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Duffy x Uhlmann — Meg Duffy of Hand Habits and Gregory Uhlmann — announce their second album “Hot Creek”, out 14 August on Orindal Records, and share new single “Public Life”. Taking Adrienne Rich’s “dream of a common language” as its frame, the duo reach for each other with two guitars on a record named after a Californian geothermal spring.
A. Lee Edwards carried a line from an old newspaper editorial in his wallet for years; it became “Without You”, the new single from his forthcoming album “Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. II”. Mixed by John Wood at Echo Mountain in Asheville, it’s hushed, string-forward folk about lost love and the disappearance of mill towns and a whole way of life.
Alex Dupree shares “I Can See Her In Your Eyes,” a country duet with Jolie Holland and the third single from “Talking to the Dog,” out August 14th via Scissor Tail Records. Two voices circle the same relational dead end from opposite sides — one still hung up on an old love, the other reading it plainly.
Bitchin Bajas give their “Isle Peaks” EP a wide release on August 28th via Drag City, after an initial Qobuz-exclusive run. Vinyl and cassette add the physical-only track “Watch Your Step”. The three cuts, pulled from the “Inland See” sessions and recorded to analogue tape, move between krautrock and new age. New US and European tour dates are also announced.
Lüüp premiere the video for “Horse Heart”, the opening track of “Meadow Rituals”, reissued as a 15th-anniversary 3CD expanded edition on Tadoma Records. Stelios Romaliadis’s 2011 album returns remastered from analogue tape, with live sets from two different line-ups and the full remix album. Lisa Isaksson’s voice against a double bass, hypnotising as it was fifteen years ago.
Emil Friis has released “Hollow Hands”, a four-track EP recorded in his Copenhagen studio through the autumn of 2025, following his album “Moving Images”. The Danish composer reshapes the sound of the piano itself, running it through ribbon microphones, Moog filters and a Wellspring reverb, with field recordings from southern Italy deepening the atmosphere. Kevin Brooks directs the accompanying film.
Horse Feathers have shared a demo of “Like Lavender”, recorded in one solitary take in a stairwell in NE Portland, ahead of the 20th anniversary reissue of “Words Are Dead” on August 28th via Kill Rock Stars. Justin Ringle wrote the song as he was crashing out of his old life in Idaho — a small portrait of a heartbroken young man.
Hana Stretton has shared “Before This”, an AA single pairing “As It Was Before This” with “Seagull Theory II”, from her second album “tiarn”, out August 7th. Lima Limo and Inpartmaint have announced a joint vinyl edition for Europe and Japan. Self-recorded in a small Australian beach town, the album came out of blue-hour swims and whale migrations.
Oren Ambarchi has shared “Hidden Tableau (excerpt)”, the first taste of “Cooked”, out September 25th via Drag City. Eiko Ishibashi’s piano ripples give way to a groaning synthetic voice from Konrad Sprenger, then swarms of guitar and synth arpeggios. Two side-long pieces, an international cast, and the wayward streak that runs under Ambarchi’s minimalism brought right to the front.
maya ongaku have shared “You are Silence”, the second single from “Nothing Space Music”, out August 7th via Guruguru Brain. Written during Obon, when the spirits of ancestors are believed to return, it’s a love song told from the perspective of the dead. The trio built their own studio for the album, and tour the UK and Europe from September.
Jonathan Something shares “Country Rose,” the first single from “One More Lonesome Cowboy Song,” out 16 October via High Shelter. Born Jonathan Searles, the Connecticut songwriter recorded and produced the album alone, playing every instrument. Rooted in the cosmic cowboy tradition of Gram Parsons and Gene Clark, the recordings sit closer to Neutral Milk Hotel or Elliott Smith.