John Francis Flynn announces his new album ‘Look Over The Wall, See The Sky’ and shares ‘Mole In The Ground’, an unconventional new single that evokes the rebellious energy he felt when his home of Dublin was being “torn to shreds by property developers and vulture funds.”

On Dreamer Awake, Rachel Sermanni delivers surprising, touching and hopeful moments alongside darkly delicate, atmospheric folk songs and spellbinding experimentalism. Ultimately, it is the sound of a spectacularly gifted songwriter growing personally and artistically in the face of pain and difficulty.

With her 2021 debut, Pohorylle, Margo Cilker set herself a high benchmark, but with ‘Valley of Heart’s Delight’, she’s cleared that with ease and guaranteed another set of Album of the Year votes.

Rita Braga’s ‘Flores Indigestas’ has the vibrancy of tropicalia and the noirish shades of off-kilter pop. The effect is playfully engaging and demonstrates her beautifully progressive musical vision. The accompanying video reflects the eccentricities of Braga’s music, continually mutating and shapeshifting, making it so beautifully original.

Those ballrooms of romance are long gone, but as long as people like Ultan Conlon keep making music like this fabulous album, their souls, spirits, and the old songs will continue to live on.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew featuring Stranded Horse, King Tuff, Dream Stitch, Ghost Woman, Spirit Fest, Jolie Holland, Brown Horse, Cory Hanson, Naima Bock, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Tenniscoats, Vanishing Twin, The Handsome Family, Mipso, Lael Neale, John Andrews & The Yawns, Mapache, Woods, Cut Worms & more.

For those less familiar with John Fahey’s later catalogue, Proofs and Refutations is a great starting point, juxtaposing elegant acoustic picking, crazed vocals in places and distorted guitar. For the rest of you, just enjoy this wonderfully rich and idiosyncratic set.

Today, marks the release of Eternity Near, the new album from Ulster trio TRÚ. Watch their spellbinding new video for ‘Is Fada Liom Uaim Í’ that they learned from Kevin Burke and Micheál Ó Domhnaill’s 1982 Portland album.

Having become mainstays of the folk, roots and acoustic scene, Gilmore & Roberts’ ‘Documenting Snapshots’ is a magnificent, mercurial album that will cement and further enhance their reputation as purveyors of the finest-quality music.

Lankum did us proud at last night’s Mercury Prize for which their fourth album, False Lankum, was nominated. Watch them performing ‘Go Dig My Grave’. Radie Peat learned the song from the singing of Jean Ritchie, who recorded it in 1963.

Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell self-released their first duo album, You, Golden, almost a year ago. Make sure to attend their tour, which kicks off this month. Here are some excellent reasons why you should make the effort…

Talking about “Carrying”, Sally Anne Morgan says: “So much of what we accumulate and carry around with us burdens us, but we also can’t or don’t know how to let go.” Through her music, she leaves you feeling that, in a world full of perils, love can surely overcome all.