Our Song of the Day comes from Kristina Jung with her new single The North Water which was commissioned by the Groninger Museum and is dedicated to an old oil painting by Jan van Goyen, who lived in the 17th century.
Our Song of the Day begins with the sun on Galway Bay, courtesy of Dubliner David Kitt and his new single “Like Lightning”. It’s taken from his new album Yous due out 9th March on Dublin’s own All City Records.
Chad VanGaalen has delivered a beautiful, amorphous video for “Host Body,” one of the standouts from ‘Light Information’, his acclaimed album of 2017. He has also scheduled a mainland and eastern European tour in support of Light Information for 2018
Portland-based band Horse Feathers have announced the release of their forthcoming album Appreciation, listen to lead single “Without Applause” on which Ringle’s new rhythm section shows off their Northern Soul sensibilities.
Originally formed in South East London, musical collective The 286 are now ready to release their new single, Time Immemorial, which we have the pleasure in premiering today ahead of its release on 19th March 2018.
The Saxophones are husband & wife duo Alexi Erenkov & Alison Alderdice. The songs which make up the debut album were formed and written during a period in which the pair were living on a boat during a very wet winter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Taken from their forthcoming new album Dungeness (due out 30th March on Tin Angel Records), Trembling Bells have revealed the accompanying music video for I’m Coming, a song that Alex Neilson declares his most accessible to date.
The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose is a 3-day music festival bringing together for the first time more than 25 acoustic fingerstyle guitar and banjo players from every era of the American Primitive/Guitar Soli movement. Listen to a special playlist put together by Tompkins Square.
Wood for the Trees, the title track on Fran Wyburn’s forthcoming debut album, is released today. Fran collaborated with artist and filmmaker Ray Kane to create the music video as a quirky, moving visual accompaniment, watch it here.
On March 23rd, Tompkins Square is to release ‘Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes, 1972-1977’. It features 30 previously unreleased tracks from the mid-seventies experimentalists Entourage. Listen in full to the album here.
Ry Cooder has announced the release of his first solo album in six years. The Prodigal Son is set for release by Fantasy Records on May 11th, 2018. Listen to lead track Shrinking Man.
Laish recorded a live session to an invited audience at Brighton Electric Studios and they have just revealed the first video from that session, an extended version of Time Elastic, the title track of their new album due for release on 13 April via Talitres.
