Satnam Galsian has released her new single “Dishonour” on March 8th (International Women’s Day), reimagining the Irish folk song “She Moved through the Fair” from the woman’s perspective to highlight honour-based abuse. All proceeds from pre-orders (until April 6th) benefit Karma Nirvana, a Leeds charity ending honour-based violence. The British-Asian singer-songwriter, recently recognised for amplifying women’s voices, blends Punjabi folk with contemporary feminist storytelling on this powerful acoustic single.

Josienne Clarke releases Katie Cruel, a reimagining of the traditional folk song with two newly written verses aligning its themes of exile and endurance with the realities of an uncompromising artistic life. Built around electric guitar and recorders, the arrangement is spartan and resolute. The accompanying video finds Clarke as two figures on a windswept promontory — mourning black and ghostly white.

“Seven Lefts” is a mammoth, tangible album of improvised drone, muscular riffs and deep-thinking ambition — unlike anything Nathan Bowles has done before. While on paper, it’s a real challenge with over an hour of improvised, scuzzy sound and insistent, burly refrains, it’s a surprisingly listenable, addictive set that demonstrates the range and ambition of this meticulous musician. Boom.

In this special feature, Georgia Shackleton tells the story behind “From the Floorboards” — an album marking 125 years since the launch of the Discovery, when her distant cousin, Sir Ernest Shackleton, set sail aboard her with Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Shaped by a violin crafted from the floorboards of Shackleton’s Edinburgh home, she traces the threads between Antarctic exploration, environmental reflection, and more.

Trippers & Askers new album, Tried to Do’s, is out May 8th via Sleepy Cat Records. Lead track Kin traces tangled threads of family and cultural inheritance in Jackson, Tennessee, setting the tone for Jay Hammond’s most personal album — an intimate song cycle exploring Buddhist and Christian ways of mourning, featuring Andy Stack (Wye Oak), Joe Westerlund, Stephanie Coleman, Joseph Decosimo and more.

Gregory Uhlmann’s ‘Extra Stars’ is a fluent and fluid album of thirteen brief, breezy, deceptively light tracks that flow over diverse territories while retaining their identity. An album obsessed with natural processes — some organic and cellular, others more cosmic — it showcases Uhlmann as guitarist, arranger, composer and improviser, his musical curiosity working in tandem with his expansive imagination.

I AM PROUD Collective — Angeline Morrison, Leonie Evans, Lizi Morse, Priscilla Andersohn and Rhiannon Takel — release their debut single I AM PROUD – in tribute to Sojourner Truth on 6th March, ahead of International Women’s Day. Drawing on Truth’s famous provocation “Ain’t I a Woman,” the Bristol-rooted supergroup has crafted a trans-inclusive folk anthem of solidarity and joy.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “We Are Together Again” sees Will Oldham slip into folky singer-songwriter mode — sometimes confessional, sometimes gnomic, always intriguing. A conservative estimate suggests this is his thirty-first studio album, and while he still circles themes that have preoccupied him since his Palace Brothers days, he has become wider reaching and more approachable. This is some of his best work.

SUSS share Sunset II, the first single from their forthcoming album Counting Sunsets, due May 15th via Northern Spy. The track rides a more pronounced rhythmic pulse than much of their earlier work, stretching ambient Americana into subtly motorik terrain. Recorded in a condensed window and shaped by a year touring together, the album captures the trio at their most intuitive.

Zürich art-rock four-piece District Five have announced GLUT, due May 29 via Stone Pixel Records, and have shared the new single “Push” featuring Saul Williams. A politically unambiguous track, it arrives with an animated video by j4y depicting the fractured rhythms of a day in New York City. The album promises the band’s characteristically expansive, genre-resistant sound, captured live and raw.

Shakey Graves has announced new album Fondness, Etc., due May 15th via Secret Identity / Dualtone Records, alongside new single Time Flies — a lush cover of Frankie Sunswept’s wistful love song, adorned with strings arranged by David J. Pierce and a guitar solo from Zeke Jarmon. Captured on tape machines at home, the album is Graves’ most intimate work yet.

Jesca Hoop has shared Caravan, the latest single from her forthcoming album Long Wave Home, due 1st May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music. Following the politically charged Designer Citizen, Caravan turns inward — a song of misplaced faith and vanishing promises, tracing the distance between romantic surrender and quiet devastation. An accompanying video was shot in and around Manchester.