Alex Gallacher

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring new music from Dawn Landes, Aisha Burns, Daisy Rickman, Daudi Matsiko, Kathryn Williams and Withered Hand, Swimming Bell and lots more.

Rooftop Assembly, a grime & folk fusion project from London, formed by playing rooftop concerts during lockdown, release their debut EP today, watch their video for ‘The Lanes’, an orchestral grime ballad and nostalgic paean to the band’s roots in Tottenham.

Daisy Rickman, a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and folk musician from Mousehole, Cornwall, has announced her new album ‘Howl’, listen to the lead single ‘Feed The Forest’.

Ahead of his upcoming London gig (31st January), watch British-born Tim Crabtree (better known as Paper Beat Scissors) performing Wszystkiego Najlepszego in his Montreal studio. “There’s such emotion caught in the song, such yearning, that it just transcended the fact I couldn’t understand a single word” says Crabtree.

Irish-based session-musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist David Murphy shares his debut single and video (by Gavin Wood) for “Citi na gCumann”, taken from his very original debut album ‘Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music For Pedal Steel Guitar’.

Watch Seán R. McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows performing Ninewells live, shot as an ‘Attic Session’ in an abandoned bank in the Scottish city of Perth by filmmaker, Lonnie Wright. The Ninewells E.P. is out on 26th January.

Watch the superb and cleverly chilling video for the murder ballad ‘Child Owlet’, the new single from Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana. Cerys never ceases to amaze so don’t miss her tour from the end of this month, taking in some excellent venues.

North Carolina folk innovators Magic Tuber Stringband have signed to Thrill Jockey and announced their new album Needlefall. Listen to their bittersweet new single, “Days of Longing.” A duet between fiddle and 12-string guitar, Werner and Morgan craft intricate, interlocking melodies…

Meril Wubslin announce their fourth album, Faire Ça, and share their raw, wiry and fiery album opener Un Calme. Always seeking to evolve their sound, the album’s dub influence has been brought out by Kwake Bass’ expert production.

Listen to Sessions, the new single from Tio’tiá:ke/Montreal-based musician Cedric Noel. He’s joined by Lisa Conway-Bühler (L CON), Tim Crabtree (Paper Beat Scissors, Jean-Michel Blais, Michael Feuerstack) and Mike Belyea (Jenn Grant, Jennah Barry). It’s also our Song of the Day.

Listen to Lost in Transmission No 102 – Featuring Amelia Coburn, FJ McMahon, Daisy Rickman, Naima Bock, Avocet, Madden and Harris, Penny Carson Nichols, Demi Spriggs, Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand, Daudi Matsiko and more.

Kathryn Williams and Withered Hand announce their collaborative album ‘Willson Williams’. Watch the video (created by Marry Waterson) for their lead single ‘Shelf’ – “This song came from laughing about our own insecurities and making fun of ourselves for all that we worry about.”