Silver Horizon sounds like nothing Sam Carter has made before. As subtle as it is adventurous and finely nuanced, it’s an excellent album and a career-high for Sam who is also our Artist of the Month.

Danny Neill shares his highlights of Cambridge Folk Festival 2024, featuring notable performances by Leyla McCalla – a set that was tingling with magic, Fantastic Negrito, Konyikeh, Katherine Priddy, Lizzie No, Peggy Seeger, Oysterband, Rioghnach Connolly and more.

Taken from his forthcoming new album, Interloper, Jack Cheshire shares Willy Robinson’s Van Sant-inspired music video for ‘Valium’—an offbeat gem that lingers long and unfolds slowly. This is worth spending some time on…also our Song of the Day.

Unpredictable, varied and quirky, on the surface, Emily Barker’s ‘Fragile as Humans’ ought not to sound anything like a coherent whole but unequivocally does and represents her most personal, emotive album to date… a compassionate listen in every sense.

Haley Heynderickx has shared ‘Seed of a Seed’, her first new song since her 2018 debut record, I Need to Start a Garden. It’s a stunning offering and also our Song of the Day.

Nap Eyes announce The Neon Gate, their first album in four years – out October 18th via Paradise of Bachelors and Paper Bag Records. Listen to their new single ‘Passageway’.

Featuring several special guests, Yasmin Williams announces her third album, Acadia, due for release in October via Nonesuch Records. Listen to her new single, ‘Virga,’ featuring Darlingside, her first to include lyrics.

On ‘A Little Bit Slanted’, Molly Donnery and The Ciderhouse Rebellion revisit a selection of traditional Irish songs, supercharging each in subtly different ways.

The music of Myles Cochran’s “You Are Here” has a rootless quality, subtly shifting while shining a light on sonically rich moments that softly weave their spell.

Listen to our latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring New Dangerfield, Nathan Bowles Trio, Bill Callahan, John Martyn, Naima Bock, Fairport Convention, My Brightest Diamond, Cat Clyde, The Kevin Costners, Kurtis Eugene, Trippers & Askers, Dani Larkin, Sam Moss, Sofie Livebrant, Niall Summerton and more.

Watch the accompanying lyric video for ‘Boundaries’, the new single from Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Aisha Badru, taken from her newly announced second album, ‘The Sun Still Rises’.

Buck Curran provides our latest Reflections playlist featuring music and thoughts on Tim Buckley, Sandy Denny, Sam Amidon, Martin Simpson, Fleetwood Mac, Robbie Basho, David Crosby, Arborea, and Adele H.