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
meka is Melissa Lingo, an American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. She is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, a series where we ask artists to present objects from their homes and talk about them. Her latest album, The Rabbit (out tomorrow on Dumont Dumont), is profoundly shaped by her experience of living with chronic illness, transforming hardship into tender yet illuminating songs that balance grief and hope.
Those who heard our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist (No. 103) would have heard The Rust Belt, the latest single from Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt). The accompanying video, animated by artist Jack Colbert, celebrates the myriad eclectic materials used to make the new Matmos album, Metallic Life Review, animating pocket-sized metallic objects that Colbert sourced from metal detecting.
Benoît Pioulard began his Stanza series as an early morning sonic journaling practice in 2015 using a Telecaster and tape recorder. The series evolved from hazy, unadorned experiments to more verdant and complex instrumental pieces, characterised by a blissed-out tape saturation and ambient grace that has become a hallmark of his uniquely meditative sound. Taken from his latest album in the series, Stanza IV, watch his video for Xaipe.
This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Sinéad O’Connor, Tapir!, The Budos Band, Mark Fry, Rogér Fakhr & Bruna-Maria Naufal, Shana Cleveland, Faith Eliott, The Gentle Good, The HP’s & Julian Taylor, Arooj Aftab with Moor Mother & Joel Ross, David Byrne, RÓIS, Raveloe, Felbm and Matmos. The playlist is available to all paid Substack Subscribers and can be heard via Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal.
Available for pre-order now, Shane Parish has announced a new live LP, titled Solo At Cafe OTO (out July 1st via his own label, Red Eft Records), on which he explores British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, from the television program Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”.
Our Song of the Day comes from Lila Tristram, whose new single ‘Overtake’ is released today. Tristram isn’t afraid of sharing her inner thoughts, but how she presents them makes them outstanding and memorable. There’s a melancholic shimmer to her delivery that does recall some of the classic contemporary folk singers of the past, and she wholeheartedly deserves those comparisons to Drake and Mitchell.
Another KLOF Mag mixtape: A tranquil, soft ambient journey with pockets of energy to wake you from your summer garden slumber. Featuring Swimming Bell, Avery Friedman, Friendship, Herman Düne, The Owl Service, Quinie, Poor Creature, Brown Wimpenny, Donald WG Lindsay, Geir Sundstøl, Iona Lane, Bells Larsen, Marc Ribot, Joseph Allred, Lady Queen Paradise, Hayden Pedigo, William Tyler, and Loose Diamonds.