Midlake have released “Days Gone By,” a new single from their upcoming album ‘A Bridge To Far’, out November 7th. The track is accompanied by a spellbinding video starring Emmy-nominated actor James Lance (Ted Lasso). The band also announced a UK and European tour for 2026. This release follows the lead single “The Ghouls,” building anticipation for their sixth studio album.

Through The Open Window is the latest chapter in the acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, which tells of Dylan’s emergence and maturation as a songwriter and performer, from Minnesota to the Greenwich Village bohemia in the early 1960s. The 8CD Deluxe set includes 139 tracks – 48 never-before-released performances, as well as 38 super-rare cuts, plus a hardcover book with rare photos and extensive liner notes by Sean Wilentz.

Mystery Park is Kathryn Williams’s 15th studio album and, arguably, her most open and tender in its emotions, delivery and words. René Magritte once said, “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist”. Williams makes it a walk in the park.

On Baby Man, the latest offering from Fruit Bats, Eric D Johnson strips away the comfort of a full band, forcing a singular focus on his lyrical and melodic introspection, a choice that elevates this album. It stands as an intimate and essential document of an artist reckoning with his past and present, a beautiful and poignant act of vulnerability that ultimately reveals a deep and resonant strength.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two celebrated ambient composers and friends, have unveiled their first official collaboration, “Perpetual Adoration.” The new single blends historical harps, celestial synths, and Barwick’s ethereal voice into a beautiful, immersive soundscape. Watch a live video of the performance, directed and edited by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild and filmed at Lou Lou’s Jungle Room at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego.

Kentucky-based singer-songwriter Joan Shelley shares her gentle yet profound new single and video, “Here In The High and Low,” a beautiful prelude to her seventh album, Real Warmth, out this Friday. The track is a masterful collaboration with producer Ben Whitely and features backing vocals from Shelley’s three-year-old daughter. The video, directed by Cyrus Moussavi and Brittany Nugent, explores growth and time through the eyes of a young seedling.

claire rousay shares her latest single, “somewhat burdensome”, a masterclass in textural sound design, weaving together shimmering piano and guitar melodies with ambient drones and intimate field recordings. Watch the accompanying visual piece she constructed that mirrors the album’s focus on recordings captured at dusk.

The key ingredient of “A Danger to Ourselves” is depth. It is an album of unfathomable musical depths, but perhaps more importantly, it is an album about depth of feeling, the abyss from which desire springs like a liquid flame. Lucrecia Dalt gives herself over completely to exploring this depth, and the singular work of art that emerges is as detailed and as unexpected as any treasure.

His ability to slip unseen from folky pastoralism to improvised experimentation puts Glenn Kimpton at the forefront of the current group of British acoustic guitarists taking their inspiration from foundational American exponents like Robbie Basho and John Fahey. He is in good company with those names, and he doesn’t seem out of place. Small Show is assured and highly rewarding.

Following the release of “Remembered in Exile,” a collection of newly crafted arrangements of traditional Scottish songs pulled from the pioneering work of folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1989), Màiri Morrison, Alasdair Roberts and Pete Johnston have announced a UK tour in October. To celebrate, watch an all-new acoustic version of “The Bonny House of Airlie”.

The latest in the Ceremonial Counties tape series from Folklore Tapes covers Bedfordshire, tackled by Radiophoric Labs, a hauntological project of unknown provenance who does a compelling job of creating an atmosphere of dreary, post-apocalyptic dread; and Greater London falls to Wooden Tape, the alias of Tim Maycox, a Liverpool art teacher whose focus is the commuter town of Surbiton. They present two very different sides of the hauntological coin.

Our latest weekly brew playlist features Mishra & Deepa Nair Rasiya, Sourdurent, Francis Bebey, Michael Hurley, Natalie Wildgoose, Mari Kalkun, Peter Bellamy, Martin Carthy, Broadside Hacks, Red River Dialect, Joan Shelley, Spencer Cullum, Flora Hibberd, Lael Neale, Natalie Jane Hill, Niamh Regan, Andrew Tuttle, William Ryan Fritch and James Jackson Toth.