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Arborea’s new album, Red Planet, is released today and to celebrate we’re very proud to be offering this first exclusive viewing of their new video for Phantasmagoria in Two, a beautiful and ethereal Tim Buckley cover which features on the album.

Ruarri Joseph has just released a video for his new single Severed Dreams which was released yesterday. This light-hearted video is definately worth a few chuckles.

The Decemberists have released a new video ‘This Is Why We Fight’. The video, features a post apocalyptic world populated by children which has the dark undertones of Lord of the Flies.

Watch the latest PJ Harvey video for Let England Shake for the track On Battleship Hill. It opens in the house in Berlin where Seamus Murphy was staying while editing the films with Sebastian Gollek.

Watch the new music video for Loch Lomond’s “Elephants and Little Girls” directed by Haley Young and taken from their new album Little Me Will Start a Storm.

A double helping of PJ Harvey this weekend as another video from the 12 filmed by Seamus Murphy are uncovered. This is Written on the Forehead which you can watch below as well as read what Seamus Murphy had to say about the film and song.

Watch the full length film: An Island, for one week only. In August 2010, French film maker Vincent Moon went to the Baltic island of Als where he met up with the Danish eight piece band, Efterklang.

The 6th Film from PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake has been released. The 12 films made by Seamus Murphy set out to capture and interpret the idea of England. The film focuses “on the sound of the song itself which has a melancholic, tragic lilt to it, like a resigned love song of acceptance.” Watch England below.

Peter Wolf Crier have probably found themselves in some unusual locations for sessions, but in a greenhouse? Surprisingly, the acoustics sound quiet good. Check out their North Shore Session as they tackle the plant life and go green with Untitled 101 off their debut Jagjaguwar release Inter-Be.

Emily and the Woods has just recorded a video session for Secret Session on which she sings songs from her new EP which features Ted from Mumford and Sons as well as Marcus from Willkommen Collective. Watch it below:

Introducing: Duo Cobra – Their breadth of influences is huge and ranges from the bossa nova of Tom Zé, the experimental folk of Jim O´Rourke, the rock of Frank Zappa, the pop of Vainica Doble and the electronic music of Aphex Twin

This wonderful film from director Austin Wilson looks behind the scenes at Alela Diane and her forthcoming album. Shot entirely in her Portland home the film offers a very down to earth view of everyday life as well as a little insight into her inspirations and her new album.

PJ Harvey has released the 5th Film, from a series of 12 short films, By Seamus Murphy. Murphy, an award winning photographer, has spent over two decades uniquely documenting conflict through his lens. Watch the video below

HI54LOFI attempted to cram over 10 years of Patrick Porter creativity into one free digital mix tape. It comes in at an amazing 40+ minutes. I wouldn’t know where to start! All that aside, it is now your chance to explore –the man, the myth, the mystic– further.

Elysian Fields performed for LaBlogotheque recently. As is normal with many sessions on LaBlogotheque things never quite go as expected. The arrival of the New York duo was not exactly uneventful. The session, despite a jet-lagged-fatigued couple was still exceptional and beautiful!

We were introduced to Nataniel Rateliff by the good folks at Open House Festival, Belfast. This is his latest session on which he sings Boil And Fight.

A short film by Myles O’Reilly following Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh and Kate Ellis to Iceland to meet with band Amiina. The first chapter in a project to develop closer relations between artists living in Ireland and Iceland.

A new feature on Folk Radio UK is a favourite weekly video. We decided to start at the top rung level, and this will be hard to beat. This is from a 1989 edition of “Aly Bain and Friends”, with none other than Dick Gaughan performing ‘Both Sides of the Tweed’ from his 1980 “Handful of Earth” album.