Aoife O’Donovan has announced her new solo album ‘All My Friends’, inspired by the passing of the 19th Amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. Watch the accompanying video for the title track that features historic footage.
The Miserable Rich’s long-awaited return comes next month with ‘Overcome’ their new album. Watch the video for their single ‘Crows’ in which the often maligned bird is instead revered for its resourcefulness.
Ahead of his ‘Winter in Ireland 2024′ instalment of the Bloomin’ shows, Josh Okeefe shares a live video performance of “Leaving of Liverpool” – “the ballad reflects the harsh reality faced by those on perilous journeys, where the sea represents both adventure and separation”
Mute and Future Days announce the second phase of their acclaimed Can Live series – Can Live in Paris 1973. The new album witnesses the band at a particularly important stage of their career, with two of their most acclaimed albums – Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi.
The curiously enigmatic Dana Gavanski announces her third album, Late Slap, and shares the video for her album opener, How To Feel Uncomfortable, directed by Ella Margolin.
This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist is a swirling ambient psychedelic journey featuring Jon-Mark, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ariel Kalma, The Monks Kitchen, Mr Ben and the Bens, Sound of Yell, The Silver Field, bird house, Mike Wexler, Sami Kukka, Ari B. Ingber and more.
Melodically engaging and lyrically thoughtful, musically, ‘Halfsies’ sets Lizzie No alongside Rhiannon Giddens and Allison Russell with Toni Morrison as a bedrock, it’s already secured a place in the 2024 Best of list.
Our Song of the Day comes from LYR, featuring singer Richard Walters, producer Patrick J Pearson and poet Simon Armitage. A Brief Chronicle of Birds in the Autumn and Winter Months of 1886 PT II, is taken from their new album, An Unnatural History.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Paintings on the Wall’ by Manu Delago, on which he teams up with the vocal ensemble Mad About Lemon. The song was written in tribute to his stepfather, who was also a painter.
Alongside moments of restraint and beauty, James Elkington’s ‘Me Neither’ is a fascinating insight into the encyclopaedic mind of a particularly creative and accomplished musician.
Nigel Spencer of The Folk Police has made an excellent Mixtape that focuses on songwriting in the British Folk Revival 1963-81. It includes music from Teesside Fettlers, Pete & Chris Coe, Muckram Wakes, Lal and Mike Waterson, Archie Fisher and Barbara Dickson and lots more.
On ‘This Is What I Want To Say’, Martyn Joseph delivers with heartfelt eloquence songs of love and longing, of place and time, of finding certainty amid contradictions.
