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