edsays Living near a large body of water vibe Favorite track: Certainty.

metalpetalsounds Might be the most accurate album title of all time. Favorite track: Hot Air Balloon.

marc_lee One of the best new bands I’ve heard in years. Every song on the record is super exciting and so well thought out. Friko and bands like Lifeguard, Sharp Pins and Dwaal Troupe are making some of the most original music around.

tahband Opened up for Friko in Brooklyn a few years back and was instantly hooked to their sound. Cannot wait to hear more from them in the years to come!

brit_b I have listened to bluegrass and old-timey style banjo music for many years. Nora Brown has the most poetic interpretation of these styles that I have heard so far. She is the John Fahey of banjo (but also with striking vocals). Favorite track: Little Satchel.

Michael Mueller There's something otherworldly about Nora Brown.

She is an innovative, highly accomplished stylist and true artist who somehow taps into the very essence American Primitivism right at the point it intersects with the usually obscured introspective heart of Bluegrass.

She's more than a prodigy, she's an oracle. A time-traveller. Listening to her music is both transportive and transformative, such is her hypnotic precision and liquid feel.

Can she get better? I can't wait to find out.
Favorite track: Cumberland Gap.

jiristepan I've been obsessed with Nora Brown's new album Long Time To Be Gone few months now. At seventeen, she plays like a mythical banjo legend and her music touches me with something terribly believable. Enchanting.

k_ratcliffe When you have a true gift, you don’t need fancy engineering or production gimmicks. What more proof do you need? From beginning to end, as beautiful and moving as anything I’ve ever heard. Seems to me it’s kind of insulting to “Set a favorite track” Who the F am I to judge? The whole thing is the thing

davidjerez Kindling and keeping traditional folk legacies alive. Thank you, Nora!

hardys1 This record will forever be influential to my banjo playing style, and will always be in my listening repertoire. Beautiful through and through! Favorite track: Green Valley Waltz.

#~# this album is so good for everything Favorite track: Divine créature.

lychee I can't just choose a favourite, I love the whole album! Favorite track: Cool Colorado.

Judah lily is the perfect song Favorite track: lily.

Charlie Moonbeam A truly stunning collection of confessional folk songs about the complexities of falling in love, being in love and being alone. Favorite track: pawnshop.

plobtr0n An incredible album of heartbreak and humour, delivered with a searing, pitch perfect intensity. Production and arrangements are superb, lifting each song to true heights of prosody; already timeless classic methinks.