Alex Gallacher

A new Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring music from Bill Withers, Dorothy Ashby, Thin Lizzy, Vanishing Twin, Elephant Stone, Gloria, The Bonk, Loma, Buck Curran & Nataly Kozlova, Kikagaku Moyo, Cory Hanson, Moon Duo, Minami Deutsch, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Brigid Dawson and The Mothers, and Modern Nature.

INNI-K has shared her latest single and video, Beatha. As if triggered by spring, it has a pulsing earthy energy, emphasised by catchy beats and a great off-kilter fiddle riff that gives the song an untamed sense of freedom, reflecting the vitality of life and the mysterious forces of nature. Inspired by a veg-growing course, Beatha could be an anthem for self-sufficiency.

Hot on the heels of his latest album, Time Indefinite, William Tyler has announced ’41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s’, his debut collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), who also produced and mixed the album, which was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, USA. Listen to the first song, If I Had a Boat, a Lyle Lovett cover, which clocks in at over 11 minutes long.

Taken from her new album, Second Circle The Horizon, listen to Sally Anne Morgan’s latest single ‘Eye is the First’ – a rustling journey featuring a repeated slow guitar appregios and a more narrative-sounding banjo with organic sounding shimmering rustles conjuring the gentle movement of a breeze. While meditative, it also joyously reveals Morgan’s deep bond with nature and how she intuitively interweaves this into her creations.

Another KLOF Mag mixtape – over an hour of music escapism with ambient, tranquil, otherworldly moments and upbeat splendour. It includes new releases from Meka, Logan Farmer, Bells Larsen, Eli Winter, The Gentle Good, Quinie, Cameron Knowler, Iona Lane, Varo, The Vernon Spring, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl, and The Bird’s Companion. Be sure to check out our album reviews of many of those featured and interviews.

Taken from his latest album Salt River, Sam Amidon delivered an excellent live rendition of Lou Reed’s ‘Big Sky’ on Later… With Jools Holland. In a KLOF Mag interview, Amidon told us he “exacerbated that folk-like quality in the verses…The repetitive structure of the lyrics is also very folk-like; I just felt that for all his New York edge, he was trying to give us a very simple, beautiful message.”

Fiddle and guitar duo Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell sign to Real World Records and announce Tomorrow Held. Watch the video for their lead single, MacGill, that pays homage to the creative partnership of Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell: “It’s slightly more jazz-influenced in terms of harmony and sound than the other stuff on the record,” says Spafford. “We’re going to that sweet spot at the folky end of jazz.”

meka is Melissa Lingo, an American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. She is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, a series where we ask artists to present objects from their homes and talk about them. Her latest album, The Rabbit (out tomorrow on Dumont Dumont), is profoundly shaped by her experience of living with chronic illness, transforming hardship into tender yet illuminating songs that balance grief and hope.

Those who heard our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist (No. 103) would have heard The Rust Belt, the latest single from Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt). The accompanying video, animated by artist Jack Colbert, celebrates the myriad eclectic materials used to make the new Matmos album, Metallic Life Review, animating pocket-sized metallic objects that Colbert sourced from metal detecting.

Benoît Pioulard began his Stanza series as an early morning sonic journaling practice in 2015 using a Telecaster and tape recorder. The series evolved from hazy, unadorned experiments to more verdant and complex instrumental pieces, characterised by a blissed-out tape saturation and ambient grace that has become a hallmark of his uniquely meditative sound. Taken from his latest album in the series, Stanza IV, watch his video for Xaipe.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Sinéad O’Connor, Tapir!, The Budos Band, Mark Fry, Rogér Fakhr & Bruna-Maria Naufal, Shana Cleveland, Faith Eliott, The Gentle Good, The HP’s & Julian Taylor, Arooj Aftab with Moor Mother & Joel Ross, David Byrne, RÓIS, Raveloe, Felbm and Matmos. The playlist is available to all paid Substack Subscribers and can be heard via Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal.

Available for pre-order now, Shane Parish has announced a new live LP, titled Solo At Cafe OTO (out July 1st via his own label, Red Eft Records), on which he explores British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, from the television program Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”.