2025

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist includes music from Sunny & the Sunsets, Richard Swift, Ofege, Enji, Foxygen, Crybaby, Thao, Cassandra Jenkins, Mark Fry, Dana Gavanski, Kuunatic and lots more.

Best known for his 1972 psychedelic folk classic Dreaming with Alice, Mark Fry has announced a new album titled ‘Not On The Radar’, to be released on 16th May via Second Language. Listen to the title track and the aching nocturne ‘Daybreak’.

Dylan Golden Aycock’s ‘No New Summers’ is a probing, mercurial piece of art that looks to expand upon the norms of the so-called American Primitive brand of instrumental guitar music…rejoice in the artists daring to challenge the norms and bringing us music to shout about.

Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman make a stand against Trump’s control of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and JD Vance, attending a National Symphony Orchestra concert the same evening, is met with boos from the audience.

Taken from his forthcoming new album, watch the lyric video for Jeffrey Lewis’ latest single Relaxation, directed by frequent collaborator Matt (Pizza Underground) Colbourn.

On “IN / OUT”, Violeta García explores and pushes the cello’s sonic possibilities. She recorded the album in a cave that once housed Geneva’s water reservoir, transforming it into a natural acoustic chamber.

James Yorkston announces a new collaborative album with David A Jaycock and Lina Langendorf (The Second Hand Orchestra). Due for release in May, listen to ‘Tide’, the first single from Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf.

A new live Arthur Russell album titled ‘Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out’, recorded at Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation on December 20th, 1985, is to be released by Audika and Rough Trade Records.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring new music from Jake Xerxes Fussell, Natalie Wildgoose, Toria Wooff, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Iona Lane, Gigspanner Big Band, Jim Ghedi, Alex Rex, Sam Grassie, The Hermit, Pan•American, Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew and more.

Sam Grassie has shared a video for the title track of his latest album, Jarabi, Winter has Gone, described as a marriage of celtic trad and malian blues. Dennis O’Brien filmed the video while they cycled across eastern Europe.

Estonian duo Katariina Kivi and Ann-Lisett Rebane, better known as Duo Ruut, have released a new single titled “Udu” (Fog). Watch the accompanying video by Ako Lehemets.

Mississippi Records announce the release of Church of Kidane Mehret, gathering Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru’s 1972 private press album of the same name with two previously unheard piano recordings. Listen to the lead single ‘Ave Maria’.

Jake Xerxes Fussell shares his new recording of Arthur Russell’s “Close My Eyes”, a number that has, not surprisingly, become a setlist fixture. He has also announced new dates in Europe and the UK, including End Of The Road.

Watch the video for Alex Rex’s latest single, My Old Self Again, a drunk country ditty that was hatched during lockdown. The single is taken from The National Trust, his new album, due for release on March 28th via The Barne Society (pre-order today).