Alex Gallacher

As we wind down towards New Year, enjoy our Albums of the Year 2024 playlist. It’s an eclectic offering featuring over 11 hours of music, taking in folk, jazz, avant-garde and experimental music.

Listen to our latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist. It’s an ambient and fairly mellow affair featuring a few releases from the Hubro label and others, alongside new releases from Chris Brain, Tamsin Elliott and Peter Broderick.

For those that need their minds purged of the overabundance of commercial music this time of year, KLOF No. 37 counters with pagan vibes, electro-folk fusion and improvised sounds that briefly dabble with the festive and then throw you a left hook.

Listen to the latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Henry Thomas, The Black Twig Pickers, The Balfa Brothers, Jesse Fuller, Buell Kazee, Serious Sam Barrett, John Renbourn, Stone & Sue, Tim Eriksen, Joseph Decosimo, Glenn Jones, Memphis Jug Band, Anna & Elizabeth and more.

Ross Ainslie provides a fascinating insight into the creation of his new album, Pool. Listen to the album and read his track-by-track guide, written exclusively for KLOF Mag.

Covering folk, jazz, experimental, avant-garde, field recordings and more, KLOF Mag’s editor takes us on an eclectic meander through their 2024 Albums of the Year.

Enjoy some of our popular festive Mixtapes, including guest mixtapes from Michael Tanner, Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band) and Nigel Spencer of Manchester’s Folk Police Recordings.

Listen to the latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Laura Jane Wilkie, Swimming Bell, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Emma Gatrill, Leyla McCalla, Itasca, Niamh Bury, Magic Tube String Band, Jim White & Marisa Anderson, The Decemberists, Rosali, and more.

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Salt River’, Sam Amidon shares a lyric video for his new single ‘Friends and Neighbors’, a joyful rendition of Ornette Coleman’s ode to communality. It’s also our Song of the Day.

A 1960s/70s classic folk mixtape featuring Sandra Kerr & John Faulkner, Dave Swarbrick, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, John Renbourn, Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, Trees, Richard & Linda Thompson, Bert Jansch, Steve Ashley and more.

Watch the video for ‘Next Time Around’, the collaborative new single between Noble Jacks and Elles Bailey, which celebrates the joy of reunion and the transformative power of reconciliation.

The latest Monday Morning Brew playlist has a quirky aesthetic that spans decades, deep-nature vibes and loner folk, cowboy psychedelia and campfire anthems…littered with endorphin triggers.