There’s an immediate devastating beauty to It’s Not Going to Be Okay, the new album from Belfast-based experimental folk artist Joshua Burnside. It’s a record born out of loss and the fragile act of continuing. Written and recorded in the wake of the death of his closest friend, musician Dean Jendoubi, the album is Burnside’s most stripped-back and unguarded work to date.

Burnside is routinely lauded for his intricate production and layered storytelling, here, he pares everything down to its rawest form. Recorded and mixed in his small room at Vault Artist Studios in Belfast, It’s Not Going to Be Okay is tend... ...Read more