Very few come sprinkled with the kind of magic dust that coats the new album by Georgia Shackleton. A sense of history seeps into every corner of the recording. These songs are timeless and wise, bright and intricate, shot through with polar light and the glint of the sea. “From the Floorboards” is an album with a story behind it, and that story is worth telling.

L.Y.R. share the title track from their forthcoming album Dark Sky Reservation, out 3rd April via Real World Records. Named for those regions where light pollution is outlawed, the song turns that environmental concept inward — into doubt, hesitation, and the uneasy beauty of the unknown. Richard Walters’ ethereal vocals and Armitage’s dry spoken word make for a quietly devastating pairing.

Marisa Anderson’s The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1 draws from the late Harry Smith’s vast private collection to present nine guitar arrangements sourced from regions the US has been in conflict with since 1970. First single Taqsim for Guitar offers a meticulous reworking of a 1955 Syrian field recording — Anderson’s fretted instrument reaching, carefully, toward music it was never designed to hold.

North Carolina duo Tacoma Park have shared “Untied,” the first reveal from their forthcoming album Baltimore, due April 24th via Centripetal Force. Mastered by Chuck Johnson, the album finds Ben Felton and John Harrison at their most intentional — editing sprawling improvisations into something focused and cinematic, with electronics and acoustic instrumentation suspended in generous, deliberate space. Vinyl preorders are open now.

Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Sam Amidon. In this series, we ask an artist to select ten items from their home, photograph and talk about them; a form of storytelling through objects. Sam, along with Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, will launch their new album Willows at Kings Place on 24th February–an 80-minute concert of remembrance and renewal.

Shane Parish takes on the music of English electronic duo Autechre, re-imagining ten of the band’s 1990s songs solo on his Taylor acoustic — ultra-minimalist and organic. The intricacy of the numerous patterns becomes clearer with each listen, time signatures and tempos working together to create a tapestry of beautifully accomplished acoustic playing. Super clean, incredibly precise, and simply a pleasure to listen to — Autechre Guitar is a stunner.

Natalie Wildgoose has shared Nobody on the Path, the lead single from her forthcoming EP Rural Hours (15th April, state51). Wrapping her trembling vocals in guitar, piano, banjo and violin, the track draws on the physical rhythms of solitary moorland walking — music that moves the way the title suggests.

On ‘The Call,’ Montreal-based quartet Bellbird turn jazz presumptions upside down, with the rhythm section dictating form while horns take care of tempo and sonic character. Even as they run with carefree abandon, they never lose the listener. Every track features juicy melodies and audio patterns that are pleasing to the ears, launching themselves on a flight that sounds rather timeless.

Joshua Burnside’s “The Last Armchair” opens with a brutal intimacy: “Oh, The last armchair you ever sat on / Before you overdosed / Is the one I sit in every morning / To eat my egg and toast;” the Belfast songwriter revealing how grief strips away every carefully constructed illusion of adulthood, that beneath mortgages and responsibilities we’re all still waiting for reassurance.

Hen Ogledd’s third album, DISCOMBOBULATED, is fresh, weird, pranksterish, passionate and downright uncategorisable as we have come to expect. Their blend of freaky electronic folk-rock, politically charged psych-pop and modernist compositional techniques is elusive, bewildering and brilliant—music that seems to invent new colours. Admirably anti-bigotry, anti-corporate, anti-corruption. Their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.

Lemoncello reveal their new single “Meet Me Halfway”, their first new music since last year’s self-titled debut. Written in a clifftop cabin overlooking the Skellig Islands and later recorded with co-producer Ruth O’Mahony-Brady, the six-minute track explores modern disconnection through sparse guitar, voice, and distant strings—a quietly persuasive meditation on vulnerability and connection.

The Notwist have shared “Projectors,” a new single from one of 2026’s most anticipated albums, News from Planet Zombie (March 13th via Morr Music). The track offsets burbling electronics against country-tinged songwriting, featuring guests Enid Valu, Haruka Yoshizawa, Chris Xiao, and Mathias Götz. The band describes the lyrics as “written as if Rutger Hauer could sing them in Blade Runner.”