Mind, Man, Medicine finds The Secret Sisters at the peak of their powers, delivering an album that fully deserves another Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album.

Daisy Rickman’s Howl is a wonder, an ancient pastoral dream of an album full of contemporary resonances existing at a kind of crossroads where the early freak-folk pioneers collide with a more recent strain of rural hauntology. The result sounds like a whole new genre.

While Moris Tepper’s life has taken directions far off the beaten path, his muse and music are legendary. Challenging and charming, Building A Nest marks a welcome return that adds to that legacy.

Drag City announce a Gastr del Sol box set, We Have Dozens of Titles. Listen to the song “The Seasons Reverse,” recorded at their final show during the 1997 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville.

Sam Lee’s ‘Songdreaming’ pleases on so many levels, the significance of the stories told by the lyrics build in your mind while powerful arrangements do what music does best, evoking emotional response after emotional response.

Samana—Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett—have announced the release of their third self-titled album and shared the opening track ‘The Knife’ – “…a freeing of stored weight and emotion; the confrontation of somatic memory…”.

Nobel Jacks frontman Will Page makes his solo debut album Still Standing featuring Cormac Byrne and Steve Knightley of Show of Hands. An impressive and, at times, inspirational album.

If ‘Old Fashioned’ means favouring the past, in Kyle Andrews’s case, that’s turned out to be no bad thing, as evidenced by his new video, taken from his newly announced 6th studio album, The Whims of a Manic Moon.

Taken from their new album Funeral for Justice, Mdou Moctar deliver their passionate and adrenalin-fuelled new single and video, ‘Imouhar’, a call to the Tuareg people to preserve their Tamasheq language.

Nicolas Michaux premieres a deeply emotive and haunting video for She’s an Easy Rider, a powerful re-adaptation of Tucker Zimmerman’s song. It’s a stunning reinterpretation, the translation of which was clearly not lost on the video’s Director, Kevin Antoine.

Never the Same Way Twice is a new album from The Memory Band, marking the twentieth anniversary of their debut EP. These previously unreleased recordings present a tantalising glimpse of two decades of hauntological and heartfelt collective excursions across the ancient and magical British landscape.

LA-based musician Marina Allen has announced her third studio album, Eight Pointed Star, out June 7th on Fire Records and shares a stunning video, directed by Eliel Ford, for “Red Cloud.”