Harvest of Highlights

  • Fresh Juice 9th June 2025

    The Milk – I Need Your Love Top new retro soul tune taken from this now well established band’s fourth album ‘Borderlands’. The only thing that gets in the way of music that references another era is if the style outweighs the substance but if, as is very much the case here, the backbone is… Read more

  • Old Fruit 5th June 2025

    Pentangle – Travelling Song The favourite new album release at Fruit Tree Records this week is the Lavinia Blackwall ‘The Making’ record and so, in honour of its acid-folk splendour, here are another half dozen cherries of a similar ilk picked from that late 60s/early 70s period that Lavinia draws so much inspiration from. Top… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 2nd June 2025

    Deradoorian – Set Me Free Angel Deradoorian first gained wide reaching attention as part of Dirty Projectors, especially for her contributions to their outstanding 2009 LP ‘Bitte Orca,’ but it is as a solo artist that her ethereal honey has been allowed to mature into something quite mysterious and lush. Her debut ‘The Expanding Flower… Read more

  • June 2025 Playlist

    As Bruce Springsteen currently tours the UK, he has been making the news with a frequency that you might not expect of a septuagenarian playing a career spanning show with no new music to promote (not counting the seven previously unreleased albums that are about to land). The spotlight has fallen on Bruce right from… Read more

  • Old Fruit 30th May 2025

    Supergrass – Lenny It feels like there is a lot of Britpop nostalgia in the air right now, what with the really creditable return of Pulp, the upcoming Oasis reunion concerts and frequent references to 30th anniversary landmarks of notable 1995 Britpop releases. The Supergrass debut album is one that I have repeatedly heard included… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 26th May 2025

    Sunny War – Cry Baby Singer Sydney Ward has her latest album, ‘Armageddon In A Summer Dress’, out now on the increasingly reliable New West Records and it continues the astounding cutting edge this folk-punk agitator was showing on her previous, also highly praised, LP from 2023 ‘Anarchist Gospel’. This time around she has continued… Read more