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Tom Bolton

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Waterless Hills

The Great Mountain

Featuring the combined talents of Andrew Cheetham, Gavin Clarke, dbh, and C Joynes, Waterless Hills compose soundtracks to imaginary films with results that sound unlike anything else
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Incredible Self Confidence

Discontent is a Luxury of the Well-to-Do

The first album by Incredible Self Confidence is likeable, literate and accomplished, finds Tom Bolton
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Thirty Pounds of Bone & Philip Reeder

Still Every Year They Went

Recorded on a fishing trawler, with all the attendant sounds of the sea, Thirty Pounds of Bone and Philip Reeder's mournful shanties evoke the passing of a whole way of life, finds Tom Bolton
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Serafina Steer

The Mind is a Trap

Bas Jan's Serafina Steer delivers a unique and multifaceted solo album, finds Tom Bolton
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Alasdair Roberts

The Fiery Margin

Deep time and restive present smash against each other in the latest from reborn medieval hedge preacher Alasdair Roberts, finds Tom Bolton
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Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus With The Belbury Poly

Chanctonbury Rings

A collaboration between Sharron Krauss, Justin Hopper and Ghost Box regulars Belbury Poly, Chanctonbury Rings is destined to become as loved as the classic spoken word productions that influenced it, finds Tom Bolton
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Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra

Plasma Splice Trifle

Plasma Splice Trifle brings together the talents of Astral Social Club and Grumbling Fur with sublime results, finds Tom Bolton
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C Joynes & The Furlong Bray

The Borametz Tree

Bringing together members of Dead Rat Orchestra with Cam Deas and Nick Jonah Davis, C Joynes and the Furlong Bray have produced an album alive with a rich sense of place, finds Tom Bolton
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Laurence Pike

Holy Spring

Whether solo, as here, or with his group Szun Waves or in his many collaborations with the likes of Liars and Bill Callahan, Laurence Pike is a percussionist of rare skill and broad range, finds Tom Bolton
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Laura Cannell

The Sky Untuned

With latest album The Sky Untuned, Laura Cannell continues to deliver outstandingly fresh and essential recordings, finds Tom Bolton
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Leafcutter John

Yes! Come Parade With Us

Leafcutter John takes an unexpected pastoral turn for a walk in the country with drummers Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner. It turns out to be just thing, argues Tom Bolton
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Hannah Peel & Will Burns

Chalk Hill Blue

Hannah Peel and poet Will Burns team up for a moving and original record exploring the troubled landscapes of England and the mind

Live Reviews

Noise And Fury: Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train At The Young Vic

Tom Bolton reviews a new production of Adly Guirgis' prison drama at the Young Vic, London
Album of the Week

This Ghostly Age: Teeth Of The Sea’s Wraith Reviewed

The mighty Teeth Of The Sea return with Wraith, their most sophisticated record yet, says Tom Bolton
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Brìghde Chaimbeul

The Reeling

In a highlight of early 2019 releases, Hebridean piper Brìghde Chaimbeul gives Scottish folk a startlingly contemporary feel
Black Sky Thinking

Martian Fever: A War Of The Worlds For Our Crackpot, Soapbox Times

The Quietus heads to the theatre for a new play by Isley Lynn and devised by Rhum & Clay based around Orson Welles' notorious radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds and HG Wells' novel of the same name
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Bert Jansch

Just A Simple Soul

From his first solo releases through his years with Pentangle and on to his equally brilliant late work – an elegant, rich compilation spanning Jansch’s whole life, compiled (and with linernotes) by Bernard Butler

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Karine Polwart with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson

Laws Of Motion

Another triumph from Polwart: powerful tales of war, hope, history and unknown futures

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Alexander Tucker

Don't Look Away

Out this week on Thrill Jockey, a supremely confident album from a songwriter who has found his place and knows his music

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Alison Cotton

All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre

On Bloxham Tapes, evocative and extraordinary viola compositions
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Laura Cannell & André Bosman

Reckonings

It is becoming hard to imagine flatlands and flinty churches without also thinking of Cannell’s extraordinary music

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Christina Vantzou

No. 4

Missouri-born, Brussels-based maths teacher and composer makes another dense, involving and rewarding album for Kranky Records

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You Are Wolf

Keld

Airy and eerie folk songs, new and old, from Kerry Andrew.

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Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness

What News

Roberts’ first album of traditional songs since 2010’s Too Long In This Condition, and an extraordinary collaboration.

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Richard Youngs

Belief

Exquisite under-the-counter pop from a playful, melancholy inventor.

Album of the Week

Congregations & Revelations: Salm Vol One

Salm - Gaelic Psalms From The Hebrides Of Scotland Volume One is the sound of a rapidly changing culture, its songs slipping away while our attention is elsewhere

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