If magic in music exists, it is here, and never-ending.
An interesting, experimental juncture in the quartet's career.
An innovative album that slipped comfortably inside the 80s mainstream.
Album four from one of folk’s 21st century success stories.
A third album brimming over with intoxicating, mesmerising music.
An album that will live long, an album to live with, and live in.
Home-grown loveliness abounds on this folksy debut from the north east.
An emotional, experimental ride, Weller’s 11th solo LP is brilliant stuff.
The sublime and the ridiculous: this is classic Kate.
Lakeman’s new rock edge ensures he hardly sounds like a folk artist at all.
A sweet second solo album from former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci man.
A world-and-folk fusion that will last rather a sweaty summer fling.
A reminder of the palpable greatness of this Great British Eccentric.
Nastasia’s talent is to snare those who find her, and never let them go.
Suggests that here is a folk family with a long, bright future.
Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis deliver a sugar-sweet collection.
The pair are expectedly strong of voice, but much here comprises an icy cool listen.
A soft soul with hard edges, who shows us how quietness can resound so loudly.
The tragedy is that the man isn’t without talent.
Plodding melodies draw attention to Brown's unpleasantly macho style.
She’s transformed into a revenge-hunting, firebrand diva – and it suits her.
Wainwright can be proud of this performance, but is more powerful when being herself.
An album obsessed with what lies beyond.
Childs’ fifth album finds the ex-Gorky’s man falling short of his best.
