Alex Gallacher
Alex Gallacher
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of KLOF Mag - I keep things running here and put together the playlists and mixes.
Wendy Eisenberg has shared Old Myth Dying, the second single from their forthcoming self-titled album, out April 3rd via Joyful Noise Recordings. Written during a fever in early 2024, the track pairs an urgent vocal performance with polyrhythmic guitar work, and signals a compelling shift toward folk songcraft — drawing on John Prine, Gillian Welch, and Joanna Newsom — after a decade of genre-spanning work.
Visible Cloaks have announced Paradessence, their third album, and shared lead single Disque featuring Motion Graphics. The Portland duo’s follow-up to the acclaimed Reassemblage draws its title from Alex Shakar’s concept of paradoxical essence — the schismatic core that makes something desirable through contradiction. The accompanying video, directed by Grade Eterna and Spencer Doran, transforms a London greenhouse into an uncanny 3D point cloud.
L.Y.R. share the title track from their forthcoming album Dark Sky Reservation, out 3rd April via Real World Records. Named for those regions where light pollution is outlawed, the song turns that environmental concept inward — into doubt, hesitation, and the uneasy beauty of the unknown. Richard Walters’ ethereal vocals and Armitage’s dry spoken word make for a quietly devastating pairing.
Marisa Anderson’s The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1 draws from the late Harry Smith’s vast private collection to present nine guitar arrangements sourced from regions the US has been in conflict with since 1970. First single Taqsim for Guitar offers a meticulous reworking of a 1955 Syrian field recording — Anderson’s fretted instrument reaching, carefully, toward music it was never designed to hold.
North Carolina duo Tacoma Park have shared “Untied,” the first reveal from their forthcoming album Baltimore, due April 24th via Centripetal Force. Mastered by Chuck Johnson, the album finds Ben Felton and John Harrison at their most intentional — editing sprawling improvisations into something focused and cinematic, with electronics and acoustic instrumentation suspended in generous, deliberate space. Vinyl preorders are open now.
Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Sam Amidon. In this series, we ask an artist to select ten items from their home, photograph and talk about them; a form of storytelling through objects. Sam, along with Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, will launch their new album Willows at Kings Place on 24th February–an 80-minute concert of remembrance and renewal.
Natalie Wildgoose has shared Nobody on the Path, the lead single from her forthcoming EP Rural Hours (15th April, state51). Wrapping her trembling vocals in guitar, piano, banjo and violin, the track draws on the physical rhythms of solitary moorland walking — music that moves the way the title suggests.
The latest KLOF Mixtape is an eclectic offering, featuring Cinder Well, whom many are discovering for the first time thanks to “The Wise Man’s Song”, the theme to the BBC Drama Small Prophets. Plus we’ve also music from Jenny Lysander, Cynefin, Northern Flyway (ft. Jenny Sturgeon, Inge Thomson, Sarah Hayes, Jason Singh), Frankie Archer, Malmin, Sourdure, Elle Osborne, Matt Kivel, M G Boulter, Sam Moss, Damien Jurado and The Lords.
Joshua Burnside’s “The Last Armchair” opens with a brutal intimacy: “Oh, The last armchair you ever sat on / Before you overdosed / Is the one I sit in every morning / To eat my egg and toast;” the Belfast songwriter revealing how grief strips away every carefully constructed illusion of adulthood, that beneath mortgages and responsibilities we’re all still waiting for reassurance.
Lemoncello reveal their new single “Meet Me Halfway”, their first new music since last year’s self-titled debut. Written in a clifftop cabin overlooking the Skellig Islands and later recorded with co-producer Ruth O’Mahony-Brady, the six-minute track explores modern disconnection through sparse guitar, voice, and distant strings—a quietly persuasive meditation on vulnerability and connection.
The Notwist have shared “Projectors,” a new single from one of 2026’s most anticipated albums, News from Planet Zombie (March 13th via Morr Music). The track offsets burbling electronics against country-tinged songwriting, featuring guests Enid Valu, Haruka Yoshizawa, Chris Xiao, and Mathias Götz. The band describes the lyrics as “written as if Rutger Hauer could sing them in Blade Runner.”