Tag Archives: Indie Folk

Motivated by folk, rock and roll, country, and bluegrass, the London-based, platinum-selling Mumford & Sons feature singer/guitarist/drummer Marcus Mumford, vocalist and banjo/Dobro player Winston Marshall, vocalist/keyboardist Ben Lovett, and vocalist/bassist Ted Dwane. The foursome began playing jointly in 2007; though these were playing with various other bands at that time, …

The Weather Place is the music project of Canadian singer/songwriter and actress Tamara Lindeman. Growing out of Toronto’s lively folk picture, Lindeman debuted her moody, introspective audio using the individually released East EP in 2008. An LP known as The Line adopted in ’09 2009, growing on Lindeman’s earthy, lyrical …

Pigeons are an experimental indie pop group hailing through the Bronx, NY. Their music can be a hazy make of lo-fi psych-folk influenced by French pop music, frequently incorporating flutes, drum devices, and guitar responses, even though the group’s later on recordings have shown tighter musicianship and songwriting. The group’s …

Located in Stockholm, Sweden, the Past due Call may be the artistic moniker of German singer/songwriter Johannes Mayer. He produced his debut in ’09 2009 with Departing Notes, a assortment of warm, introspective, indie folk music that demonstrated off his wealthy tone of voice and thoughtful songwriting. His 2010 follow-up, …

Because the group took its name from your Dylan Thomas’ short story The Horse’s Ha, one might assume that band was a British folk revival group with art house intentions, but Horse’s Ha comes from Chicago, IL, although there is nothing at all actually remotely Midwestern about their sound. Horse’s …

Lotte Mullan’s D.We.Y. method of documenting and self-releasing her debut record, Plain Jane, produces a refreshingly redemptive tale of how exactly to navigate the shark-infested waters from the music business with cleverness and concentrate, two characteristics that are all too often lacking on the market. Mullan fell deeply in love …

The eclectic Canadian group Timber Timbre features singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Taylor Kirk, keyboardist Mathieu Charbonneau, guitarist Simon Trottier, and drummer Olivier Fairfield. Acquiring motivation for the project’s name from a cabin in Ontario where Kirk produced a few of his 1st recordings, Timber Timbre self-released two albums — 2006’s Cedar Shakes and …

Andrew Kenny, the traveling force behind American Analog Place, began focusing on a new aspect task, the Wooden Wild birds, after pulling up stakes and moving back again to his native Tx in 2008. Sounding something similar to a rustic, Neil Young-influenced spin on Kenny’s prior function, the Wooden Wild …

Before earning evaluations to Iron & Wine and Sufjan Stevens along with his hushed, eclectic folk music, singer/songwriter William Fitzsimmons honed his abilities in Pennsylvania. Given birth to in Pittsburgh to two blind parents, both of whom had been living-room music artists, he started playing piano and trombone in primary …

Glasgow’s eclectic Trembling Bells were founded in early 2008 by drummer Alex Neilson, an improviser that has used Jandek, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Current 93, amongst others. Neilson produced the group to be able to explore even more organised, song-based music, and recruited vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Lavinia Blackwall (who caused Neilson in …