Acoustic

There’s something wonderfully affecting about the way Brett Ashby approaches ‘Over’. Instead of treating the song as a conventional breakup […]

There’s something immediately likeable about the way Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard approach resilience on ‘Backbone’. Instead of […]

There’s something immediately transportive about ‘Highland Mist’. With nothing more than a steel-string acoustic guitar, Martin Lloyd Howard creates a […]

‘Over’ is built from very little, but it carries a considerable amount. With acoustic guitar, a restrained vocal and little […]

Time is rarely dramatic while it’s passing. It moves through ordinary mornings, familiar roads and conversations that seem unimportant until […]

Depression doesn’t always announce itself through visible collapse. It can exist beneath routine, conversation and the reassuring answers people learn […]

Protest music is often most effective when it reaches beyond the outrage of a single moment and asks what kind […]

On his sophomore album ‘Rovine’, Milan-based singer-songwriter Tulegon draws together lyrics written across more than two decades, transforming childhood recollections, changing cities, relationships […]

Grief rarely begins with understanding. More often, it arrives as interruption: a conversation unfinished, a familiar presence removed without warning, […]

The title of Ana April’s latest single might suggest raised fists and sweeping declarations, but ‘Revolution’ operates in a far more interesting space than […]