San Franciscan band Vetiver, Andy Cabic’s ever-evolving line-up of bay area musicians (including at one time or another Devendra Banhart) released their debut album in 2004, which was highly praised by critics and received gratefully by the public. Cabic’s troupe of contemporary folk and country musicians has made Vetiver one of the most unusual and interesting bands on the scene, and has nurtured musicians such as Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Alissa Anderson at the beginnings of their careers. ‘Vetiver are named after an aromatic East Indian grass that grows in California, and their music delivers on the sunny, hazy sweetness the band's name suggests.’ (NME)
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Kathryn Williams' artful and soulful compositions and sweet sound have got the critics falling over each other to heap praise on her. Often described in Journo shorthand as a folk singer/songwriter she is so much more, producing music that possesses great depth and multiple dimensions, and which addresses both the everyday and the surreal and abstract.
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Painfully honest and hauntingly beautiful acoustic folk-pop from Reading's Laura Marling. 'Lyrics that carry an Eastenders-like weight of the world way beyond her...years, and a voice to lift hearts with its chestnut croak and rich, soaring, Emmy Lou-Harris tones.' - Drowned In Sound
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Epic Sounds from the Big Country with a pocketful of soul and sanctified song. Kentucky quintet, My Morning Jacket are an experimental country rock outfit who play equal parts Southern Blues, Americana and dreamy psychedelica, a journey of reverb-drenched melodies, velvet melancholy lyrics and instrumentation that combines old country swagger with classic pop sentimentality.
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'Perfectly formed pop' (Bugbear). A band who manage to do something new with the rock sound. Their music is unusual and boundary pushing, but luckily they have the technical prowess to pull it off, sometimes mastering kitchen utensils as well as more standard instruments.
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Folktronica for brainiacs. Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay (from Static Caravan), with Phil Winters and Ashley Bates, producing music that sounds a bit like 'the Beta Band doing the Wicker Man' and helping to define a new wave of psy-folk in the process.
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The artist formerly known as Manitoba, offering up a likeable blend of electronica and sunshine pop. Their live set sees them deliver a carnival-esque whirl of ridiculous melodies, effusive noise, stampeding beats alongside furiously harmonised vocals. Two drummers, visuals and whirling guitars and keyboards create a claustrophobic, mesmeric soundscape akin to My Bloody Valentine and the sprawling, bucolic tour de force, like early Mercury Rev.
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Son of the late, great Ewan MacColl and one the UK's top session musicians and film composers.
Seattle’s Cave Singers never listened to much folk music, they never intended to play folk music, and more importantly, their guitarist never picked up the instrument until recently. Yet, this strange trio is writing and performing some of the most hypnotizing folk music we have today. Live, the Cave Singers are a band who many critics acclaim as unmissable.
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