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case/lang/veirs have announced a 10th anniversary deluxe edition of their self-titled 2016 album, due 4 September via Anti- Records. Alongside comes “Accidental Tattoo”, a previously-unreleased track written by all three. The expanded edition adds the new song and 12 live recordings from the original tour to the album’s 14 tracks.
Cinder Well’s “Beyond The Pale” is the second preview of “A Blooming Body”, due July 17th via Hen House Studios. Amelia Baker describes it as “a hangover, a break-up, a migraine, a confessional.” The video, directed by Chelsea “Cheech” Moosekian, came to Baker in a dream. Greg Cohen — bassist for Tom Waits and John Zorn — plays on the track, alongside Phillip Rogers and David Ralicke on clarinet.
Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison announce Donn/Dubh, a debut collaborative album due 7 August on Real World X. Rooted in shared Hebridean heritage spanning Scotland, Jamaica and India, the twelve-track collection pulls folk melodies apart and reassembles them over bass-heavy beats, synths and drones. Lead single ‘A Rìbhinn a Bheil Cuimhn’ Agad’ and its accompanying video are out now.
Sir Richard Bishop shares “Back Forty Lashes”, the ferocious, trance-inducing second single and self-directed video from “Hillbilly Erotica”, out July 31st on Drag City. A sequel of sorts to 2025’s “Hillbilly Ragas”, it carries Bishop’s argument with the “American Primitive” tag deeper into rural Tennessee. He’s on his US tour now through the summer, but stops in the UK for the Green Man Festival in August.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy performs “They Keep Trying to Find You” on Later… with Jools Holland — a powerful airing of the lead single from “We Are Together Again”. The song confronts the temptation to bury your head in the sand as outside pressures mount, Will Oldham pitting the darkness within against the darkness without. Watch his unforgettable performance now.
Styrofoam Winos share “Somebody Wants to Send You a Message,” the final single before their new album “Any River.” Joe Kenkel wrote the upbeat choogle after a bot’s “somebody wants to send you a message” notification herded him into a group chat. It’s capped by a face-melting bass clarinet solo from Jim Marlowe, the only non-Wino to play on the record.
Two Runner announce their second album, “PORCHLIGHT”, out August 28th via Gar Hole Records, and share new single and video “Strawberry Rhinestone”. Paige Anderson marks a transitional collection — goodbyes to a longtime musical partner and a decade-long relationship — though the songs stay warm and steady, resolute and tender-hearted, with the earnestness that has earned Two Runner years of praise.
Carson McHone shares a video for “The Canvas” and announces her first UK and European headline dates since “Pentimento”, her acclaimed third album. Crossing the Atlantic in August and September, she builds a band with Hollow Hand’s Max Kinghorn-Mills, plays three performances as a trio with Kinghorn-Mills and multi-disciplinary artist Fliss Horrocks, and takes in a slot at End of the Road Festival.
Belfast’s Alana Henderson swaps her signature cello for tenor guitar on new single “Appetite”, turning inward with striking clarity. The song traces the confusion of misreading your own appetite, its restless writing moving between wit and self-reproach while a faint country inflection and pedal steel shimmer lend a bittersweet lift — intimate, intelligent and emotionally precise. Watch the accompanying video, a silent-movie-inspired black-and-white film with a Wes-Anderson-gone-goth sensibility.
Alex Dupree returns on August 14th with “Talking to the Dog,” his first album since 2022’s “Thieves,” released via Oklahoma’s Scissor Tail Records. Produced by Michael Krassner and featuring Jolie Holland, it’s the work of a poet-songwriter taking Hank Williams’s offhand line somewhere stranger and more visionary. Ahead of it, he shares lead track “New Meaning.”
Luluc share “No One Else’s Pen”, the second single from their sixth album “Sweet Thief”, out 10th July on Community Music. Steve Hassett calls it a big old love song and a paean to living and loving with integrity, gratitude and presence of mind, set to a video built around printmaker Fleur Rendell’s artwork.