Alex Gallacher

Beverly Glenn-Copeland announces his new studio album, Laughter In Summer. This deeply personal project is a collaboration with his wife, eco-poet, actress, and producer Elizabeth Copeland, born from their nearly half-century-long love story. The album is described as a tender ledger of shared devotion, memories, grief, and joy, arriving as Glenn navigates LATE, a type of Dementia. Listen to their double single, “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One).”

Bristol-based chamber folk quintet Hedera, featuring Lulu Austin, Maisie Brett, Tamsin Elliott, Beth Roberts and Isis Wolf-Light, have released the first offering from their long-awaited eponymous debut album (due for release February 2026, Cuculi Records). ‘Sterretjie’ is a buoyant original track accompanied by a video set against the sweeping ochre cliffs of the Jurassic Coast.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Tindersticks, Smog, Dory Previn, Low, Gillian Welch, Jim White, Giant Sand, Ellen McIlwaine, Scott Walker, Nick Lowe, Grinderman, Vic Chesnutt, Dean & Britta, Martha Wainwright, Meg Baird and Karen Dalton.

Our latest Mixtape walks the line between tradition and experimentation courtesy of French label Pagans, alongside music from Anna & Elizabeth, Joseph Decosimo, Nathan Bowles, Jack Rose, Bill MacKay, Buck Curran, Greenvine, Gwenifer Raymond, Brad Barr, and Toby Hay.

We look back at Anna and Elizabeth’s groundbreaking self-titled album, to be released on vinyl for the first time on its Tenth Anniversary – “a rare album that is as intimate as it is ambitious and as idiosyncratic as it is reverential.”

Joshua Burnside shares his new single and video “Nicer Part of Town”–”a daydream song, following thoughts and memories around, some nice, some not so nice,” in which he heads back to a “childhood kitchen, and then up into the heavens on an old spaceship. We then sleep rough under a bridge, get blown up by a car bomb and end up in the garden of Eden.”

Watch the accompanying music video for Irish duo Rezo’s new single, “Nothing Else.” Produced by David Odlum, the track follows their critically acclaimed 2024 album, The Age of Self-Help. Featuring the poignant lyrics and heartfelt melodies of Colm O’Connell and Rory McDaid, “Nothing Else” captures “the abject tragedies of life and the power of love,” cementing Rezo’s status as a key alternative Irish act.

Another Monthly Subscriber playlist featuring the artists we’ve been enjoying over the past month, including: Junior Brother, The Little Unsaid, Ron Sexsmith, Eve Adams, JJJJJErome Ellis, Lucrecia Dalt, Jens Kuross, Iona Zajac, James Yorkston, Gwenifer Raymond, Steve Gunn, Buck Curran, Saul Williams, Carson McHone, Big Thief, claire rousay, Joan Shelley, Fruit Bats, Kathryn Williams, Trond Kallevåg, Patrick Shiroishi, M. Sage, Smote, SML, Sir Richard Bishop, Katie Spencer, Michael Hurley & …

Following the release of her fourth album, Enter Now Brightness, in February, New Zealander Nadia Reid delves into the familial and folk shadows of one of music’s most mythologised figures. Reid has released a digital double A-side that goes beyond mere tribute to intergenerational conversation: a cover of Nick Drake’s “Poor Boy” paired, strikingly, with his mother Molly Drake’s spectral retort, “Poor Mum.”

Following the release of her debut album, Rift, Clara Mann has just announced Rift (Extended Edition), which includes two new covers and two French-language versions of standout tracks from the original album. Accompanied by Owen Spafford on fiddle, and released today as a double A-side single, listen to her performing “500 Miles,” a traditional song inspired by Hedy West’s version and “My Life,” by Iris DeMent.

In an echo of the past, Rafael Toral unveils a new single, “Solitude,” from his upcoming album, Traveling Light. The track revisits the Duke Ellington standard, a piece that has long served as a canvas for improvisers from Thelonious Monk to Mary Halvorson. Yet, Toral’s interpretation channels the profound, almost sacred vulnerability of Billie Holiday’s classic take.

Another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Ganavya, Frantz Casseus, Flaer, Leyla McCalla, She Keeps Bees, The Memory Band, Cerys Hafana, Colleen, Jesca Hoop, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, Fiona Soe Paing, Emily Wittbrodt, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Bob Frank, Mike Cooper & Steve Gunn, Cheri Knight, Ivor Cutler, Gruff Rhys, Dirty Projectors, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gregory and the Hawk, deførmed.