Irish duo Rezo’s new album, The Age of Self Help, applies the lessons that need to be learned in an era where being heard has never been more challenging. Watch their new video for Circle Closed.
Watch the video for ‘We Are A Circle’, the lead single from Simon Jones’ new ‘folk horror’ EP, Lust, Desire & Blood, inspired by memories of Folk Horror classics like Children Of The Stones, and those creepy public information films he watched as a boy.
London Songstress Rosie Alena breathes new life into ‘Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be’, an English Nursery rhyme dating from the late 18th Century and ‘Silver Dagger’ that she recontextualises to fit within her own sonic world – “becoming my stories to tell.”
Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) announces new album, Atlas of Green. Watch Sara Ludy’s video for the lead single, ‘Late Fragment’; the song encompasses the melancholic core of the album, a patchwork of memory and mistranslation.
Colin Meloy recommends Flowery Noontide, a five-hour KLOF Mag psych-folk playlist put together for our Premium Newsletter subscribers. Become a supporter today.
We caught up with Jake Xerxes Fussell to discuss his new album, When I’m Called. He chatted about the recording process, working with James Elkington, the influence of artist, musician, folklorist, and mentor Art Rosenbaum, and more.
We Are Muffy (Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy) share the gorgeously quirky ‘Eel Song’ and ’20th Century Folk Hymnal’, the latter being the lead track from their new album “Lost Things Returning”.
Listen to our Monday Morning Brew Playlist – Hana Stretton, The Baird Sisters, Langkamer, Mountain Man, Laura Jane Wilkie, The Innocence Mission, The Leisure Society, Serafina Steer, Plu, Anna & Elizabeth, Nora Brown, House and Land, Juni Habel, James Yorkston, The Hand and more.
On Midsummer, London, Kate Carr is content to let the streets do the talking, observing the pulses and rhythms which otherwise go unnoticed: the fluvial gulping of the Thames, the polyrhythmic interactions of commuters’ footsteps, the industrial ambience of roadworks.
Watch the late great Kentucky multi-instrumentalist Jack Bunch performing ‘Cowboy Special’, taken from the forthcoming new Dolceola Recordings release – “Not A Flower On Dogwood Flats: The Music Of Jack Bunch & Laurel County”. It’s magical and timeless.
Natalia Beylis is an artist uncommonly in tune with the physicality of her surroundings and extremely attuned to the politics and history of these landscapes. With Lost – For Annie, an unexpectedly moving album, she demonstrates examples of all of these qualities.
Celebrated Scottish fiddle player Laura Jane Wilkie’s debut album ‘Vent’ screams confidence from start to finish. There are surprises and delights throughout its nine tracks that will demand many listens, each bringing something new.
