Alex Gallacher

Featuring tunes from Cyril Cyril, Tom Rosenthal, Adrian Crowley, Damien Jurado, Kacy & Clayton, White Fence, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Big Thief, Simon Joyner, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Luluc, Laura Veirs, Buck Meek, Sam Burton, Herman Düne, Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures, Cate Le Bon, Micah P. Hinson, Thirty Pounds of Bone, Drakkar Sauna and Kevin Morby.

Featuring Juni Habel, Lauren Oxford, Sheila K Cameron, The Hermit, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Nat Brookes, Milkweed, Bill Callahan, Fiona Soe Paing, Rev Simpkins, Black Ox Orkestar, Nathan Salsburg, James Yorkston, Joseph Decosimo, Sunburned Hand of The Man, Denis Cassiere and more.

Listen to our Winter themed Folk Mixes and Playlists alongside some guest mixes we’ve featured over the years from Michael Tanner, Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band), Salad Sound System and Nigel Spencer of Folk Police Recordings.

Here are our favourite Top 100 folk and alternative albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by our core writers.

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves have been added to the 20th-anniversary line-up for Transatlantic Sessions, touring in February and joining special guests Martha Wainwright, Liam O Maonlai, Karen Matheson and Amythyst Kiah alongside the dazzling all-star house band.

A festive mix featuring Olivia Chaney, Steve Tilston, Anne Briggs, Bert Jansch, Dick Gaughan, Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Martha Tilston, Jean Ritchie, Nadia Cattouse, Johnny Cunningham & Susan McKeown, Richard Thompson, Chris Wood, Lal Waterson, Bernard Wrigley and more.

Riverwood, the forthcoming new album from Scottish trio Salt House (Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl) is now available to pre-order. Watch their video for lead single Headwater.

Roo Panes has shared a live session video to accompany his latest single, Suburban Pines, which was shot by Samuel Glazebrook in Lochaline, Scotland, overlooking the Sound of Mull.

Taken from his defiant third studio album BIG TALK, Jarrod Dickenson shares his new video for ‘Prefer To Lose’. In celebration of the album release, he has announced a series of UK dates in March 2023.

Our Song of the Day is a new single from Ehud Banai, a cover of Michael Chapman’s ‘Truck Song’, which he recorded for Michael’s 80th Birthday. It’s accompanied by a beautiful video featuring footage of them touring together.

Five-piece anglo-French dance band Topette!! premiere their video for ‘Just Heavy’, taken from their latest album Bourdon. Get more intoxicating grooves via their Bandcamp page where you can enjoy a 10% discount.

The Carrivick Sisters ‘Illustrated Short Stories’ is impeccably put together and beautifully illustrated. With cleverly constructed tales, top-class musicianship and sibling vocals to match, you have an album on which there is nothing not to like and plenty to treasure.