Širom’s approach is contradictory. Their music is rooted in the traditional, yet never becomes a prisoner of what’s gone before. It is expansive, playful, seemingly always looking for a way to spiral upwards and outwards, into the future.
The group’s preferred term for what they do is “imaginary folk”. The term was first coined by the French musicologist Serge Moreux to describe the creative approach to Hungarian traditions applied by composers like Bartók and Kodály. Like their forebears across the Pannonian Plain, Širom’s relationship to the customs and rituals of Southeast Europe is ‘idealised’, chimerical – and all the better for it.
But how do you explain Širom’s music? The sounds you hear on the band’s remarkable fifth…
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dodie’s latest album, Not for Lack of Trying, stands as an intimate and tender follow-up to her 2021 debut, Build a Problem. Soft piano and muted guitar strokes thread throughout the record, accentuating her wistful vocals. The production is immaculate, but many of the songs follow a similar arc: gentle strumming on acoustic guitar swelling into a fuller sound of strings and vocal harmonies. Over time, this predictability undermines the album’s impact, especially in the slower second half.
Nicki Bluhm relocated from California to Nashville in 2017 at the end of a tumultuous period in her life. She had just divorced her husband and former bandmate, she parted with her group The Gramblers, and set out on reviving her solo career.
It’s getting hard to keep up with Peter Buck’s various music projects. The legendary R.E.M. guitarist has now teamed up again with veteran indie-rock singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur two record a second collaborative album under the Arthur Buck moniker. Arthur Buck 2 is a follow-up to the duo’s 
2025 remaster
Australian-born, Nashville-based Kara Grainger has been gracing the international blues and roots circuit for almost two decades. Originally hailed as a guitar slinger, for her adept picking and slide skills, Grainger has developed into a triple threat with formidable singer-songwriter skills. As the album title, That’s How I Got to Memphis, suggests, Grainger has fulfilled a lifelong dream by recording in Memphis. Not only that, she recorded this, her fifth album, at the iconic Royal Studios under the direction of the celebrated producer, Lawrence “Boo’ Mitchell, while in the company of the Hi Rhythm Section. Grainger points to Al Green and Ann Peebles as two of her all-time favorite artists, obviously honored to be indirectly associated with them on this project, as…
John Ross hasn’t been hiding, exactly, but the 
Leading up to the release of her debut album, singer/songwriter 
They started as a neighbourhood group, 
A is for Apple, R is for Rocket, et cetera; the stuff we learn in kindergarten can guide our lives far into adulthood’s scary unknowns. And as it happens, kindergarten is where Alithea Tuttle and Cooper Ladomade — half of the Los Angeles band 
The brainchild of drummer Connor Cummins and vocalist Blair Tramel is the epitome of speed.
…The new edition has been fully remastered and includes unreleased live tracks, plus the lost single ‘Don’t Leave Me Alone’.
…feature a remastered edition of ‘Z’, plus 14 key outtakes, previously unreleased songs and demos.
…The British rock icons offer a slightly expanded edition of 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with additional bonus material) with a bonus EP of new unplugged mixes of four of the album’s tracks (plus a non-album B-side, “Acquiesce.” The group’s songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho built these new versions from the original multitrack recordings in Noel’s London studio.
This is quite a tale: Shooter, son of Waylon Jennings, discovers a tranche of his father’s personal multitrack tapes from the analogue years, dating between 1973 – when he wrestled artistic control from RCA – and 1984, when he had quit cocaine, joined The Outlaws and digital technology took over everything.
…includes four previously unreleased tracks, each featuring one of four new entities and continuing the narrative of ‘The Father of Make Believe’ album.