avant-folk

HAV – Haar (Polpols)

Avant-folk trio HAV return with Haar, their vivid and pensive new album of electro-acoustics for Polpols Records

Leaning into the Spaces: Burd Ellen Interview

Burd Ellen’s Debbie Armour talks to Gareth Thompson about sacred dramas, Mary as an Ever Mother and taxidermy wrens

Disappear Over the Sea: Burd Ellen Interview

Burd Ellen’s Debbie Armour talks to Stewart Gardiner about her last trip to Mull, radical vulnerability and experimental Gaelic 7″ Chi Mi Bhuam

Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings (Ghost Box)

Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus and Belbury Poly have brought the thinnest of places to vivid life in this oddly comforting avant-garde wonder

Fran & Flora: Seedlings of the Mind Mixtape

Fran & Flora’s mixtape for Concrete Islands opens a portal and takes a journey across cultures and musical styles, through the Fourth World and beyond

Burd Ellen – Silver Came

Debbie Armour’s Burd Ellen bring a modernist edge and samurai-like minimalism to interpretations of traditional folk songs on their debut album

Alula Down – Homespun

Alula Down lead listeners through peculiarly mapped out fields of Weirdshire and it proves difficult to leave in a hurry