Alex Gallacher

Listen to another Monday Morning Brew playlist, featuring Mark Fry, Daisy Rickman, Ryley Walker, The Keithe Lowrie Duet, Mich Blue Smaldone, P.G. Six, Nico, Ed Askew, Jim Ghedi, Mugwort, Dando Shaft, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Carol Kleyn, These Trails, Appendix Out, Anne Briggs and more.

Jonathan Day has released a moving new song and video for easter/Ostara featuring portraits by Anne Brierley made during the Gaza conflict – “These beautiful faces are lost to us now – we will not hear their laughter, see their drawings, hear their music.”

Drag City announce a Gastr del Sol box set, We Have Dozens of Titles. Listen to the song “The Seasons Reverse,” recorded at their final show during the 1997 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville.

Samana—Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett—have announced the release of their third self-titled album and shared the opening track ‘The Knife’ – “…a freeing of stored weight and emotion; the confrontation of somatic memory…”.

If ‘Old Fashioned’ means favouring the past, in Kyle Andrews’s case, that’s turned out to be no bad thing, as evidenced by his new video, taken from his newly announced 6th studio album, The Whims of a Manic Moon.

Taken from their new album Funeral for Justice, Mdou Moctar deliver their passionate and adrenalin-fuelled new single and video, ‘Imouhar’, a call to the Tuareg people to preserve their Tamasheq language.

Nicolas Michaux premieres a deeply emotive and haunting video for She’s an Easy Rider, a powerful re-adaptation of Tucker Zimmerman’s song. It’s a stunning reinterpretation, the translation of which was clearly not lost on the video’s Director, Kevin Antoine.

Never the Same Way Twice is a new album from The Memory Band, marking the twentieth anniversary of their debut EP. These previously unreleased recordings present a tantalising glimpse of two decades of hauntological and heartfelt collective excursions across the ancient and magical British landscape.

LA-based musician Marina Allen has announced her third studio album, Eight Pointed Star, out June 7th on Fire Records and shares a stunning video, directed by Eliel Ford, for “Red Cloud.”

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Daisy Rickman, Adrianne Lenker, Villagers, Earth Flower, Brahja, John Lurie, Maggie Savoie, Dillbilly, Ask Carol, Erin, Mat & Paul, Waxahatchee, Bill Mackay, Viv & Riley, Ditty, Ben McElroy, Ac Sapphire, Dallas Ugly, Kyle Morgan, Pina Palau and more.

Listen to our latest KLOF Mixtape ft. Skyjelly, Avalanche Kaito, ADG7, Trá Pháidín, Ariel Kalma, Huw Marc Bennett, Cosmo Sheldrake, Daisy Rickman, Hochzeitskapelle, Magic Tuber Stringband, Ruth Garbus, Marie Klock, Sally Anne Morgan and Jim White & Marisa Anderson.

The open vistas and isolating landscape of Jeff Rutherford’s film, ‘A Perfect Day For Caribou’, are perfect for Marisa Anderson to explore in her improvisations on piano and guitar.