Harvest of Highlights

  • 9th January 2023

    A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music… Nadine Khouri – Keep On Pushing These Walls This is the second single release from the soulful singer-songwriter’s ‘Another Life’ album. A tribute to musical artist Lhasa de Sela, there is also a recent live clip worth checking out on YouTube offering an impressively controlled… Read more

  • January 2023 Playlist

    The January playlist has fallen into a routine of selecting wholly from favourite tracks of the previous year that had not, up to this point, made it onto a Fruit Tree Records monthly set. As such, the January collection is always the only one of the years to feature music from just one year. My… Read more

  • The Wave Pictures – When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings

    I have no doubt signposted the fact that the Wave Pictures red hot double LP ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’ is my favourite album of the year in earlier posts. I have made no secret of my love of this album and whilst I do not want Fruit Tree Records to merely be… Read more

  • Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

    This is an extensive double album in which Big Thief are so tuned and locked into each other as a collective unit, that it feels like all they must do is turn on their tap and let the wonder of their sound pour forth unrelentingly. They are the premier folk-rock band of our time and… Read more

  • LIUN & The Science Fiction Band – Lily Of The Nile

    Here is another album that solidifies my belief that Jazz and the multifaceted scene surrounding it is the single most groundbreaking and innovative music style of our times. Everything that people assume to be the cutting edge, be it Dance, Grime, Rap, EDM or whatever all sound fairly generic to my ears, I rarely hear… Read more

  • Kathryn Williams – Night Drives

    My first awareness of Kathryn Williams ‘Night Drives’ was noticing someone online declaring it ‘a classic’. That kind of fanfare can prejudice you against a release, is it possible to announce something ‘classic’ immediately on its release? I recall Shindig! Magazine declaring an album by the Lemon Twigs, roughly around 2017, as a surefire album… Read more