2025

This month sees the release of 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.”

Yoshika Colwell has announced the release of her debut album ‘On The Wing’ and shares her new single and video ‘There’s Got To Be A Loser Babe’. “It is, at its core, an album about acceptance and release, and freedom from old binds.”

On September 4th, Brooke Sharkey will release her new album ‘Under Stones’. Listen to her first single, A place we go to, a contemplative song evoking friendship, with oneself, with others, nature and the natural environment. It’s also our Song of the Day.

Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson teams up with psychedelic cowboys The Hanging Stars for new album, Dreams, and premieres lead single and video ‘Baby’s Got The Blues’…” She performs like it’s the Carnegie Hall every time.”

Zoé Basha’s impressive debut album, Gamble, contains a wealth of complex emotional layers, but at its heart is the joy of making new and truly exciting music.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist includes music from The New Pornographers, Poor Creature, Sacred Paws, iyatraQuartet, Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho, Spirit Fest, Dean Johnson, Marlon Williams, Hayden Pedigo and lots more.

It’s over five years since the last Sacred Paws album, but Jump Into Life is well worth the wait. It feels like the most fully realised example of their intriguing vision, tapping into a truly global set of influences to produce something complex and personal.

Dancing the Line is such a confident collection of songs; you can feel the ideas brimming in every sweep of Ultan O’Brien’s bow. Nothing is overdone or superfluous here; it is music in its purest state. I love it.

In the hands of Jonathan Nangle and the Crash Ensemble, something beautiful has emerged from the long gestation of ‘Blue Haze of Deep Time’, which should become a touchstone of the ‘slow music’ movement.

Currently on his solo Spring tour, watch Sam Carter performing his latest single, Long Time Travelling, a well-known rousing spiritual from the 19th-century American shape-note tunebook The Sacred Harp.

Folklore Tapes deliver one of the strongest and strangest in their Ceremonial County series. The Bohman Brothers provide the perfect primer for creating weird, place-specific atmospheres, while Jennifer Reid represents folk music as a living tradition, as entertaining as it is political.

New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her world is fragile but appears to have arrived fully-formed.

Ahead of their European tour this May with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Mess Esque share the video for their latest single ‘Crow’s Ash Tree’. Whatever emotions shaped these songs, the results are quite unforgettable.

Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes is proof that you don’t have to forsake traditional aesthetic notions of melody to make something experimental…this is music deep and alluring enough to get lost in and sparse enough to find yourself in.