Alex Gallacher

John Spillane announces a hugely ambitious concept album – a two-hour Gaelic folk opera ‘Fíoruisce – The Legend of the Lough’ and shares the first track and video, ‘Réamhcheol/Overture’, featuring Niamh Farrell and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin.

Alasdair Roberts’ book of collected lyrics, Library of Aethers, is out now, and he also kicks off a collaborative UK tour this month with Scottish piper and traditional singer Donald WG Lindsay.

A nautical-themed Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Lisa Knapp, Jolie Holland, Oisin Leech, Georgia Shackleton, Louis Killen, Sea Song Sessions, Rhiannon Giddens, Bellowhead, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy, Richard Thompson, Ben Nicholls & Nadine Shah, Shovel Dance Collective, Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly, Frankie Archer and Robin Williamson.

Jolie Holland shares provocative new video for ‘Feet on the Ground’ – “A piece of pure love and art…made by the astounding duo of Corinne Loperfido and Jordan Mose – Clowns Against Human Supremacy (NSFW).

Jennifer Castle announces her new album Camelot and shares her new single and video, “Lucky #8”, an irrepressible ode to dancing as a bulwark against the “tidal pools of pain” and the “theory of collapse.”

Northumbrian electro-folk musician and producer Frankie Archer announces her new EP, ‘Pressure and Persuasion,’ and once again transcends expectations with her lead single and video, Barbara Allen (also our Song of the Day).

Taken from his forthcoming concept album, Circadia, watch the new video from David Grubb for his final album single ‘The Somnambulist’. “…the band depicts the shuffling feet of the somnambulist, walking a tightrope between conscious realms.”

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. Jerron Paxton, Frank Fairfield, Norman Blake, Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers, Sabine McCalla, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons, Hannah Read, Grey Reverend, Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin, Anna & Elizabeth and more.

Today sees the release of ‘Easy Now’, the new single from Irish troubadour John Blek. The song shows the writer at ease with the passing of time and the knowledge that everything will pass, a sentiment reflected in the easy-going lyric video.

Lost in Transmission mixtape featuring Jerron Paxton, J.R. Bohannon & Dave Shuford, Naima Bock, Kate Young, Danny Paul Grody Duo, Setting, Rhona Dalling, Dana Anastasia, Daughter of Swords, Dan Haywood, Roger Dean Young, Pumajaw, A Hawk & a Hacksaw, Quinie and more.

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘O Avalanche’, Fionn Regan shares a visualiser for his new single ‘Blood Is Thicker Than Wine’, a song he started to write in a lightning storm.

William Tyler shares his new single “Flight Final”, out now Psychic Hotline – This is a soundtrack to realising that moving forward never entirely means escaping what is behind you. He kicks off his UK and European tour in September.