The pastoral vibes of this week’s Monday Morning Brew arrive courtesy of Mark Fry, Cinder Well, Vic Chesnutt, Jessica Pratt, Smog, Roy Harper, The Innocence Mission, John Fahey, Bert Jansch & Hope Sandoval, Michael Chapman, Marina Allen and more. And since Allen’s Candlepower surfaces in the playlist, we’ve paired this week’s Brew with a feature tracing her arc from that 2021 debut through to last year’s Eight Pointed Star.

The latest Monday Morning Brew brings new dispatches from Aldous Harding, Robyn Hitchcock, Lemoncello, Josienne Clarke, Maisy Owen, Abigail Lapell, Zoh Amba, Lee “Scratch” Perry and lots more in a playlist featuring over two hours of music — plus Substack readers get to enjoy an advance read of our Off the Shelf feature with Abigail Lapell.

Monday Morning Brew #153 features new tracks from Jim Moray, Emily Portman, Chris Brain, Henry Parker, Ajeet, Rachel Sermanni & Aisling Urwin, and Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly — a span that takes in Shetland song reimagined through squelchy synths, music inspired by a backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges, and a 16th-century Gaelic lament turned lullaby from The Furrow Collective.

Monday Morning Brew #152 is open to everyone this week. The playlist opens in Tucson with Howe Gelb’s expanded Giant Sand, lingers with Vetiver, Micah P. Hinson and Bill Callahan, then dives into the Swiss underground via Les Disques Bongo Joe — Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Cyril Cyril, Meril Wubslin — alongside The Black Angels’ Alex Maas and French improviser Romain Baudoin.

The Monday Morning Brew #151 opens with Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell’s Ab’s Song and fans out across twenty-seven tracks, taking in Meg Baird, Jim Ghedi, Sally Anne Morgan, James Elkington, Sam Amidon, Michael Hurley, The Weather Station, Brigid Mae Power, Fruit Bats, Jack Rose, Jolie Holland and many more of folk’s most distinctive voices.

Get the bigger picture with the Monday Morning Brew playlist. Opening with a track from Hannah Read’s The Funghi Sessions Vol 2, this week’s playlist moves through music from Jim Moray, Wendy Eisenberg, Felicia Atkinson, Aldous Harding, Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Damien Jurado, Thomas Dollbaum, Jesca Hoop, Oren Ambarchi, Akusmi, Les Imprimés, Juni Habel, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart and Whitney Johnson, crys cole, and many more.

A stack of new music recommendations & a new Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. BASIC, Cass McCombs, Jeff Coffin, Kevin Farge, Cocanha, Francis Bebey, Natalie Jane Hill, Wendy Eisenberg, Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell, Jesca Hoop, Adrian Sherwood, Courtney Barnett, Classic Trucks, Katy Pinke and lots more. We also dip into the strange world of analogue synth design.

Alongside this week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist, our Substack Subscribers get to read an advance copy of an upcoming Off the Shelf feature from Natalie Wildgoose, whose new EP, Rural Hours, is due April 15th via state51. The Brew includes new tunes from Juni Habel, Magic Tuber Stringband, The Deslondes, Lemoncello, Dead Goat, Andrew Wasylyk, Mike Tod, Kris Drever, Emily Portman, Alela Diane, Sluice, tofusmell, Joshua Burnside and more.

Another fine playlist to begin your week, featuring Andrew Wasylyk, Slow Leaves, John Andrews & The Yawns, Robert Lester Folsom, Mari Mathias, Plankton Wat, Joshua Burnside, Marisa Anderson, Mitski, The Wooden Wolf and more. Plus, the new single from Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly…watch the new video.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew runs from Ry Cooder’s easy-rolling “The Old Man and Me” to Brion Gysin’s cut-up disco, recorded at nearly 70 with Don Cherry on pocket trumpet. Pharoah Sanders steps out of Coltrane’s shadow, Bex Burch beckons spring, and Andrew Wasylyk sends songs to six singers who post their vocals back…like postcards.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew features music from Aldous Harding, Josienne Clarke, Chris Brain & Natalie Wildgoose, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Natalie Jane Hill alongside selections from Shana Cleveland, Nora Brown, Cass McCombs, Marissa Nadler, Nadia Reid, Joan Shelley, Erin Rae and more. Highlights include Brain’s Yorkshire Dales-inspired Big Hill, Clarke’s spartan reimagining of Katie Cruel, and the lead single from Harding’s fifth album.

From Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois to the dream-folk of Cold Mountain Child, via Myriam Gendron’s reimagining of Dorothy Parker’s poetry — this week’s playlist moves between grandeur and intimacy. One of our most eclectic in a while — but it holds together. These things usually do.