Buck Curran’s ‘One Evening and Other Folk Songs’ is an album of hidden depths. His talent is an alchemical one: seemingly quotidian musical ingredients are turned into rare metals in his hands, and with this eclectic but hugely talented band, the results are doubly impressive.

North Carolina-based songwriter and guitarist Rosali announces her ‘Bite Down’ UK Tour, kicking off in November 2024, taking in York, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Norwich, Ipswich, Falmouth and London for Pitchfork Music Fest.

Jason McNiff has always written music on his terms; this is especially evident on Everything’s A Song. He has once again delivered an album of the finest contemporary roots music; it’s another absolute gem.

Taken from his fourth full-length album, Paint a Room, Chris Cohen (Deerhoof, The Curtains) shares his new video and single, Sunever. The animated video was Directed by Guggenheim fellowship recipient Lilli Carré.

Featuring music from L’étrangleuse, Ora Cogan, Andrew Bird, Old Saw, Nathan Bowles Trio, Bill MacKay, MG Boulter, Marina Allen, Ezra Feinberg, Rachel Newton, Jacken Elswyth, Native Harrow, Richard Thompson, Niamh Regan, Anna St. Louis, Anna Tivel, Isobel Campbell, Ballaké Sissoko, Eric Chenaux Trio & more.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg, and Tyler Trotter transform “Hear The Children Sing” and “The Evidence,” two songs by Baltimore punk/post-hardcore band Lungfish, into enchanting and beautiful meditations.

Eric Chenaux’s recent solo offerings offered a strange and beautiful alchemy quite unlike anything else in popular music. Delights of My Life is a continuation of that magic formula but with a more collaborative focus. Chenaux’s spellbinding run of form shows no signs of stopping.

Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock’s Two Improvisations is absolutely fascinating music that is as mercurial as it is rhythmic and steady. Imagine Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s A Meeting by the River with the experimental knob turned right up and you’ll get close. Spellbinding.

Like the album’s title, Ora Cogan’s gift is her formlessness: her absolute refusal to bow to convention, as she tirelessly shifts and strives for something bigger – something we never expected.

Described as transcendent passages of minimalist funk-rock, and taken from his new album, The Key, Chris Corsano shares a new music video by visual artist Kim Alpert for “The Full-Measure Wash Down”.

There is an intimacy to the music of Samana that one rarely hears today and on their self-titled LP the music haunts your inner reaches, overflowing with ideas and alchemy.

Paul Armfield’s Trees is an arboreal delight, commissioned by Gift To Nature, the songs give a unique voice to the different trees that grow on Sibden Hill in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.