Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about Spell Songs’ “In Thin Air”. The record follows the Seven Wonders of Bird: nest, egg, beak, song, feather, flight and migration, and grew out of a week-long Pembrokeshire residency. Polwart discusses ecology, folk tradition and the importance of physical albums; Morris explains her live painting alongside the band on tour and her relationship with birds.

It’s foolish to attempt to situate Sourdure’s music within a historical context; it feels both pre- and post-everything. Sung in Occitan and French, his latest offering, Outredore, features Lisà Langlois, Le Diable Dégoutant, and Eloïse Decazes. It is an absolute singular album that floats freely and pierces deeply.

Today marks the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Ghosts of American Psychonauts (Domino Records). The eight-song set was recorded at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, just a few weeks after the release of The Purple Bird. From that weekend, Oldham has shared a live video performance of “Trees of Hell”.

Blair Dunlop shares a live video for “Are You Loved?” ahead of tomorrow’s single release, previewing his sixth album “What Still Survives” (October 30th, Navigator Records). The song confronts social media’s grip on our need to be liked. Backed by Holly Carter, Jason Tebble and Fred Claridge, it names the problem instead of dancing around it.

JP Harris shares a video for “Hang Me,” the final single from his sixth album, “Shaving A Dead Man,” out October 23 on Bloodshot Records. Chance McCoy of Old Crow Medicine Show joins him on fiddle and harmonies. This is so far removed from the sterile, studio-perfect commercial versions out there; they return it to the soil.

Elanor Moss talks us through every track on her debut album “The Knife, The Needle,” out now on Merge Records. She traces “Fixer” from a single sitting at her kitchen table, the tape malfunction that reshaped “Improvisation,” and the George Saunders book that guided her to write by intuition until a voice emerged, then following that voice wherever it goes.

Danny Neill, alongside photographer Sophie Reichert, spends four days at Larmer Tree Gardens as End of the Road turns twenty, still sailing against the mainstream tide. YHWH Nailgun open with a sonic assault, Geese headline to an 80% approval rating, Ty Segall gets seen twice in one day, and ØXN spray-paint a space for folk tradition with murder ballads and drone-enriched codas.

Radie Peat announces her debut solo album “No Human Tongue Can Tell” and shares her new single “The Moon and Stars”, alongside an accompanying video directed by Peter Eason Daniels. The Lankum and ØXN vocalist rewrites a traditional song’s lyrics into a study of betrayal and abandonment. New dates at London’s Barbican and Paris’s La Trabendo have also been announced.