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The first volume of Secret Soundz, released in 2008, was the most successful ever release on Fence – the label run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch with fellow Fife quirk-folk artist King Creosote. Touted as that album’s follow-up,…

Serafina Steer plays a harp and sings in a dew-fresh style that lends itself well to storytelling. Cue regular comparisons, then, to any and all women who play music that rightly or wrongly (mostly wrongly) is defined as quirky folk pop,…

With half a decade gone by since the release of the last album from 28-year-old Martha’s Vineyard crooner Willy Mason, it would have been reasonable to assume that – talented tyke though he was – he’d gone and given up on the music…