Alex Gallacher

The Soft Pink Truth, aka Drew Daniel, announces his lavish new album Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?, arriving January 30th, 2026. The project grafts chamber music onto electronic foundations, exemplified by the lead single “Time Inside the Violet.” Confronting a “dystopian contemporary landscape,” the album seeks to provide a “makeshift queer refuge,” embracing intimacy and unapologetic beauty as defiant acts.

Brian Weitz, aka Geologist of Animal Collective, has signed to Drag City for his first-ever proper solo album, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? (due Jan 30th, 2026). The lead single “Tonic” showcases his “post-post-punk” vision, swapping guitar for an overdriven hurdy gurdy inspired by Keiji Haino and Greg Ginn. The track, featuring a thumping Dave Portner bassline, is out now.

New Mixtape featuring: Trond Kallevåg, Joseph Shabason & Thom Gill (ft. Andre Ethier), Josienne Clarke, Sufjan Stevens, Great Lake Swimmers, Merlyn Driver, Sally Anne Morgan, Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson, Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Jim White, Emily A. Sprague, Barry Walker Jr., Lia Kohl, SO SNER, and Jan Garbarek.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Daniel Gadd, Seamus Fogarty, Ohtis, Steve Gunn, Kathleen Mary Lee, Acetone, Camp Saint Helene, Alice Faye, Amen Dunes, Kim Deal, Evan Dando, Jackie Cohen, The Clientele, Josephine Foster, Timber Timbre, Fruit Bats, Little Wings, Six Organs of Admittance, and Kurt Vile.

Folktronica pioneers Tunng conclude their 20th-anniversary year with the new single ‘Anoraks’. Arriving ahead of their November UK and Paris tour, the psychedelic track follows their acclaimed 2024 album Love You All Over Again. Centred around a “lucid dream-like story,” the song was recorded remotely in Sweden, Margate, and London, yet achieves the band’s signature sonic unity.

If Jim White’s second solo album, Inner Day, is a “state of nature: peace and tension, rest and disquiet”, then “Two Ruffys”, his new album single, is its disquieting, beautiful wind. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Anna White, which scores the song’s meditation on “life and loss.”

Philadelphia’s The Noisy, fronted by poet Sara Mae, premiere their stunning new video, “Tony Soprano,” directed by Sam Cush. “It’s meant to talk about the collective experience of grief and I think having my friends sing on it, my friends star in it and eat the food I made, just felt like a particularly poetic and special experience. This one means a great deal to me.”

Acclaimed pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker Jr. has announced his debut album for Thrill Jockey, Paleo Sol. He unearths new dimensions, fusing cosmic country and ambient minimalism with the profound patience of geology and the intimacy of new fatherhood. Listen to three tracks from the album today.

The Little Unsaid unveil their video for “Surfacing”, taken from their new album, “Stay Fragile All Across This Cold Frontier”, which is available now on all platforms via Carbon Moon Records. “It’s a snapshot of every gig we did and captures something about that tour that really carried a lot of energy and emotional weight for us as we celebrated our tenth year as a band.”

Iona Zajac shares “Murder Mystery,” a surreal new single and video from her forthcoming debut album Bang (Nov 21). The track, accompanied by a striking visual featuring Zajac’s alter ego, is a “fearless dive into the scary everyday fears women live with.” A seasoned artist, Zajac’s debut promises raw, defiant storytelling.

Composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist RÓIS and rob mulhern, aka hhh, have unveiled their bold new single and video, “Did ye ever get The Ride at The Wake House?”. The accompanying video, directed by Adam O’reilly who is also a dance artist, features Alex Vostokova, a dance artist and emerging choreographer. Delivering a shockwave that reverberates across a tranquil Irish landscape, it is not without it moments of humour.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist, featuring Sean Hayes, Cat Clyde, Sierra Ferrell, Canon’s Jug Stompers, Jimmie Driftwood, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, Carolyn Hester, Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover, Minna, Hand Habits, Andrew Bird, Frazey Ford, Kaia Kater, Jesse Welles, Michael Hurley, Kacy & Clayton, Anna & Elizabeth, Tim Eriksen, Mama’s Broke, Ursina, and Alela Diane.