Alex Gallacher

KLOF No. 91 gathers fourteen tracks from albums we’ve been reviewing: Kevin Coleman’s “K.C. Blues”, Dan Haywood and Harvey Lord’s “Ten Signs”, Creekbed Carter Hogan’s “Peasants Revolt”, Cinder Well’s “A Blooming Body” and Nick Granata’s debut “My Heart is Running Backwards!…”. Martin Carthy returns from the “Along The Road Forever” boxset, live at Sidmouth in 1978, plus The Modern Folk, Andrew Weathers, Tucker Zimmerman and Stella Kola.

Boyhood (Caylie Runciman) has announced a new album, “I’ll Dream InStead,” out October 23rd via Hand Drawn Dracula, alongside lead single “Loner.” Recorded largely alone on her bed through a rural winter, the album marks a period of renewal for Runciman, who calls it evidence that she’s “found herself again.” She tours North America this summer.

Tōth has shared a live performance of “Easy,” recorded with the 85-voice Brooklyn Choir Project at a Brooklyn church. Taken from his acclaimed album “And The Voice Said,” the song builds from hushed verses to a full-choir climax, turning Tōth’s private refrain into a group affirmation. Out now via Egghunt/Northern Spy.

Tommy Oeffling has announced his new album, Neighbors, out October 30th on 22TWENTY, alongside a video for lead single “Daily on Eggshells.” Directed by Caiden Dohr, the video introduces an album inspired by James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” folding one Saturday in Oeffling’s Milwaukee neighbourhood into a record he wrote, played and recorded almost entirely alone.

Teenage Fanclub have shared “Day In The Sun,” the lead single from their new album “Do Not Dare To Dream,” with a video filmed on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides. Lush multi-part harmonies and 60s jangle, a harp opening and a subtle vox wah, all sparkling with Californian psych glow. Out 9th October via Merge Records.

Neil Young’s songbook gets two more tribute volumes: “Heart of Gold” Vol. 2 – “Out of the Blue” and Vol. 3 – “Into the Black” arrive on 6th November, benefiting The Bridge School. King Princess covers “Helpless” and Draco Rosa reworks “After the Gold Rush”, leading a cast of more than twenty that includes My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse and Lucinda Williams.

Jeffrey Silverstein shares “Portland Works”, the latest single from new album “Doggone” (23rd October, Full Time Hobby). A full-bodied psychedelic song, it cruises on a deep-seated groove and breezy summer pacing, saving its headiest moment for the outro. It follows “Out of Tune”, his Devendra Banhart collaboration, and lands with an animated visualiser by Squeeeeee Animations.

Susanna premieres a live video of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” — a song Susanna first recorded twenty years ago with Susanna and the Magical Orchestra on “Melody Mountain”. People still ask for it at her concerts; here she performs it alongside guitarist Juhani Silvola, whom she has played alongside as a duo since 2020.

Jude Brothers announces “Dogwood Maiden Voyage”, their first double LP, out 25 September on Gar Hole Records. The Arkansas-born songwriter shares the first single, “Desire & Devotion” — written on the cliffs above the Northumberland sea and carried by a hand-built puppet video — a churning meditation on desire, devotion and the impossible wish to be free of wanting.

Le Ren shares “Every Age”, a new single and video directed by Talvi Faustmann, from her forthcoming album “Don’t Be Funny Without Me”, out 28 August via Royal Mountain Records. Over guitar, gentle percussion, fiddle and lapsteel, she turns a simple wish — to have known someone at every age of their life — into her tenderest song yet.

Sylvan Esso have announced “Ow ∞”, their first album in four years and the first released on their own Psychic Hotline label. Made almost daily since 2022 at their Betty’s studio, it gathers the largest community of musicians the duo have ever worked with across twelve tracks. Out 11 September.

Duffy x Uhlmann — Meg Duffy of Hand Habits and Gregory Uhlmann — announce their second album “Hot Creek”, out 14 August on Orindal Records, and share new single “Public Life”. Taking Adrienne Rich’s “dream of a common language” as its frame, the duo reach for each other with two guitars on a record named after a Californian geothermal spring.