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DoYeon Kim has announced Wellspring, her debut album as a leader, arriving May 1 on TAO Forms. Featuring Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri, and Henry Fraser, the album weaves Korean lullabies with free improvisation through Kim’s gayageum playing. Lead single “The Beats of Distant Thunder” is streaming now, ahead of performances across New York and at Big Ears Festival.
L.Y.R. have shared a visualiser for Guernica Jigsaw, the latest single from forthcoming album Dark Sky Reservation, out April 3rd via Real World Records. A tale of unrequited love set amid commercialised art, the track features Pearson’s cascading piano motif carrying an unspoken beauty through vast, impersonal spaces. The band’s largest UK tour follows this spring.
Deer Tick have announced their ninth album Coin-O-Matic, due 5th June via ATO Records, sharing ramshackle lead single Mary Singletary. Named after a mob front company, the album excavates the hidden histories of Rhode Island — mafia underworlds, working-class drama, and Irish-Catholic guilt. It’s the Providence band’s first self-produced record across a career spanning more than two decades.
BIG|BRAVE have announced their tenth album, in grief or in hope, due June 12th, sharing first single, the ineptitude for mutual discernment. With touring bassist Liam Andrews joining Robin Wattie and Mat Ball in the studio for the first time, the album promises to push their particular brand of massive minimalism into its most layered territory yet.
Satnam Galsian has released her new single “Dishonour” on March 8th (International Women’s Day), reimagining the Irish folk song “She Moved through the Fair” from the woman’s perspective to highlight honour-based abuse. All proceeds from pre-orders (until April 6th) benefit Karma Nirvana, a Leeds charity ending honour-based violence. The British-Asian singer-songwriter, recently recognised for amplifying women’s voices, blends Punjabi folk with contemporary feminist storytelling on this powerful acoustic single.
Josienne Clarke releases Katie Cruel, a reimagining of the traditional folk song with two newly written verses aligning its themes of exile and endurance with the realities of an uncompromising artistic life. Built around electric guitar and recorders, the arrangement is spartan and resolute. The accompanying video finds Clarke as two figures on a windswept promontory — mourning black and ghostly white.
Trippers & Askers new album, Tried to Do’s, is out May 8th via Sleepy Cat Records. Lead track Kin traces tangled threads of family and cultural inheritance in Jackson, Tennessee, setting the tone for Jay Hammond’s most personal album — an intimate song cycle exploring Buddhist and Christian ways of mourning, featuring Andy Stack (Wye Oak), Joe Westerlund, Stephanie Coleman, Joseph Decosimo and more.
I AM PROUD Collective — Angeline Morrison, Leonie Evans, Lizi Morse, Priscilla Andersohn and Rhiannon Takel — release their debut single I AM PROUD – in tribute to Sojourner Truth on 6th March, ahead of International Women’s Day. Drawing on Truth’s famous provocation “Ain’t I a Woman,” the Bristol-rooted supergroup has crafted a trans-inclusive folk anthem of solidarity and joy.
SUSS share Sunset II, the first single from their forthcoming album Counting Sunsets, due May 15th via Northern Spy. The track rides a more pronounced rhythmic pulse than much of their earlier work, stretching ambient Americana into subtly motorik terrain. Recorded in a condensed window and shaped by a year touring together, the album captures the trio at their most intuitive.
Zürich art-rock four-piece District Five have announced GLUT, due May 29 via Stone Pixel Records, and have shared the new single “Push” featuring Saul Williams. A politically unambiguous track, it arrives with an animated video by j4y depicting the fractured rhythms of a day in New York City. The album promises the band’s characteristically expansive, genre-resistant sound, captured live and raw.
Shakey Graves has announced new album Fondness, Etc., due May 15th via Secret Identity / Dualtone Records, alongside new single Time Flies — a lush cover of Frankie Sunswept’s wistful love song, adorned with strings arranged by David J. Pierce and a guitar solo from Zeke Jarmon. Captured on tape machines at home, the album is Graves’ most intimate work yet.
Jesca Hoop has shared Caravan, the latest single from her forthcoming album Long Wave Home, due 1st May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music. Following the politically charged Designer Citizen, Caravan turns inward — a song of misplaced faith and vanishing promises, tracing the distance between romantic surrender and quiet devastation. An accompanying video was shot in and around Manchester.