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Duffy x Uhlmann’s “Doing It for Me” is their first new material since 2023’s “Doubles,” both out via Orindal Records. Built from layers of processed guitar loops, the track is busier and more restless than the duo’s earlier work; watch the accompanying visualiser, which was illustrated by Christina Huang.
Prison share “Sunset Park,” the second single from “Big Rigs on the BQE,” out July 31st via Drag City. Cut from a nineteen-minute album track, the single edit comes from a session recorded at a Sunset Park studio overlooking the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The video, directed by guitarist Matt Lilly, follows a hazy, dreamlike logic. Prison tour the US in August.
Hollow Hand, the Brighton project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, shares “I Turned My Back On The World”, the second single from fourth album “Wish Road South”, out September 4th via Loose Music / Soundly. A broken Wurlitzer and drifting synths carry a homesick reverie through distant childhood memories and the Cornish sea.
Gaspar Claus shares “Colaïdo”, the latest single from his new album “Cells”, out 25th September via InFiné. Built entirely from the sounds of his cello, the track is named after a sailboat once owned by his late father, the flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, and rolls across slow, overlapping waves of the Mediterranean.
Biita Houdei announces her debut album “This Bed Was Made For Me”, out 18th September on Basin Rock and Father/Daughter. Lead single “The Ground Here” brings in Big Thief’s Buck Meek, moving from a parched California summer to the rivers of her Ozark home. Produced by Haley Heynderickx, Biita sewed a patch for every song as she worked; together, they became the quilt featured on the album’s cover.
Charlie Wheatley has announced “Live at the Chapel”, out 22nd September, the first instalment in a three-part series reworking folk manuscripts from the British Isles through live performance. Recorded live at Stone Nest with two double basses and viola, it holds traditional dance tunes against devotional song, drone and minimalism. The lead single, a set of three tunes, arrives today.
“and remade” is Freda D’Souza’s looping sonic poem, drawn from an installation she built as an act of resistance against enforced clock time. Written across a solstice on a Mersea houseboat and sonified through a solar-powered cassette, each digital download comes with a one-off cyanotype stop-motion film frame.
Declan O’Rourke shares “Echo”, the lead single from his eighth album “Oceanic”, due 16 October. Produced with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil, it’s a beefy, robust rocker — and its video offers a first look at “Almost With You”, the Australian feature in which O’Rourke makes his screen acting debut, premiering at Galway Film Fleadh on 9 July.
Skyjack’s fourth album, “Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet”, is out today on Kujua Records. The Swiss–South African quintet take the title’s image — feet on the earth, the sky opening below — and turn it into twelve tracks articulating their “deep roots into the earth with high branches reaching upward and outward”.
Deniz Cuylan shares “No Such Thing,” a gleaming electro-acoustic collaboration with Felbm, alongside an Ade Hanft-directed video — and announces new album “For Luca,” out September 18th via Hush Hush Records. A tribute to his late dog, it turns private grief into communal celebration, with Peni Candra Rini, Thor Harris and Casper Clausen among the friends who feature.
KLOF premieres “Scared to Love”, the emotional centre of Jason McNiff’s forthcoming tenth album “Ten Blue Songs”, out 28th August on Tombola Records. Stripped-back classical guitar and layered vocals frame a song about staying open-hearted in a culture that rewards distance. “This is the song I nearly threw away,” says McNiff — now one he loves to sing.