October 2021

Featuring music that spans her vibrant 24-year career, Sarah McQuaid’s ‘The St Buryan Sessions’ is a wonderful, expressive and intimate live album from a consummate performer.

Afterlight is indisputably one of her very best. The former Thea Gilmore can justifiably stand back and be proud of the new woman, the new artist she has become. Long may the Afterlight shine.

Our Song of the Day comes from Glasgow-based singer songwriter Rhona Macfarlane. Watch the accompanying video to her new single ‘No Rain’, a poignant song capturing the passing of time and the power and depth of family relationships.

Salt House have announced the release of a new EP titled ‘Working for Zeus’ on which they are joined by a number of guest musicians. Listen to their lead track ‘Under the Same Moon’.

Watch the accompanying short film to Erland Cooper’s latest project ‘Never Pass Into Nothingness’, the title of which comes from the first stanza of John Keats’ poem Endymion.

Nomadic alt-folk duo Good Habits are finally returning home to the UK after making such a big impression in New Zealand. Watch them covering a Mancunian classic as you’ve never heard before – She Bangs The Drums by The Stone Roses

After last year’s cancelled tour dates, Welsh band Mabon announce dates for their farewell tour as their band members embark on “new projects for some…and new chapters for others.”

A dark and atmospheric experience, ‘IRIS’ elevates the sound of Reb Fountain’s previous record and explores some abstract yet highly relatable concepts. It’s an incredibly focused, deep, and powerful record that won’t be easily forgotten.

Featuring Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse, fka Mandolin Orange), Eli West, and Clint Mullican, watch the video for Christian Sedelmyer’s ‘Pushin’ Through…it’s pure joy from start to finish.

Still As Your Sleeping is the stunning new album from singer Karine Polwart and pianist Dave Milligan. Shortly before the record’s release, we sat down with the duo to chat about their new release, babysitting each other’s children and the hunt for patrons with pianos.

Watch ‘Deleted Scenes’, the first single from Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke’s new EP, ‘A Place Like Home’. A big country banger with a singalong chorus & inspiring, uplifting verses.

The new album from Norman Blake, Day by Day, couldn’t come at a better time. An opportunity to savour the past through the hands of a consummate craftsman.

Watch the video for Ailean, the energetic and powerful new single from Scotland’s most loved trad-rock band Mànran. The single is taken from their forthcoming new album ÙRAR out later this month.

Cups, the latest offering from Sally Anne Morgan, is a stunner…the music challenges and wonderfully brings to mind the magic and intricacies of nature and rural life. This is a highly creative, rich and detailed piece of work.