Following Hirons’ critically acclaimed lead single “Being The Cause”—a sharp meditation on capitalist superstructures—”The Rabbit Hole” offers a sonic journey into the ethereal. Born from a vivid summer night’s dream, Hirons channels a memory of childhood escape. Watch the accompanying visualizer.

Taken from The Mountain Goats’ forthcoming new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, a maritime tale of survival and delusion centred on the aftermath of a devastating shipwreck, listen to their two new singles, “Cold At Night” and “Rocks In My Pockets.” The album features appearances from The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, musical theatre royalty Lin-Manuel Miranda, and bassist Cameron Ralston.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland announces his new studio album, Laughter In Summer. This deeply personal project is a collaboration with his wife, eco-poet, actress, and producer Elizabeth Copeland, born from their nearly half-century-long love story. The album is described as a tender ledger of shared devotion, memories, grief, and joy, arriving as Glenn navigates LATE, a type of Dementia. Listen to their double single, “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One).”

On The Dwarfs Of East Agouza’s “Sasquatch Landslide”, there are instrumental wails and squalls, bits of melody careen into the middle distance, an electronic soup bubbles away, and a thick buzz underpins everything. While it sounds like it could be messy, it’s not; it’s more like the semi-organised bustle of a busy souk, with its tension between chaos and order, where every sound has its meaning and its place.

Centred on themes of dreams and the supernatural, with their vintage guitars accompanied by just Jon Thorne on double bass, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage’s fifth album, The Strangers’ Share, sees a return to the single microphone intimacy of their debut. A captivating reminder of how, especially in the hands of  this duo, less can so often be more. The album is indeed a shared pleasure.

Bristol-based chamber folk quintet Hedera, featuring Lulu Austin, Maisie Brett, Tamsin Elliott, Beth Roberts and Isis Wolf-Light, have released the first offering from their long-awaited eponymous debut album (due for release February 2026, Cuculi Records). ‘Sterretjie’ is a buoyant original track accompanied by a video set against the sweeping ochre cliffs of the Jurassic Coast.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Tindersticks, Smog, Dory Previn, Low, Gillian Welch, Jim White, Giant Sand, Ellen McIlwaine, Scott Walker, Nick Lowe, Grinderman, Vic Chesnutt, Dean & Britta, Martha Wainwright, Meg Baird and Karen Dalton.

Our latest Mixtape walks the line between tradition and experimentation courtesy of French label Pagans, alongside music from Anna & Elizabeth, Joseph Decosimo, Nathan Bowles, Jack Rose, Bill MacKay, Buck Curran, Greenvine, Gwenifer Raymond, Brad Barr, and Toby Hay.

We look back at Anna and Elizabeth’s groundbreaking self-titled album, to be released on vinyl for the first time on its Tenth Anniversary – “a rare album that is as intimate as it is ambitious and as idiosyncratic as it is reverential.”

Joshua Burnside shares his new single and video “Nicer Part of Town”–”a daydream song, following thoughts and memories around, some nice, some not so nice,” in which he heads back to a “childhood kitchen, and then up into the heavens on an old spaceship. We then sleep rough under a bridge, get blown up by a car bomb and end up in the garden of Eden.”

By no means overshadowing Blue Lake’s previous album, Weft, The Animal instead provides further proof of Jason Dungan’s ambition and ability as a musician and now bandleader. A record celebrating human collaboration and the beauty of life and nature, The Animal sees Blue Lake push its sound into new realms, once again surprising and delighting—a wonderful, uplifting instrumental album.

Bergamo-based guitarist Buck Curran’s Far Driven Sun is an intensely musical, layered set celebrating his reunion with a 1990 Stefan Sobell ‘Butterfly’ acoustic guitar. From the intimate “Vignettes” to the subtly dynamic “Bells” and the buoyant “Unicorn Song,” it showcases Buck’s exquisite touch as a player and recording artist. It’s a highly accomplished album, made with love and performed with the utmost skill and intricate musicianship.