Christian Eede

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For September

JR Moores surveys the latest psych-rock releases, and bravely nails his tie-dyed colours to the mast of not liking these newfangled Nazis we have around nowadays

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's seasonal exploration of forward-thinking folk music returns, featuring an interview with Eliza Carthy on the attentional ebb & flow the scene attracts, and the importance of hammering home an anti-fascist message, plus reviews of ten essential new releases – from magical Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the heart of Ireland's trad scene, via the Balkans, Lebanon, Argyll, Connemara and beyond

Angeline Morrison

The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience

The Cornish singer reintegrates tales of Black British experience into the English folk tradition

The Family Cat Announce Best Of

Two-disc retrospective due in late January

Jessy Lanza

Love Hallucination

Club music may have caught up with Jessy Lanza, but she's still pushing forward, finds Skye Butchard

In Fair England: Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief At 50

Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class and gender but one that was also positive and questing, says Michael Hann

Poetry Column: The Morals Of A Meat Slicer — Sam Riviere On Minnis, Leon & Seidel

In the second instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (abstractly titled 'Poetry Column'), Sam Riviere considers the writings of Chelsey Minnis, Frederick Seidel & Jon Leon from the starting point of Leon's own seemingly-innocuous declaration — taking in privilege, obscurity vs. self-exposure and the poet's own contempt for poetry en route — ‘Art is redemptive’

Richard Dawson

Nothing Important

Crystal Stilts

Alight Of Night