Alex Gallacher

Elanor Moss has shared “Fixer”, the final single before her debut album “The Knife, The Needle”, out 21st August on Merge Records. It opens the album and gives it its name, the chorus turning a knife into a needle that might stitch the wound instead. The video is by H. Hawkline.

Richard Thompson will release his 20th studio album, “Hippies, Thugs and Heroes”, on October 16th via New West Records, and has shared the first single, “Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking” — a hustling London song carried by strutting, raw-nerve riffs. Recorded live in New Jersey with his touring band, the album is, in his words, “less them and more me”.

Clara Mann has announced her second album, “Wishbone”, out 23rd October via state51, and shared the lead single and video “News From Home”. Produced by Fabian Prynn in Norfolk, it follows 2025’s “Rift” — where that debut sat in a single strange, isolated shade of blue- “Wishbone” is built on contrast. A UK and European tour runs from September.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew features new tunes from M.G. Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon, Alex Dupree, Colin Stetson & Brighde Chaimbeul, Bitichin Bajas, Cinder Well, Minna, Jeffrey Silverstein, Le Ren, Ben McElroy, Jackson Hoyt & Kaia Kater, Karine Polwart, The Deep Dark Woods and more.

Eliza Carthy pays tribute to Martin Carthy on her new single ‘Mr Sits in the Dark’, out today on Hem-Hem Records and accompanied by a video created by Marry Waterson. Her new album, Frenemies, will follow in the Autumn, featuring special guests, including Jools Holland, Robyn Hitchcock, Miranda Richardson, and more, with a special album launch party at Dingwalls on October 22nd.

KLOF No. 91 gathers fourteen tracks from albums we’ve been reviewing: Kevin Coleman’s “K.C. Blues”, Dan Haywood and Harvey Lord’s “Ten Signs”, Creekbed Carter Hogan’s “Peasants Revolt”, Cinder Well’s “A Blooming Body” and Nick Granata’s debut “My Heart is Running Backwards!…”. Martin Carthy returns from the “Along The Road Forever” boxset, live at Sidmouth in 1978, plus The Modern Folk, Andrew Weathers, Tucker Zimmerman and Stella Kola.

Boyhood (Caylie Runciman) has announced a new album, “I’ll Dream InStead,” out October 23rd via Hand Drawn Dracula, alongside lead single “Loner.” Recorded largely alone on her bed through a rural winter, the album marks a period of renewal for Runciman, who calls it evidence that she’s “found herself again.” She tours North America this summer.

Tōth has shared a live performance of “Easy,” recorded with the 85-voice Brooklyn Choir Project at a Brooklyn church. Taken from his acclaimed album “And The Voice Said,” the song builds from hushed verses to a full-choir climax, turning Tōth’s private refrain into a group affirmation. Out now via Egghunt/Northern Spy.

Tommy Oeffling has announced his new album, Neighbors, out October 30th on 22TWENTY, alongside a video for lead single “Daily on Eggshells.” Directed by Caiden Dohr, the video introduces an album inspired by James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” folding one Saturday in Oeffling’s Milwaukee neighbourhood into a record he wrote, played and recorded almost entirely alone.

Teenage Fanclub have shared “Day In The Sun,” the lead single from their new album “Do Not Dare To Dream,” with a video filmed on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides. Lush multi-part harmonies and 60s jangle, a harp opening and a subtle vox wah, all sparkling with Californian psych glow. Out 9th October via Merge Records.

Neil Young’s songbook gets two more tribute volumes: “Heart of Gold” Vol. 2 – “Out of the Blue” and Vol. 3 – “Into the Black” arrive on 6th November, benefiting The Bridge School. King Princess covers “Helpless” and Draco Rosa reworks “After the Gold Rush”, leading a cast of more than twenty that includes My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse and Lucinda Williams.

Jeffrey Silverstein shares “Portland Works”, the latest single from new album “Doggone” (23rd October, Full Time Hobby). A full-bodied psychedelic song, it cruises on a deep-seated groove and breezy summer pacing, saving its headiest moment for the outro. It follows “Out of Tune”, his Devendra Banhart collaboration, and lands with an animated visualiser by Squeeeeee Animations.