2025

Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez’s ‘Revision’ offers a unique hybrid of voice and double bass, intertwined impossibly as one in a recital that lives, breathes, evolves, explores, changes and expresses as one in an impossibly unrepetitive hour of sonic splendour.

Junior Brother shares his new single and striking new video, Small Violence, plus details of his forthcoming album, The End, to be released on Strap Originals. It marks an exciting new chapter for this increasingly distinctive Irish voice.

While short, Samantha Whates and M G Boulter’s ‘Flower Days’ wastes no notes. A deeply felt and humane work, full of quiet joy and love of life and nature, this fresh and evocative release is one to savour.

Japanese musician and songwriter Satomimagae has shared her third and final single ‘Tonbo’, taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Taba’ (out this Friday). Watch the accompanying video by longtime collaborator Norio.

Described as a joyfully irreverent psychedelic fantasia of folklore, free jazz, and avant-garde Blues, Chicago composer, improviser, instrumentalist, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay announces his new album and shares the title track single, Yowzers.

Following their 2012 debut, Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts reunite on ‘Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia’. It’s a beautiful and glimmering album on which they also demonstrate how to wring intense emotions from the most minimal of ingredients.

Last month, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers released their new album, Uncharted. Have a listen and read Rachael’s personal Track by Track guide to the album.

Another Monday Morning Brew Playlist: ft. Blind Yeo, Adrian Crowley, Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko, Constant Follower, Dhafer Youssef, Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho, Aaron Dooley, Eishan Ensemble, Ohtis, Shannon Lay & more.

When Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society get together, a singular kind of magic emerges that epitomises the creative spirit of the Chicago scene but is nevertheless unique. ‘Totality’ is the fullest possible rendering of that magic and an essential piece of work.

All of the tracks on MIIEN feel like journeys, proof that MIEN truly understand the psychedelic assignment. They have the will and the talent to take us into the unknown and do so in unexpected and diverse ways.

With Time Indefinite, William Tyler has hit a new creative peak, seamlessly blending excellent guitar work with a heavy dose of the strange, and it works really well. Dare I suggest it’s his strongest album? Yeah, I do.

Our latest KLOF Mixtape features new music from Clara Mann, Natalie Wildgoose, Adrianne Lenker, VARO, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Lady Queen Paradise, Bells Larsen, Eli Winter, Lonnie Holley, Annie A, Macie Stewart, William Tyler, Satomimagae and more eaze & claire rousay.

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Undercurrents’, watch the video for Matthew Young’s “The Summer Girls”, a setting of a poem by his aunt, Marion Lineaweaver, which also showcases his love for the hammered dulcimer.

Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul shares her latest single from her forthcoming album, Sunwise. An old vocal dance song dating from 1934 ‘She Went Astray’ “is all about the rhythm of the language.”