Yorkshire-based folksinger and guitarist Chris Brain’s fourth album, Red Sun Rising, replaces the wide optimism of last year’s ‘New Light’ with a sense of knowing, yet still manages to focus on the brightness of life and the idea of new beginnings. Adept fingerpicking, considered guest musicians, a philosophical focus on finding beauty in the now — Chris just keeps getting better.

The Huntress and Holder of Hands, the musical project of MorganEve Swain, have shared Doctrine, the second single from their forthcoming album, Babylon, due June 5th. Written in 2017 and reshaped through several iterations into this thumping protest song. “Honestly, I was hoping it would be obsolete by now,” Swain says.

Cinder Well returns with new album “A Blooming Body,” out July 17th via Hen House Studios. Lead single and video, “While the Womb Screams Silently” is out now — inspired by Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire — “about listening to your inner knowing, which often screams loudly but is ignored for the sake of conforming -constantly trying to break out of the restraints and projections of patriarchy…”