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maya ongaku have shared “You are Silence”, the second single from “Nothing Space Music”, out August 7th via Guruguru Brain. Written during Obon, when the spirits of ancestors are believed to return, it’s a love song told from the perspective of the dead. The trio built their own studio for the album, and tour the UK and Europe from September.

Jonathan Something shares “Country Rose,” the first single from “One More Lonesome Cowboy Song,” out 16 October via High Shelter. Born Jonathan Searles, the Connecticut songwriter recorded and produced the album alone, playing every instrument. Rooted in the cosmic cowboy tradition of Gram Parsons and Gene Clark, the recordings sit closer to Neutral Milk Hotel or Elliott Smith.

Two Runner have shared “Roadrunner”, the latest single from “Porchlight”, out 28th August via Gar Hole Records. Filmed by Ian Fuenzalida, the accompanying video follows Paige Anderson down the backroads on a dirt bike, with the song’s chorus urging you to “jump on over the line, like a roadrunner making up time.”

Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced a new album, “The Old Beloved Path”, out September 18th via Fat Possum, and shared lead single “Rock Island Line” — a folk standard he’d long avoided until a Lonnie Donegan recording drew him in, marrying it to an old English nursery rhyme until it felt like his own.

Sairie premiere the video for “Harder Than It Seemed”, the first single from their debut album “Beneath the Spreading Tree”. Drawing influences from 70s folk, the Brighton trio’s stripped-back arrangements emphasise Emma’s striking vocals, lending an otherworldly, transportive beauty to their sound. KLOF has followed them since 2020, and this first full-length release marks a significant milestone, out 12 September.

We’re premiering Josaleigh Pollett’s “Bed of Quiet,” the final single before the release of their forthcoming album. Written across eight thousand miles with producer Jordan Watko, it pairs guitar crunch and percussive grooves with ambient production and samples from Chris Walla — an over-thinker’s anthem for the sleepless, and the only time Watko sings on the record.

Trá Pháidín announce “Cloch ‘s Claí”, their first album for World of Echo, out 25th September, and share a video for launch track “An Béal Bocht”. Inspired by Myles na gCopaleen’s 1941 novel, the track sets images of Conamara’s empty, derelict dry-stone walls against the collective’s blend of Gaelic tradition, krautrock and free jazz.

Sam Blasucci premieres his video for “Creature”, the latest single from his new album “Black Rose”, out 21st July on DoublePlay Records. Recorded mostly in the middle of the night in Ojai, the ten-track album is an invitation into shadow and a darkness that could be groovy. It follows April’s 28-track double LP, “Physical Dream”.

Adrian Crowley’s “Quinn The Adventurer” follows James Quinn, who left Belfast in 1920, surfaced in Hollywood as a silent-film extra, and was sentenced to San Quentin over a collection of shrunken heads. Out today on Dimple Discs with Bring Your Own Hammer, it precedes “From The Tombs”, a 21-song double album on the history of crime, law and order in Ireland and its diaspora.

Radie Peat of Lankum and ØXN releases her debut solo single, “Still I Love Him”, via Rough Trade. John Francis Flynn found the song in the Irish Traditional Music Archives and wrote a new melody; Peat reshaped it around her contralto, holding elation and devastation at once. Robbie Mailler Howat directs the video.

London cellist midori jaeger shares “hunted”, the second single from her new EP “(Re)planted”, out 26th August. Built around the piano rather than her pizzicato cello, it trades rhythmic push for something smoother and more rippling. “(Re)planted” follows this year’s “(Un)planted”, turning her groove-led writing softer and more expansive as she transmutes a life of uprooting and replanting into song.

Elanor Moss shares the video for “The Way That it Feels,” the second single from her debut album “The Knife, The Needle,” out August 21st on Merge Records. Sung over birdsong and classical guitar, it’s the last song she wrote for the record, and the accompanying video was shot on 16mm film in the Greek Peloponnese by Matthew Thorne.