Harvest of Highlights

  • Kelley Stoltz – If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now

    Kelley Stoltz – If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now

    I dare say there are many artists who claim disinterest in the mechanics of the music business, but few walk it like they talk it as much as Kelley Stoltz. The irony, of course, is that his refusal to play the game only makes him more compelling. If the pun‑heavy album title did not tip… Read more

  • Teddy Thompson – Never Be The Same

    Teddy Thompson – Never Be The Same

    Teddy Thompson has made an amazingly simple and astute observation when chatting during the build up to this new album. He has said that “songwriting is magical. You can hear one hundred people sing ‘I love you,’ and you know which one is telling the truth. If the root of the sentiment is authentic, it… Read more

  • Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open

    Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open

    Ever since I first came across the music of Kevin Morby, some thirteen years ago with ‘Harlem River’ standing on the first step of his career ladder, he already felt like an artist with a voice honed and chiselled from years of performing. There was a maturity at play from the start enhanced by a… Read more

  • New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 4

    New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 4

    Volume 4 of our shelf rifling dive into the deep Fruit Tree Records collection is loosely based on a ‘deep cuts’ theme which includes outtakes and alternate session cuts, lesser appreciated album tracks, live versions and hard to find rarities. These era spanning selections cover Blues Rock, Americana, Jazz, Indie, Soul and Folk and include… Read more

  • Brother Wallace – Electric Love

    Brother Wallace – Electric Love

    Talk about a confident mission statement of a beginning. ‘Who’s That’ comes marching in on top of a strutting soul beat that definitely means business. One-two, one-two, one-two with funky blues keys sitting on top of the rhythm and a fanfare of soul horns joining in just as our main man begins to demand information… Read more

  • Various – Tokyo Pulse (Japanese Funk, Modern & City Pop From The Tokyo Scene 1974-88)

    Various – Tokyo Pulse (Japanese Funk, Modern & City Pop From The Tokyo Scene 1974-88)

    Japan’s musical past is a vast, interlinked web of scenes that rarely travelled far beyond its borders at the time. Yet the country’s funk, soul, and early city‑pop experiments of the 1970s and ’80s remain some of the most inventive recordings of the era, these cuts were sleek, melodic, and often startlingly ahead of the… Read more