Night Flight choose subtle shading rather than bombast as they flesh out their songs with delicate musical textures, allowing the undulating hooks and melodies to nestle in the subconscious gently.
Folk music in 2018 has kept the poignant storytelling elements so intimately knit into its fabric while introducing layers of new sonic and global influences.
Anthony Ruptak's sun-washed, impassioned single and music video is a personal proclamation that he calls "a tale of love vs self-destruction and the romanticizing of both".
A decade in the making, the latest release from indie folk band the National Lights takes up a variety of topics in its lyrics, none of them any less epic than "The Whaleship Essex".
With Banjolectric's So Below, Gregory Mulkern sets out to prove that the instrument is capable of much more than many of us are currently aware of—and, he succeeds.
Tonal shifts between gaiety, eloquence, languor, and fervor occur amidst the lively warmth of American Dreamer's new orchestral folk LP, Go Where You Go.
Mad Crush's "Stay in Bed" plays out a lot like an everyday conversation between lovers, bringing a good-humored flirtatiousness to their lilting folk arrangement.
The new video from David Huckfelt's (The Pines) upcoming solo LP, written in a remote national park and recorded in a Wisconsin farmhouse, further solidifies his reputation as a formidable songwriter.
Winnipeg singer-songwriter Christine Fellows' newest indie folk tune is an offbeat, inward-looking charmer, complete with a stop-motion music video to match.
