Our Song of the Day is ‘The Longest Day’, the lead single from Outliers, the new indie folk project from Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine. Lyrically and musically, their stripped-back approach delivers surprising poetic depth.

On ‘To Be A Cloud’, The Saxophones balance their music on a knife edge – a kind of chilled-out, margaritas-at-the-mall apocalyptica versus a combination of widescreen, salt-tinged psychedelia and dusky bar-room jazz, where big skies and big ideas vie with personal heartache and subdued, nostalgic longing.

Murmurs & Whispers is the first proper album from P.G. Six since 2011’s Starry Mind. Listen to the album’s lead single ‘I Have Known Love’, a remarkably heartfelt and transcendent listen and our Song of the Day.

In our latest playlist we explore ‘Ambient Country’ and a flourishing scene of musicians who create ambient experimental music that draws from Americana, new folk, electronic, psychedelia and more.

James & The Giants might just be Toth’s most congenial work yet, veering damn close to all-round family entertainment. He offers sober musings for late-night booze hounds, with a wry literacy that echoes the late David McComb (The Triffids) and David Berman (Silver Jews).

Over many albums, Eliza Gilkyson has consistently proven herself one of the finest voices and writers in contemporary American folk music; Home is the icing on the cake.

Whether Joana Serrat & Riders of the Canyon continues as a collaborative project or simply serves as a launch pad for the band remains to be seen, but either way this is well worth the listen.

Our Song of the Day is ‘Should We Tell Him’, the title track of the new album from Brooks Williams and Rab Noakes. This was Rab’s final recording… “Hopefully, you’ll catch a glimpse of the vibe of the recording sessions. It was out of this world.”

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew ft. Penguin Cafe, Fairport Convention, Cate Le Bon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ola Bella Reed, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Michael Hurley, Kevin Moby & Waxahatchee, Allison Russell, Ali Farka Touré and more.

Manchester-based trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces his new album, An Ever Changing View, and shares a beautifully scenic video for lead single ‘Water Street’, also our Tune of the Day…There’s a freshness to this music that envelopes the listener and makes you want to hit repeat.

Ruth Theodore shares video for her latest single ‘Thompson’, featuring dancers Jennifer Delve and Haitian-born French musician-songwriter Renes BBWI – “…a very intimate song about falling in love and falling asleep.”

On his fourth album Siempre, Ags Connolly fully embraces the border country Tex-Mex sound. His last release was named Album Of The Year at the UK Country Music Awards; they should maybe start engraving the plaque with his name now.