Biita Houdei — the new moniker of singer-songwriter Lisa Houdei (formerly LéPonds) — shares debut single “Life Inside The Hourglass” via Basin Rock and Father/Daughter. Shaped in the shadows and sounds of Topanga Canyon, the sub-three-minute strum dropped into her mind “from a ghost of sorts” and was written in twenty minutes. Produced by Haley Heynderickx in her first lead production role.

Pharis & Jason Romero return on June 12th with “These Are The Days That Turn In To Years”, their seventh studio album for Free Dirt Records. Recorded at the duo’s restored riverside barn in Horsefly, BC, it is, in press notes, “a songwriter’s deep exhale, replete with stories, love, and nostalgia.” Title track “These Are The Days” is out now.

Laura Veirs returns on 14th August with her fourteenth solo album, “Temple Songs”, released via her own Raven Marching Band Records. Her lead single, “Flying Into Darkness”, arrives with a video that Veirs filmed herself during a recent French tour. Written, recorded, arranged, produced and performed entirely alone in her backyard ‘Temple of Bloom’ studio, it’s the most self-contained project of Veirs’s three-decade career.

On their self-titled debut “Amarante-Cerisier”, Marine Debilly Cerisier and Mauricio Amarante deliver a fitting addition to the canon of Francophone double-acts, with Fontaine and Areski as closest antecedent. Their free-form folk thrives on paradox and fruitful mystery, weaving insistent bone-dry strums, half-whispered vocals and the odd psychedelic keyboard swirl into a deceptive, refractive collection of sweet, sharp songs.

A final album from Ed Askew is on the way. “The Final Painting,” a posthumous album from the late outsider songwriter, painter and poet, arrives July 31st — assembled in his last years with producer Jerry David DeCicca. Lead single “Gray Air-o-Plane,” featuring Sharon Van Etten, is out today with a music video framed by Ed’s own paintings.

Mallory Hawk’s self-released debut album “Chinook” — named for the twin-rotored helicopter that haunted her Fayetteville childhood — arrives July 31st, 2026. Lead single and accompanying video “Revolver” is a jangly yet lush, yearning love song about being a hopeless sucker for someone, caught in the endless cycles of faulty loyalty. Written entirely by Hawk and recorded at Philadelphia’s Headroom Studios with producer Sam Acchione.

Irish alternative trad/folk group Rattling Ark share “Coleraine Jig,” the second single from their forthcoming debut album “Top of a Mountain.” Led by cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds), this haunting instrumental piece fuses cello with cascading zithers and percussion — the melody framed before resolving into a trancelike groove.

The pastoral vibes of this week’s Monday Morning Brew arrive courtesy of Mark Fry, Cinder Well, Vic Chesnutt, Jessica Pratt, Smog, Roy Harper, The Innocence Mission, John Fahey, Bert Jansch & Hope Sandoval, Michael Chapman, Marina Allen and more. And since Allen’s Candlepower surfaces in the playlist, we’ve paired this week’s Brew with a feature tracing her arc from that 2021 debut through to last year’s Eight Pointed Star.

Thirteen tracks from KLOF’s recent listening pile. Kevin Morby, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Mary Hampton, Cinder Well, Yo La Tengo, Daughter of Swords and No-No Boy sit alongside two new arrivals — Damian Dalla Torre and Ts Bayandalai — plus a reading from Beat Poet Gregory Corso, and Jeff Parker closing things out on “Like Swimwear”.

BBC Folk Award winner Sam Carter has shared a new video for “Canadee-i-o” to herald his live album “Sam Carter Sings Nic Jones: Live At Celtic Connections,” recorded with the Jones family’s blessing. Drawing from across Jones’ catalogue, the album is the latest chapter in Carter’s lifelong devotion to an English folk revival giant, due 26th June via Captain Records.

Adam Ross has become a lynchpin of the ever-fertile Scottish scene. As a songwriter, he is deceptively gentle: his melodies scurry, bound or lope along, sometimes jaunty, sometimes suffused with a light melancholy, while his lyrics are always witty and frequently biting. “Bring On the Apathy”, his third album under his own name, is his most mature and rewarding yet.

Abigail Lapell, whose new album “Shadow Child” is out now, selects ten meaningful objects from her home for KLOF’s Off the Shelf series. Her picks span a wooden dala horse picked up in Stockholm while touring with baby Charlie, sand timers that help with focus, marionettes from a favourite music video, and the hood ornament of a beloved camper van.