Alex Gallacher

Watch Overheard’s video for their brilliant new single ‘Return’; with lyrics inspired by Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life and music that entwines delicate moments with knotty catharsis, there’s a lot to love.

Throat, featuring Mark Mckowski and Nick Power, share their latest single and video ‘Dead Cars’, described as “a northern-Irish blues in e-minor for the Ceefax generation”, directed and filmed on Hi-8 camera by James Slater.

Taken from his new album ‘Sun Glories’ (out this week) and featuring cellist Clarice Jensen and violinist Emily Packard, watch Chuck Johnson’s video for ‘Ground Wave’.

Watch Jem Cohen’s wistful music film for Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s “Aerie”, the album opener of their latest duo album Swallowtail. Cohen: “Collaboration? Improvisation? Song structure? None of it has to be tied down.”

Ella Raphael reveals a brand new acoustic version of ‘Tangled Love’; the accompanying video’s subtly cinematic feel perfectly emphasises the dreamy nature of this noirish lament for love.

The nine-piece ensemble Shovel Dance Collective announce their first studio-recorded album, The Shovel Dance, and share lead single ‘The Merry Golden Tree’, also our Song of the Day.

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring music from Adrianne Lenker, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Constant Follower, Ellie Gowers, Stick in the Wheel, Karl Blau, David Grubb, The Woods Band and more.

Following the well-earned praise for his 2021 debut album, Dublin-based poet and songwriter Christian Wethered reveals his new video for ‘Into the Garden’, a song centred around the concept of home and what it means to belong.

Matador have announced the reissue of Bardo Pond’s Set And Setting (1999) and shared a previously unseen video for the song ‘This Time (So Fucked)’, Directed by Darren Ankenman.

Stick in the Wheel announce their fourth studio album, ‘A Thousand Pokes’, described as a joyous lambasting of everyone and everything that’s wrong in the world, against the real-time backdrop of global uncertainty, corruption and political unrest. Listen to the title track and lead single.

Following her stunning 2022 debut, Ellie Gowers returns with her new single and video ‘A Moment’ – this is a deeply personal offering, one underpinned by newfound creative exploration; exciting times ahead.

Karl Blau has just unveiled his upcoming solo album, “Vultures of Love”. Watch the accompanying homespun video for lead single, “Pasadena,” which draws inspiration from a friend’s breakup and the subsequent longing for reconnection.