Ecclestone

Folk Music’ is an elusive term. Depending on who you ask, it can mean anything from the centuries-old jigs of deepest Ireland to the computerized sighs of Bon Iver’s ’22, A Million’. To Keston Cobblers Club, it means acoustic instrumentation, accessible song structures and a sound that’s wholesome enough for the Hobbiton Summer Fete. With third album ‘Almost Home’, by their own admission, KCC have gone for a more stripped-back approach to songwriting, and it works a treat. Inviting as that field of sunflowers silver-screen romantics are always running through, ‘Almost Home’ is, in both senses of the phrase, not ‘a load of old Cobblers’.

'HILARIOUS AND OUTRAGEOUS' CHRIS EVANS