While she grew up in Yorkshire, Iona Lane’s new album, Swilkie, is a love song to Scotland’s islands and the people who live there, and an impassioned plea for the conservation of wild spaces and communities on the margins. A relative newcomer to the region, she spoke to KLOF about how she came to know and love her adopted homeland, and how it came to inform her music.

With Somnia, Katie Schottland’s Swimming Bell has created something quite magical. While just five songs, the moments, the magic, and the memories reveal a depth to her music that will draw you back for repeated listenings.

Another KLOF Mag mixtape: A tranquil, soft ambient journey with pockets of energy to wake you from your summer garden slumber. Featuring Swimming Bell, Avery Friedman, Friendship, Herman Düne, The Owl Service, Quinie, Poor Creature, Brown Wimpenny, Donald WG Lindsay, Geir Sundstøl, Iona Lane, Bells Larsen, Marc Ribot, Joseph Allred, Lady Queen Paradise, Hayden Pedigo, William Tyler, and Loose Diamonds.

Featuring Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, Poor Creature share an animated music video for their new single ‘Adieu Lovely Erin’ and announce additional tour dates.

Guitarist Eli Winter’s ace new Trick of the Light album sees him in full band leader mode. Glenn Kimpton met up with Winter to discuss the project in finer detail.

LA singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson announces ‘Paradise Pop. 10 Deluxe’, a dialled-down offering featuring just acoustic guitar, cello and violin. The change on tracks like ‘After Hours’ is dramatic in a quietly transformational way.

Josienne Clarke is currently touring “Across The Evening Sky: The Songs Of Sandy Denny”. Danny Neill catches up with Josienne to chat about Sandy Denny and Josienne’s own solo journey.

Philly-based Friendship’s ‘Caveman Wakes Up’ dwells in the conscious and subconscious mind; both devastating and hilarious, there are also moments of fragile beauty.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Great Lake Swimmers, Kira Skov, Felbm, Varo, Fuubutsushi, Hayden Pedigo, Odelet, Swimming Bell, Satomimagae, Dominie Hooper, Ty Segall, Whitney K, Kita Kouhei, William Tyler, Makushin & more.

Glasgow-based singer Quinie’s ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ may have been several years in the making, and it may draw heavily on the songs of the past, but it feels like the perfect snapshot of a type of folk music that is unapologetically and gloriously present.

Eli Winter has never put out a bad record, but his music seems to grow in confidence and prowess with each release. A Trick of the Light is a barnstormer – sharp, vital and pretty damn thrilling. Oh yes.

Taken from The Gentle Good’s forthcoming new album, Elan, watch ‘To Be in Summer’, a song about the rural idyll, and a bit of a nod to bands like Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals.