Our latest KLOF Mixtape is made up of all-new releases. A few are from albums that we’ve recently reviewed, including Clara Mann‘s Rift, Natalie Wildgoose‘s Come Into The Garden, Lonnie Holley‘s Tonky, Macie Stewart‘s When the Distance is Blue, and more eaze & claire rousay‘s no floor.
Among forthcoming album releases, some of which have reviews pending, are:
a track from Adrianne Lenker’s 120-minute album, Live at Revolution Hall, on which she performs “a myriad of songs; some new, some rare, some favorites, and beyond, in front of an audience and behind the scenes.”
William Tyler‘s new album, time indefinite. Read more about it here (review and more to follow).
Annie A, the one-off collaborative project between Félicia Atkinson, Time is Away, Christina Petrie, and Maxine Funke, and their album The Wind That Had Not Touched Land.
Chicago-based guitarist Eli Winter‘s new single, For a Fallen Rocket, taken from his forthcoming new album A Trick of the Light that welcomes star turns from David Grubbs, Mike Watt, Kiran Leonard (on a left-handed cittern, no less), among others.
Japanese musician and songwriter Satomimagae‘s latest single, Omajinai, which considers the vague mystery and infinite poetry in even the most transient moments.
Brìghde Chaimbeul‘s She Went Astray, the second single from her revelatory new album ‘Sunwise’ (more here).
From Dublin-based duo VARO we have their new single, featuring Ian Lynch of Lankum. Sweet Liberty is the third single from their upcoming album ‘The World That I Knew‘.
New to KLOF is Lady Queen Paradise with my violet skin from their new album, simply titled: APR 15 2025. Lady Queen Paradise is “a steadfast participant in the DIY music circuit since 2014. They are a folk punk at heart and have toured extensively around North America with this ethos in mind. They have written many collections of music and released some of them. Over a decade of DIYing around North America has blessed Lady Queen Paradise with a unique cult following of transsexuals, classical music aficionados, niche indie darlings, and dusty folksingers.”
Another newcomer is Bells Larsen with a track from his sophomore album Blurring Time (2025) – Bells Larsen collapses time into a series of patient ceremonies. Guided by the earned satisfaction of simply “being” as a political act, the record is inspired by the many ways we write the ever-arriving self into existence. Oscillating between spacious lo-fi 90s indie, and searing folk ballads, his newest project welcomes into the room the haunting accompaniment of the voice frozen and suspended in time. Designed to align with the timeline of his transition, he intentionally recorded his previous “high” voice and instrumentation in 2022, waited for his voice to drop after beginning testosterone, then asked frequent collaborator and longtime friend, Georgia Harmer to write vocal arrangements for his new “low” voice, helping him harmonize with his past self — an intentional, multilingual act of surrendering to change. While on previous projects, Larsen set his vocals in the backdrop of the music, on Blurring Time he unites and positions both voices at the forefront to deliver a bold, unyielding devotional.
Music Played
- Clara Mann – Doubled Over (Rift)
- Natalie Wildgoose – I Lingered (Come Into The Garden)
- Adrianne Lenker – Happiness (live) (Live at Revolution Hall)
- VARO – Sweet Liberty (w/ Ian Lynch) (The World That I Knew)
- Brìghde Chaimbeul – She Went Astray (Sunwise)
- Lonnie Holley – Did I Do Enough? (Tonky)
- Lady Queen Paradise – my violet skin (APR 15 2025)
- Bells Larsen – Might (Blurring Time)
- Eli Winter – For a Fallen Rocket (A Trick Of The Light)
- Annie A (Time Is Away, Felicia Atkinson, Christina Petrie, Maxine Funke) – Chaque Plante, Chaque Personne (The Wind That Had Not Touched Land)
- Macie Stewart – Stairwell (Before and After) (When the Distance is Blue)
- William Tyler – Star of Hope (Time Indefinite)
- more eaze & claire rousay – the applebees outside kalamazoo, michigan (no floor)
- Satomimagae – Omajinai (Taba)