Review by Ruth Rosselson

Crap name, great CD! Watch out Imagined Village, there are some new kids on the block hoping to drag folk music into the 21st Century.

There are many people who think that folk be preserved and stay static, but I’m not one of them. As Chumbawamba say on their new album, [...]

Review by Piers Ford

I’ve always admired – at a bit of a distance, admittedly – country music’s unproselytizing take on faith. All that anything goes, life, grit and the kitchen sink, occasionally pausing for a down-home prayer, cutting through the wigs and the rhinestones with a simple affirmation that the Lord will see things right. [...]

Review by Joy Thomas

This EP is TOO TINY. I want MORE. Dammit.

The first time I listened to this I didn’t read any of the PR bumf that came with it and it reminded me of when I first heard Mumford and Sons. I thought Matthew and the Atlas must have been a bit peeved [...]

Review by Paul Francisco

Kicking off the opening track of their debut album with a harmonica melody lifted directly out of Neil Young’s From Hank To Hendrix might suggest that the lazily-monikered country-rock trio Society might similarly (and rather presumptuously) be attempting to write themselves into a cultural heritage that is also far-from-native to their homeland [...]

Review by Hazel Davis

Oh there are SO many things about this disc that make me want to hate it. The title alone – For Whom The Willow Weeps – makes me want to beat myself around the head with a diabolo. I got halfway through the lyrics sheet and I had to have a lie [...]