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Rua Rí has announced his debut album “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” out 1st May via Soft Boy Records, alongside new single and video “Johnny Workman.” Rooted in the streets, fields and familiar settings of Cobh and Cork, the album — produced by Kean Kavanagh — captures the fleeting moments of youth with warmth, humour, and grounded introspection.
Marisa Anderson shares ‘Sarvi Simin,’ the second single from “The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1,” out May 22nd on Thrill Jockey. The track — an ecstatic duet between Anderson’s guitar and Gisela Rodríguez Fernández’s violin — interprets a piece from a 1977 Melodiya Records release, transcribed while Anderson travelled by bus through southern Mexico.
Frankie Archer has announced her debut album “The Dance of Death,” out 5th June via prrr of the bear. Co-produced with Guy Massey, Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon — warping fiddle lines, processing her own vocals and driving the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synths into “nu-ancient trad bangers.” New single ‘The Unquiet Grave’ is out now.
White Fence has shared Unread Books, the second single from Orange, due April 24th via Drag City. Where lead single Your Eyes punched and sparkled, Unread Books sinks into droning, heartbroken pop, driven by Alice Sandahl’s hazy synths and Dylan Hadley’s shuffling drums. Produced by Ty Segall, Orange is Presley’s first White Fence album in seven years.
Sam Grassie shares “The Burning of Auchindoun,” a stirring reimagining of a traditional Scottish folk ballad from his forthcoming debut, “Where Two Hawks Fly,” due 10th April via Broadside Hacks. Coloured by ponderous double-bass, mystical flute and compelling fingerpicked guitar, it’s flighted with equal parts fantasy and foreboding. A UK headline tour kicks off later this month.
The video for River Days — visuals by Nina Maria Moslechner — shares the same sun-bleached, grain-softened quality as Natalie Wildgoose’s music: images that already look like memory. The song itself is a midsummer diary entry, caught at its edges rather than its centre. Rural Hours arrives April 15th via state51.
Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio share a video for the title track of their new album Somewhere Good, out 5th June via World of Echo. Built from droning harmonium, upright bass and Clerkin’s hypnotic vocals, the album spans avant-pop, modern classical and kraut-folk across forty-plus boldly intuitive minutes — their most fully realised work to date.
Chaz Prymek and Matthew Sage announce Shelter, their first duo full-length in six years, out April 10th on AKP. Built on first-take live improvisations and layered with yearning slide guitar, accordion, clarinet, and delicate synthesizers, the album is a pastoral meditation rooted in the Mountain West. Lead single Hill Blocks View is streaming now.
Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) have announced Croz Boyce, a new instrumental duo project. Their self-titled debut, out May 8th via Domino, was built across state lines — Portner sending guitar themes from North Carolina, Weitz responding with electronics from D.C. Watch the video for debut single Hanging Out With a Blueberry Pop now.
DoYeon Kim has announced Wellspring, her debut album as a leader, arriving May 1 on TAO Forms. Featuring Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri, and Henry Fraser, the album weaves Korean lullabies with free improvisation through Kim’s gayageum playing. Lead single “The Beats of Distant Thunder” is streaming now, ahead of performances across New York and at Big Ears Festival.