Alex Gallacher
Alex Gallacher
KLOF Mag Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Head Janitor, Mix Master & Playlist Curator, Music Hunter, Film Photographer, Avid Reader/Listener, World Cinema, Beat Generation, Underground Culture. On this ship full-time...Steady Ahead
London cellist midori jaeger shares “hunted”, the second single from her new EP “(Re)planted”, out 26th August. Built around the piano rather than her pizzicato cello, it trades rhythmic push for something smoother and more rippling. “(Re)planted” follows this year’s “(Un)planted”, turning her groove-led writing softer and more expansive as she transmutes a life of uprooting and replanting into song.
Elanor Moss shares the video for “The Way That it Feels,” the second single from her debut album “The Knife, The Needle,” out August 21st on Merge Records. Sung over birdsong and classical guitar, it’s the last song she wrote for the record, and the accompanying video was shot on 16mm film in the Greek Peloponnese by Matthew Thorne.
Duffy x Uhlmann’s “Doing It for Me” is their first new material since 2023’s “Doubles,” both out via Orindal Records. Built from layers of processed guitar loops, the track is busier and more restless than the duo’s earlier work; watch the accompanying visualiser, which was illustrated by Christina Huang.
Prison share “Sunset Park,” the second single from “Big Rigs on the BQE,” out July 31st via Drag City. Cut from a nineteen-minute album track, the single edit comes from a session recorded at a Sunset Park studio overlooking the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The video, directed by guitarist Matt Lilly, follows a hazy, dreamlike logic. Prison tour the US in August.
Hollow Hand, the Brighton project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, shares “I Turned My Back On The World”, the second single from fourth album “Wish Road South”, out September 4th via Loose Music / Soundly. A broken Wurlitzer and drifting synths carry a homesick reverie through distant childhood memories and the Cornish sea.
Gaspar Claus shares “Colaïdo”, the latest single from his new album “Cells”, out 25th September via InFiné. Built entirely from the sounds of his cello, the track is named after a sailboat once owned by his late father, the flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, and rolls across slow, overlapping waves of the Mediterranean.
Biita Houdei announces her debut album “This Bed Was Made For Me”, out 18th September on Basin Rock and Father/Daughter. Lead single “The Ground Here” brings in Big Thief’s Buck Meek, moving from a parched California summer to the rivers of her Ozark home. Produced by Haley Heynderickx, Biita sewed a patch for every song as she worked; together, they became the quilt featured on the album’s cover.
Charlie Wheatley has announced “Live at the Chapel”, out 22nd September, the first instalment in a three-part series reworking folk manuscripts from the British Isles through live performance. Recorded live at Stone Nest with two double basses and viola, it holds traditional dance tunes against devotional song, drone and minimalism. The lead single, a set of three tunes, arrives today.
“and remade” is Freda D’Souza’s looping sonic poem, drawn from an installation she built as an act of resistance against enforced clock time. Written across a solstice on a Mersea houseboat and sonified through a solar-powered cassette, each digital download comes with a one-off cyanotype stop-motion film frame.
Morning Rituals & Evening Ragas is a special KLOF Mag playlist that has been quietly growing. It features over 26 hours of primarily instrumental music — 175 artists covering folk, ambient, and experimental genres. It’s long enough to play all day while you work and carry on deep into the night and the next morning.
Declan O’Rourke shares “Echo”, the lead single from his eighth album “Oceanic”, due 16 October. Produced with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil, it’s a beefy, robust rocker — and its video offers a first look at “Almost With You”, the Australian feature in which O’Rourke makes his screen acting debut, premiering at Galway Film Fleadh on 9 July.