Alex Gallacher

Norwegian singer and composer Susanna announces her new album, Meditations on Love, and shares its lead single, “Everyone Knows.” Watch the accompanying self-directed video, filmed and edited by Jonas Mailand, that explores the idea of feeling alone while being together.

Ahead of their UK tour, Charm Of Finches (Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes) are our ‘Off the Shelf’ guests, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them.

Listen to another Monday Morning Brew playlist, ft. Marta Del Grandi, Joyce Moreno, Pascal Gamboni, Groupe Kounabeli de Musuku & Patience Dabany, Nduduzo Makhathini, Ricardo Dias Gomes/Domenico Lancellotti, James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg, Nils Berg Cinemascope, Rozini Pátkai, Enji, SUSS, Floreana and more.

Japanese sound artist FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length MMM for the Swiss label, his most complex so far–a masterpiece of conceptual and formal rigour.

Martin Simpson is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them. Martin’s new album, Skydancers, is out now on Topic Records.

Malin Lewis, the pioneering queer bagpiper, fiddler, instrument maker and composer, releases their debut album Halocline next month. Watch the stunningly scenic video for their third album single, Hiraeth. The album is inspired by European folk traditions, human nature, queerness and the universe.

Jake Xerxes Fussell announces his new album and Fat Possum debut ‘When I’m Called’. Listen to his lead single, the traditional song ‘Going to Georgia’, sourced from an Art and Margo Rosenbaum Folkways anthology. It’s truly heavenly.

Taken from his new album “Ship to Shore”, Richard Thompson shares his new single ‘Freeze’ – “Oh, for heaven’s sake, do something. Forwards, backwards, sideways, anything. There is nothing to fear but fear itself… no, I take it back, it’s all terrifying choices. Good luck.”

Taken from her forthcoming new album Mayday, Myriam Gendron shares her new single Terres brûlées. “This song represented one of the biggest writing challenges I’ve ever faced…I had to pull out all the stops, dare to be lyrical, pretend I was Baudelaire or Léo Ferré!”

Taken from his new album Locust Land, listen to Bill MacKay’s new single ‘Keeping In Time’, which finds MacKay employing a searching voice to explore themes of fate and love. He has also announced a UK date at London’s Café OTO on 4th September.

Canadian experimental singer-songwriter Ora Cogan announces her new album ‘Formless’ and shares new single/video “Cowgirl” – it’s like having David Lynch turning up to your college gig with a Super 8.

Watch ‘The Best Sea’, the new single/video from Marta Del Grandi. She is touring her brave, beautiful, and boldly unique album, Selva, in the UK for the first time since its release last autumn.