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Colombian-born, US-based artist Lucrecia Dalt has released “caes,” the third single from her forthcoming album, A Danger to Ourselves. The track, a powerful collaboration with Mexican singer and sound artist Camille Mandoki, is a stark and intense exploration of raw human emotion. The accompanying video, filmed between Dalt’s new home in the Southwestern US and Mandoki’s base in Mexico City, visually interprets the song’s theme of surrender.

Chicago’s Natural Information Society, led by Joshua Abrams, introduces Meditation, the first instalment of a three-part digital series now available on New Soil. This curated collection, featuring spacious tracks like “In Memory’s Prism,” offers a unique entry point into their blend of minimalism, jazz, and experimental sounds, inviting listeners to slow down and reclaim their attention. Plus: US & European Tour including Rich Mix, London on October 28th.

Chris Staples has always possessed a knack for finding profundity in the mundane, but his latest offering, Don’t Worry (August 5th), elevates this skill to new heights. Settled into the stillness of Richmond, VA, Staples transmutes domestic tranquillity into a sprawling yet intimate landscape. The album’s lead single and video, “Doesn’t Matter Now,” serves as a gentle introduction to this introspective journey.

Brighton’s Welsh guitar virtuoso Gwenifer Raymond announces Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, a cosmic leap from her folk-horror roots. The new album and its fiery single, “Jack Parsons Blues,” meld ancient mysticism with astrophysics, translating the unfathomable equations of the cosmos into intricate, otherworldly fingerpicked melodies. Prepare for a journey beyond the terrestrial.

Listen to our latest Mixtape featuring Karl Blau, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Tucker Zimmerman, AJ Woods, Johnny Coley, Devarrow, Anna McClellan, Scott Ballew, Joan Shelly, The Fynches, Yasmin Williams, Annarella & Django, Universal Light, Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker and more.

Taken from his latest album, Glookies Guit, watch the accompanying short film to Australian guitarist D.C Cross’s new single, ‘Rhinestones, in Black and White’, also our Tune of the Day.

Smithsonian Folkways Announces New Historical Album – a live 1965 Concert featuring Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell – a riveting, historic look at the intersection of Black folk traditions and civil rights activism.

Taken from her fourth album, Cool Head (that accompanies her debut novel, Tell Me Who I Am), listen to Georgia Ruth’s new single ‘Duw Neu Magic’ – “…Iwan Morgan, who co-produced the album, says it sounds like rainy Paris in the 60s – I’m happy with that!”.

Ned Roberts announces his new album, Heavy Summer. Watch the accompanying video for his lead single, Another Record Round. That warm Laurel Canyon vibe is still there – dreamy and soulful, melancholy balanced by a hint of psychedelic sparkle; it’s another beautifully crafted single.

Through 100 years of film and TV footage, Arcadia explores the changing face of the British countryside and our relationship to the land and each other. It takes in folk carnivals and masked parades, harvesting, communes and raves, mechanisation, fires, floods and much more.

Jenny Sturgeon & M G Boulter have released their first single together, inspired by dusty keepsakes pocketed on walks, left on bookshelves as memories and the science of soundwaves, deep space and time, ‘Flint Knapped’ combines their love of history, nature and staring at the night sky.

Jim Ghedi is out on the road with his full band in October 2022 and has also just published a small collection of poems & songs titled A Sprig of Yarrow. We also look at his past project with photographer Laura Merrill called The Estate.