Last week, Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts released their new album Chasing Light. Watch them performing the title track live – “a bright and bouncing track…a pretty, bucolic number.”

The Circular Train is Ava Mendoza’s second solo LP of charged avant garde rock, blues and jazz music. It’s an album she should be proud of–no frills, no pretensions and totally ace.

Listen to the latest Monday Morning Brew featuring Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin, 3hattrio, Yasmin Williams, Joshua Burnside, Ana Lua Caiano, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Seckou Keita, Alice Gerrard, Frankie Archer, Gerry Diver, Niamh Regan, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Rhiannon Giddens and more.

The Suitcase will be presented by Sean Cooney of the award-winning folk trio The Young’uns and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this weekend. Listen to their new single, Borrowed Boots, which is also our Song of the Day.

“Another Tide, Another Fish” is an intelligent, intuitive album that demonstrates Andrew Tuttle’s highly creative and inquisitive nature. The late great Michael Chapman’s previously unfinished album now feels complete, showing his subtle psychedelic music at its best.

Junior Brother shares the stunning new music video from Ellius Grace for his new single Take Guilt which “explores the facing, feeling, and suppressing of the horrors broadcast from elsewhere in the world”.

Taking in traditional English, Scottish and Irish tunes as well as self-penned material, Thorpe  & Morrison’s “Grass & Granite” is a glowing testament to their musicianship and virtuosity drawing on themes that explore both longings for home and moving on to new experiences.

As Cherry Tree records announce “Davy Graham: He Moved Through The Fair – The Complete 1960s Recordings (an 8CD Box Set) we look back at Graham’s life – including rare live footage and a 2005 road-trip documentary.

In Michelle Laverick, we have another talented storyteller to join the illustrious ranks of North East song makers. Just maybe, in the magical world she has invited us to enter, cherries will one day grow on apple trees.

Jesse Terry’s latest album, Arcadia, may surprise some with its big chords, blues organ sweeps and ringing guitars but, to borrow a line from the title track, it’ll be “worth the sweat and blood/Just to hear the gods rejoice”.

While Peter Bruntnell’s “Houdini and the Sucker Punch” may feature a collection of misfits and unfortunates, there are absolutely no missteps in a ten-song collection that is bound to feature on many people’s Albums of the Year for 2024.

Myriam Gendron “doesn’t rely on fireworks. Her singing and guitar playing are entirely devoid of gimmick.” This is perfectly highlighted in this spontaneous performance of ‘Long Way Home’ from her latest album, ‘Mayday.’