Luca Fogale’s voice is impossible to ignore, elevating songs rooted in the folk tradition to soulful hymns about the human condition.

Influenced by the likes of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, Luca’s reflective and sometimes melancholic songwriting pulls listeners into a deeply hypnotic meditation on redemption and transcendence.

The Canadian singer-songwriter is a two-time JUNO nominee (Canada’s Grammy equivalent) and his catalogue boasts over 250M streams.

Luca has released 3 acclaimed full-length albums – Safety (2016), Nothing is Lost (2020), and Run Where the Light Calls (2023). Luca has toured with Dermot Kennedy and Brett Eldridge and has headlined shows across Canada, the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

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Six years after their last studio album, Taylor Kirk’s Canadian band Timber Timbre finally releases a new record, “Lovage”- his most accomplished and engrossing album to date.

“Lovage” is an album marrying perverted piano ballads and spiritual jazz interludes on islands of exotica and psyche-prog with Spectoresque girl-group cabaret. Recorded in 2022 in Quebec with Mike Dubue (Hilotrons), the album features Olivier Fairfield (Fet Nat, Andy Shauf) and members of the Voices of Praise gospel choir (Howe Gelb).

Since releasing and extensively touring “Sincerely, Future Pollution” (2017), Taylor Kirk has been busy working as a producer on several full-length LP’s, including Joseph Martone’s “Honeybirds” and the sophomore recording “Nightshades” by This Lonesome Paradise.

Timber Timbre have quietly released two cassette-only EP’s, “I Am Coming To Paris” and “The Dissociation Tapes Volume1”. Finally returning with a new full-length entitled “Lovage,” the most accomplished and engrossing Timber Timbre album to date. Which isn’t to say that Taylor Kirk has merely refined his working methods. In fact, “Lovage” is a bona fide masterpiece, as Kirk manages to combine disparate influences that would otherwise seem mutually incompatible.

Together with producer-engineer Michael Dubue, he reconciles Brian Wilson’s rich sonic palette with the amused melancholy of Leonard Cohen. Kirk admits to revisiting Sun Ra, Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, as well as Italian singers such as Pino Daniele and Paolo Conte, which might explain the cinematic lightness of the new album.

Kirk returned to his native Ontario in 2019 after spending a few years in Quebec and Texas. He made it back just in time to sit out the Covid pandemic and regroup. “I moved back to Ontario where I had grown up, a place I left 20 years ago and swore I’d never return to. ‘Holy Motors’ is an homage to this place I love and hate-but also love to hate,” he says of the town where he spent the lockdown. “But it’s a good place to be trapped”.

One could say the same of the sonic landscapes he evokes on “Lovage”. It’s a wonderful album to be trapped on, a modern masterpiece for troubled times one will find oneself returning to again and again.

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On the heels of her critically acclaimed  double-album Joan Of All, SBT (aka SarabethTucek) returns to the UK for a short-run of special acoustic shows accompanied by her long-time producer Luther Russell.

Sarabeth Tucek emerged from a decade-long hibernation away from the record business and released Joan of All worldwide in 2023 via her own imprint, Ocean Omen. Lead single “The Gift” was immediately picked up by Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music who championed the single. The adulation for Joan of All culminated in rave reviews from Uncut (9/10), Mojo (four stars ****) and more. Joan Of All became her first record to hit the UK Official Charts, making the Record Store Chart Top 20, The Indie Album Breakers Chart Top 10 and the Official Indie Albums Chart Top 30.

Sarabeth Tucek originally broke onto the music scene in 2003 performing a series of spellbinding duets with Bill Callahan on the acclaimed Smog album Supper. This was followed by an appearance in the award-winning Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary DIG!. Sarabeth’s self-titled debut album hit stores tin 2007, leading to unwavering support at the BBC and even opening for Bob Dylan. In 2011, Sarabeth followed up her extraordinary debut with the raw, uncompromising album Get Well Soon. This release made many year-end lists and the title track was featured on the first season of HBO’s Girls.

The genesis for her current return to the music scene was one magical night in Bergen, Norway in 2019. The primarily acoustic set comprised songs from her powerful back catalogue, plus two new ones which would end up on Joan Of All. Along with Luther Russell and engineer/bassist Jason Hiller, she played the set of her life, unaware it was being recorded. The audience was rapturous and the vibe in the intimate Scandinavian club was thick as a storm cloud.

Live In Norway is being released her label Ocean Omen especially for Record Store Day and features ten tracks which range from a reimagined version of her classic “Something For You” to a maiden airing of “The Living Room” and an emotionally shattering reading of her indelible “Get Well Soon”. This one’s for the fans.

Ben de la Cour

With songs that explore life’s murky corners and shadowy characters, Ben de la Cour’s music occupies the intersection between gothic Americana and dark, gritty folk.

Albums like Ben’s 2012 debut, Ghost Light and 2018’s career-shifting The High Cost of Living Strange chronicled not only that deep sense of restlessness but also his various attempts to wrestle his own vices into submission. The result is a haunting, harrowingly personal version of folk music that earned praise from outlets like American Songwriter and NPR.

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Michael Cera Palin are an emotive indie-punk trio from Atlanta, GA. The band are noted for consciously vulnerable lyrics, a cathartically catchy sound, and an impassioned live show, all forged through a decade of cutting teeth in the genre-fluid arts landscape of their home.

MCP released two EPs from 2015-2018 before a premature hiatus. After derailed ambitions for their 2020 return (now to a notably larger listenership than they had previously left behind), the band retreated from the social dimension of the community to begin carving their new chapter, and finding a voice of their own.

They then released 2 singles, before starting toward an accelerating tour ethic since 2022, diligently assuring fans along the way that a debut full-length album would be with them in due time.

Whether owed to or despite their limited output, Michael Cera Palin’s work continues to accrue fervent support, with mounting anticipation of their new material.