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Last Harbour

Based in Manchester, Last Harbour are an expansive collective playing “swooning dustbowl baroque” (Plan B) that is “rich and foreboding” (Drowned in Sound) . From dusty laments to doom- filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of looped noise, the only claims they make for their music are that it is honest and heartfelt. Their new album ' Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ' was written in isolation in a small Northumbrian cottage in October 2010 and recorded in April 2011 in St Margaret's Church, Manchester.

Samson & Delilah

Samson & Delilah are a 5 piece folk-rock band from Manchester led by the songwriting partnership of husband and wife Sam Lench and Anna Zweck. Their well-received debut album of 2009 led to shows at Greenbelt and Limetree Festivals and supports to Horse Feathers, 3 Daft Monkeys and Mick Turner (Dirty 3). Their new album 'And Straight On Till Morning' (2011) was highly acclaimed, prompting The Guardian to say, "Psyche folk lives on. This should be a band to watch."

Photo by Joanna Gait

Fuzzy Lights

Fuzzy Lights are a five piece band based in Cambridge led by husband and wife Xavier and Rachel Watkins. Combining both folk purity and psychedelic guitar noise, their new album 'Twin Feathers' stands at the crossroads of 1960's British folk and haunted noise-rock. It is this unlikely intertwining which truly defines Fuzzy Lights' sound. The album scored 4/5 in Uncut, Artrocker and Mojo (where it was also awarded the Underground Album of the Month accolade). They appeared at End of the Road Festival (2010) and have played shows with the likes of Evangelista, Vetiver, Willard Grant Conspiracy and James Blackshaw.

Quiet Loner

Quiet Loner is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill. His recording and live work as Quiet Loner has won him many accolades, including Americana UK Album of the Year 2004 for his debut LP 'Secret Ruler of the World', and he has played with kindred spirits like Lambchop, Joe Pernice and Neko Case. Inspired by the storytelling traditions of American folk and country music, Hill's songs also have a distinctly British lyrical bite. His new album 'Spectrology' is a stark and honest collection of performances recorded deep in the English countryside during the big freeze of January 2010.

Anna Kashfi

Anna Kashfi play dreamy, melancholic music that crackles with the memories of past mistakes, missed opportunities and the emotional games played by lovers in battle. Their current album ‘Survival' focusses on a sense of characters being vulnerable to the whims of the world and circumstance, of the thin-line between existing and being wiped-out forever and features a duet, of sorts, with Robert Fisher of kindred spirits Willard Grant Conspiracy. Anna Kashfi have received airplay from Radcliffe and Maconie (Radio 2), Gideon Coe (6Music), Elbow's Guy Garvey (XFM), John Peel and have played sessions for Marc Riley (6Music) and ALL FM.
Photo by Dan D'Giovanni

Lazarus Clamp

Lazarus Clamp have been making music under this name for 15 years. ‘Against entitlement' is their 5th long-player, and their first for Little Red Rabbit. They have been described in a Drowned in Sound review as one of the “undiscovered, roughcut gems of British independent music.” They have played at SXSW, and at Summer Sundae, and with Giant Sand, David Grubbs, Songs:Ohia, Laura Cantrell, Herman Dune, and many others. The feel of the music is intimate, dynamic, and full of counter-intuitive little surprises. The influences of North American post-punk bands tangle with folk sensibilities from both sides of the Atlantic and a very English low-key commitment to articulate songwriting.

Crazy Man Michael

Named after the Fairport Convention song, Crazy Man Michael takes such classic English narrative songwriting as a touchstone and adds a literate, romantic edge that encompasses folk traditions from Bert Jansch to Iron & Wine. Using almost entirely acoustic instrumentation, his debut album 'The Green Light' loosely takes F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' as its emotional inspiration. It is intelligent, subtly yet openly political and unafraid to be emotionally raw; searching, sensitive, weather-beaten but always hopeful. In short, a very special record.
Photo by Fiona Scoble

Kalbakken

Formed in 2005 and based in Manchester, Kalbakken are half Norwegian sibling duo Kirsty & David Birchall Nyhuus. They have a background in punk and improv styles but, as Kalbakken, they play their own readings of Scandinavian folk melodies, building new arrangements around old tunes. Their debut album 'Then I Saw Summer & Sun On The Earth' is a pure, raw distillation of the songs Kirsty and David uncovered in Oslo's library archives. They are fearless performers, unselfconscious and willing to abandon themselves to their source material.
Photo by Sam Easterby-Smith