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Sam Burton has signed to Captured Tracks and announced “Fairweather Friend,” his third solo album, due October 30th. Lead single “I’m A Stranger,” produced by Jonathan Wilson, arrives with a video by Otium. The album began after a car accident and months of solitary writing in Northern California. Burton joins Widowspeak for UK dates this November.
Watch Twisted Teens’ Jack Massuci-directed video for “Florida Water Blues,” the title track of their third album on Going Underground Records. The New Orleans band’s second release of 2026 trades the nervous energy of “Blame the Clown” for something more patient and atmospheric, with CPN’s multi-instrumental sprawl and RJ Santos’ steel guitar soaked in Gulf Coast humidity.
Isik Kural has announced “Motorcycles and Cherry Wind,” his third album for RVNG Intl., sharing lead single “Winter Sun” with a video by Barnaby Omar. A twelve-track travelogue shaped by field recordings from Istanbul to Scotland, the album features nine international musicians and follows 2024’s “Moon in Gemini,” one of that year’s most rewarding albums.
Recorded at The Pico Union Project in LA over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, “Ghosts of American Psychonauts” reworks three tracks from “The Purple Bird” with new instrumentation and draws from across Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s career — including “I See a Darkness,” the title track of his first BPB album. A stellar cast of guests are included.
Hana Stretton shares the video for “From”, the final single from “tiarn”, her second album out August 7th. Recorded during a storm with a hairbrush, a tiny harp and her dog asleep beside her, it reaches for warmth and connection from the tiny Australian beach town where the album was made. Phil Elverum announces a P.W. Elverum & Sun special edition.
Golden Samphire Band share a video for “Waking Moment,” from debut album “Dream Is The Driver,” out now via Wayside & Woodland Recordings. Junkboy’s Mik and Rich Hanscomb, joined by Hannah Lewis, trace the song back to wild swims in Seaford Bay, paired with a grainy, VHS-to-NTSC video for a hazy, half-remembered summer feel.
Caleb Nichols has announced “Stone Age Is Now: Poems from Lithic”, his new album out via Royal Oakie Records this October – listen to his latest single “A Feeling of a Feeling of a Feeling”. Across twelve tracks, Nichols interpolates poems from his book “Lithic: A Hyperballad” with songs from “Stone Age Is Back”, tracked in five days with engineer Jay Pellicci.
Los Angeles duo Big Trouble — Justin Kohlberg and Daniel Talamantes — share debut single “Mel” ahead of their first album, “On Elephant Hill”, out September 18th via Royal Oakie Records. Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”, the song explores the cost of committing to a cause, with the album drawing on influences from Kate Bush, Juan Gabriel and Paul McCartney in equal measure.
Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe have shared “Mornings with Rita”, the second single from “Routine”, their first album together. Built over several years, they traded home recordings between Copenhagen and rural Sweden, setting zither, clarinet and cello against tape, drum machine and a Yamaha DX7. Out on Tonal Union on September 25th.
Angela Autumn releases her second album, “Believer”, on September 11th via Gar Hole Records, and shares its opening track, “Heavy Tobacco”, with a video she choreographed herself. The song came from thinking about tobacco as both a purifying spirit and a habit that turns harmful, and about choices that carry consequences both ways.
Lee Ranaldo has reworked “The System”, his score for Joris Postema’s documentary on three climate activists, resequencing it to fifteen tracks and adding two pieces held back from the 2025 release. Out today on Bandcamp via Silver Current Records, with vinyl in October, and featuring Leila Bordreuil, Jim Jarmusch and Brian Chase.