Ben Ray

Ben Ray finds Miranda Sykes’ latest release reaches dizzying new heights

Ben Ray is entranced by Elfen's debut release, giving a small insight into the joys of the Welsh folk music scene

Ben Ray is carried away by an epic tale of transportation told through folk music and stories

“Here we go, 1, 2, 3, hold your hands out to me…” so opens this beautifully formed album ‘Here We Go 1, 2, 3’...

The Nazi regime was permeated with drugs, from morphine to heroin, taken by almost everyone in the Reich, from soldiers to housewives. This shocking...

There aren’t many folk groups that can claim to have originated in an ‘experimental psychedelic folk punk duo’, but then again Lynched, the self-styled...

There is something irresistibly lovable about Emily Maguire’s voice – it seems to swell silence the world around it, putting everything out of focus...

Ben Ray finds surprises in well-renowned folk musician Kate Rusby's new album Life in a Paper Boat

Ben Ray reviews Methera's new album 'Vortex', and is swept away by their live Corpus performance

Ben Ray discusses folk music legend Jon Boden's latest album Painted Lady and performance at the O2 Academy

Ben Ray looks at the UK folk three-piece's latest release

Ben Ray looks at Mawkin's latest album, The Ties that Bind

If I’m being honest, Lady Maisery’s new album ‘Cycle’ came as a surprise to me not because of it’s accomplishment and beauty, but because...

It isn’t often that you come across instrumental music that is so beautiful that each track feels like brushstrokes in a piece of artwork....