June 2025

While “Morning Dew” may be recognised as Bonnie Dobson’s most iconic track, on her new album, Dreams, she showcases a collection of impressive new compositions. Partnering with the UK’s The Hanging Stars, her sound is infused with renewed vitality, resulting in a brilliantly fruitful collaboration. We can only hope that …

Danny Neill catches the final night of the “Josienne Clarke Sings Sandy Denny” 2025 Tour at Cambridge Junction. “By the time of the evening’s yearning closer, ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes,’ I am already resolving to return whenever this songbird flies across the evening sky once again.”

Sally Anne Morgan is the latest guest on Thrill Jockey’s Deep Digs series, in which artists share their favourite Thrill Jockey releases. Sally’s choices include Jimmy Martin, Jack Rose & D. Charles Speer & The Helix, Elena Setien, and Sidi Toure. We recently reviewed Sally’s new album, Second Circle the …

A new Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. César y su Jardín, BC Camplight, Oropendola, Natural Information Society, Akira Kosemura, Mark Fry, Sally Anne Morgan, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Kathryn Williams, Eve Adams, Ben LaMar Gay, Chloe Matharu, Animal Collective, The Rolling Stones, Madeline Kenney, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Rún, The …

BC Camplight releases his raw and redemptive album, A Sober Conversation, today. The album confronts personal trauma and embraces sobriety, offering a profound musical journey. Alongside, he shares the lyric video for “Bubbles In The Gasoline,” a track featuring Jess Branney of Peaness.

Oropendola, the Brooklyn-based project of Joanna Schubert, today unveils her sophomore album, “Swimming,” via Spirit House Records. This intimate piano-vocal record arrives alongside a captivating music video for the focus track “Pyre”.

Chicago’s Natural Information Society, led by Joshua Abrams, introduces Meditation, the first instalment of a three-part digital series now available on New Soil. This curated collection, featuring spacious tracks like “In Memory’s Prism,” offers a unique entry point into their blend of minimalism, jazz, and experimental sounds, inviting listeners to …

Akira Kosemura’s “MIRAI” is out today. This highly anticipated album is his first-ever vocal project, featuring an impressive lineup including Devendra Banhart and Mr Hudson. Watch the video for “Ongaku” featuring Devendra Banhart, directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild, offering a visual journey into Kosemura’s phantasmal statement for the future and …

Best known for his loosely conceptual 1972 psychedelic folk classic Dreaming with Alice, Normandy-based English singer-songwriter and painter Mark Fry is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest – a form of storytelling through objects. His selections capture that painter’s eye detail as he recalls distant memories with beautiful clarity. It’s …

Sally Anne Morgan’s Second Circle the Horizon continues in a similar vein to 2021’s ‘Cups’ while leaning gently on some of the slightly broader-sounding arrangements on her other albums. The result is spot on: a quiet, sometimes enigmatic celebration of the purity of nature and life through the lens of …

While Brìghde Chaimbeul has already established a distinctive musical voice, on Sunwise, she utilises it in new and unfettered ways; she treats experimentation and tradition with equal respect, always with an overriding sense that music is meant to be enjoyed.

Eve Adams’s ‘Couldn’t Tell The Time’ is a bright, shuffling train-like journey into her new album, American Dust. With playful violin, it explores life’s “magic hour”—that uncertain space between youth and age. This single hints at American Dust’s broader narrative: a tender, yet stark, eulogy for the American dream, set …

Jazzman Records take us on a deep dive into the resilient, often defiant, spiritual jazz of the Soviet Bloc. From the early 1960s to the precipice of the 1980s, the tracks curated here reveal a fascinating dialogue between global modernism and deeply rooted local traditions. A radical, intoxicating brew that …

Kathryn Williams has announced her 15th studio album, ‘Mystery Park’, due September 26th via One Little Independent Records. To mark the announcement, Williams has shared a new single, ‘Personal Paradise’, released alongside a video by Emma Holbrook. The album was created in collaboration with several trusted artists, including Leo Abrahams, …