Alabaster DePlume shares the video for his latest single, Invincibility, in which filmmaker Niall Trask transforms him into a beloved family dog…it doesn’t end well.

Taken from their forthcoming new album, watch the latest video from Stranded Horse and Boubacar Cissokho for their vibrant new single ‘Right No Wrongs with No Arms’. It is also our Song of the Day.

Kinetic is the latest album from Belgium’s five-piece hybrid jazz combo Black Flower – a call to dance through life’s chaos and to harness the power of movement as a tool for liberation. Listen to Monkey System, also our Song of the Day.

Dave McNally shares his Celtic Connections highlights, covering The Transatlantic Sessions, Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and Frances Morton, Michael McGoldrick, Tim Edey and Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves and Brian Finnegan.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist features Jacken Elswyth, Georgia Harmer, Ichiko Aoba, Saapato & Laraaji, Cynefin, Tuung, David Grubbs, Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, Cameron Knowler, Carlos Niño and more.

Our latest Mixtape features new music from Ian Humberstone, Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, Laurie Torres, Macdara Ó Faoláin, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, The Ocelots, Oh My Sun, Blue Lake, Cynefin, Cameron Knowler and Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl.

Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver share their new single and video, Train Song. Both the visuals, by Marry Waterson, and arrangements are woven together so unconventionally that those everyday scenes take on a magical curiosity as if noticing them for the first time.

Today sees the release of The Ballad of Mic and Susie, the honest and heartfelt new single from Serious Sam Barrett. To celebrate the release, watch Sam performing the song live.

In an age of ‘homogenisation and mass amnesia’, Cynefin’s ‘Shimli’ looks to the diversity of the past for answers, a role he’s well placed to comment on as a researcher and cultural historian. Beautifully presented, it is another remarkable release from this unique musician.

Taken from his impressive 2024 album, One Evening and Other Folk Songs, and filmed by the talented David James Logan, watch Buck Curran with Adele H, Jodi Pedrali, Dave Barbarossa, and Roberto Frassini Moneta performing Deep in the Lovin’ Arms of My Babe.

With their retro-sounding harmonies, there is an attractive nostalgia to The Ocelots’ new album, Everything, When Said Slowly. It’s a bittersweet, anthemic affair and a joy to listen to, with a salient groove lifting the whole thing ever so slightly—a haunting and majestic album.

The music Seth Lakeman makes and the passion with which he makes it has never faltered; The Granite Way is another exemplary reason why he’s the benchmark of contemporary English folk music.