Alex Gallacher

Croz Boyce — Animal Collective’s Dave Portner and Brian Weitz — share the Joseph Ricketts-directed video for “Steven’s Sunshine Rejected,” the second single from their self-titled debut album, out this Friday May 8th on Domino. Down-tuned guitar and slide lines stake out an overcast mood while Weitz’s electronics shift like changeable wind, before the back half tilts towards something firmer.

Zoh Amba has shared the title track and video for Eyes Full, their Matador debut, out June 5th. The track lands harder than lead single Another Time, three players threaded together as Amba’s acoustic holds the centre and asks what makes a heart full. The video, set in a gym, ends with the band joining in the fun for a pickup basketball game.

Monday Morning Brew #153 features new tracks from Jim Moray, Emily Portman, Chris Brain, Henry Parker, Ajeet, Rachel Sermanni & Aisling Urwin, and Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly — a span that takes in Shetland song reimagined through squelchy synths, music inspired by a backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges, and a 16th-century Gaelic lament turned lullaby from The Furrow Collective.

May Day wears two faces — one rooted in nature and ritual, one rooted in struggle – International Workers’ Day. This extra-long Mixtape honours both, with Gil Scott-Heron’s enduring call to action, a Wampís-Aboutface collaboration drawn from the Peruvian Amazon, The MerKaBa Brotherhood’s hermetic ritual textures, the deep blues of Robert Petway, Bonny Billy’s communal warmth, and strange new turns from Tenniscoats, Trio Tekke and Wax Machine.

To celebrate the release of Gallants, Jim Moray is sharing a live performance of “The Nightingale,” recorded at The Arch — a 140-year-old former church in Southport — with his full live band. The recording is taken from a complete live session premiering at 8pm on Sunday May 3rd on YouTube, free to watch with a pay-what-you-want donation ticket available.

Junior Brother has shared an intimate live video for New Road, the closing track of his third album The End, captured by filmmaker Myles O’Reilly. Released last September via Strap Originals, the record earned the Co. Kerry songwriter a Choice Music Prize nomination and Artist of the Month status at KLOF. Watch the new video and read our full review and interview.

Irish alternative trad/folk trio Rattling Ark — featuring cellist Kevin Murphy of Slow Moving Clouds, with Thomas Haugh and Lizzi Murtough — announce their debut album Top of a Mountain, out 19 June 2026. The first single, ‘Leprechaun’, taken from the singing of Maggie Barry, arrives with an astonishing video by Brian Kelly and a deranged violyra solo from guest performer Aki.

The Huntress and Holder of Hands, the musical project of MorganEve Swain, have shared Doctrine, the second single from their forthcoming album, Babylon, due June 5th. Written in 2017 and reshaped through several iterations into this thumping protest song. “Honestly, I was hoping it would be obsolete by now,” Swain says.

Cinder Well returns with new album “A Blooming Body,” out July 17th via Hen House Studios. Lead single and video, “While the Womb Screams Silently” is out now — inspired by Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire — “about listening to your inner knowing, which often screams loudly but is ignored for the sake of conforming -constantly trying to break out of the restraints and projections of patriarchy…”

Jeffrey Silverstein has signed to UK label Full Time Hobby, sharing new single and accompanying video Coming Back Around. Last covered on KLOF for 2023’s Western Sky Music, the Portland-based songwriter sits at the intersection of loner-folk, cosmic country and kraut-laden choogle. Coming Back Around finds him immovable, intentional, and most of all, at peace.

Beverley Martyn, the British folk singer-songwriter whose career ran from the Levee Breakers and Monterey Pop to a hard-won late return, has died at 79. KLOF Mag made her our Artist of the Month in 2014 around “The Phoenix and the Turtle” — the record that confirmed her, in Helen Gregory’s words, as a musical phoenix rising from the ashes.

Brighton’s Phantom Limb give American composer Michael F. Hunt his first-ever commercial release. Passage of Time, out June 19th, gathers three longform works recorded between 1980 and 1985 — pitched as a missing link between New Age, American minimalism and large-scale ensemble composition. The lead single, an edited version of the epic opener “Music for Multiple Keyboards,” is available to stream now.