To commemorate his remarkable music career and 84th birthday, folk music legend Martin Carthy will release “Transform Me Then Into A Fish” on May 21st, 2025.
Experimental, trippy, fiercely creative and quite mesmerising, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl’s ‘For Translucence’ is a tricky album to pin down, but you’ll be glad you gave it the time and space to reveal itself.
A new Brew playlist featuring Jack Cheshire, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ferran Orriols, Natalie Wildgoose, The Westerlies & Sam Amidon, Lavinia Blackwall, Lonnie Holley, James P Honey, Adrian Crowley, Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl and more.
On ‘Come Into the Garden’, Natalie Wildgoose conjures a strange world submerged in sweet, subtle sound and rich in the unlearnable language of dream and memory.
Gigspanner Big Band talk about their new album, Turnstone, revealing an insight into an album that exists in a tradition of sprawling and inclusive experimentalism and where variation and difference are celebrated and encouraged.
Throughout ‘Uncharted’, the new album from Rachael McShane & The Cartographers, the music sounds fresh and vibrant alongside Rachael’s bright vocals. It’s perfect for spring and hugely enjoyable to listen to. And for that, we can be grateful.
Ahead of an extensive UK and EU tour, BIG|BRAVE share new single ‘innominate Nº vi’. The piece serves as an ode to the band’s subtlety, combining metallic scrapes, a droning low-end thrum and otherworldly textures…
Brìghde Chaimbeul announces her third solo album ‘Sunwise’ (out June 27th on tak:til/ Glitterbeat) and shares lead single ‘Bog an Lochan’. Watch the accompanying video filmed by Jonny Ashworth and John Smith.
Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari (aka Karlsson) announce a collaborative new album ‘Journey To Nabta Playa’. Listen to the first single “Procession of the Equinox,” released to coincide with the Spring Equinox.
The songs on Alex Rex’s ‘The National Trust’ may revel in bitterness and humiliation, but they are real and unflinching and fearsomely clever and often beautiful. Neilson remains an absolute one-off.
Toria Wooff’s sophistically cultivated self-titled debut album is a work of art that demands proper engagement and, in return, promises fruitful payback. The maturity on show points to even more interesting creativity further down the line.
RE:VULVA are a new folk band featuring Janice Burns, Holly Clarke, Cathy Geldard and Amy Thatcher. Watch the accompanying 90s aesthetic video for their first single ‘Girls and Their Toys’, celebrating womanhood, queerness, and freedom of expression.
