Afro-futurist sensations Onipa announce details of their forthcoming new album ‘Off The Grid’ and share a sensational new video for lead single ‘No Commando’, featuring David Walters.
This May, Merry Hell will mark their 12 years with a double CD retrospective collection, ‘Let The Music Speak For Itself’; we chat with Wigan’s finest, who tell us, “We make a song and dance about serious subjects, but we’re seriously entertaining.“
Today sees the release of Cut and Run, the new single and collaboration from cellist Alice Allen and singer-songwriter Jenny Sturgeon. Watch the accompanying video by experimental filmmaker Julia Parks.
From carefully observed vignettes to widescreen sonic explorations, Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower’s ‘Even Days Dissolve’ is an immensely rewarding, sensual listen, ripe with understated strength.
Another fine offering from Bongo Joe Records – Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983, is a significant release, bringing the joyous and vibrant fusion of Les Abranis’ “rockabyle”, to a wider audience.
Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent and taken from their forthcoming new album RPG, watch ME LOST ME’s elemental new video for ‘Festive Day’, featuring folk musician and dancer Mark Insley.
The delightful North Carolina-based Libby Rodenbough shares a beautiful live recording of ‘Sleeping Hard’, filmed at The Nightlight in Chapel Hill. The song, also her latest single, features on her forthcoming album Between the Blades, out May 12 via Sleepy Cat Records.
An acoustic reincarnation of Scott Matthews’ 2020 album New Skin, Restless Lullabies is a whole different listening experience, more intimate, but, note for note, every bit its equal.
Reflections On The Glass Age, an acoustic reworking of Dan Whitehouse’s acclaimed 2022 album, is a completely different listening experience, one to be embraced in calm and solitude and a glowing illustration of his versatility as a musician to bend songs to different purposes.
Julie Byrne announces her new album The Greater Wings and shares lead single ‘Summer Glass’, a luminous, euphoric synth ballad tracing themes of intimacy, memorial, and deeply personal alliance.
Released today on the excellent Catalan Record Label Microscopi is ‘Substrat’, the new album by Guillem Ballaz. A work based on old Catalan square tambourine songs -largely unpublished- and one of Catalonia’s greatest unknown cultural riches.
Taken from her new album ‘Dream From The Deep Well’, Brigid Mae Power shares the video for her latest album single ‘Counting Down’, another homespun gem from one of the finest contemporary singers on the scene right now.
