Now playing: Repetitioneer Suite I & II by Ian Hawgood & Zaké @ambientdroner.bsky.social on Home Normal. Granular, monolithic drone at its best! homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/repeti...

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#NowPlaying The Heartwood Institute - Coniston Old Man Plague Dogs (Folk Police) folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/plague... @folkpolice.com

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RIP to the legend that was Bill Leader

We have a listening party for Plague Dogs by @heartwood9.bsky.social on Monday 20th April at 8.0pm UK time. You’re all invited and we’d be delighted to see you! folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/plague...

This is excellent. Straight outta the west German industrial heartlands of the mid 70s by way of Sheffield and Chicago. In many different ways!

There’s a Q&A with @heartwood9.bsky.social on the Folk Police blog about the new album, and his influences and approach. Dig in! folkpolice.com/qanda-with-t...

Plague Dogs by @heartwood9.bsky.social is currently the bestselling ‘radiophonic’ CD on Bandcamp!

Ohhh, happy days Some new #Hauntronica from The Heartwood Institute Don't mind if I do 👇

The Heartwood Institute - Plague Dogs. Released April 20th. Now available to preorder @heartwood9.bsky.social folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/plague...

Earth Studies Field Trip #1: The Heartwood Institute - Plague Dogs. Out on 20th April.

Coming on 20th April. The first Earth Studies Field Trip. More soon.

Off to Yes to see The Deadlians with @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social - should be a lively one!

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Amazing thread!

Go Hannah!💚💚💚

Share a TV show that raised you youtu.be/DBkoboXfeS0?...

At some point last year I dived down a massive Japanese ambient rabbit hole. I’ve only partly re-emerged because I keep finding so many great albums. This one by Hideo Nakasako is sublime from start to finish, but if you play one track, make it Dust hideonakasako.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-...

I definitely have an ambient hat on today. This new one by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki on the always excellent Stereoscenic label is an absolute beauty. He describes it as a hopeful album (it was recorded during Covid) and that really comes across. stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...

Today’s album: still with Home Normal, I’m playing Great Plains by Anthéne and Far Away Nebraska, released yesterday. Another haunting, immersive ambient beauty. homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/great-...

Album of the day: How to Make Sense of Downtime by Wil Bolton & David Cordero on the excellent Home Normal label. Beautiful ambient music for active listening homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/how-to...

Another essential album! This is beautiful flau.bandcamp.com/album/chalyb...

I think I’ve raved about the music of Iván Aguayo, aka Bahía Mansa, before, but his new one, Objetos de Campo, Parte 1 is absolutely sublime. Find it here: bahiamansa.bandcamp.com/album/objeto...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Now playing: Flow and Fracture by @jo-johnson.bsky.social. Gorgeous stuff. Anything Muzan Editions release is worth hearing, but this is particularly good. jojohnson.bandcamp.com/album/flow-a...

RIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.

Wrong Speed Records is rapidly becoming my favourite UK label

Now playing: very late to the party but this is lovely thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton...

Now playing: Heard a Long Gone Song by the incomparable Lisa O’Neill, possibly one of my favourite singers 😍

Tom Verlaine, gone two years. Here’s Television live in Cleveland in 1975 youtu.be/j8Q-niwYFcw?...

Now paying: River of Amber/Frozen Waterfall by CUBS on Rusted Rail Records from 2021. Gorgeous psych folk from Ireland with Ghost Box-like hauntological underpinnings. Lovely. rustedrail.bandcamp.com/album/river-...

RIP Sly Dunbar, who played on so many of my favourite reggae tracks, including this banger youtu.be/A3PjURr7lb4?...

Now playing: Bandas Sonoras by Elizabeth Still and Dominic Plucknett - a gorgeous album of guitar duets, found sounds and field recordings from 2021. Amazingly there are still CD copies available in a lovely sleeve by David Hand stillplucknett.bandcamp.com/album/bandas...

Second gig of the year with my pal @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social was the mighty Haress. Transcendental rural psychedelia with a sprinkling of folky magic! The interplay between Elizabeth & David’s guitars was a thing of great beauty.

Loving this mix from @cravenfaults.bsky.social - I bought a copy of the Cherry Red reissue single of the Misunderstood track in 1982 after hearing it on Peel www.dublab.com/archive/crav...

Just caught up with @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social for my first gig of the year, The Wran at Gullivers. They were brilliant and the atmosphere was so good. Also how does one person sing, play accordion and play drums simultaneously? youtu.be/8XTduUhlvPw?...

Now playing: catching up on a few of the many interesting albums that I missed in 2025. This one by Willie Lane is fantastic - irresistible, spaced-out psychedelic folk-blues. With Ryan Jewel and SBHOTM’s Rob Thomas as a bonus! willielane.bandcamp.com/album/bobcat...

I do miss Jen Powers’ Aural Thicket. Completely the wrong season, but episode 40 was a banger www.mixcloud.com/auralthicket...

The gorgeous Riverdance by Rapunzel & Sedayne from the 2011 album Songs From The Barley Temple youtu.be/PRAwuMa4yHU?...

The Woodbine & Ivy Band’s version of the song Gently Johnny from the Wicker Man soundtrack is still one of the tracks I’m most proud of having released on Folk Police. folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/gently...

It makes me unreasonably happy to know that there are English folk bands out there that base their entire look on the fellow from this Matt Bors cartoon

The Reader’s Lamp, the first track available to preview on the forthcoming release by @theleaflibrary.bsky.social, After The Rain, Strange Seeds, is gorgeous. Really looking forward to the rest of the album shop.fikarecordings.com/album/after-...

I made a playlist for my band mates about my thoughts on potential musical ingredients for a psych folk rock band and I like it so much I’m sharing it here www.mixcloud.com/TheFolkPolic...

Now playing: Grass. Such a beautiful album. I could listen to this sort of heavy psych folk rock all day

I always forget how brilliant early Siouxsie & the Banshees were youtu.be/PnqJ0buQosE?...

Veeery noice!

It’s not adding up. Nature in England is in freefall, yet today’s Office for Environmental Protection report warns the Government is at serious risk of missing its legally binding targets to restore it. That must be a wake-up call. ‼️ (1/2)

Charity Shop bargain! The vinyl is pristine and the sleeve is a thing of beauty

Not usually one for self-referential quote-posting, but c’mon you drummers out there within rehearsing distance of Manchester. We need you!