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  Frigg : Frixx
  Frigg : Frixx

• Cynefin : Dilyn Afon

  Cynefin is the recording name of West Wales folk musician Owen Shiers, who played a hugely promising showcase at FOCUS Wales 2019. Delivering on that performance, Shiers' debut solo release, Dilyn Afon, is an emotionally resonant contemporary folk album that demands to be listened to in absolute stillness to fully reveal its meditative magic. [More]

• Merry Hell : Live Review

  Wigan's folk-pioneers Merry Hell played the Hungry Horse Folk Club in Ellesmere Port on General Election night, opening their second set as the exit poll was announced. In adversity for many, the band found the heart for another electrifying, hope-filled performance. [More]

• Keys : Bring Me the Head of Jerry Garcia

  The sound of Bring Me the Head of Jerry Garcia is urgent and vivid. Keys make music that torrents out of the speakers like a river in spate tearing brutally at anything in its way - expressing this power fully and recorded in two days, their fifth album is a five star psych-dazzle; a bold musical statement, made with glee. [More]

• Silent Forum : Everything Solved at Once

  Melodic, experimental, meaning crammed into every sung word, Cardiff's Silent Forum are the real post-punk deal. Their debut album's intelligent, majestic music arcs with the enchantment and mystery of a shooting star over a coal-dark landscape. [More]

• Bird in the Belly : Neighbours & Sisters

  Bird in the Belly's second album follows the first in finding songs to record that have rarely, or never, been heard before. The result is a remarkable balance of revival reverence and contemporary folk-noir - raw, vivid music from the shadows of a nineteenth century back alley grog shop. [More]

• Emilio Pinchi : Absentee EP

  Absentee picks up where Liverpool singer-songwriter Emilio Pinchi’s last EP, Holiday, left things a year ago, with more music from his soft-shoed, indie-folk hymnal. Influenced by Elliot Smith and Phoebe Bridgers, Absentee's eight songs offer twenty-five perfect minutes of autumnal, low-key, aural delight. [More]

• Album of the Year 2019 : Los Blancos

  2019's Album of the Year is again from West Wales and Libertino Records. After a series of electrifying singles, Los Blancos debut long player, Sbwriel Gwyn, is an irresistible sonic expression of disaffection and disdain. It only takes one listen through to realise that collective discordant-pop genius is at play. [More]

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  LOS BLANCOS I Dilyn Iesu Grist

• Luke Jackson : Journals

  A stunning cover of Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where the Time Goes? is the highlight of this extraordinary album of folk, blues and more from Canterbury-based Luke Jackson. Journals is his fifth LP - and it is enthralling and exhilarating from the very first note. [More]

• Bill Ryder-Jones : Yawny Yawn

  For his fifth studio album Wirral's Bill Ryder-Jones has revisited the songs of his acclaimed fourth, Yawn. Relying on piano and voice to re-imagine the music, the result is an understated, perfectly crafted triumph - Yawny Yawn is a quixotic drift of melancholic beauty. [More]

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