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