Born out of grief, Liminality, the debut album of Minru, a Swedish musician based in Berlin, encourages us to slow down and be in the moment. Watch her beautiful video for ‘Light End’, shot on Super 8.
Brighton’s Wax Machine have released a double A-side single, with the psychedelic explosion of Springtime (watch the video) coupled with a tripped-out new version of Canto De Lemanja. Both tracks feature on their forthcoming new album Hermit’s Grove, released 1st July on Batov Records.
Son of John, the project of singer-songwriter Jacob Johnson, returns as a trio with John Parker (Nizlopi) and Jack Walker (Gorillabot). Taken from their new album ‘Each Second FootStep’, watch the video for their lead single Lay Low, also our Song of the Day.
Loudon Wainwright III has announced the release of Lifetime Achievement, his first album of new original songs since 2014’s Haven’t Got The Blues Yet. Watch the accompanying video to his lead single ‘Town & Country’.
Welcome to the weird & wonderful world of The A’s, a new duo featuring Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath & Daughter of Swords’ Alexandra Sauser-Monnig. Watch the video for their lead single “He Needs Me,” a spectral reimagining of Harry Nilsson and Shelley Duvall’s 1980 Popeye classic.
Last year, Charlie Parr released Last Of The Better Days Ahead, described by Folk Radio as an engrossing, captivating album from a tireless innovator. Watch his latest video for ‘Bed of Wasps’.
Bonny Light Horseman are to return with their Sophomore album ‘Rolling Golden Holy’ in October. Unlike their debut, this album features all original songs. You can listen to their lead single ‘California’ which is out today.
Courtney Marie Andrews announces her new album Loose Future out 7th October via Fat Possum and shares the video for her lead single ‘Satellite’ in which she chases satellites in the woods of the Catskill Mountains on a bicycle hand-made for the intergalactic.
Brazilian singer and guitarist Sessa has released his latest single Pele da Esfera, a laid back, transcendental funk, replete with lush vocal harmonies and a perfect example of Sessa’s intimate connection to the golden-era late ‘60s and early ‘70s bossa and tropicalia.
Filmed by Myles O’Reilly during ‘All Boats Rise Tour’ last year, watch Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, joined by Ye Vagabonds, performing Far Away the Hills are Green.
Who We Are is an inspiring collaboration between Nicole Mitchell, an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator and her late husband Calvin Gantt, a writer, spoken word artist…the album aims to provoke the listener to participate in what it is they are hearing.
Watch the prolific Joseph Allred performing Dance of the Fair Folk from his forthcoming album The Rambles and Rags of Shiloh. Shiloh is a kind of “mandorla,” a place where the spheres of past and present, dead and living, immanent and transcendent, overlap.
