Even after several plays, All That Remains remains an enigmatic record, whose resolutely beautiful meanderings are destined to haunt the listener; you simply have to get immersed in Mark and Alison’s visionary music – don’t leave yourself outside!

Bristol-based musician and songwriter Martin Callingham announces new album Assassins and shares video for the lead track A Toe on the Water. It was filmed from the back of Martin’s sister’s car near Hay Bluff on the Welsh borders, close to his childhood home.

Changing Colours is the latest album from The Sheepdogs. With the broader musical palette on offer and the substantial quality throughout, this may well be the album that finds them attracting a broader audience outside their native Canada.

Ninebarrow’s The Waters & The Wild is a testament that this is a duo of traditional integrity. They will not conform and jump on the latest bandwagon. Instead, they have the patience and confidence to gently sew new patterns onto familiar tapestry.

Taken from his forthcoming sophomore album, Cliffhanger, watch the latest video from Grimm Grimm (the musical moniker of Koichi Yamanoha) for Ballad of a Cell Membrane, comparable to the sonic fragility of Syd Barrett’s later recordings and the cosmic folk leanings of Vashti Bunyan.

Yes, it’s a bleak album – that’s it’s intent. But the compulsion to listen echoes the determination of those Victorian adventurers. There is something mystical and otherworldly about these three musicians and the alchemy they produce together. It’s well worth the treacherous journey to reach the other side.

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar give us an insight into the songs on their latest album ‘Utopia and Wasteland’ which “explores a formidable range of human emotions and political ideas, and one that flits easily between the minuscule detail and the grand statement.”

Light The Evening Fire is the debut album from Glymjack, an English folk act led by singer-songwriter Greg McDonald. They have celebrated the release (out today) with a new video for the title track featuring Phil Beer and Steve Knightley of Show of Hands.

Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton have yet again proven themselves to be not only masters of Scottish traditional music but at the very forefront of the movement that continues to breathe new life into that music, inspiring the next generation. Symbiosis was beguiling, Symbiosis II is utterly hypnotic.

Watch this superb live video from James Patrick Gavin’s album launch at London’s Union Chapel. “This was one of the most intensely emotional nights of my life with many people participating and a packed audience – and we pulled it off!”

With Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton and Jim Miller all taking lead vocals, writing the songs and switching between instruments, honky-tonk supergroup Western Centuries offer a range of colours – Country songs to drink to, dance to and cry to, get lost in the flood.

The cumulative effect of ‘The Great Untold’ is at once stilling, affirmative and inspiring, as you emerge at the other end as if you’ve been soaking in a bath of aural dead sea salts.  Matthews says that when he’s writing, “I’m almost hearing voices from The Masters and thinking: ‘Would they approve?’” Most assuredly.