Four years is a dreadfully long time to wait for an album from anyone, let alone a man renowned for his fierce independence, who could no doubt make an acoustic guitar weep merely by stepping into an adjoining room. But finally, the long-awaited follow up to the quietly inventive and universally-acclaimed O arrives. And those who have followed the evolutions in his live act since 2002 may ...
Supergroups, under that term's various severity of meaning, occur for myriad reasons, but chiefly out of a mutual respect and sense of fun. Or because respective creative wells have run dry and they still have commercial currency together. And while that principle reason must apply to this Scot trio (a more comfortably entwined modern folk record you surely won't hear all year), it feels like a ...