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The 10 best folk albums of 2024

Traditional songs in dub, Irish keening with touches of Yoko Ono and shape-note hymns with sound-processing were among the year’s records renewing an ever elusive genre

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

"I Propose a March to Washington"—from my Commonplace Book

A rather striking harbinger of the '63 March in Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

Reason · Aug 29, 2023

Jake Blount on his Afrofuturist folk climate eulogy: ‘What would music sound like when we’re dead?’

The New Faith imagines a religious service for Black refugees from a collapsed society. Blount explains why he is focused on the future of traditional music

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2022