The Sampler

Tony Stamp assesses the latest sounds from Afro-Scottish trio Young Fathers. Read more Video, Audio

Nick Bollinger reports on the latest recordings of itinerant songster Delaney Davidson. Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger discusses a contemporary recording that recalls the golden age of Cuban dance music. Read more Audio

Last year Phil Elverum, who records as Mount Eerie, released one of the most starkly personal documents of grief ever put on disc. Now there's a sequel. Nick Bollinger listens. Read more Audio

Veteran R&B singer Bettye Lavette holds a dozen Bob Dylan songs up to her soulful scrutiny. Nick Bollinger discusses. Read more Audio

This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger discusses the starkly personal document of grief that is the latest album from Mount Errie; a set of Bob Dylan songs held up to soulful scrutiny by Bettye… Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger lends an ear to the Trump-era country of Courtney Marie Andrews. Read more Audio

On the fourth album from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ruban Neilson combines dystopian visions with a complex musical imagination. Nick Bollinger listens. Read more Audio

Balmorhea's music has been labelled post-rock but Elliott Childs hears Americana in their recent second album. Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger discusses the dystopian visions and musical imagination of Ruban Neilson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and takes a tour of forgotten America with Courtney Marie Andrews, while Elliott… Read more Audio

Nick Bollinger tunes into two-man band, and ex-Supergroove horn section, Hopetoun Brown, aka Nick Atkinson and Tim Stewart. Read more Audio

For Boarding House Reach, Jack White goes heavy on the funk and synthesisers, but has he over-reached himself? Nick Bollinger takes a critical listen. Read more Audio