Glenn Kimpton

On Beehive Cathedral, Joseph Decosimo, Luke Richardson, and Cleek Schrey take tunes they love and make them as strong and dynamic as possible while maintaining the spirit and the magic that has kept them alive for so long.

Beautifully considered, intricate and finely nuanced, SUSS’s ‘Birds & Beasts’ is a great piece of work. Fresh and confident, the album marks a new beginning for the band while acknowledging their lost comrade, Gary Leib.

Morning Improvisations / Evening Abstractions, the debut collaboration from Elijah McLaughlin and Caleb Willitz’s, is so packed with creative ideas and endeavours that it defies you to switch off from it for a moment. It’s an ace, energising recording that has something for everyone.

Glookies Guit, D.C Cross’s latest offering, encourages deciphering of song titles and deep listening. A musically rich acoustic guitar album of both depth and character, it’s undoubtedly his most accomplished work to date.

Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock’s Two Improvisations is absolutely fascinating music that is as mercurial as it is rhythmic and steady. Imagine Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s A Meeting by the River with the experimental knob turned right up and you’ll get close. Spellbinding.

Locust Land, Bill MacKay’s third solo outing for Drag City, is his most diverse yet, but also his most harmonious and satisfying, which is high praise, considering the quality of his past releases.

It’s unusual to encounter a debut full-length album with as much confidence and clarity as Malin Lewis’s Halocline, which is also a work of subtle, nuanced beauty. We met with the Scottish piper to learn more about it.

We met with guitarist Bill MacKay to discuss Locust Land, his third long player for Drag City. The album’s focus and detail shout confidence and clarity, and it features some of the most driving and uptempo songs he’s ever written.

Swallowtail, Jim White’s and Marisa Anderson’s latest offering, is an album of quiet assurance and power. Shaped through improvisation and musical conversation, it encapsulates everything there is to love about improvised instrumental music.

Halocline, the debut album from Malin Lewis, our Artist of the Month, is a highly creative and singular forty minutes of music that’s unique in its character and emotion. Clever in its approach and balanced in its execution, in short, it’s quite exceptional.

We meet with the ever-generous Martin Simpson to discuss Skydancers, his bumper new double album, out now on Topic Records, plus some of the tools of the trade.

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg are known for putting out intelligent, thought-provoking music and All Gist is the finest example of their skills as a duo so far. A wonderfully soothing recording of top-level musicianship.