Four simple songs have rarely generated such a transformative collection the way Kevin Fowley’s “À Feu Doux” does. Understanding the power of music, these sounds are perhaps the most evocative and revolutionary music you will hear all year.

Watch Overheard’s video for their brilliant new single ‘Return’; with lyrics inspired by Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life and music that entwines delicate moments with knotty catharsis, there’s a lot to love.

Throat, featuring Mark Mckowski and Nick Power, share their latest single and video ‘Dead Cars’, described as “a northern-Irish blues in e-minor for the Ceefax generation”, directed and filmed on Hi-8 camera by James Slater.

Taken from his new album ‘Sun Glories’ (out this week) and featuring cellist Clarice Jensen and violinist Emily Packard, watch Chuck Johnson’s video for ‘Ground Wave’.

Watch Jem Cohen’s wistful music film for Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s “Aerie”, the album opener of their latest duo album Swallowtail. Cohen: “Collaboration? Improvisation? Song structure? None of it has to be tied down.”

Ella Raphael reveals a brand new acoustic version of ‘Tangled Love’; the accompanying video’s subtly cinematic feel perfectly emphasises the dreamy nature of this noirish lament for love.

Gearing up to release Silver Horizon (out this Friday, 16th August), Sheffield-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Sam Carter talks to us about his distinctive new sound.

The nine-piece ensemble Shovel Dance Collective announce their first studio-recorded album, The Shovel Dance, and share lead single ‘The Merry Golden Tree’, also our Song of the Day.

Despite its stylistic shifts and variations, Jessica Ackerley’s ‘All of the Colours Are Singing’ feels like a single complete journey, an impressive achievement given the comparatively minimal ingredients she works with. It also demonstrates how deep her talent as a musician, composer and improviser runs.

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring music from Adrianne Lenker, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Constant Follower, Ellie Gowers, Stick in the Wheel, Karl Blau, David Grubb, The Woods Band and more.

Following the well-earned praise for his 2021 debut album, Dublin-based poet and songwriter Christian Wethered reveals his new video for ‘Into the Garden’, a song centred around the concept of home and what it means to belong.

On Divine Supplication, Derek Piotr weaves strands of strangeness and familiarity together in such a way that the final pieces often feel like heirlooms, half-remembered things retrieved from dusty boxes which spark bright, lucid memories.