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Supersonic Festival has confirmed ten new acts for its sold-out limited-edition 2026 event, including Guttersnipe, Jennifer Reid, Thorn Wych, Ancient Hostility and more. MMM — the trio of Gayle Brogan, Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still — have also shared a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars from their Calanais Stones-inspired album Lunistice Alignments.
Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain have announced Stash, their second album as BCMC, due June 26th via Drag City. Lead single Kaleidosmoke is out now — a sprawling, nearly eight-minute psychedelic piece layering Brit-rock guitars over a patient, accumulative structure. Where their debut Foreign Smokes was built on improvisation, Stash finds the duo working with tighter, groove-based composition.
Bristol indie-folk songwriter Myer U Clark announces new album Tinderbox, due 26th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings, and shares new single and video Healers today. Produced by Jack Ogborne at The Crypt, it’s a whimsical love song built on wiry guitar and Clark’s self-styled “musical jank” — shambling, carefree and recalling The Go-Betweens and Aztec Camera.
Ava Mendoza will release “Alive Alone, Alive Together” on May 22nd via Burning Ambulance Music. Featuring legendary drummer Hamid Drake on four tracks, the album was recorded live across the US and Europe in 2025. Listen to first single “Dust From the Mines,” a fierce glimpse of the album’s raw, psychedelic intensity.
Yasmin Williams releases her original score for ‘Saving Etting Street’, a documentary about a Baltimore carpenter training young Black women to renovate abandoned row houses and build generational wealth. Playing acoustic guitar, 12-string, piano, kora, and synthesizers, Williams brings her latest film composition to life. The ‘Saving Etting Street’ soundtrack is available now via Bandcamp.
Sareban, the musical project of rubab player Mathieu Clavel, shares Ayrılık, a new single from debut album Echoes in the Weave on Worlds Within Worlds. The track explores the 10/8 jurjuna, a Kurdish rhythmic cycle rarely heard in traditional rubab repertoire, opening new pathways for phrasing and improvisation on the instrument. Listen now.
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express share new single “Shemesh” and its accompanying video, ahead of their album “Ranjha,” out 8th May via World Circuit/BMG. A decade on from Junun, the 21-strong ensemble reconvened in Greenwood’s Oxfordshire studio to channel Sufi devotion, Rajasthani folk and collective musical exploration into a long-awaited follow-up.
Zoh Amba announces Eyes Full, their Matador debut album, out June 5th, and shares the first single and video Another Time. Returning to their first instrument, the guitar, and to their Tennessee hometown, Amba delivers tough, soulful songs tracked live with no overdubs. The album looks closely at working-class lives with aching, unsentimental tenderness.
Chris Brain shares “Kinds Of Kindness”, the third single and video from his forthcoming album “Red Sun Rising” – “a fragile song based on my childhood and that is represented by the harmonics throughout, the instrumentation is supposed to convey a building of intensity and in the end forgiveness.” An extensive UK and Ireland tour begins in April.
One Leg One Eye — the blackened-folk project of Lankum’s Ian Lynch and George Brennan — announce their second album CRONE, out 22 May on AD 93, and share its first track, Many are my Names Besides, featuring legendary performer Olwen Fouéré channelling the war goddess Morrigan. Watch the official video now.
Rua Rí shares “Makeover,” a new single and video from debut album, “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” out 1st May via Soft Boy Records. Written on the spot while busking on Shandon Bridge in Cork City, the track is a giddy rush of nursery rhyme absurdism and folk energy — with a video Damery describes as “a mob wife pre-drinks party.”
Henry Parker returns on May 1st with “The Dark Peak,” a solo guitar EP shaped by a multi-day backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges. Watch the live video for “Upper Derwent,” filmed at a remote shooting cabin in the freezing December moorland. Delicate fingerpicking and field recordings of curlews, lapwings and bitter winds — landscape music at its most immersive.