Thea Gilmore
Strange Communion

So, it's March and I'm listening to a Christmas album. Except its not really a Christmas album. Even odder, when I put it into laptop, Windows Media...

God only knows how she's managed it but Thea Gilmore has achieved the almost impossible and pieced together, get this, a good Christmas album. In fact...

Gilmore has gravitas. Her solemn contralto is warm as a hearth, still as a pine forest at night. So any attempt by her to make a "Christmas alb...

It is a sign of the increasingly polarised musical landscape (the lucky few with the big marketing budgets up front in the spotlight; the vast majorit...

Decent Christmas albums don't come along that often – it's ten years since Low's remarkable Christmas, while the last unqualified success, Aimee...

Rather like her American counterpart Ani DiFranco, Oxford-born folkie Gilmore has been (mainly) self-releasing albums for a quietly appreciative audie...

British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore released her first album Burning Dorothy when she was a teenager and has come a long way since. Gilmore got int...

The under-rated singer-songwriter has a rare mis-fire with her first Christmas-themed album.There are moments of joy, like the wry That'll Be Chri...