The latest Monday Morning Brew features Magic Tuber Stringband, Sally Anne Morgan, Sabine McCalla, Eight Point Star, Sunny War, Herman Düne, Eli Winter, The Dead Tongues, Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers, Kaia Kater, Amythyst Kiah, Jake Blount, Serious Sam Barrett and more.
Our latest KLOF mix opens to ØXN, the experimental doom folk band comprising Radie Peat, Katie Kim, John ‘Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler. Plus music from Bex Burch, Liam Grant, Joseph Allred, Holly Blackshaw, You Are Wolf, Plinth and more.
Our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ feature, where we ask artists to present objects from their shelves and talk about them, is from You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of Kerry Andrew. Their new album, hare // hunter // moth // ghost, is out next month.
With Sonder III, Harriet Riley and Alex Garden play with a confidence and beauty that tugs at the heartstrings while illustrating how new forms can evolve from unlikely combinations, creating unparalleled magic.
Watch Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new video for ‘Caelestis’, inspired by Latin words from around 1900 years ago that were inscribed on a stone found at Carvoran in Northumberland.
On Imaginational Anthems Vol. XII: I thought I told You, a tribute to Michael Chapman, each artist brings a freshness to the songs and offers a different perspective on many of them, making it a fascinating and rewarding album.
We chat to Sheffield’s Melrose Quartet about their new album ‘Make the World Anew’ – a staunch defence of the sheer joy of creativity, allowing for contemporary political songwriting and age-old dance tunes, poignant a cappella standards and complex instrumentals.
Recorded at Grand Chapel Studios in Tebworth, watch Bróna McVittie’s stunning performance of ‘When Glamour Hid Her Gaze’ from her 2020 album, The Man in the Mountain.
With ‘The Land Of My Other’, The Breath have peeled away musical layers. What remains is all the richer for how it embraces the songs. They have made an album of exceptional depth and beauty, gifting us music at its most absorbing.
TRÚ point out that Eternity Near aims to look past endings to what lies beyond. It leaves room for both hope and mystery and is an admirably mature move for a band still near the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a distinguished career.
This month, Jonathan Day heads to M’hamid El Ghizlane, for Festival Taragalte, where he and his band will play under the starry skies. He shares his previous experience of the festival and talks about the importance of tourism to the area following the recent earthquake.
Next month sees the release of Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio’s new five-track EP ‘On The Turning Ground’ via World of Echo. Listen to the ‘overt sparkling melodicism’ of ‘Marble Walls’ and ‘The Turning Ground’.
