Aussie Emily Barker released one of the best Americana/folk albums in 2024 in the shape of the brilliant ‘Fragile as Humans’, and no doubt she’ll be hitting us up with songs from it when she plays Cluny 2 in Newcastle this January. I don’t mind admitti…

In case you’re not clued up on mythology, Aquilo is the Roman equivalent for Boreas, the Greek god of north wind. This fifth album from the Lancashire-based duo of the same name feels much like the north wind - it’s light and airy yet powerful; it carries…

With his penchant for folklore, intense visuals and depictions of delirium exhibited in such films as ‘The Witch’, ‘The Northman’ and ‘The Lighthouse’, Robert Eggers would seem an ideal candidate to remake F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent impressionist masterpie…