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Big Potato Records have announced Dream Me A Dream, the final studio album from Tucker Zimmerman, out June 19th. Listen to the first single Sun In Scorpio now. Pairing banjo, violin and swirling organ with orchestral Moog and analogue synths, Zimmerman leapt into textures recalling the electronica adventures of his earlier work. He was in his eighties, and it sounds like nothing else he recorded.
Watch the video for The Roustabout Song by Old Spot, taken from their new album “Old Spot (II),” out April 24th on Scribe Records. First encountered at a Morris festival singing session, the track traces a transatlantic thread from English folklorist Sandy Paton to songwriter Dillon Bustin, rendered here as a joyful fiddle-and-banjo reimagining with deep political undertones.
Manchester/Liverpool/London folk collective Brown Wimpenny announce their debut album Long Live Brown Wimpenny, due 5th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings, alongside new single Old Molly Metcalfe — a cinematic reinvention of Jake Thackray’s bleak tale of a North Yorkshire shepherdess. Enriching Thackray’s a cappella melody with an eerie, enchanting arrangement, the track opens with a live archive performance from the songwriter himself.
We’re premiering the video for “King Orfeo,” the debut single from Birdvox — the new project from Sarah Hayes, Inge Thomson, Jenny Sturgeon and Charlotte Printer. An adaptation of a traditional Orpheus myth with a refrain in the now extinct Scandinavian language of Norn, it’s the first taste of their forthcoming album “Shamming The Drama,” due on Hudson Records later this year.
Juni Habel releases ‘Pearl Cloud Song,’ a lush instrumental from her forthcoming album “Evergreen In Your Mind,” out 10th April on Basin Rock. Born from an open tuning discovery, the track layers steel-string guitar with Herman Wildhagen’s pedal steel and distant vocal traces — a beautiful, unhurried piece from one of folk’s most compelling new voices.
Magic Tuber Stringband share “Where the Place Becomes Forgetting,” a gorgeous single from their upcoming album “Heavy Water”. Featuring field recordings from a pond on the edge of a nuclear site in Northern Georgia, the track layers steady banjo and guitar riffing with fraught fiddle swoops — watch the intimate live performance video now.
The Huntress and Holder of Hands have announced ‘Babylon’, their second album, due June 5th. A decade on from their debut ‘Avalon’, MorganEve Swain’s project — born from the loss of her husband and musical partner, Dave Lamb (Brown Bird) — returns heavier and fuller, grappling with corruption, redemption and hope. Dark-hued new single Promethean is out now.
Gun Outfit have shared the video for So Easy To Love, the latest single from their double album Process & Reality, out 8th May via Upset The Rhythm. Shot on Super 16mm by Joe DeNardo, the video draws on footage from an experimental western. The track is the most atmospheric and captivating moment on the new album.
Lemoncello announce their second album “Perfect Place,” out May 8th via Claddagh Records, and share the video for new single “Articulate Animal.” Co-produced by Ruth O’Mahony Brady, the album evolves from the duo’s folk-soaked debut into bolder sonic territory, weaving synths and electronic percussion into their organic sound. UK tour dates in May include shows supporting Joshua Burnside, plus Deer Shed and WOMAD.
Hiss Golden Messenger shares “Shaky Eyes,” the second single from forthcoming album “I’m People” (May 1st, Chrysalis Records), alongside a new video. An ode to MC Taylor’s California origins, the track features soulful vocals and rootsy guitar picking, finding beauty and humanity in life’s everyday struggles while gambling on the possibility of change beneath big western skies.
Mikey Kenney has shared the video for “On A Blue Day,” the latest single from his acclaimed album “Tiny Little Light.” A tribute to fiddle music and the players of days past, it treats the instrument as a spiritual vessel — a prayer wheel, as the lyric has it, that throws all the notes to the wind. Filmed in Cornwall, the video accompanies a spring UK tour.