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Oh! You haven’t heard of The Flowerpot Sessions compilation from Communion Records?! Aww… well… that’s alright. I guess I’m just more perceptive than you and open to new things. I suppose some people are just stuck in their ways, you probably wouldn’t get it.

I’m joking. I hadn’t heard about it either until it stuck its charming little head into my life, and now I’m never letting it leave. This two disk compilation of collaborations from artists such as Lissie, Marcus Foster and Matthew and the Atlas was recorded in just one week at the Flowerpot in Kentish Town. It’s impressive to say the least.

All the songs are so delicately assembled it’s astonishing when you realise they are all live recordings. This collection of folk rock, blues and country acoustic ballads are so hauntingly stunning that they are rapidly climbing their way into my most played on iTunes.

There are so many brilliant tracks that I obviously can’t write about all of them, but it’s so difficult to narrow it down to the best. The Staves have startlingly dreamy harmonies, Treetop Flyers can do no wrong in my eyes and remind me of some old Neil Young tracks and Alan Pownall is a more tuneful Bob Dylan. Every artist featured on this compilation nonchalantly sings their hearts out with unfazed intense emotion.

Lissie and Mt Desolation kill it with ‘Oh Mississippi’ with such melodic innocence and Lissie belting out the last chorus is so breathtaking that you just want to be wrapped up in the music. James Moss’s collaboration with the Staves is so darn catchy that you’ll wake up singing it in the middle of the night, but this is hardly a bad thing.

The final track, Little Eyes sung by Crowns, Ben Lovett, Beans on Toast and the Staves is by far the most epic, with such a joyous sing-song quality it’s the perfect closer for such an inspiring album.

This timeless album is bound to introduce you to artists that you will fall in love with this summer.