Eric D Johnson takes us home on Fruit Bats’ ‘A River Running to Your Heart’, enabling us to see the world where we live in a light of hope and comfort thanks to those we care about most.

Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well (our current Artist of the Month), has shared a live video for Overgrown which features on her new album ‘Cadence’. The session was captured at last year’s Quiet Lights Festival in Cork, Ireland by the magic eye of Myles O’Reilly.

Cloudheads is O’Hooley & Tidow’s most personal and most contemplative work to date; glowing with the consummate musicianship they’ve crafted over the past 10 years, that international profile seems set to grow bigger still.

Read our preview of this year’s FolkEast Festival featuring artists from England, Scotland, Wales, Canada and Australia and from their own corner of the world, East Anglia.

Awakening shows Ímar are back with a vengeance, producing music that is even more imaginative and adventurous than their first two albums. If I had to single out just one quality in praise of this album, I’d pick the sheer joy they exhibit when playing music, a quality that infuses Awakening from start to finish.

The Colours Of Rubab, a newly commissioned album from Worlds within Worlds featuring the music of Gulab Afridi, accompanied by Murad Afridi on tabla. Listen to the lead track, Raag Kirwani.

Yo La Tengo deliver two mammoth sets at Bristol’s SWX – including music from their new album This Stupid World – from urban kosmische to kraut-rock and all points in between – it’s an exhilarating and unforgettable evening from one of the world’s best live bands.

As it’s the weekend and the sun is out, I feel a double helping is in order. So here are two new videos for songs from the excellent ‘The Portable Herman Düne Vol. 2.’

Today marks the release of Brìghde Chaimbeul’s ‘Carry Them with Us’ which features Colin Stetson. Watch her new video for ‘Pìobaireachd Nan Eun | The Birds’, filmed on the Isle of Skye.

We have another helping from our Lost in Transmission mix series, including new music from: Cinder Well, Dom Flemons, Nico Paulo, Jude Brothers, Spencer Cullum, Sluice, Josienne Clarke, Anna St. Louis, Ther, Haamusoittajat, Danny Paul Grody, Emma Tricca, Me Lost Me, Fruit Bats and more.

Directed by Sarah V Burns and Alex Sherratt, Dom Flemons has shared the music video for ‘Traveling Wildfire’, the title track of his new album, also one of our Featured Albums of the Month.

Amelia Baker, the singer, musician and writer behind Cinder Well, is disarmingly honest. But behind that honesty lies an intriguing depth and complexity. We chat with her about her new album ‘Cadence’; her Southern California roots and living in Ireland; and her influences and tastes, from Joni Mitchell to Lankum and Haruki Murakami.