Swallowtail, Jim White's and Marisa Anderson's latest offering, is an album of quiet assurance and power. Shaped through improvisation and musical conversation, it encapsulates everything there i...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/jim-white-and-marisa-anderson-swallowtail/
Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew's May is a hypnotically good album. It is a long, involving listen, panoramic in scope but thematically focussed, and it manages to be both celebratory and str...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/arianne-churchman-and-benedict-drew-may/
While Kevin Coleman's Imaginary Conversations may contain only three tracks, it is one of the most varied albums of the year so far. It's a sweeping and stunningly accomplished album, brimming wi...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/kevin-coleman-imaginary-conversations/
With Ruth Theodore's meticulously constructed melodies and literate, open-hearted and relatable lyrics, 'I Am I Am' is her finest album to date. Source
Nick Granata and Dawn Terry are the latest artists to feature on Jacken Elswyth's The Betwixt & Between series. The series has thrown up a wide array of vital, surprising new folk music, and the ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/nick-granata-dawn-terry-betwixt-between-10/
Halocline, the debut album from Malin Lewis, our Artist of the Month, is a highly creative and singular forty minutes of music that's unique in its character and emotion. Clever in its approach a...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/malin-lewis-halocline-album-review/
Come Slack Your Horse! is a true landmark release from Goblin Band. While their music may be rooted in the past, Goblin Band represent a vibrant, exciting, and more accessible future for all who ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/05/goblin-band-come-slack-your-horse/
Canada’s The Deep Dark Woods return with another fine selection of folk songs - Broadside Ballads Vol III. It's a quietly intoxicating album featuring the warm-voiced Ryan Boldt, his band, and ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/deep-dark-woods-broadside-ballads-vol-iii/
The one apparently simple thing that has always made Six Organs of Admittance stand out from the crowd is his ability to create cerebral music that’s brimful of soul, and 'Time is Glass' is a p...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/six-organs-of-admittance-time-is-glass/
Northwest & Nebulous is the most layered, complex thing Luce Mawdsley have created to date. It provides an almost utopian glimpse of a particular corner of England, but more importantly, it shows...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/luce-mawdsley-northwest-nebulous/
Scott Ballew has created something that rivals the work of John Prine, Townes VanZandt and even Mr. Zimmerman himself. Rio Bravo keeps sneaking up on you, mixing music and metaphors in the most a...
Toby Hay and Aidan Thorne’s 'after a pause' is music of sharply-defined brilliance, shot through with the light of the Welsh countryside, and brimming with consideration both for the spirit of ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/toby-hay-aidan-thorne-after-a-pause/
Lately, the influence of traditional music, always there somewhere in the background, has made itself more apparent in the music of BIG|BRAVE, and A Chaos Of Flowers continues this trend - a visc...
With ‘Willson Williams,’ one might be tempted to conclude that Kathryn Williams and Dan Willson are bringing out the best in each other. Despite the melancholy that both typically lean into, ...
https://klofmag.com/2024/04/kathryn-williams-withered-hand-willson-williams/