Harvest of Highlights

  • Yola – Stand For Myself

    Whether as a featured vocalist for Massive Attack or front woman to the Americana outfit Phantom Limb, Yola Carter has been a low-key presence on the music scene for a couple of decades now. The impression you get now that she has fully burst onto the scene is that in those years, she quietly readied… Read more

  • Declan O’Rourke – Arrivals

    As Declan O’Rourke released ‘Arrivals’ in the early part of 2021 the talk was all about how this would finally be his moment. After two decades of being the songwriter’s songwriter, this well-kept secret would finally start to enjoy the recognition he so richly deserved. Ah, predictions very rarely pan out in such a straightforward… Read more

  • The Coral – Coral Island

    In 2022 the plan is for The Coral to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic self titled debut album. If you were following back in 2002, you will recall that an exciting new wave of sixties style garage rock and flowery UK psychedelia had arrived. The White Stripes headed the charge in the… Read more

  • January 2022 Playlist

    I began compiling the Fruit Tree Records monthly playlists in June 2014 under some extremely challenging circumstances. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that the playlist compiling and the excuse to organize my monthly listening adventures into something regular, coherent and into a project that would span years and decades was something of a… Read more

  • December 2021 Playlist

    December is typically the month where the music you hear coming out of shops, cars, radios or most public gatherings suddenly becomes a lot more familiar to the Fruit Tree Records ethos. That is to say, the air is filled with classic Christmas tracks that are pulled from an eclectic range of eras and styles.… Read more

  • November 2021 Playlist

    Anyone with the impulse to write about music, DJ or collect will essentially deal in the currency of “if you like that wait until you hear this”. If not that then maybe “if you think that tracks groundbreaking wait until I show you where they got the idea from”. We collectors spend our time, every… Read more