Quintela is the debut album of Galician piper, teacher, composer and improviser Carme López. Building a nuanced world from minimal organic ingredients, it exists within and beyond the Galician piping tradition – reimagined through contemporary, avant-garde and feminist lenses.

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Jackie West, Bonny Light Horseman, Abigail Lapell, Josienne Clarke, Myriam Gendron, Constant Follower, Jenny Berkel, Dave Deporis, Willie Dunn, Michael Hurley, Catbug, Libby Rodenbough, Gareth Dickson, Wau Wau Collectif, Hiss Golden Messenger, Natalie Jane Hill & more

We catch up with Richard Thompson and mull over all things RT, including former band mates, surprising career break diversions, the writing process, guitar playing stamina, family and of course, the brand new album Ship to Shore.

Myriam Gendron’s art, for all its surface simplicity, harbours a wealth of emotional and aesthetic complexities which, when taken together, form a wholly unique sound. Mayday is the most moving and persuasive example of that sound to date.

Soundway return with another great compilation, Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, shining the spotlight on the innovative and creative Ghanaian burger highlife of the 80s.

Watch the accompanying video for ‘Turn Around For Me’, the new single from Constant Follower. The work that has gone into crafting this single once again demonstrates how McAll always goes above and beyond to bring his songs to life – this one truly blossoms.

Ann Annie, the moniker of Portland composer and multi-instrumentalist Eli Goldberg, shares new single ‘Silver Creek’ – For such a short song, its ever-evolving nature is both captivating and remarkable.

For ‘Anniversary’, Abigail Lapell celebrates commitment and growing old together…with music and songs such as these, let’s hope her albums turn into an annual event.

Josienne Clarke’s ‘Parenthesis, I’ is an affirmation that out of the deepest darkness sometimes comes the brightest light…to paraphrase her lyric, Clarke spins her alchemy, she gives us hope.

Massachusetts duo Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards return with Making Promises, their fourth studio album, once more steeped in their close harmony folksy Americana with several stripped-back acoustic songs inspired by their marriage in 2021. 

Bonny Light Horseman today shared their stirring new single “Old Dutch,” an indelible tale of shifting love. Watch the accompanying visualiser, filmed during a live performance at Levis Corner House pub in Ballydehob, Ireland.

Billed as an auditory journey into tinnitus, Lola de la Mata’s ‘Oceans on Azimuth’ is a unique and challenging piece of art. While never an easy listen, it somehow manages to become welcoming and even comforting.