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Seoul seven-piece Leenalchi announce their Luaka Bop debut EP Here Comes That Crow, out June 12th, alongside a new video for the title track and lead single. Led by bassist and producer Jang Young Gyu, the band draws its material from pansori — the traditional Korean form of musical storytelling — and counts Brian Eno, Robyn, and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus among admirers.

Aaron MF Olson has announced Songs Album II, his debut for Country Thyme Records, alongside the lead single and video “Nobody Can Tell”, Directed by Matt Hewitt. A romantic ballad of innate sweetness and wry wit, the song finds Olson in full command of his pop sensibilities — widescreen, precise and quietly unsettling. The album arrives June 26th.

Mama’s Broke — Nova Scotia’s Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria — share “Heaven,” the first single from their forthcoming album, out now via Free Dirt Records and Forward Music Group. “We’ve been left with a system collapsing under the weight of its own greed and corruption,” the duo say of a song about stepping back from urgency and devoting time to what you love. North American Analog Tour announced.

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.