Folkin' Around: Pocket Satellite

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One of my favorite types of folk music is the male/female duet”like the Matthew Perryman Jones and Katie Herzig song “Where the Road Meets the Sun” which was featured on Grey’s Anatomy. Now, before I get to this week’s Folkin’ Around artist feature, I’d like to get you acclimated to the power of girl-boy harmonies in a folk song. Check out Jones and Herzig performing below:

I wouldn’t have picked this video if I didn’t think that this week’s OurStage folk pick carried on the same great sound that is every bit as organic and well-executed as “Where The Road Meets The Sun”.  Folkin’ Around artist Pocket Satellite was one of the first OS artists that caught my ear, particularly their song “We Chased Soldiers“. The UK band blends acoustic guitar, simplistic drums, graceful strings and, yes, two-part harmonies into some of the most soothing folk pop I’ve ever heard.
The band calls themselves “folk-glock”,  referring to both their instrumentation and the simplistic, relaxed sound that a “glock” often represents.  The band has played numerous shows around the greater London and Sheffield areas. They’ve been featured on BBC radio as apart of the Sheffield’s Raw Talent show with Iain Hodgson and have also opened for Kyte and Jenny Owen Youngs. Last year they released the playfully-named Toy Train EP. Keep an eye out for their next EP which they plan to release in September. I know I will.