Alex Gallacher

Hollow Hand shares the video for “Heavy Metal T-Shirt,” the final single from fourth album “Wish Road South,” directed by Mega Bog’s Erin Birgy and shot in Dublin. The rowdiest thing on the record, it was tracked live in a studio corridor in Brighton — feedback in the cracks, a singalong chorus, and no shortage of heart.

Jules Reidy shares “Clerestory Windows V,” the final movement of the solo suite from their forthcoming album “Clerestory,” due September 25th via Thrill Jockey. Performed on hex electric guitar with Euclidean sequencing, it is the most pared-back piece on an album that sets a JACK Quartet commission against solo refractions of the same material.

Watch Twisted Teens’ Jack Massuci-directed video for “Florida Water Blues,” the title track of their third album on Going Underground Records. The New Orleans band’s second release of 2026 trades the nervous energy of “Blame the Clown” for something more patient and atmospheric, with CPN’s multi-instrumental sprawl and RJ Santos’ steel guitar soaked in Gulf Coast humidity.

Isik Kural has announced “Motorcycles and Cherry Wind,” his third album for RVNG Intl., sharing lead single “Winter Sun” with a video by Barnaby Omar. A twelve-track travelogue shaped by field recordings from Istanbul to Scotland, the album features nine international musicians and follows 2024’s “Moon in Gemini,” one of that year’s most rewarding albums.

Recorded at The Pico Union Project in LA over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, “Ghosts of American Psychonauts” reworks three tracks from “The Purple Bird” with new instrumentation and draws from across Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s career — including “I See a Darkness,” the title track of his first BPB album. A stellar cast of guests are included.

Hana Stretton shares the video for “From”, the final single from “tiarn”, her second album out August 7th. Recorded during a storm with a hairbrush, a tiny harp and her dog asleep beside her, it reaches for warmth and connection from the tiny Australian beach town where the album was made. Phil Elverum announces a P.W. Elverum & Sun special edition.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew opens with the mesmerising ‘News from Home’ from Clara Mann, then roams from a pair of sixties one-album-wonders to a reissued early-80s outsider legend and the forthcoming Mama’s Broke — our Artists of the Month for August.

This week’s Mixtape sweeps from archaic old-time vibes to the more ambient and avant-garde end of the spectrum. It features new music from Angel Autumn, The Powers Ensemble, JP Harris, Laura Veirs, Blake Hornsby, M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon, Twilark, J.J. Gregg, Jason Dungan / Johan Carøe, and Duffy x Uhlmann. Plus tracks from John Ondolo, Dyad, and Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes.

Anna McLuckie has shared a video for “Blackberry Love”, the opening track from her album “The Little Winters”, filmed by Lucy McLuckie. The song lists the five plants: “…like a kind of spell. It’s a practical magic, but all the more enchanting for it”, writes KLOF’s Thomas Blake.

Golden Samphire Band share a video for “Waking Moment,” from debut album “Dream Is The Driver,” out now via Wayside & Woodland Recordings. Junkboy’s Mik and Rich Hanscomb, joined by Hannah Lewis, trace the song back to wild swims in Seaford Bay, paired with a grainy, VHS-to-NTSC video for a hazy, half-remembered summer feel.

Caleb Nichols has announced “Stone Age Is Now: Poems from Lithic”, his new album out via Royal Oakie Records this October – listen to his latest single “A Feeling of a Feeling of a Feeling”. Across twelve tracks, Nichols interpolates poems from his book “Lithic: A Hyperballad” with songs from “Stone Age Is Back”, tracked in five days with engineer Jay Pellicci.

Los Angeles duo Big Trouble — Justin Kohlberg and Daniel Talamantes — share debut single “Mel” ahead of their first album, “On Elephant Hill”, out September 18th via Royal Oakie Records. Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”, the song explores the cost of committing to a cause, with the album drawing on influences from Kate Bush, Juan Gabriel and Paul McCartney in equal measure.