Alex Gallacher

Filmed and musically scored by Myles O’Reilly, the flora and fauna of Rónán Ó Snodaigh’s poem, When Peace Broke Out In The Garden, become the central characters in an epic tale of war, negotiation, peace talks and transformation.

Watch the video for ‘We Are A Circle’, the lead single from Simon Jones’ new ‘folk horror’ EP, Lust, Desire & Blood, inspired by memories of Folk Horror classics like Children Of The Stones, and those creepy public information films he watched as a boy.

London Songstress Rosie Alena breathes new life into ‘Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be’, an English Nursery rhyme dating from the late 18th Century and ‘Silver Dagger’ that she recontextualises to fit within her own sonic world – “becoming my stories to tell.”

Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) announces new album, Atlas of Green. Watch Sara Ludy’s video for the lead single, ‘Late Fragment’; the song encompasses the melancholic core of the album, a patchwork of memory and mistranslation.

Colin Meloy recommends Flowery Noontide, a five-hour KLOF Mag psych-folk playlist put together for our Premium Newsletter subscribers. Become a supporter today.

We Are Muffy (Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy) share the gorgeously quirky ‘Eel Song’ and ’20th Century Folk Hymnal’, the latter being the lead track from their new album “Lost Things Returning”.

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew Playlist – Hana Stretton, The Baird Sisters, Langkamer, Mountain Man, Laura Jane Wilkie, The Innocence Mission, The Leisure Society, Serafina Steer, Plu, Anna & Elizabeth, Nora Brown, House and Land, Juni Habel, James Yorkston, The Hand and more.

Watch the late great Kentucky multi-instrumentalist Jack Bunch performing ‘Cowboy Special’, taken from the forthcoming new Dolceola Recordings release – “Not A Flower On Dogwood Flats: The Music Of Jack Bunch & Laurel County”. It’s magical and timeless.

With the deeply immersive Wild Silence, we are given a glimpse of the world of Irish ornithologist and sound recordist Seán Ronayne, who captures the sound of nature without anthropogenic noise. This immersive album precedes his memoir, Nature Boy, which will be published in October.

Taken from Dean Owens forthcoming new album ‘Spirit Ridge’, watch the video for ‘My Beloved Hills’, his lead single. The new album is as big and cinematic as Dean’s recent collaboration with Calexico, with an equally deeply rooted sense of place.

Lisa O’Neill has announced two very special ‘Symphony for the Moons’ orchestral shows this winter at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia.

In their latest Echos documentary, Murailles Music presents the music of Borja Flames. ‘cosmogonie pop’ examines Borja’s music and synesthesia. It’s a beautiful insight and an informative documentary that offers plenty of food for thought on music today.