“They construct a fragile, resonant world with a lingering American after-taste.”
Arborea, who hail from the state of Maine, aren’t strictly speaking folk, country, or ambient but during the 32 minutes of their third album, the record drifts smokily somewhere between them all. Husband and wife team, Buck and Shanti Curran, construct a fragile, resonant world [...]

Freak-folkies aren’t greedy. For the most part, they’re happy with a campfire and a few questionable substances.

Define ‘folk’ as you will. The term, with its divergent meanings and connotations and applications, has lost its ability to capture a contemporary “genre” in the strictest sense of the word. But as an essence, a philosophy, an outlook, it is still vital. It is still alive when musicians (or anybody, for that matter) share [...]

Released June 23 via Borne! Leaves of Life features contributions from (freak-) folk as fine as Devendra O. Banhart, Mi and L’au, Marissa Nadler, Larkin Grimm, Alela Diane and Mariee Sioux, with artwork drawn by Hanna Tuulikki, Finnish vocalist of the amazing Scottish act Nalle.
Leaves of Life Track List
1. Alela Diane with Mariee Sioux, “The [...]