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Shirley Collins returns with Archangel Hill, her third album for Domino. Due for release on May 26th, she has today shared her lead single and video ‘High and Away’. The album showcases another peerless collection of songs chosen by Collins, most from traditional sources but others from favourite writers of hers.

This Is The Kit have announced their new album, ‘Careful of Your Keepers’, produced by Gruff Rhys and shares their new single/video ‘Inside Outside’.

Directed by Damien Hyde, watch the deeply artistic video for Scott Matthews’ new acoustic single ‘My Selfless Moon’ which explores the burden of belief and hope.

Listen to Aisha Badru’s new single, Path of Least Resistance; it’s a beautifully crafted number that has a soulful, bluesy melody that’s impossible to resist.

This Friday marks the release of ‘Labyrinth’, the new album Heather Woods Broderick. Today she is sharing her new single and video, “Wherever I Go” (also our Song of the Day), Directed by Jeremy Johnstone, a four-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker.

Listen to ‘Out of Time’, the new single from Ivan Moult, taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Songs From Severn Grove’, out this Spring on the independent Welsh record label, Bubblewrap Collective. 

Watch George Sansome and Matt Quinn performing Sheffield Park, the title track of their new album being released on Grimdon Records on 28th April. They will be sharing these songs with audiences on their album launch tour in April at venues across the country.

Shrewsbury Folk Festival reveal more names for their 2023, including Elephant Sessions, Dustbowl Revival, Gigspanner Big Band, Steve Knightley, Mishra, Good Habits and lots more.

Watch the new video for Frankie Archer’s ‘Lucy Wan’ in which she delivers a powerful twist, reworking the folk song to give Lucy power and a voice, with a haunting soundscape and piercing words.

Samana have spent the last few years building a studio by hand in remote Wales. Their new EP Dharma is the first fruit of that labour. Watch their new video for Seven Years, an instantly engaging yet delicate song, crafted with care and delivered with sincerity.

Ruth Theodore has announced the release of Cherry Picker, a career-spanning compilation record and shares the lead single and lyric video ‘People People’ on which the social narrative teeters between futility and ferocity without losing its sense of humour or our sense of Ruth’s humility.

Listen to the beautiful new single from The Chapin Sisters – “Lily wrote ‘Bergen Street’ as she was leaving Brooklyn to move back to the Hudson Valley village that we grew up in…It’s a bittersweet ode. Not a sad moment, exactly, but wistful.”