Category Archive: Americana

Seabuckthorn – A House With Too Much Fire

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Last week I was alerted to this new release by Seabuckthorn, who has been working recently with the impressive Lost Tribe Sound imprint. Guitarist Andy Cartwright has joined French labels Bookmaker and La… Continue reading

The Green Kingdom – The North Wind and the Sun

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I’ve followed Michael Cottone’s work as The Green Kingdom since I first got into Ambient music in and around 2008, when a series of small CD, CDr and netlabel material emerged on labels… Continue reading

Tara Jane O’Neil – S/T

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Warm, hazy and lazy Folk songs from LA’s Tara Jane O’Neil in her self-titled album. I was drawn to this record initially with it reminding me of the work of Joan Shelley and… Continue reading

Seabuckthorn – Turns

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American label Lost Tribe Sound have consistently released high-quality material over the last few years quality output from artists such as William Ryan Fritch, Western Skies Motel and Part Timer to name but… Continue reading

End Of 2016: a list and show by Harry Towell

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With 2016 all but done, it’s time for me to cover off my favourite albums of the year across all genres. The year for me aside from music has gone at lightning pace with… Continue reading

Light Of Woods – Field Notes

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Another recent discovery as a result of aimless Bandcamp scouring, we happened across the work of ‘Light Of Woods’ and were particularly impressed with ‘Field Notes’, released on Canadian imprint ‘Other Songs Music… Continue reading

Western Skies Motel – Settlers

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This year so far we’ve been very poor in posting up album/music recommendations so there’s quite a backlog to work to! Apologies to any labels that we’ve not got round to supporting with… Continue reading

St. Germain – St. Germain

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Lovers of Deep House and the Nu-Jazz movement of the early 2000s will well recall French artist St. Germain for the classic record ‘Tourist‘. Since then, Ludovic Navarre hasn’t exactly flooded the scene with subsequent… Continue reading

Will Samson – Ground Luminosity

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This morning I’ve just picked up this new one on Talitres by Will Samson and already have a sense that this will be ranking high amongst my favourite records of the year. There’s… Continue reading

Best Albums of 2014

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      So that’s it then, another year over and done with and the flurry of year end lists come in. We’ve done ours – a twenty-five strong list of our favourite… Continue reading