“Featuring a spooky Beethoven-inspired piano, Brett’s eerie whooping creates a jingle for an increasingly desperate business. ‘Call us anytime at night,’ Brett sings. ‘Call us day or night.’
Folk Radio UK
Folk Radio UK debuts “Joseph,” the new single from The Handsome Family’s forthcoming LP, Hollow, noting, “It is a record lush with leaves and shadows, echoing with occult mystery.”
Brett writes the music, and Rennie writes the words. Their work has been covered by many artists, including Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird and most recently, Phoebe Bridgers. Their song “Far From Any Road” was the opening theme for HBO’s True Detective season one and still receives thousands of Shazams every week from all over the world.
They have just announced the release of their eleventh studio album, Hollow (out Sep. 8, 2023), an album that began with a scream in the night (more on below)…it delves into the natural world at the edges of the man-made. It is a record lush with leaves and shadows and echoing with occult mystery.
Folk Radio UK calls Kiely Connell’s debut LP, Calumet Queen, “A late in the year contender for the best-of lists”
Hailing from Hammond, Indiana but now Nashville-based, Kiely Connell recorded Calumet Queen live with longtime guitarist Drew Kohl. It’s a terrific alliterative debut and a late in the year contender for the best-of lists. READ MORE…
Folk Radio UK praises The Armadillo Paradox’s latest single “Reincarnated Werewolf Astronaut”
The Armadillo Paradox, the creative partnership between bluegrass aficionado Sol Chase and storyteller/former hip-hop artist Jared Huskey, are preparing to release their debut LP, Out of Gas in Oil Country, a ten-track collection of songs that gallivants between country, Americana, folk, bluegrass and alt-rock with soft lyrical styling and experimental acoustic instrumentation. READ MORE…
Folk Radio UK debuts the latest video from Emily Moment for “Santa Maria,” calling it a “powerful, empathetic and moving song – the kind of song you can imagine Joan Baez singing.”
Emily breaks through the media noise to the reality of the situation with a very personal story of a mother, worn out and broken, praying to her god for salvation and mercy. There’s a lovely warmth to the sound of this recording, no doubt helped by her choice of studio: Urchin Studios — the London-area studio where Laura Marling tracked Short Movie several years earlier.
She makes it a human story…with her emotive voice at the forefront, it’s a powerful, empathetic and moving song – the kind of song you can imagine Joan Baez singing, let’s hope this one reaches as many ears, it deserves to.
Folk Radio UK shares gorgeous new time-lapse music video from Los Angeles Americana / indie-folk artist James Houlahan
The last time Folk Radio UK featured L.A. singer-songwriter James Houlahan was in 2018, for a single from his fourth album The Wheel Still in Spin. A lot has happened in those intervening years which have strongly shaped his new album, Ordinary Eye.
Experiencing a deeply divided America, Houlahan felt compelled to document this unprecedented era in the history of the country and the planet. “It’s such a crazy time,” Houlahan says. “The world is on fire. I wanted to write music that bore witness to what was happening—not only in the world around me but in my head, too. It’s an album about looking around, seeing what’s happening, witnessing the present.”
Watch his new video for the Neil Young-inspired “As It Is” with stacked harmonies, brushed percussion and other cinematic flourishes. It perfectly represents the album themes and aesthetic, and the video (footage from the extensive Prelinger Archives) is set to gorgeous time-lapse visuals of tiny seeds transforming into plants that ultimately flower, as Houlahan offers up a hushed plea for clarity and acceptance… “a simple dream of love for everything.”