2025

Following last year’s ‘Locust Land’, his most diverse album yet, Bill MacKay shares details of his EU tour, including Ireland co-headline dates with Brigid Mae Power and a London date with labelmate Six Organs of Admittance.

End of the Middle, as its name suggests, might mark the closing chapter of a particular phase in Richard Dawson’s career, but it does so with panache and potency, proof that he is still the most gifted and generous of songwriters.

Aesthesis is the debut release of Thorn Wych, an instrument maker and musician based in the Lancashire town of Bacup, where she creates the most unexpected music on instruments made from native trees, like an earthy and ancient-sounding form of off-grid music.

Released back in November, dessus oben alto up is the first collaborative recording between Andrea Belfi and Jules Reidy. A personal favourite is ‘alto’, which fizzes with a transformative vibrant energy.

Cole Stacey’s debut solo album, Postcards from Lost Places, is an album that repays repeated plays to dig into the weft and weave of his musical textures and discover the pull of these lost places.

A new Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Jaimie Branch, Sam Amidon, Fiona Soe Paing, David Allred, Bex Burch, Shabaka, Arthur Russell, Alabaster DePlume, OKI, Cassie Kinoshi, Oren Ambarchi, Group Listening and more.

Listen to our latest Mixtape featuring Sam Amidon, hemlock, Joshua Burnside, RÓIS, Richard Dawson, Tashi Dorji, Jim Ghedi, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Onilu, David Michael Moore, One Leg One Eye, New York United, 75 Dollar Bill and more.

Jim Ghedi’s new single, Sheaf & Feld, is out now; dystopian post folk with synths, electric guitars, heavy drums, and a remarkable falsetto. It’s a giant of a song…totally blown away by the energy of it all.

The latest Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties series features a satanic brew from dbh and The Dark Pool that most contemporary stoner rock bands would sacrifice their grandmothers for and a satisfyingly devilish and wholly fitting companion piece from the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.

Within the meticulous nature of the sound of ‘Onilu’ is a paradoxically careful abandon, and the love of the playing and bouncing off of one another shines through brightly. I’ve not come across anything quite like it.

We talk to New Mexico-based musical and linguistic polymath Jordan Wax about his Yiddish recording debut, ט​ײ​ַ​ט​ש [The Heart Deciphers]. Co-produced with Jeremy Barnes, the album melds deep klezmer instrumentation with larger indie rock arrangements.

“Loudon Live in London” was recorded during a residency at Nell’s Jazz and Blues in London in 2024. It finds Loudon Wainwright III in top form, covering favourites, five brand-new songs and working an appreciative crowd in his familiar chatty and self-deprecating form.

Where there’s light, there’s shadow…with Sol Y Sombra, Rose City Band don’t shy away from the journey ahead, charting new directions in both the sun and shade. 

Dublin-based duo VARO announce their new album, The World That I Knew, feat. Ian Lynch, John Francis Flynn, Anna Mieke, Alannah Thornburgh, Junior Brother, Lemoncello, Niamh Bury and more. Watch the video for their lead single ‘Red Robin’ ft. Alannah Thornburgh.