2025

Jim Ghedi’s ‘Wasteland’, for all its anger and anguish, provides us with many moments of beauty. It is a timely reminder of the potency of art in a world that seems to be turning uglier by the day, and it might just be Ghedi’s masterpiece.

Park Jiha is a master of creating conceptual soundscapes, and ‘All Living Things’ is humbling, enchanting and sometimes quietly alarming in the starkness of its structure. It is a beautiful, inimitable creation.

Will Johnson has announced his 10th solo album, Diamond City, due for release on April 4, 2025, via Keeled Scales. His opening track and lead single, Floodway Fall, is out today.

BIG|BRAVE announce their most naked and austere record to date. OST is set for release around their European and UK Tour Dates in April. Listen to their first single, “innominate Nº ii”, which brings the ensemble’s exploration into minimalism and textural composition into stunning focus.

In 2012, Alasdair Roberts and Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri Morrison released their debut album Urstan. Today, they announce their long-awaited follow-up on Drag City – Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia. Listen to their lead single ‘Màiri Nighean Dòmhnaill’.

Taken from his new album, Under a Familiar Sun, and featuring visuals by Eric Timothy Carlson, watch the videos for The Vernon Spring’s ‘Requiem for Reem’, and ‘The Breadline’, a piece centred around a poem by Max Porter.

With poetic touchstones that range from the metaphysical and Shakespeare to Dickinson, Plath and Auden, Polly Paulusma’s Wildfires is unquestionably her masterpiece, which, like the title, burns and blazes, forged alike in the anguish and euphoria of love and life.

Taken from Dylan Golden Aycock’s long-overdue new solo album ‘No New Summers’, watch the chilled video for the title track featuring fellow sonic explorer Hayden Pedigo.

Acoustic guitar badass and prolific tourer Liam Grant’s ‘Prodigal Son’ comes in like a thunderstorm, with distorted fingerpicked guitar notes hitting the speakers in a barrage of metal and wood.

Six Organs Of Admittance has just kicked off their most expansive European tour in a long time, including Portugal, UK, Ireland, Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe.

At My Mother’s Piano is the latest offering from Yama Warashi, a soothing minimalistic escape. Watch the video for her latest single, ‘Frog From Amami’; her UK solo tour begins this month.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Miles Cooper Seaton, The Vernon Spring, Ian Humberstone, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl, Black Flower, Ben LaMar Gay, Flaer, Irreversible Entanglements and more.

Our latest KLOF Mixtape features Ian Humberstone, Scatter, L Con, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Martin A. Egan, Claire Rousay & M. Harper Scott, Joe McPhee, Patrick Shiroishi, Matmos, Natalia Beylis and more.

Given the solitude in which it was written, Midsummer Tideline is a surprisingly sociable album, full of warmth and the vigour of shared creativity, and it adds yet another string to Ian Humberstone’s already impressive bow.