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This Is The Kit shares “Safety Valve”, a new single from their upcoming album “Ghost Coat”, due January 15th, 2027 on Memphis Industries. Kate Stables dedicates the song for friends who come to your rescue. The album features several collaborators: “I was really keen to not only ask people to sing on the album, but to make sure that you can hear their individual voices.”
Toronto-based cellist and songwriter Kyla Marlena has shared “In Paint”, the latest single from her forthcoming debut album “Hold Time”. The song is about “the tension between wanting to outgrow our ingrained patterns and fearing the loss of control that comes with that, as well as the added complexity of navigating that alongside another person.” Watch the accompanying video she co-directed with Jo Hirabayashi.
Brìghde Chaimbeul’s first Tiny Desk Concert for NPR has already clocked over 340k views. Shahzad Ismaily joins her on synths, which lend the performance a stronger experimental feel. The set has tracks from “Sunwise” and “Carry Them with Us”. We look back at her time on KLOF since 2016, starting with the Radio 2 Young Folk Award.
Dublin-based songwriter and poet Christian Wethered has released “The First Thing”, the opening track from his new album “From The Balustrade”, due in 2027 via LVP Records. His poetry takes centre stage, with dreamlike verses left open to interpretation. A playful, quirky arrangement flows through the lyrics, featuring, among others, Caimin Gilmore, one of Ireland’s finest double bassists. It feels like a big leap forward.
Spitzer Space Telescope shares the sea shanty single “Bound For Calais-O” a day before the Broadside Hacks Roster Tour begins in Lewes. Dan MacDonald calls sea shanties “a well of inspiration”, and this is the jolly “foc’sle” variety, with Mareva Lindo singing harmonies. It channels The Clancy Brothers’ gorgeous vibe, minus the Aran sweater.
Toria Wooff’s new album “Aleister” is due on 12 January 2027 via Sloe Flower Records. Her new single “Noiselessly” is out today. She wrote it alone in her flat, five years after her best friend’s passing. The lyrics come from the eulogy she wrote at the time. The video follows her across the moors of her hometown as she resists, yet habitually yields to grief’s ever-present grip.
Radie Peat’s debut solo album, “No Human Tongue Can Tell”, is due on Rough Trade Records on 13 November. Her new single is “Hares on the Mountain”, a traditional folk song she learned from Shirley Collins. As the protagonist in this song, she anthropomorphically ponders the unjust gender dynamics of courtship.
Gwenifer Raymond shares her new single “Bird Songs for Atomic Skies”, marking her signing to Fat Possum. Raymond calls it a mutant rag, a blues gone awry, with lyrebirds in irradiated nests and foxes whose barks are all wrong. The folk horror reaches post-apocalyptic levels. She supports Geese across America and Canada, then headlines in the UK.
Following last year’s scarily accomplished debut album, New Thing, Avery Friedman returns with her new single “You Move”, a song about savouring the unexpected fruits that reveal themselves amid times of uprootedness. Watch the accompanying tomato-themed video directed by Dylan Friese-Greene. Friedman kicks off her first UK/EU shows this month.
Shovel Dance Collective’s “Everything in Readiness” is due 23 October on Glitterbeat’s tak:til imprint. “Jer the Rigger” is their third single, part of an opening suite that is accompanied by a video from Tim Plester and Rob Curry featuring footage from the Doc Rowe archive. The band say the arrangements were constantly tinkered with on the road, sometimes paying off, sometimes not.