Henry Parker returns on May 1st with “The Dark Peak,” a solo guitar EP shaped by a multi-day backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges. Watch the live video for “Upper Derwent,” filmed at a remote shooting cabin in the freezing December moorland. Delicate fingerpicking and field recordings of curlews, lapwings and bitter winds — landscape music at its most immersive.

Steve Gunn announces ‘Shape of a Wave,’ a four-song companion EP to his acclaimed ‘Daylight Daylight,’ out this Friday via No Quarter. The set features two new recordings with James Elkington and two tracks remixed by Spacemen 3’s Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember. Listen to the Nearly There remix, a luminous reworking of the album’s opening track.

Room40 announces Headwater, the new album from Finnish/Australian double bassist, vocalist and composer Helen Svoboda, arriving June 26th. Built around two double basses, two voices and electronics, the album weaves sixteen threads into an abstracted portrait of self. Watch the video for album opener “If”, a piece exploring a dream shaped by constant interruptions.

Goblin Band return with new single ‘Clyde Water’, out today via Broadside Hacks on digital and 7″ vinyl. A studio recording with producer Rory Salter, it channels the exuberance of the traditional ballad via Nic Jones’ distinctive versions. The single arrives ahead of the quartet’s biggest headline show yet — EartH Theatre, Hackney, May 1st.

A stack of new music recommendations & a new Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. BASIC, Cass McCombs, Jeff Coffin, Kevin Farge, Cocanha, Francis Bebey, Natalie Jane Hill, Wendy Eisenberg, Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell, Jesca Hoop, Adrian Sherwood, Courtney Barnett, Classic Trucks, Katy Pinke and lots more. We also dip into the strange world of analogue synth design.

This week’s KLOF mixtape features Fust and Sluice, who share band members – Sluice’s exceptional Companion comes highly recommended. Brown Wimpenny get a double ahead of their debut album, while Wendy Eisenberg — whom Thomas Blake recently called “one of the most talented musical artists of their generation” — previews their self-titled, out tomorrow on Joyful Noise. Plus Plankton Wat, Brown Horse, Big Thief, Steve Gunn, and more.

Brown Horse’s third album, Total Dive, is a bigger, bolder beast than anything they have attempted before. Snarling guitars and weary pedal steel carry songs steeped in isolation, loss and defiant dark humour, with nods to Neil Young, Jason Molina and Uncle Tupelo running beneath the scuzz. A pinnacle, reached in just three albums.

Jesca Hoop has shared “Big Storm”, a propulsive new single and video from her forthcoming album “Long Wave Home.” Born from a moment of near-total flight — a plan to disappear, upended by the biggest storm in recent history — the track is a reckoning with the impossibility of escape. Watch the video now and pre-order the album ahead of its 1st May release.

Big Potato Records have announced Dream Me A Dream, the final studio album from Tucker Zimmerman, out June 19th. Listen to the first single Sun In Scorpio now. Pairing banjo, violin and swirling organ with orchestral Moog and analogue synths, Zimmerman leapt into textures recalling the electronica adventures of his earlier work. He was in his eighties, and it sounds like nothing else he recorded.

The Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties series continues with Vol.XXII: Tyne and Wear | Somerset. Maryanne Royle’s “The Stone Throat” takes listeners into Newcastle’s Victoria Tunnel, blending social history, hauntology and post-industrial soundscape into one of the series’ most atmospheric pieces. Paddy Steer’s “Swerving Coach” is its perfect foil — a fidgety, fascinating folly from Somerset’s most haunted corners.

Wendy Eisenberg’s self-titled new album is a distinct departure — gorgeously orchestrated baroque folk-rock of remarkable maturity and complexity. With lush string arrangements from co-producer mari rubio (more eaze) adding warmth and depth throughout, these ten exquisite songs trace a fine line between agonised self-examination and celebration. It’s the kind of album that scratches an itch you didn’t know you had.

Watch the video for The Roustabout Song by Old Spot, taken from their new album “Old Spot (II),” out April 24th on Scribe Records. First encountered at a Morris festival singing session, the track traces a transatlantic thread from English folklorist Sandy Paton to songwriter Dillon Bustin, rendered here as a joyful fiddle-and-banjo reimagining with deep political undertones.