Cory Hanson’s new single “Bird on a Swing” offers a more reflective, sepia-toned sound from past works. Featuring the same core band from Wand’s Vertigo album, the track blends ’70s singer-songwriter influences with lush, Hollywood’esque production. Along with it’s poignant lyrics (“I gave it all up to the empire”), it highlights a shift towards an “impartial view of life on the ground.”

A new Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Joshua Burnside, Cerys Hafana, Niamh Bury, Dani Larkin, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Shovel Dance Collective, RÓIS, Daisy Rickman, Fohn, Salt House, Constant Follower, Adrian Crowley, Laura Cannell, Ora Cogan, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Jacken Elswyth, Jim Ghedi, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Sam Grassie, Malin Lewis, United Bible Studies.

Emily Hines’ latest single, All of Our Friends, continues to channel introspective depths, calling to mind the melancholic and tender vibes of Adrianne Lenker. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Nashville filmmaker Abby Holmes. Hines said of its origins: “I wrote this song in a guy’s bedroom while he was working in the other room. Fresh out of college, I was naive and earnest, putting everything under a microscope…”

Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, has written an in-depth guide to his new album ‘Elan’ (also featuring audio and video). The album is a psychedelic portrait of Cwm Elan, the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. It explores the landscape, history, and politics of the area that was flooded at the end of the Victorian era to create a series of reservoirs for drinking water. Out now on Bubblewrap Collective.

Tompkins Square’s enduring admiration for Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn is hardly news to anyone paying attention. To commemorate Cockburn’s 80th birthday this week, they enlisted contemporary guitar maestro Eli Winter to offer his interpretations of some of Cockburn’s beloved tracks. ‘To Keep the World We Know’ includes Winter’s take on “Foxglove” alongside a collection of entirely new recordings.

In a move that’s sure to stir the hearts of many, Will Johnson and the surviving members of the revered Magnolia Electric Co. have officially joined forces under the new moniker Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. Today, they’ve unveiled a roaring new version of “The Big Beast” and announced a forthcoming 7-inch record, slated for a September release.

Los Angeles’s own cosmic voyagers, Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, have offered another tantalizing glimpse into their forthcoming album, Different Rooms. Their latest dispatch, Side by Side, finds the duo in esteemed company, joined by the ever-exploratory guitarist Jeff Parker. The track is a potent teaser for the full-length, which is slated to arrive on June 20 via the reliably forward-thinking International Anthem.

Ty Segall’s new album, Possession, drops on Drag City tomorrow (May 30th). As previously shared, Ty enlisted his old friend and longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. Shared today, Matt also directed, produced, and edited the video for ‘Buildings’, which was shot in Downtown Los Angeles and Porter Street Studio.

For this month’s Ceremonial Counties offering from Folklore Tapes: Vol.XV Leicester/Northumberland, the first half features Experimental electronic musician Steve Watts and is dedicated to the legend of Black Annis. The second half, composed and performed by Grey Malkin, another British artist indebted to folk horror and hauntology, tells the story of the Duddo stone circle, an arrangement of five (formerly seven) sandstone megaliths in the shadow of the Cheviot Hills.

Ryan Wayne spent 10 years away from the music business, then suffered two strokes inspiring his return to recording music. On Functioning Dysfunctionals, his second album since the return, he plunges headfirst into the messy, mercurial thing called life. Blending and balancing many different influences make it almost impossible to categorise, but it distinguishes itself by combining honesty with a pure passion for the form and function of music.

Listen to the latest KLOF Mag mixtape, featuring new tracks from Marc Ribot, Hayden Pedigo, Logan Farmer, Cian Nugent & The Cosmos, and Fuubutsushi. Some live and campfire moments courtesy of Ferran Orriols, Eli Winter and Cameron Knowler, and Adrianne Lenker. Plus tracks from Gwenifer Raymond and Kevin Barker, taken from Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader, a Record Store Day compilation Boxset from Tompkins Square.

Like the tarot’s major arcana, The Rabbit, the latest album from Melissa Lingo, aka meka, can be experienced as a kind of tarot reading, a mystical, alluring set of pathways into the human mind, a comment on fate, a dream with a cast of obscure characters. It’s no great stretch to put meka right up there with her heroes in the pantheon of folk songwriters.