Harvest of Highlights

  • 16th January 2023

    A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music… Quasi – Nowheresville The first welcome return of 2023 is US melodic fuzz maestros Quasi who have a new album, ‘Breaking the Balls Of History,’ arriving on Sub Pop in February preceded in the past week by this typically crunchy taster… Nicole Cassandra Smit –… Read more

  • Golden Apples Volume 1

    Welcome to the first of my music mixes, based on the Fruit Tree Records collecting and listening project. I will be regularly posting mixes to Mixcloud in hour long episodes and with either specific themes or as this, the Golden Apples thread, which will be a broad overview of killer tracks encompassing all the various… Read more

  • 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