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The neo-folk music of Stephen McAll and his band, Constant Follower, is intimate, unvarnished. Its raw inner beauty casts a deeply affecting spell. McAll’s husky murmur and the sensitive accompaniment of bandmates Amy Campbell (synth/vocals), Andrew Pankhurst (guitar) and Kessi Stosch (bass/vocals) is a rare source of comfort, like gently flickering log fire embers on the darkest night of the year.
“The process of making music is difficult for me,” says McAll. “I’m constantly fighting against my weaknesses. At the time of writing, the words are coming without any real intention, I don’t sit down to write about a particular thing, I just sing along as I play guitar and words start to form. Maybe that’s part of why people seem to like them, because they’re simple and honest.”
ONR (feat Sarah Barthel of Phantogram) - Must Stop A Killers-style R Rated epic with one of the most barbed pop lyric of the year in “must stop falling in love with every girl/boy who f cks me” . ONR is the psuedonym of the man behind some of Scotland s best tunesmiths and former frontman with the underrated Dumfriesshire combo Finding Albert. ...
Tommy Ashby - Blood Wolf Moon Borders-based singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby who has a PhD in psychoacoustics notched up more than 2m streams of this gorgeous and reflective indie-folk song. ..
Callum Beattie - Some Heroes Don t Wear Capes The Edinburgh-raised singer-songwriter says it is the most personal song he has written and is around how his dad, who was the first to introduce him to songwriting, brought him up on his own. It has since been reworked as a tribute to key workers during the Covid pandemic. That new take features in the latest NHS Professionals video for International Nurses Day.