Hjalte Ross before, Think­ing About You, his lat­est track, is a good place to start. Open­ing with an upbeat blast of brass that gives way to Ross’s sur­pris­ing­ly deep and soul­ful vocals, the path leads you fur­ther on into a gor­geous­ly expan­sive piano sec­tion. Think­ing About You takes…

Read More

Video just released for Ed Cosens new song ‘If’

Ed Cosens of Rev­erend & the Mak­ers released a sin­gle last week called If – it’s the first num­ber from his up-and-com­ing debut solo album, For­tunes Favour, out on 29th Jan­u­ary 2021.  And now there’s a video to accom­pa­ny the song… it is Part 1 of 4 of , a short film, to be released in…

Read More