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Camille Camille returns with In A Song, a dusty and atmospheric new single out now via Labelman. Built around insistent train-like percussion and ambitious fingerpicking, the track sees Belgian singer-songwriter Camille Willemart leaning into psychedelic folk territory — restless, searching, and quietly assured. The first taste of an upcoming album, it’s an ode to doubt and the pull of new beginnings.

Grief can do strange things to a songwriter. For Alela Diane, the death of Portland folk legend Michael Hurley last year didn’t close a door — it flung one wide open. Who’s Keeping Time?, her seventh album and debut on Loose Music, arrives May 22nd as a communal, attic-recorded reckoning with time, memory, and the enduring pull of song. Listen to lead single ‘California’.

Juni Habel has shared the video for Stand So Still, the latest single from her upcoming third album Evergreen In Your Mind (out April 10th via Basin Rock). Shot by Malin Longva at Verdens Ende, Norway, the visuals match the song’s quiet ambiguity — a folk gem that opens like something ancient before drifting, on Habel’s voice alone, somewhere entirely its own.

Hen Ogledd have shared the video for End of the Rhythm, the final single from their new album DISCOMBOBULATED (out February 20th). Directed by James Hankins and rooted in the gaudy euphoria of early 90s rave visuals, it’s a fitting companion to what KLOF’s Thomas Blake calls “their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.” The band also announce an 8-hour London sound-ritual this June.

Abigail Lapell shares “Hazel,” the first single from forthcoming album Shadow Child — a nine-song cycle written during pregnancy after years of IVF and loss. Featuring Jill Barber, the track is a spare lullaby addressed to a child whose existence remains uncertain, its plucked guitar drifting through childhood imagery — sandcastles, snow angels, a name carried off on the summer air.

Wendy Eisenberg has shared Old Myth Dying, the second single from their forthcoming self-titled album, out April 3rd via Joyful Noise Recordings. Written during a fever in early 2024, the track pairs an urgent vocal performance with polyrhythmic guitar work, and signals a compelling shift toward folk songcraft — drawing on John Prine, Gillian Welch, and Joanna Newsom — after a decade of genre-spanning work.

Visible Cloaks have announced Paradessence, their third album, and shared lead single Disque featuring Motion Graphics. The Portland duo’s follow-up to the acclaimed Reassemblage draws its title from Alex Shakar’s concept of paradoxical essence — the schismatic core that makes something desirable through contradiction. The accompanying video, directed by Grade Eterna and Spencer Doran, transforms a London greenhouse into an uncanny 3D point cloud.

L.Y.R. share the title track from their forthcoming album Dark Sky Reservation, out 3rd April via Real World Records. Named for those regions where light pollution is outlawed, the song turns that environmental concept inward — into doubt, hesitation, and the uneasy beauty of the unknown. Richard Walters’ ethereal vocals and Armitage’s dry spoken word make for a quietly devastating pairing.

Marisa Anderson’s The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1 draws from the late Harry Smith’s vast private collection to present nine guitar arrangements sourced from regions the US has been in conflict with since 1970. First single Taqsim for Guitar offers a meticulous reworking of a 1955 Syrian field recording — Anderson’s fretted instrument reaching, carefully, toward music it was never designed to hold.

North Carolina duo Tacoma Park have shared “Untied,” the first reveal from their forthcoming album Baltimore, due April 24th via Centripetal Force. Mastered by Chuck Johnson, the album finds Ben Felton and John Harrison at their most intentional — editing sprawling improvisations into something focused and cinematic, with electronics and acoustic instrumentation suspended in generous, deliberate space. Vinyl preorders are open now.

Natalie Wildgoose has shared Nobody on the Path, the lead single from her forthcoming EP Rural Hours (15th April, state51). Wrapping her trembling vocals in guitar, piano, banjo and violin, the track draws on the physical rhythms of solitary moorland walking — music that moves the way the title suggests.

Joshua Burnside’s “The Last Armchair” opens with a brutal intimacy: “Oh, The last armchair you ever sat on / Before you overdosed / Is the one I sit in every morning / To eat my egg and toast;” the Belfast songwriter revealing how grief strips away every carefully constructed illusion of adulthood, that beneath mortgages and responsibilities we’re all still waiting for reassurance.