“Folk” Reviews

Crepusculum’s debut full-length is full of Fred Baty’s deft, intricate guitarwork and beautiful, subtle arrangements.

Put simply, Wind’s Poem is the most haunting album I picked up in 2009.

Replete with Christian imagery as far removed from traditional praise and worship music as can be.

The album’s mix of musical traditions from around the world is both improvisational and intimate.

A batch of homespun, country-inflected ballads that straddle the line between folk and rock musically.

The album is dedicated to both of Karen’s parents, and that sense of loss and mourning permeates the album.

What’s most gratifying about Out of the Woods is the appreciation it exudes for the simple graces of life.

Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.

I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.

Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.

The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.

Brother, Sister is a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s both good and bad about mewithoutYou’s music.

‘Mosaic’ displays both the greatest strengths of Woven Hand’s music as well as its greatest weaknesses.

Black Happy Day leaves the listener smack dab in the middle of a foreboding, constantly shifting environment.

To say that Feist has one of the best voices I’ve heard all year would be an understatement, and a very obvious one at that.

I was completely unaware that I needed a good Christmas album this year and yet this album has filled that niche quite nicely.

Full of ethereal and pastoral sounds, but there’s not much substance to the beauty.

This could’ve been a compelling EP but it’s an overlong and thinly-stretched full-length.

Intended as a soundtrack for one of the most (in)famous exploitation films of all time, there’s very little that feels exploitative about this.

There’s a confidence, a security that comes across in his music that is terribly comforting.