Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada has announced his first full-length solo album ‘What Is Not Strange?’ and shares impressionistic video by Dicky Bahto for ‘Grand Trine’. The album explores the themes of being alive, mortality, and finding one’s place in the world.

Listen to the first single from Linda Thompson’s new album Proxy Music. The album features Kami Thompson, Martha Wainwright, The Proclaimers, Rufus Wainwright, Ren Harvieu, John Grant, The Rails, Dori Freeman, Eliza Carthy, The Unthanks and Teddy Thompson.

Atlanta’s Jeff Evans releases his first Porkestra EP, Willow Pillow, this month. Listen to his tie-dye cosmic dreamer “Time Wrinkle,” a number that feels so non-commercial it should be registered organic.

Repertoire sees Shane Parish flex across fourteen cover songs arranged for acoustic guitar inside thirty-two minutes. Finely nuanced and not without some remarkable moments, it’s a beautifully executed collection and a fitting tribute to the likes of Alice Coltrane, Roland Kirk and John Cage.

Bonny Light Horseman announce their Jagjaguwar debut album, ‘Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free,’ and share their first music video, “I Know You Know.” The song’s feel-good, breezy melody and anthemic chorus contrast with its devastating refrain.

On Hardly Working, The Burning Hell’s Ariel Sharratt and Matthias Kom team up with Shotgun Jimmie on a multifaceted and highly satisfying piece of work. They are on tour now in the UK.

Irish Quartet Landless, featuring Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch, announce new album ‘Lúireach’ and share video for The Fisherman’s Wife – a song written by Ewan MacColl for the 1960 BBC Radio Ballad ‘Singing the Fishing’.

Listen to another Monday Morning Brew playlist, ft. Kelly McFarling, Sadurn, Ther, Odelet, John Laurie, Still Corners, Gregory Ackerman, Ruby of Thanks, Meg Baird, Songs: Ohia, Bill Callahan, Jane Weaver, The Golden Dregs, Jim White, The Tape-beatles, Antibalas, Rail Band, Metsäheikki, Liquid Canoe and more.

Featuring guests Steven Adams, Polly Paulusma and Boo Hewerdine, “I Thought It Would Be Easier”, Annie Dressner’s fourth studio album, finds her transforming moments of sadness into moments of musical joy.

Watch the mesmerising video for Quicksilver Daydream, a track that offers an unfiltered glimpse into the world Deserto Parallax and the interconnectedness of its players – an epic and enveloping soundscape that is truly captivating.

Olivia Chaney’s ‘Circus of Desire’ is an album of great maturity, crystalline beauty and sometimes painful self-knowledge, one that marks her out as one of our finest singers and one of our most valuable and accomplished songwriters.   

Taken from her new album ‘Ghost Tapes 1 to 9,’ watch Jo Bartlett’s new video for ‘One In A Hundred’, filmed at 100 Acre Woods, made famous by A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh series.