Brighton’s Hollow Hand returns with “Wish Road South,” out September 4th on Loose Music. Lead single “Here Are The Tulips,” a breezy slice of folk-pop built around Max Kinghorn-Mills’ daily bus journey to the studio, arrives with a self-directed video. A UK tour follows this October.

Horse Feathers reissue their long out-of-print debut, “Words Are Dead”, on August 28th via Kill Rock Stars. Recorded in Portland in 2006 by the duo of Justin Ringle and Peter Broderick, the album returns fully remastered, on exclusive vinyl, with a replica of the original six-song demo CD. Hear “Finch on Saturday”, the first thing the band ever committed to tape.

Prison pull up with their third album, “Big Rigs on the BQE”, out July 31st, a long way from last year’s “Downstate”. They’ve shared lead cut “Sunrise Highway” with a scorching single edit video from Johnny Celentano and Cliff Elor — a fast, garage-bred psych charge built live from guitars, bass, drums, fuzz organ and vocals. Two side-long trips, tracked overlooking the highway.

Neon Summer Skin is built around a simple revelation: childhood doesn’t end on schedule, and its afterglow can hit hardest when you think you’ve left it behind. Bedouine returns to the instruments of her early years — piano, trumpet, brass — and wraps memory in bossa nova sway, jazz warmth, and a touch of psychedelia. The result is intimate without being small, and deeply, unguardedly felt.

The final instalment of Folklore Tapes’ Ceremonial County Tapes series is fittingly personal. Mary Stark’s Cumbria side weaves her mother’s home and Conishead Priory’s Buddhist mantras into something intimate and quietly sacred. Monkshood — David Chatton Barker and his eight-year-old son Rowan — then take on Wiltshire’s West Kennett Long Barrow with discordant electric guitar and heavy percussion: ancient ground, thrillingly contemporary sound.

In our latest Substack Newsletter, you can find new music recommendations, an interview by Alex Neilson with Lavinia Blackwall, and the new Monday Morning Brew Playlist. This week’s Brew features tunes from Flaer, Dylan Golden Aycock, The Vernon Spring, Lone Mesa, R Loomes, Wau Wau Collectif, Romain Baudoin, Exploded View, Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Prymek & Sage, Rob St. John, Cian Nugent, Henry Parker and more.

Booker Stardrum and Evan Shornstein (Photay) share “HUH,” the latest single from their debut album “OOPS!,” out this Friday via Spencer Zahn’s new label Sudden Quarterly. The closing track came together last, on the final evening of the sessions, carrying a loose, late-night energy.

On first listen, REXEN sounds like an introspective singer-songwriter. He isn’t. “The Chauffeur,” his first full studio album, recorded at Real World Studios with John Parish on the mix, swings from intoxicated baritone croon to high register, bending faintly sinister Americana into one new shape after another. The result is an album designed for deep engagement, one that rewards close listening and lingers long after it ends.

Out now on International Anthem, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet’s “Happy Today” is the perfect example of why we need to go deep every so often, to a place constructed with care and attention and absolute creative freedom, by people who understand each other innately as human beings and artists.

Taken from her new album ‘Who’s Keeping Time?’, Alela Diane shares ‘Wide Open Spaces’ video, featuring 1986 VHS footage from a family trip on Lake Powell. Her new album is out now on Loose Music (UK/EU) and Fluff & Gravy Records (US).

A new 28-track Mixtape featuring Sluice, Twisted Teens, Magic Tuber Stringband, Dan Haywood & Harvey Lord, Frog, Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, REXEN, Wendy Eisenberg, Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders, Myer U Clark, Damien Jurado, Mike Gangloff, Marisa Anderson, Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers, Kevin Farge, Family Stereo, La Cozna and Mary Hampton, Rowena Wise, Camille Camille, Dean Johnson, Alex Amen, and lots more.

A major archival release celebrates Martin Carthy MBE. “Along The Road Forever: Live At The BBC (1965-2022)” collects 328 recordings — 22½ hours across 20 CDs, spanning his solo work, his duo with Dave Swarbrick, with his daughter, Eliza Carthy, as well as Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, The Watersons and Waterson:Carthy. It includes an 80-page book with a new Clinton Heylin essay.