New Mixtape featuring: Trond Kallevåg, Joseph Shabason & Thom Gill (ft. Andre Ethier), Josienne Clarke, Sufjan Stevens, Great Lake Swimmers, Merlyn Driver, Sally Anne Morgan, Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson, Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Jim White, Emily A. Sprague, Barry Walker Jr., Lia Kohl, SO SNER, and Jan Garbarek.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Daniel Gadd, Seamus Fogarty, Ohtis, Steve Gunn, Kathleen Mary Lee, Acetone, Camp Saint Helene, Alice Faye, Amen Dunes, Kim Deal, Evan Dando, Jackie Cohen, The Clientele, Josephine Foster, Timber Timbre, Fruit Bats, Little Wings, Six Organs of Admittance, and Kurt Vile.

Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol 18 (1956-1963) delivers the definitive document of Bob Dylan’s formative years. This meticulously curated, exhaustive set traces the evolution of an all-time legendary music figure from a teenage piano-basher to the folk generation’s leader at Carnegie Hall. An indispensable collection revealing the artist behind the myth through rare outtakes, home recordings, and essential live performances.

Josienne Clarke’s ‘Far From Nowhere’ is a giant leap of an album. Recorded in a remote Scottish cabin, the pared-back, analogue affair feels immediate and intimate, as if written on the spot. By exposing the DNA of her work, Clarke unlocks immense power, resulting in her “grandest effort to date” and the “best music of an already distinguished career.”

Folktronica pioneers Tunng conclude their 20th-anniversary year with the new single ‘Anoraks’. Arriving ahead of their November UK and Paris tour, the psychedelic track follows their acclaimed 2024 album Love You All Over Again. Centred around a “lucid dream-like story,” the song was recorded remotely in Sweden, Margate, and London, yet achieves the band’s signature sonic unity.

John Patrick Elliott of The Little Unsaid reflects on tour life: Fourteen years after my first tour ended ankle-deep in faeces on a pig farm, I’m on the road again. Older, wiser, trading dive bars for Premier Inns. It’s still not profitable, and the world seems rewired to make touring impossible. Yet we struggle on, driven by the vital connection music provides, embracing the vulnerability our new album demands.

If Jim White’s second solo album, Inner Day, is a “state of nature: peace and tension, rest and disquiet”, then “Two Ruffys”, his new album single, is its disquieting, beautiful wind. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Anna White, which scores the song’s meditation on “life and loss.”

Philadelphia’s The Noisy, fronted by poet Sara Mae, premiere their stunning new video, “Tony Soprano,” directed by Sam Cush. “It’s meant to talk about the collective experience of grief and I think having my friends sing on it, my friends star in it and eat the food I made, just felt like a particularly poetic and special experience. This one means a great deal to me.”

On Old Segotia, Seán Mac Erlaine and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh engage in an intense musical conversation. Rather than compromising between folk and jazz, they create a new palette, crafting varied tracks that shift from smoky grooves to avant-garde improvisation. Augmenting traditional instruments with electronics and field recordings, the duo create a complex, surprising map of new musical terrain.

Emily A. Sprague’s “Cloud Time” is one of the most stunning ambient records in recent memory. Recorded live in Japan, it draws from the “naturalist” school of modular synthesis, engaging with the Japanese tradition of environmental music. Sprague whittled hours of recordings into a suite that is both deeply contemplative and refreshingly human, a “sonic wonderment” of texture and off-the-cuff creativity.

Acclaimed pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker Jr. has announced his debut album for Thrill Jockey, Paleo Sol. He unearths new dimensions, fusing cosmic country and ambient minimalism with the profound patience of geology and the intimacy of new fatherhood. Listen to three tracks from the album today.

On Merlyn Driver’s debut album, “It Was Also Sometimes Daylight,” there is an ease to his singing and playing that belies the nuance and complexity of his songwriting, which at times approaches genuine poetry. He takes highly personal, confessional songwriting and elevates it with unconventional language. It’s also a timely reminder of the small amount of time and space we all take up on this world.