Cocker’s an oddly innocuous voice on an album too smooth to really impress.
A hair-raising and dazzling celebration of Ronin’s considerable achievements to date.
Songs blessed with a wry and dusty charm, but Dylan is too often on auto-pilot here.
A 10th album carried by mature, polished songwriting and light-touch production.
An hour in the company of Tom Paley and his revue is an hour well spent.
Watkins has created a sound that grittily avoids tired country clichés.
One of the most inventive and transgressive albums you’ll encounter this year.
Radio-friendly country fare, exceptionally produced but lacking originality.
The band’s new line-up delivers some vividly potent original writing.
A simply glorious new album from Buckinghamshire’s premier experimental outfit.
The Dervish singer’s affecting vocals are the focal point of this alluring debut.
Deceptively powerful stuff from the well-travelled bluesman.
Convincing alt-country from an unfamiliar locale.
Album four from the young folk performer, confirming her pack-leading position.
His erratic genius is finally getting the recognition it so richly deserves.
Whatever the style of the cover version, Martyn’s poetic truths shine through.
Provides a real sense of the ferocious intensity that makes this artist tick.
A new ProjeKct release which is as unprecedented as it is unexpected.
Guthrie performing live in 1949: a slice of musical and social history.
Confirms Fairport’s reputation as an ongoing repository for quality songwriting.
A great performer in her prime, capable of really special work.
A first-class new collection from the British folk veteran.
Brimming with material that is as haunting as it is beautiful.
Mercury nominated jazz quintet’s latest is a thing of unfettered joy.
Good-time sing-alongs, and surprisingly a lot more besides.
A writer in full command of her craft.
An excellent and worthy primer for newcomers to the prog-rockers.
The magical concert plus previously unreleased rehearsal recordings.
Nobody comes close to sounding like this remarkable and accessible outfit.
Wonderfully energetic Welsh group delivers a storming set.
Moments of melancholia as well as rushes of clarity and rapture.
Wyatt remains at his best when he’s facing forwards rather than looking back.
It’s interesting how a sound so British has beguiled so many acts from the USA.
He’s had the blues more times than the rest of us have had hot dinners.
An essential repackaging of a British folk treasure.
Light of mood and upbeat, the productive singer’s latest LP largely impresses.
A worthy introduction to a likeable but often unfairly neglected English institution.
Understandably a triumphant record given its maker’s recovery from serious injury.
Finds Moorer hitting her stride and going somewhere special.
The sound of an ensemble pulling its punches. Disappointing.
It might be quiet, but it’s no less astonishing for that.
A white-knuckle ride from start to finish.
The flow of brilliant and busy ideas is unstoppable and breathtaking.
Youngs creates moods that are almost unsettling in their intimacy and intensity.
Admirable in many respects, but an ultimately frustrating experience.
Here’s the Tender Coming raises the group’s standard higher still.
A wonderfully bright and highly original debut.
An ear-bleeding, whistle-stop tour of some of rock music’s darkest places.
Smouldering drama haunts this sparse, exquisitely furnished music.
A special solo effort from the Bellowhead vocalist and cellist
