Colin Stetson and Brìghde Chaimbeul are billed as a duo for the first time on “All the Light in the World”. Recorded in January during a lengthy snowfall, it has a distinctly wintery feeling. Avant-garde saxophone and traditional Scottish smallpipes may sound a strange match, but in their hands it feels like they were made for each other.

Garefowl have shared a video for “Buthaigir/Puffin”, from their album “Things That Vanish” (AD 93). Director Luke Nairn and animator Liam Painter combine live stop-motion stone animations with 16mm performance footage. Nairn says he wanted it to feel “like you’re flipping through a picture book about a folk tale.”

Recorded in London with producer Guy Fletcher, Our Man in the Field’s “Silverado” blends cinematic songwriting, soulful vocals, and road-worn storytelling, expertly drawing listeners into the fictional world of a late-night radio station, WZR2 Radio Free Silverado. Their best album to date.

Spencer Cullum, Erin Rae and Hollow Hand’s Max Kinghorn-Mills made “Banquet Rock” in four days at Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle of Wight. Lead single “Far Below The Willows” is inspired by Wind In The Willows and Syd Barrett, with jaunty piano lines and country-leaning instrumentation. The album will be out February 26th, 2027, on Full Time Hobby.

Dean McPhee has shared a live video for “Appleby Fair” from his album “Northern Earth”. He filmed and edited it himself at home in Bradford. It gives an insight into the track and how it’s performed, with a look at the looping process and some of the gear he used to record the album.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw announce their new album “Volume 8”, out February 5, 2027 on Rocket Recordings, and share a live video. Heather Trost says: “After all the war and atrocities that have been happening in Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran it felt we needed to say something through our music.”