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Chris Brain has shared Big Hill, the second single from his forthcoming album Red Sun Rising, out May 1st via Big Sun Records. Inspired by a long-promised walk in the Yorkshire Dales and featuring guest vocals from Natalie Wildgoose, the track embodies Brain’s gift for finding quiet revelation in the unhurried and the ordinary — accompanied by a live performance video.
Gum Bump’s syncopated grooves dance across the stereo spectrum in oozing fits before synthesizers erupt into heaps of magma — Setting crafting their own singular dynamic funk. Built on long exploratory sessions, Fennelly, Bowles and Westerlund have developed a shared syntax that transforms electric spontaneity into something more elaborate and impactful. Urgent and smouldering, patient and emotive: a thrilling statement.
“Life is Scary Horses” arrives as the final preview of We Are Together Again, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album. A “spiritual cover” of the Sally Timms / Jon Langford composition, it sees Timms herself appear on the track alongside strings arranged by Oldham’s cousin Ryder McNair. The accompanying video, directed by longtime collaborator Braden King, frames the piece as an elegy assembled from a disappearing world.
Brown Wimpenny’s experimental take on Raglan Road builds a dense wall of sound around Patrick Kavanagh’s Joycean poem of longing and loss. The eleven-piece collective’s version “probes the relationship between cacophony and beauty; attempting to show that by sitting with chaos and perpetual change, we can find a new cohesion.” The track is taken from a forthcoming debut album, details of which are yet to be announced.
Berkeley Street, the lead single and video from Adam Ross’ forthcoming third solo album, Bring On The Apathy, finds Ross sifting through Glasgow memories with characteristic lyricism and warmth. The single carries both the intimacy of return and the sting of passing time. Accompanied by a stellar ensemble, it’s one of his richest recordings yet.
Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer’s The Standing Stones return with Twa Sisters, an eleven-minute, three-part rendition of one of the darkest Scottish ballads — sung by Iona Zajac, accompanied by Lankum’s Daragh Lynch. The track will be encoded into a twelve-foot Welsh slate monolith under the Flower Moon in Stroud on 1st May. The New Stone Age continues.
South American field recording artist Caminauta has shared Encounters, the new single and video from her debut album Unseen Dimensions, due March 2026 via Wayside & Woodland Recordings. Shot during isolated coastal walks after three years of near-total solitude, the video captures the same unhurried, observational spirit as the music itself — organic, atmospheric, and quietly essential.
Blood Sucking Maniacs, the multigenerational family band led by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, have announced their self-titled debut album, out April 24th via Paradise of Bachelors. Spanning five generations and 121 years — from Pauline Allen’s ghostly piano to a great-grandchild’s fetal heartbeat — the album is a wild, tender testament to family as creative force.
Colleen has shared Mis armas se habían caído al suelo, the opening piece from her forthcoming album Libres antes del final, out March 20th via Thrill Jockey. Three insistent chords and a tentative melodic line surface through warm organ like a held breath released — a declaration of vulnerability that sets the tone for what Cécile Schott calls her most emotionally intense work.
Magic Tuber Stringband have announced Heavy Water, out May 22nd — their most expansive album yet, rooted in the ecological and human fallout of nuclear arms production in rural South Carolina. Lead single Tribute to the Angels draws on Hilda Doolittle’s wartime poetry and old-time fiddle tradition, its luminous harmonics hovering between folk memory and grief. Spring tour dates are forthcoming.
Darkly cinematic and compellingly unhurried, “laundry | blood” finds Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart at their most brooding — a slow-burn highlight from BODY SOUND. A live performance video directed by Derrick Alexander accompanies the single. The album arrives March 20th via International Anthem and the trio are perfomring live across the East Coast US, London’s Cafe OTO, and Europe this spring.
Recorded at Capitol Records in 1971, “10,000 Greyhounds” is a frantic, jangle-blues workout that sends Tommy into scats and the band into sprawling jams before spiraling into an ebullient pocket epic of blissed self-discovery. It’s the latest preview of Echo Park, the 91-year-old LA legend’s long-lost album, mixed and mastered by Jim O’Rourke and due March 27th.