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Simon Joyner shares Vagabond, the first single and video from Tough Love, his nineteenth studio album. Following the direct grief of 2024’s Coyote Butterfly, Joyner refracts tough love through fictional relationships — romantic, familial, political — with acoustic songs prodded by electric guitars, rock tracks channelling the Velvet Underground and Can, and a devastating twenty-minute closing title track.
Blood Sucking Maniacs, the multigenerational family band led by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, have shared “Down to the River,” the second single from their self-titled debut, out April 24th via Paradise of Bachelors. A duet between Jo and Terry, the song is described as the album’s spiritual centrepiece — a moving paean to love and travel containing the album’s most breathtaking imagery.
Mick Flannery has announced The House Must Win, his first ever double album, out May 8th via One Riot Records. The 20-song record reimagines his 2005 debut Evening Train alongside new compositions for a forthcoming stage production. Lead single Rising Tide, a duet with Anaïs Mitchell, is available now — a delicate ballad of memory and metaphor.
Paris-based singer-songwriter Aure releases her debut album printemps today via Mayway Records, marking the occasion with The Beginning, its key single and accompanying film. An album of thresholds written between endings and beginnings, printemps draws on the poetic minimalism of Leonard Cohen and Atahualpa Yupanqui, the enigmatic force of Lhasa and Jessica Pratt, and the precise economy of Bertrand Belin.
To celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which signals the end of Ramadan for Muslims around the world, Lachlan Dale, the manager of Worlds Within Worlds record label, has shared a new video session with Mustafa Faizi (vocals and harmonium) – one of the leading Afghan classical vocalists of his generation, now residing in Sydney, Australia. Mustafa is accompanied by Maharshi Raval on tabla.
On “sentence structure in the country,” more eaze leans into her love of song and embraces her upbringing as a folk-oriented fiddle player. Collaboration is key, with Wendy Eisenberg and others helping shape an album where trademark contrasts feel more subtle and fluid than ever. A bewildering array of influences leveraged into a sustained, emotionally resonant and surprisingly compact work of art.
Rua Rí has announced his debut album “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” out 1st May via Soft Boy Records, alongside new single and video “Johnny Workman.” Rooted in the streets, fields and familiar settings of Cobh and Cork, the album — produced by Kean Kavanagh — captures the fleeting moments of youth with warmth, humour, and grounded introspection.
Marisa Anderson shares ‘Sarvi Simin,’ the second single from “The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1,” out May 22nd on Thrill Jockey. The track — an ecstatic duet between Anderson’s guitar and Gisela Rodríguez Fernández’s violin — interprets a piece from a 1977 Melodiya Records release, transcribed while Anderson travelled by bus through southern Mexico.
Frankie Archer has announced her debut album “The Dance of Death,” out 5th June via prrr of the bear. Co-produced with Guy Massey, Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon — warping fiddle lines, processing her own vocals and driving the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synths into “nu-ancient trad bangers.” New single ‘The Unquiet Grave’ is out now.
White Fence has shared Unread Books, the second single from Orange, due April 24th via Drag City. Where lead single Your Eyes punched and sparkled, Unread Books sinks into droning, heartbroken pop, driven by Alice Sandahl’s hazy synths and Dylan Hadley’s shuffling drums. Produced by Ty Segall, Orange is Presley’s first White Fence album in seven years.
Sam Grassie shares “The Burning of Auchindoun,” a stirring reimagining of a traditional Scottish folk ballad from his forthcoming debut, “Where Two Hawks Fly,” due 10th April via Broadside Hacks. Coloured by ponderous double-bass, mystical flute and compelling fingerpicked guitar, it’s flighted with equal parts fantasy and foreboding. A UK headline tour kicks off later this month.