Alex Gallacher

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist features Jacken Elswyth, Georgia Harmer, Ichiko Aoba, Saapato & Laraaji, Cynefin, Tuung, David Grubbs, Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, Cameron Knowler, Carlos Niño and more.

Our latest Mixtape features new music from Ian Humberstone, Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, Laurie Torres, Macdara Ó Faoláin, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, The Ocelots, Oh My Sun, Blue Lake, Cynefin, Cameron Knowler and Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl.

Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver share their new single and video, Train Song. Both the visuals, by Marry Waterson, and arrangements are woven together so unconventionally that those everyday scenes take on a magical curiosity as if noticing them for the first time.

Today sees the release of The Ballad of Mic and Susie, the honest and heartfelt new single from Serious Sam Barrett. To celebrate the release, watch Sam performing the song live.

Taken from his impressive 2024 album, One Evening and Other Folk Songs, and filmed by the talented David James Logan, watch Buck Curran with Adele H, Jodi Pedrali, Dave Barbarossa, and Roberto Frassini Moneta performing Deep in the Lovin’ Arms of My Babe.

Rhiannon Giddens and her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson are to reunite on ‘What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow’, an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music. Watch the video for the album track ‘Hook and Line’.

Chicago-based Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl announce their debut album, For Translucence, and share their new single and video “73|74”. Their goal is “for translucence”: for each successive part to add clarity to its others.

Guitarist Cameron Knowler announces his second full-length album, CRK, and shares stunning lead single ‘Felicity’ alongside a video shot on Super 8 film by Steven Perlin.

Macie Stewart announces her International Anthem debut, ‘When the Distance is Blue’, and shares her lead single “Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New”. Watch the accompanying video, filmed and directed by Mikel Patrick Avery.

David Grubbs shares his latest single, “Queen’s Side Eye”, described by his label as a taut, intensively scaled guitar piece with Grubbsian, serpentine changes unfurled in a measured, lucid abstraction.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew includes tracks from two recently lost greats, Marianne Faithfull and Susan Alcorn, plus music from Dana Gavanski, The Gentle Good, Chris Brain, Stein Urheim, Sam Amidon, Rosie Miles, David Thomas Broughton, Joshua Burnside, Blue Lake, Rose City Band and more.

The Gentle Good shares his latest single, Ten Thousand Acres, an ode to the Elan Valley’s many expressions and a meditation on ownership and our perception of landscape throughout time.