Taken from his new album “Ship to Shore”, Richard Thompson shares his new single ‘Freeze’ – “Oh, for heaven’s sake, do something. Forwards, backwards, sideways, anything. There is nothing to fear but fear itself… no, I take it back, it’s all terrifying choices. Good luck.”

Kiran Leonard’s ‘Real Home’ is spiky, literate and humane, and although it navigates some extraordinarily varied terrain, it never strays too far from its theme or from its ultimately melodic musical core. Real Home is an object lesson in combining experimental substance with accessible style.

Iron and Wine’s ‘Light Verse’ traverses times and tides, spinning a web that irresistibly draws you in. It leaves you wondering how Sam Beam can make such a complex record sound so easy.

Taken from her forthcoming new album Mayday, Myriam Gendron shares her new single Terres brûlées. “This song represented one of the biggest writing challenges I’ve ever faced…I had to pull out all the stops, dare to be lyrical, pretend I was Baudelaire or Léo Ferré!”

Taken from his new album Locust Land, listen to Bill MacKay’s new single ‘Keeping In Time’, which finds MacKay employing a searching voice to explore themes of fate and love. He has also announced a UK date at London’s Café OTO on 4th September.

Canadian experimental singer-songwriter Ora Cogan announces her new album ‘Formless’ and shares new single/video “Cowgirl” – it’s like having David Lynch turning up to your college gig with a Super 8.

Simon Jones’ latest offering, ‘The Trees Grow So High,’ sees the man from the experimental trio Harp & a Monkey put his unique spin on a popular traditional tune. Watch the short visual film he has made to accompany the piece.

Marlinchen In The Snow, the fourth studio album from Australian sibling duo Charm Of Finches soothes and disturbs in equal measure, whimsical but wise, like the bird in the fairy tale, it rises to sing the truth.

On ‘Eternity Mongers’, Michael Feuerstack has deliberately pushed himself out of his comfort zone. There is so much bubbling on the peripheries of these songs that the only thing to do is go back and listen again, an undertaking as rewarding as it is pleasurable.

Watch ‘The Best Sea’, the new single/video from Marta Del Grandi. She is touring her brave, beautiful, and boldly unique album, Selva, in the UK for the first time since its release last autumn.

Chester’s Northgate Folk Festival returns once again on 24th August 2024 for an all-dayer featuring Stick In The Wheel, Nick Hart, Frankie Archer, Goblin Band, Mary Elizabeth Remington and more.

Listen to another Monday Morning Brew playlist, ft. Bruno Berle, Carlos Niño and Friends, Erlend Apneseth Trio, My Brightest Diamond, Old Saw, Alain Peters, Antonio Zepeda & Eugenio Toussaint, DakhaBrakha, Princearts, Brendan Eder Ensemble, Troll Dolly, Alejandro Franov, Shabaka, Gordon Li, Crumhorn and more.