Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison announce Donn/Dubh, a debut collaborative album due 7 August on Real World X. Rooted in shared Hebridean heritage spanning Scotland, Jamaica and India, the twelve-track collection pulls folk melodies apart and reassembles them over bass-heavy beats, synths and drones. Lead single ‘A Rìbhinn a Bheil Cuimhn’ Agad’ and its accompanying video are out now.

Sir Richard Bishop shares “Back Forty Lashes”, the ferocious, trance-inducing second single and self-directed video from “Hillbilly Erotica”, out July 31st on Drag City. A sequel of sorts to 2025’s “Hillbilly Ragas”, it carries Bishop’s argument with the “American Primitive” tag deeper into rural Tennessee. He’s on his US tour now through the summer, but stops in the UK for the Green Man Festival in August.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy performs “They Keep Trying to Find You” on Later… with Jools Holland — a powerful airing of the lead single from “We Are Together Again”. The song confronts the temptation to bury your head in the sand as outside pressures mount, Will Oldham pitting the darkness within against the darkness without. Watch his unforgettable performance now.

Styrofoam Winos share “Somebody Wants to Send You a Message,” the final single before their new album “Any River.” Joe Kenkel wrote the upbeat choogle after a bot’s “somebody wants to send you a message” notification herded him into a group chat. It’s capped by a face-melting bass clarinet solo from Jim Marlowe, the only non-Wino to play on the record.

“Stash,” the second album from BCMC — the Chicago guitar-and-keys duo of Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain — pulls a range of styles from their minimalist set-up. More excitable than 2023’s “Foreign Smokes,” the musicians are happy to explore dynamically within a song. This is a generous, joyous album, brimming with life, energy and a real love of music.

Two Runner announce their second album, “PORCHLIGHT”, out August 28th via Gar Hole Records, and share new single and video “Strawberry Rhinestone”. Paige Anderson marks a transitional collection — goodbyes to a longtime musical partner and a decade-long relationship — though the songs stay warm and steady, resolute and tender-hearted, with the earnestness that has earned Two Runner years of praise.

Carson McHone shares a video for “The Canvas” and announces her first UK and European headline dates since “Pentimento”, her acclaimed third album. Crossing the Atlantic in August and September, she builds a band with Hollow Hand’s Max Kinghorn-Mills, plays three performances as a trio with Kinghorn-Mills and multi-disciplinary artist Fliss Horrocks, and takes in a slot at End of the Road Festival.

Frankie Archer’s debut album “The Dance of Death” combines traditional balladry with very contemporary-sounding electronica, resulting in a sound unlike anyone else. Built around the ideas of death and mortality, it is anything but one-dimensionally depressing. Archer is a one-of-a-kind talent with a huge career ahead of her.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew is free to all. Featuring Elanor Moss, Natalie Wildgoose, Magic Tuber Stringband, Shannon Lay, Alela Diane, Camille Camille, Anna McLuckie, Charlie Franklin, Fruit Bats, Diket, Black Duck & Elena Setién, Eva May, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Johnny Bell, Alex Dupree and lots more.

The Hanging Stars frontman Richard Olson pulls out all the stops for his Off the Shelf, gathering ten cherished objects — a Swedish utopian poster, his father’s signed Alan Lomax book, a Toronto-bought Martin 12-string, The Byrds on 7″. Revealing, moving and humorous, it ranks among the series’ very best, laying bare an intense passion for music.

Belfast’s Alana Henderson swaps her signature cello for tenor guitar on new single “Appetite”, turning inward with striking clarity. The song traces the confusion of misreading your own appetite, its restless writing moving between wit and self-reproach while a faint country inflection and pedal steel shimmer lend a bittersweet lift — intimate, intelligent and emotionally precise. Watch the accompanying video, a silent-movie-inspired black-and-white film with a Wes-Anderson-gone-goth sensibility.

On “These Are The Days That Turn Into Years”, their seventh studio album, Pharis & Jason Romero, following their 2022 release, channel four years of living, touring, parenting and banjo-building into their most open-hearted set yet. Tracked in their riverside Horsefly barn, it feels lived-in and luminous — a pure rootsy joyride that will send you straight back to the opening track.