Martin Simpson is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them. Martin's new album, Skydancers, is ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/off-the-shelf-with-martin-simpson/
Martin Simpson's Skydancers is a beautifully packaged album. The music exudes class and quality, but what impresses most is the restraint. No notes are wasted and all instrumental flourishes land...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/martin-simpson-skydancers-review/
We met Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine to talk about their new Outliers album, a beautiful celebration of spontaneity and space, blending strong songwriting with acoustic arrangements and subtle...
https://klofmag.com/2024/02/interview-jenny-sturgeon-boo-hewerdine-outliers/
Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine's Outliers revels in the beauty of the remote. While conceived and recorded entirely online, it feels astonishingly close. The attention to detail and clarity of ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/02/jenny-sturgeon-and-boo-hewerdine-outliers/
We meet up with English folk masters Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, our current Artists of the Month, to talk about their wonderful new album Glad Christmas Comes and rum topped diplomacy... Sourc...
https://klofmag.com/2023/12/eliza-carthy-jon-boden-the-folk-radio-interview/
At sixteen songs, Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden's "Glad Christmas Comes" is, appropriately, like a big Christmas lunch that you won’t want to finish. Beautiful music from two of our very finest and ...
https://klofmag.com/2023/12/eliza-carthy-jon-boden-glad-christmas-comes-album-review/
Harry’s Seagull shows how old songs sung with affection and skill can sparkle like new. Georgia Shackleton’s solo debut is light as a gull’s feather but flush with ideas: it’s one of the ...
https://klofmag.com/2023/11/georgia-shackleton-harrys-seagull-album-review/
We talk to The Furrow Collective (Rachel Newton, Alasdair Roberts, Lucy Farrell and Emily Portman) about their new album, We Know by the Moon - a chilly delight: eleven folk songs blasted by wint...
https://klofmag.com/2023/11/the-furrow-collective-the-folk-radio-interview/
On ‘Look Over the Wall, See the Sky’, John Francis Flynn unropes songs from their historical moorings and lets them barrel downstream…Refreshing and vividly utopian, these songs exist in li...
https://klofmag.com/2023/11/john-francis-flynn-look-over-the-wall-see-the-sky/
The Furrow Collective are simply one of the most formidable combinations of musicians in today’s folk music scene, and in "We Know by the Moon", they have created one of the year’s outstandin...
https://klofmag.com/2023/11/the-furrow-collective-we-know-by-the-moon-album-review/
Honey & the Bear's "Away Beyond the Fret" is a remarkable album, especially for capturing profound personal moments alongside folklore, history, nature, superstition, and awe-inspiring tales. The...
https://klofmag.com/2023/10/honey-and-the-bear-away-beyond-the-fret-album-review/
We chat to Sheffield’s Melrose Quartet about their new album 'Make the World Anew' - a staunch defence of the sheer joy of creativity, allowing for contemporary political songwriting and age-ol...
https://klofmag.com/2023/10/melrose-quartet-the-folk-radio-interview/
Chris Brain's 'Steady Away' is an introspective and reflective offering. Intelligently written and considerately handled, it's everything a second album should be; an excellent album by a musicia...
https://klofmag.com/2023/10/chris-brain-steady-away-album-review/
Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhriain’s ‘Double You’ goes beyond virtuosic; it's also layered with emotion, appreciation for style and tradition and the freedom of just playing. You are left fee...
https://klofmag.com/2023/10/catrin-finch-aoife-ni-bhriain-double-you-album-review/