The Felice Brothers and The Rails and Carson McHone

According to Deer Tick’s Ian O’Neil, “All your favourite bands want to be in the Felice Brothers.” Such admiration for the poetically ramshackle Hudson Valley roots-rockers was only intensified by 2019’s eighth album Undress, introducing their new four-piece line-up while reflecting, says lead songwriter Ian Felice, “a shift from private to public concerns”. “Bridges their early sing-along scrappiness with a newfound sense of grown-up gravity” (Rolling Stone)

The Rails’ brilliant third album, Cancel The Sun is harder, tougher and rockier than ever before, bringing together the musical pasts of Kami Thompson and James Walbourne – her family heritage, as the daughter of Linda and Richard Thompson; his as guitarist for The Pogues and The Pretenders.