There are albums that demand your attention and others that seem to invite you to fall into them. Kingfisher, the new album from Northumbrian folk duo The Brothers Gillespie, belongs firmly in the latter category.
Brothers James and Sam Gillespie have created a collection of songs built around acoustic instruments, close harmonies and recurring images of rivers, woods, birds and changing seasons. The result is music that often feels almost meditative: less a collection of individual songs than a place to spend some time.
That atmosphere is established immediately on ‘The Worlds Unfold’. Rolling, plucked guitar sits beneath slightly ethereal harmonies before fiddle and the soft crash of a cymbal gradually…

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