Liz Simmons’s new solo album is soft and soothing, though not without a hint of anxiety. Like the wordsmiths of its title, it captures the rhythms, rhymes and cadences of life in its universal being.

Our Song of the Day comes from How I Became A Wave, the new solo project of Pat Carey, the former vocalist and songwriter with The Hard Ground. Fading Out, is a powerful lead single that lays a solid path for his upcoming album on which he is joined by some of Ireland’s finest musicians.

Maple Glider, the project of Melbourne-based Tori Zietsch shares video for ‘Swimming’, from her forthcoming debut album on Partisan – ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’.

Watch ‘A Lot To Give’, the new single from Shropshire-born, Glasgow-based singer, guitarist and writer of gorgeously bucolic torch songs Molly Linen.

Joined by eight female vocalists, Olav Larsen’s “Stream of Consciousness” is an album rich in low-key ambience, its honest sound pervades deep to the soul. It’s a heartbreakingly raw, considered and thoroughly enticing album.

This collage of sounds from traditional Balkan music and song and modern electronica will delight lovers of dance music and of more experimental sounds in equal measure. A long-awaited debut album from Balkan Taksim that fans and new listeners will welcome.

WOMAD makes first lineup announcement for 2021 including Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, The Dhol Foundation, Sona Jobarteh, Sam Amidon, Greentea Peng, Nubiyan Twist, Dizraeli and more.

Listen to Will Beeley’s ‘Pitch Black Sky’, taken from ‘1970 Sessions’ a follow up to his debut, ‘Gallivantin’. Never released until now, the album was used as an audition tape…it deserves to be so much more.

London-based seven-piece alt-folk band Ringlefinch announce their debut album Tall Tales – a musical casserole that’s far more than the sum of its ingredients.

John Spillane’s “100 Snow White Horses” is a rich, molten cauldron of emotional blissed-out balladry blessed with poetic intimacy and a collection of story-songs that begs immediate listening. A masterclass of eloquent romanticism delivered by a poet of song.

In Shapes Of The Fall Piers Faccini has created a masterpiece – cerebral, thought-provoking, but above all, musically, an intensely enjoyable listening experience.

Featuring new music from Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino, Damien Jurado, M G Boulter, Honey And The Bear, Rachel Baiman, Anna Leone, Lizzie Reid, Joshua Burnside, Will Beeley, Declan O’Rourke, Piers Faccini and more.