Alex Gallacher

Iron & Wine announces his seventh full-length album, Light Verse, described as his most playful, with its title reflecting how the songs were born with joy after the heaviness and anxiety of the pandemic. Watch the accompanying lyric video for “You Never Know”.

In a follow-up to his homespun 2020 gem Bobby Joe Hope, Jon McKiel returns on May 3rd with Hex. Listen to the title track – “Sometimes observing systems and people on the brink of collapse, it feels as though there is a hex on all of us…”

In 2005 a film was made of the Green Man Festival in Wales. It has been unreleased and unseen for nearly 20 years and features performances by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Alasdair Roberts and Joanna Newsom, among others.

Taken from her new album ‘Coming Home’, watch Cara Dillon’s new video for her latest single ‘Giving’, inspired by her 92-year-old mother; within it lies a distilled reflection of Irish hospitality and generosity.

Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine, Emma Gatrill, Ian George (ft. Anna Moss), Swimming Bell, Wes Swing, Steve Gunn and David Moore, Touki, Cheri Knight, Milkweed, Great Aunt Ida, Big Search, The Hackles and Wild Roots Rising.

Featuring music from Henry Lowther Band, Jim White, Sage Alyte, numün, an epica raga-like live offering from Elkhorn & Mike Gangloff, Lake Mary, Glenn Kimpton and Micah Frank and Chet Doxas’ Larum.

LA songwriter Katie Schottland, aka Swimming Bell, is our latest Off the Shelf guest in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. She shares some lovely moments…her new album ‘Charlie’ is out now.

Embracing Brazilian Tropicalisimo, Afrobeat and Ethiopian folk, Leyla McCalla announces her new album ‘Sun Without The Heat’. Taken from the album, she shares the introspective ‘Tree’ and music video for the upbeat and playful ‘Scaled to Survive’.

Six Organs of Admittance, the long-running moniker of Ben Chasny, announces his 21st album, Time is Glass, out April 26th via Drag City, and shares its lead single/video, “The Mission” – a nod to the acid-folk of Current 93 and the cosmic pop of Chris Bell’s Big Star.  

Dominik Traub aka Dandara is to release his debut solo album featuring the late Algerian vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Chakib Bouzidi. Listen to the lead single Muri.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew, featuring John Lurie’s mythical Marvin Pontiac, Meril Wubslin, Wau Wau Collectif, The Burning Hell, Rachael Dadd, Cyril Cyril & Meridian Brothers, Adrian Crowley, Lewsberg, Nina Nastasia & Jim White, Niamh Bury, Villagers, and more.

Watch the lyric video below for Lyonesse, the first preview from the album Lost Songs of Scilly, a new collaboration between Isles of Scilly-based composer Piers Lewin and John Patrick Elliott of The Little Unsaid.