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Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced Orion/Mother, a new double album due June 19 on American Dreams. Across the two records, the Taiwanese-Canadian artist alchemises past and present by sampling home recordings made with New York improvisers and composing over them. Lead tracks Sidewinder and the title piece from Mother introduce a project Zhang describes as an exploration of the primordial unconscious.
Arborist, the project of Belfast songwriter Mark McCambridge, has shared a video for new single “Looking 4 Love”. Arpeggio harp and a piano motif borrowed from Jacques Brel’s 1961 song “Marieke” puncture a taut, straight rhythm and droning harmonium. There is menace in the atmosphere, but McCambridge offers a hand to guide the listener through Belfast’s darker corners.
Jim Ghedi thrusts folk further to its edge on The Hungry Child, drawn from a 19th-century German poem translated by Judith Piepe. A starving child pleads for food and is told to wait until too late — a story Ghedi connects to the oppression of innocent people today. Watch Jordan Carroll’s accompanying sinister video set in the Peak District – out now on Basin Rock.
Emily A. Sprague has shared “Double Moon,” a new single and video via RVNG Intl. The lead track from her forthcoming EP of the same name, it layers incantatory repetitions over translucent washes of modular synth, with V Haddad contributing backing vocals and creating the accompanying video. The Double Moon EP is due May 29th.
Seoul seven-piece Leenalchi announce their Luaka Bop debut EP Here Comes That Crow, out June 12th, alongside a new video for the title track and lead single. Led by bassist and producer Jang Young Gyu, the band draws its material from pansori — the traditional Korean form of musical storytelling — and counts Brian Eno, Robyn, and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus among admirers.
Aaron MF Olson has announced Songs Album II, his debut for Country Thyme Records, alongside the lead single and video “Nobody Can Tell”, Directed by Matt Hewitt. A romantic ballad of innate sweetness and wry wit, the song finds Olson in full command of his pop sensibilities — widescreen, precise and quietly unsettling. The album arrives June 26th.
Mama’s Broke — Nova Scotia’s Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria — share “Heaven,” the first single from their forthcoming album, out now via Free Dirt Records and Forward Music Group. “We’ve been left with a system collapsing under the weight of its own greed and corruption,” the duo say of a song about stepping back from urgency and devoting time to what you love. North American Analog Tour announced.
Supersonic Festival has confirmed ten new acts for its sold-out limited-edition 2026 event, including Guttersnipe, Jennifer Reid, Thorn Wych, Ancient Hostility and more. MMM — the trio of Gayle Brogan, Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still — have also shared a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars from their Calanais Stones-inspired album Lunistice Alignments.
Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain have announced Stash, their second album as BCMC, due June 26th via Drag City. Lead single Kaleidosmoke is out now — a sprawling, nearly eight-minute psychedelic piece layering Brit-rock guitars over a patient, accumulative structure. Where their debut Foreign Smokes was built on improvisation, Stash finds the duo working with tighter, groove-based composition.
Bristol indie-folk songwriter Myer U Clark announces new album Tinderbox, due 26th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings, and shares new single and video Healers today. Produced by Jack Ogborne at The Crypt, it’s a whimsical love song built on wiry guitar and Clark’s self-styled “musical jank” — shambling, carefree and recalling The Go-Betweens and Aztec Camera.
Ava Mendoza will release “Alive Alone, Alive Together” on May 22nd via Burning Ambulance Music. Featuring legendary drummer Hamid Drake on four tracks, the album was recorded live across the US and Europe in 2025. Listen to first single “Dust From the Mines,” a fierce glimpse of the album’s raw, psychedelic intensity.
Yasmin Williams releases her original score for ‘Saving Etting Street’, a documentary about a Baltimore carpenter training young Black women to renovate abandoned row houses and build generational wealth. Playing acoustic guitar, 12-string, piano, kora, and synthesizers, Williams brings her latest film composition to life. The ‘Saving Etting Street’ soundtrack is available now via Bandcamp.