Insta-rec: In Dispraise of Hunger with Alasdair Roberts

[luzula]

I need to immediately rec the song In Dispraise of Hunger by Alasdair Roberts. I've never listened to the artist before and found him when going through a music rec-list yesterday. His style of singing is unusual to me and it's not immediate easy listening, but keep listening until the chorus, okay? *shivers at the harmonies* Also I like the lyrics a lot, and the video is gorgeous.

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[antisoppist]

Thank you for that! I also found his Lyke Wake Dirge, which the new choir I've joined did last week. He reminds me a bit of Martin Carthy in his earlier days.

[luzula]

I've listened to some more of his stuff now, and like it a lot.

Do you have a favorite folk artist to recommend?

[riverlight]

Poking in to say that I've really been enjoying Gregory Alan Isakov. :)

[luzula]

Thanks, I'll check him out! : )

[antisoppist]

Bellowhead. Spiers & Boden. Eliza Carthy. Most recently Lucy Ward https://www.youtube.com/user/149gds

I discovered her via the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. I'd stopped listening to music and bought a couple of the Folk Award complication albums to see what had been happening while I'd been knee-deep in babies. It's a good starting point for UK folk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_2_Folk_Awards

[luzula]

Thanks for the recs! Lucy Ward is new to me; I like her on first listen and will check her out further.