This is Marina’s third album, a gathering together of reworkings of past singles and previously unavailable material that again serves to make you thankful she finally got round to committing her music to disc. 

The strongly individual blend of instrumental colours continues, all surfacing through the texture in various delightful and surprising permutations over the course of this 40th Anniversary (Two-Score) album from Blowzabella.

Will Newsome has released a free EP titled Old Skin. It features a beautiful track called Empty Sea (also our song of the day) which has been brought to life by Paolo Russo in a stunningly beautiful and imaginative animation. Watch it here.

Norwich-based nine-piece The Vagaband return this month with a new album – Something Wicked This Way Comes. While there’s a mass of fine influences at play beneath the surface, their feet are planted firmly in British roots rock soil. Wickedly good.

This year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (16-19th August 2018) is looking to be one of their best lineups yet. Beth Orton is the latest headliner announced who will be performing alongside the likes of Richard Thompson, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Elephant Sessions, Trad Attack! and many more. Watch our video preview.

To celebrate the re-issue of Tom Waits’ Elektra Asylum Records on CD and Vinyl, he has personally curated a 76-song playlist spanning his entire career. You can now explore Waits’ many styles of storytelling and heartbreaking melodies via Spotify and Apple Music.

Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas is an album of poetry in guitar music. The space around Buck Curran’s music allows it to grow and change, to become part of the landscape yet also allows you to become part of it as well. Join in.

While it’s unfair to single out any one band to carry forward the torch that Planxty lit all those years ago, the music Pat Broaders, Liz Knowles and Kieran O’Hare are making can certainly hold its head high in such exalted company. The Joyful Hour gives out its joy in abundance and deserves a place in anyone’s collection.

Watch the stunning new video for Enough, the new single from Brie Capone, a refreshing young singer whose soulful voice will stop you in your tracks. In this intimate film by Peter Brownlee, Brie Capone invites the listener to visually experience her inner dialogue of disillusion. 

Part 2 of the Bert Jansch reissue, A Man I’d Rather Be from Earth Recordings covers four albums and a journey across 6 years, that takes Bert from style to style and from strength to strength.

Joachim Cooder announces Fuschia Machu Picchu, a seven-song EP inspired by the world music he grew up on, with touches of Psychedelia and Appalachian Folk. Watch him performing live in the studio.

Following his tour supporting Jeff Tweedy in back in January, James Elkington returns to the UK shores next month to begin his UK & European Tour. Not to be missed.