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Danny Neill
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Music journalist and collector/dealer of vinyl records
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This week’s fresh new music recommendations come from @cravenfaults.bsky.social @ladynade.bsky.social @lucindawilliams.bsky.social #FoyVance @katherinepriddy.bsky.social #GreazyAlice so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 26th January 2026
Craven Faults – Yard Loup This is taken from the new Craven Faults album ‘Sidings’ which is out now on The Leaf Label, a dependably bold and present day progressive label who make…
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January 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations feature tracks from @themagpiearc.bsky.social @muckandthemires.bsky.social #AmyLaVere #PeterGabriel #HenOgledd #Nevaris so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 19th January 2026
The Magpie Arc – The Mantle I wrote about this band on these pages for my Ely Folk Festival review last year, an event in which I was dazzled by their brilliant re-ignition of the electric fo…
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January 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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New music mix of the big hits (at Fruit Tree Records) of 2025 inc. @scottlavene.bsky.social @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social @waterboysmusic.bsky.social @laelneale.bsky.social #HalfManHalfBiscuit #SAULT #Galactic&IrmaThomas + many others so dig in and dig out…
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records Highlights 2025
Newly available over on Mixcloud so just follow the link below, the tracklisting will show as the music plays if you need to know the names of any songs or artists. Dig right in, regular playlists …
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January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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First playlist of the year and it is, as has now become a good tradition of its own, wholly comprised of multi genre tracks all from 2025 so dig in and dig out…
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January 2026 Playlist
As has now become the tradition for the January Fruit Tree Records Monthly Playlist, this selection is made up entirely of tracks that were released across the previous twelve months, and all have …
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January 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Danny Neill shares his Top 10 Albums of 2025—from the “mesmerising” folk-rock of Hannah Frances to Kathryn Williams’ most personal collection to date, and the “outsider genius” of Richard Dawson to the pure vocals of Josienne Clarke. klofmag.com/2025/12/dann...
Danny Neill’s Top Ten Albums of 2025
In typical KLOF Mag form, rejecting mainstream charts for personal curation, Danny Neill presents ten essential 2025 albums, featuring artists like Big Thief and Josienne Clarke in a celebratory, unra...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations come from #LucyKitchen #Tiwayo #AmeliaCoburn @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social #AnnaVonHausswolff #TheMelancholyKings so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 1st December 2025
Lucy Kitchen – The Boatman The personal circumstances surrounding folk artist Lucy Kitchen’s creation of her forthcoming album were devastating. The loss of her husband to cancer three …
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December 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Latest live review features @tanitatikaram.bsky.social at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden on her new LP ‘LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right)’ tour…
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Tanita Tikaram – Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 16th November 2025
It is a lush concert hall location that tonight presents the Southeast of England instalment of Tanita Tikaram’s tour in support of her new album ‘LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right).’ This is a theatre sett…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations are live and feature #MuireannBradley @thehangingstars.bsky.social #SabineMcCalla #CourtneyMarieAndrews @billybragg.bsky.social #TheTigerLillies so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 24th November 2025
Muireann Bradley – No Name Blues Muireann has been bedazzling audiences both live and through our TV sets for the past couple of years thanks to her mastery of that early acoustic, ragtime in…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations feature #TheWavePictures @laelneale.bsky.social #AnnaTivel #Lemonheads #FotzsimonandBrogan #TheWood so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 17th November 2025
The Wave Pictures – Alice As ever the news of a forthcoming Wave Pictures album is gladly received here at Fruit Tree Records. This newly available song is teasing us ahead of a Bella Union a…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Latest live review features the chillingly macabre #TheTigerLillies at Wilton’s Music Hall in London
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Tiger Lillies – Wilton’s Music Hall, London 1st November 2025
Just as the extremities of freezing cold can feel like burning, so too when a musical act plummets the depths of death, drugs, doom and despair so thoroughly they uncover light, irony, absurdity an…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations come from @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social #VanityMirror #MichelleDavid #MoodBored @frankiecosmos.bsky.social so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 10th November 2025
Big Thief – Grandmother Taken from the bands sixth studio album ‘Double Infinity’, the now three piece Big Thief are seen here with a recent live TV performance of one of the stan…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Latest live review on Fruit Tree Records is @scottlavene.bsky.social at the Cambridge Portland Arms on 29th October
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Scott Lavene – Cambridge Portland Arms 29th October 2025
Scott Lavene is a modern-day Essex likely lad, a unique music vessel and a stylish composite of Mod, Two-Tone ska boy with a hint of Where’s Wally. He is an individualistic UK voice who belongs som…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This week’s new music recommendations feature #JosienneClarke #LenPrice3 #Tristen #NekoCase #GoodFlyingBirds #BlakeMills so dig in and dig out…

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Fresh Juice 3rd November 2025
Josienne Clarke – What Do I Do? Josienne’s latest album ‘Far From Nowhere’ is a record created and recorded in the isolation of a remote Scottish cabin. Deliberately lo-fi a…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This months 75 track Spotify playlist is ready, link on the Fruit Tree Records site, this month accompanied by thoughts on #KenBurnsJazz and #SpringsteenDeliverMeFromNowhere so dig in and dig out…
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November 2025 Playlist
The cover star for this playlist is Scott Lavene, whose show at the Portland Arms in Cambridge last week will be reviewed on this site later this week. A lot of my time this past month has been spe…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This week’s retro music selection is #Halloween themed and features #KateBush #TomWaits #TigerLillies #TheRattles #DustySpringfield #RDeanTaylor so wig in and wig out…
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Old Fruit 31st October 2025
Kate Bush – Hammer Horror Recognising that it is Halloween, this week’s retro music selection is a gathering of spooky, ghostly, blood, gore and horror music that are all hauntingly sup…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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This weeks half dozen new music recommendations come from #Bernardo #CourtneyBarnett #TheCords #SarahKateMorganLeoShannon #GriffLynch @theocelots.bsky.social so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 27th October 2025
Bernardo – Go Blue The newly released debut album from this London based British / Portuguese singer songwriter is called ‘Secrets Of Six Figure Women’. Her full name is Sonia Ber…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Reviewed: Bob Dylan - Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol 18 (1956-1963). A meticulously curated, exhaustive set traces the evolution of an all-time legendary music figure from a teenage piano-basher to the folk generation’s leader at Carnegie Hall. klofmag.com/2025/10/bob-...
Bob Dylan - Through The Open Window (Album Review)
Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol 18 (1956-1963) is the indispensable document of Bob Dylan’s formative years. A meticulously curated, definitive dive into rare outtakes, home recordings...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Josienne Clarke’s ‘Far From Nowhere’ is a giant leap of an album. By exposing the DNA of her work, Clarke unlocks immense power, resulting in her “grandest effort to date” and the “best music of an already distinguished career.” klofmag.com/2025/10/josi...
Josienne Clarke – Far From Nowhere (Review)
On ‘Far From Nowhere’, Josienne Clarke exposes the DNA of her work, unlocking immense power and yielding her “grandest effort to date”. This is the “best music of an already distinguished career.”
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October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This week’s trip to retro music lane is all about the new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 18 release & some musicians he was rubbing shoulders with in 60s Greenwich Village including #PhilOchs #CarolynHester #JackElliott #FredNeil #KarenDalton #MalvinaReynolds
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Old Fruit 24th October 2025
Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore This week’s selection of older music recommendations is a feature inspired by the soon-to-land new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 18 box set.…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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This week’s fresh new music recommendations come from #ArimaEderra @emmaspollock.bsky.social #LoveSpells #RobinRossTWHowlers #IrainaMancini #LauraJurd so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 20th October 2025
Arima Ederra – Heard What You Said Announcing the next chapter of her career, this is LA based musician Arima Ederra who, having released a pair of songs at the end of a tumultuous 2024, is n…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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This week’s selection of older tunes jumps back ten years to October 2015 with some of the tunes we we’re enjoying then including #Deradoorian #JohnHoward #NathanielRateliff #Widowspeak #LaLuz #TimoLassy so jump back and dig in…
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Old Fruit 17th October 2025
Deradoorian – A Beautiful Woman This week’s vintage selection of tunes jumps back exactly ten years this month and re-investigates some of the new music Fruit Tree Records was getting e…
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October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations from Fruit Tree Records features @flockofdimes.bsky.social #DavidByrne @waltertrout.bsky.social #Wednesday #TheOnlies #JalenNgonda so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 13th October 2025
Flock Of Dimes – Long After Midnight We begin this week with a delightfully simple video idea that is startlingly effective alongside the lyrical premise of the song. In ‘Long After Mid…
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October 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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This week’s new music recommendations feature #HannahFrances on @firetalkrecs.bsky.social #JessieKilguss #JoseJames #SouthernAvenue #GoGoPenguin and #U on @lexrecords.bsky.social so dig in and dig out…
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Fresh Juice 6th October 2025
Hannah Frances – Surviving You This is taken from Hannah’s new album ‘Nested In Tangles’ which is out this week via Fire Talk. Having already caught the eye in 2024 with a s…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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The week’s selection of vintage music selections is a six-part tribute to the genius of sadly departed double bass legend #DannyThompson
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Old Fruit 3rd October 2025
Tim Buckley – Happy Time Last week the sad news broke of the passing of double bass legend Danny Thompson. As a tribute to the man and his immense fingerprint left on the landscape of 20th ce…
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October 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Take a musical diversion with the Fruit Tree Records monthly playlist, featuring five hours of multi genre & multiple era sounds presented on the site with thoughts on why @davidbowiereal.bsky.social is the king of the deluxe box sets. Dig in and dig out…
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October 2025 Playlist
One thing that can derail my attempts to keep on top of new music releases at this time of year is the deluge of archive box set and deluxe editions that suddenly come out at roughly the same time.…
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October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM