Rachael Dadd is to release a new 7″ single and bonus CD this month via Tokyo’s Sweet Dreams Press to commemorate her tenth-anniversary tour of Japan. Listen to Connected to the Rock and watch the video for Archipelago.

Taken from their debut EP The Tide, released today via Brighton’s boutique record label Folklore Sessions, watch Trails, the latest video from alt-folk Brighton-based duo Paper Hawk – a hypnotising whisper chronicling the throes of a volatile relationship. 

Great art can often come from the darkest places…many of these songs were born out of very real human experience. They are musically inventive and lyrically astute documents of this experience, but more than that they offer a clearer way of understanding it, and perhaps even a way of helping to overcome its darker periods.

The Nelson Brothers are undeniably very fine songwriters and musicians – Migrant Tales leads the listener on a thoroughly enjoyable and evocative musical trip, it would be foolish not to get on board and share in their journey.

On 29 June 2018 John Murry is to release a new single, ‘When God Walks In’. In the same month, he will be playing several UK dates – “an iconoclastic artist who made a career out of transforming tragedy and hardship into stark beauty.”

We talk to Circuit des Yeux about her latest album ‘Reaching for Indigo’ and her new project commissioned by Opera North to score the cult silent film Salomé which is to be performed as part of the Leeds International Festival and at the Barbican in May 2018.

Five Kill Records is a new record label based in upstate NY, a fusion of five local labels into an artist-focused collective whose initial offerings caught our hearts and ears. Listen to their showcase and watch the new video by The Parlor for Soon.

Our Song of the Day comes from singer-songwriter Juliana Daugherty with the title track from her forthcoming debut album “Light”. “Daugherty wields her songcraft like a sword, not a diary to be buried in a drawer.”

While Iona Fyfe’s tone is youthful and abundantly charming, the sense of assurance in her delivery is astonishing for someone of her tender years. “I’ll be very surprised indeed if Away From My Window doesn’t feature in the year’s best-of lists.”

Watch the new video from Marchildon! taken from his new album ‘Please Pass The Potatoes’. “The song is about a love affair I had with a beer. A delicious lager called Hockley Gold”.

On her latest album, Lions Den, Jess Vincent opens up a whole new chapter. A sense of dislocation and slightly dreamy aura pervades several of the songs, giving the album as a whole a special ambience.

Brilliant writing and no-frills singing from a veteran of the game and a band of experienced musicians and guests who leave the words and the nuanced experience coming through in the vocals and lyrics to stand in the foreground, while weaving a musical web that keeps the whole thing perfectly cohesive throughout.