2025

Available for pre-order now, Shane Parish has announced a new live LP, titled Solo At Cafe OTO (out July 1st via his own label, Red Eft Records), on which he explores British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song …

Our Song of the Day comes from Lila Tristram, whose new single ‘Overtake’ is released today. Tristram isn’t afraid of sharing her inner thoughts, but how she presents them makes them outstanding and memorable. There’s a melancholic shimmer to her delivery that does recall some of the classic contemporary folk …

For their second album, The World That I Knew, Dublin-based duo Varo perform alongside a revolving cast of collaborators including members of Lankum, John Francis Flynn, Alannah Thornburg, Junior Brother, Lemoncello, Niamh Bury, Anna Mieke and more, picked judiciously from that fertile Dublin scene, and fostered by the sterling production of …

The Gentle Good’s latest album, Elan, is a concept album of sorts, a study of the Elan Valley in Powys through music, recorded off-grid in the Cambrian mountains. An admirable creation, it’s a broad and generous soundscape for a beloved area of Wales, containing both music and singing that is …

While she grew up in Yorkshire, Iona Lane’s new album, Swilkie, is a love song to Scotland’s islands and the people who live there, and an impassioned plea for the conservation of wild spaces and communities on the margins. A relative newcomer to the region, she spoke to KLOF about …

With Somnia, Katie Schottland’s Swimming Bell has created something quite magical. While just five songs, the moments, the magic, and the memories reveal a depth to her music that will draw you back for repeated listenings.

Another KLOF Mag mixtape: A tranquil, soft ambient journey with pockets of energy to wake you from your summer garden slumber. Featuring Swimming Bell, Avery Friedman, Friendship, Herman Düne, The Owl Service, Quinie, Poor Creature, Brown Wimpenny, Donald WG Lindsay, Geir Sundstøl, Iona Lane, Bells Larsen, Marc Ribot, Joseph Allred, …

Featuring Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, Poor Creature share an animated music video for their new single ‘Adieu Lovely Erin’ and announce additional tour dates.

Guitarist Eli Winter’s ace new Trick of the Light album sees him in full band leader mode. Glenn Kimpton met up with Winter to discuss the project in finer detail.

LA singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson announces ‘Paradise Pop. 10 Deluxe’, a dialled-down offering featuring just acoustic guitar, cello and violin. The change on tracks like ‘After Hours’ is dramatic in a quietly transformational way.

Josienne Clarke is currently touring “Across The Evening Sky: The Songs Of Sandy Denny”. Danny Neill catches up with Josienne to chat about Sandy Denny and Josienne’s own solo journey.

Philly-based Friendship’s ‘Caveman Wakes Up’ dwells in the conscious and subconscious mind; both devastating and hilarious, there are also moments of fragile beauty.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Great Lake Swimmers, Kira Skov, Felbm, Varo, Fuubutsushi, Hayden Pedigo, Odelet, Swimming Bell, Satomimagae, Dominie Hooper, Ty Segall, Whitney K, Kita Kouhei, William Tyler, Makushin & more.

Glasgow-based singer Quinie’s ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ may have been several years in the making, and it may draw heavily on the songs of the past, but it feels like the perfect snapshot of a type of folk music that is unapologetically and gloriously present.