Supersonic Festival has confirmed ten new acts for its sold-out limited-edition 2026 event, including Guttersnipe, Jennifer Reid, Thorn Wych, Ancient Hostility and more. MMM — the trio of Gayle Brogan, Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still — have also shared a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars from their Calanais Stones-inspired album Lunistice Alignments.

“…an album that flits so easily between past and present, whose songs encompass fluttering beauty and quietly looming presences.” The Little Winters is an album worthy of the clàrsach, with all its historical and cultural importance, and Anna McLuckie, with her clear voice, poetic songwriting and precise, fluid playing, has announced herself as one of British folk music’s most formidable talents.

Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain have announced Stash, their second album as BCMC, due June 26th via Drag City. Lead single Kaleidosmoke is out now — a sprawling, nearly eight-minute psychedelic piece layering Brit-rock guitars over a patient, accumulative structure. Where their debut Foreign Smokes was built on improvisation, Stash finds the duo working with tighter, groove-based composition.

Bristol indie-folk songwriter Myer U Clark announces new album Tinderbox, due 26th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings, and shares new single and video Healers today. Produced by Jack Ogborne at The Crypt, it’s a whimsical love song built on wiry guitar and Clark’s self-styled “musical jank” — shambling, carefree and recalling The Go-Betweens and Aztec Camera.

With its cast of crows and references to wild rain and leaden skies, Natalie Wildgoose’s ‘Rural Hours’ is music for the high moorlands and windswept hills. The loose structures and unorthodox arrangements of her songs remain, but they are brought into focus by a small ensemble. Her songs are intentionally ephemeral — part of their appeal is the charged silence they leave in their wake.

Get the bigger picture with the Monday Morning Brew playlist. Opening with a track from Hannah Read’s The Funghi Sessions Vol 2, this week’s playlist moves through music from Jim Moray, Wendy Eisenberg, Felicia Atkinson, Aldous Harding, Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Damien Jurado, Thomas Dollbaum, Jesca Hoop, Oren Ambarchi, Akusmi, Les Imprimés, Juni Habel, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart and Whitney Johnson, crys cole, and many more.

Ava Mendoza will release “Alive Alone, Alive Together” on May 22nd via Burning Ambulance Music. Featuring legendary drummer Hamid Drake on four tracks, the album was recorded live across the US and Europe in 2025. Listen to first single “Dust From the Mines,” a fierce glimpse of the album’s raw, psychedelic intensity.

Jim Moray — folk music’s errant prince — returns with Gallants, his eighth solo album. Traditional ballads are teased into stunning new shapes, the self-penned Three Gallants fits seamlessly among them, and the imposing Omie Wise drips with pathos and tenderness. A stunning closer backed by Maddie Morris and the Trans Choir seals an uncompromising, deeply immersive collection.

Yasmin Williams releases her original score for ‘Saving Etting Street’, a documentary about a Baltimore carpenter training young Black women to renovate abandoned row houses and build generational wealth. Playing acoustic guitar, 12-string, piano, kora, and synthesizers, Williams brings her latest film composition to life. The ‘Saving Etting Street’ soundtrack is available now via Bandcamp.

Sareban, the musical project of rubab player Mathieu Clavel, shares Ayrılık, a new single from debut album Echoes in the Weave on Worlds Within Worlds. The track explores the 10/8 jurjuna, a Kurdish rhythmic cycle rarely heard in traditional rubab repertoire, opening new pathways for phrasing and improvisation on the instrument. Listen now.

This week’s Mixtape reaches back through the decades — from Alasdair Roberts’ The Amber Gatherers and Sir Richard Bishop’s Tangier Sessions to a 1966 Folkways recording of classical Persian music from Iran — while keeping one ear on the present with new tracks from Juni Habel, Goblin Band, and Natalie Wildgoose. Folk songs, Castanets, Jason Molina, and a few other surprises along the way.

Natalie Wildgoose is our latest Off the Shelf guest, selecting ten objects from the two homes she splits her life between — London and North Yorkshire. From a childhood pillow to her grandad’s reel-to-reel tape machine, each item opens a window into the world behind her forthcoming EP Rural Hours, due April 15th via state51.