August 2022

British-Israeli collective Staraya Derevnya’s “Boulder Blues” is an unnerving, brilliant album that revolves around the twenty-plus minute opus Bubbling Pelt, which sounds like Comus and Faust fighting over a rare cache of Japanese psychedelic rock.

Jackie Oates’ “Gracious Wings” is an album underpinned by top-quality musicianship and another assured and enthralling collection from one of the undoubted talents of the contemporary folk music world.

Taken from Small Sur’s long-awaited fifth full-length album ‘Attic Room’, watch the accompanying video made by Phil Davis for ‘A Clean Patch of Ground’, a song steeped in a nurturing tenderness.

With LAS, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes have delivered a highly accomplished album that, probably more than any other you’ll hear this year, unifies innovation and tradition.

Lewis and Clarke releases Aurora 15:34, a song in memory of Elijah McClain…The song is both a eulogy to him as an individual and a rallying cry against the systemic violence and racism that pervades our society.

Listen to Odana by Wabanaki composer, songwriter, and bassist Mali Obomsawin. It opens her new album ‘Sweet Tooth’, a suite for Indigenous resistance that flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic, trapped in time.

On ‘Old Bones, New Fire’, Miraculous Mule continue to burn brightly, performing with zeal, a music that has shaped and continues to shape new generations.

London-based folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell announce their debut album ‘You, Golden’, set for release on 4th November 2022. To celebrate, we have the pleasure of sharing a video of them performing the album opener Adson’s, live.

On his latest video for ‘Running from Home’, a Bert Jansch cover, Jason McNiff revisits his old London haunts where he first heard Bert Jansch play. The track features on his latest album ‘Tonight We Ride’.

Taken from his highly anticipated 4th album ‘Broadcast The Secret Verse’, watch the video for Chris Cleverley’s new single ‘Chlorophyll’ featuring Lucy Farrell – his first new music in over two years and a bold stylistic departure from his previous work.

First released in 1965, The Watersons’ seminal traditional folk album ‘Frost And Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs’, is to be re-released by Topic Records with a vinyl pressing at 45RPM.

While Luke Sital-Singh may be Dressing Like a Stranger, he is the same man he’s always been. The clothes may have changed, but he remains a talented observer of the human condition.

The latest KLOF mix features a tribute to jaimie branch plus music from Cornelia Murr, Deer Scout, Eli Winter, Bree van Reyk, Erlend Apneseth, Spirit Fest, Tenniscoats, José Medeles and more.

Outsider folk mystic Lee Baggett has crafted a new album of psych-country jams with Anyway, watch his video for ‘Run to the Sun’; a song about the urge to run towards the sun that is either dipping towards or rising from the darkness.