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Previously described by fellow Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson as beguiling, idiosyncratic and cinematic, watch the accompanying video to ‘Ancient Summer’, the latest single from Me Lost Me, taken from her forthcoming new album, This Material Moment. She says, “The music video is a kind of nod to ancient Roman Spring/Summer festivals and the English folk traditions I grew up with, like May Day celebrations, Morris dancing and well dressings.”
Canadian quintet Foxwarren, featuring Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis, have dropped a surreal video for their latest single ‘Deadhead’, the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via ANTI-. It’s a genius slice of wit and vision from the video’s Director, Joe Cappa, that transports the song onto another level.
“Maybe I’m Dreaming” is a new Anthology Recordings compilation that delves into the isolated wilds of the private pressing, where production quirks, late-night tape hiss, and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand you were dealt. Documenting a spirit that’s more homespun, sometimes lonelier, and often a little weirder, listen to the first single, “Just Whistle” by the Watson Brothers Band.
INNI-K has shared her latest single and video, Beatha. As if triggered by spring, it has a pulsing earthy energy, emphasised by catchy beats and a great off-kilter fiddle riff that gives the song an untamed sense of freedom, reflecting the vitality of life and the mysterious forces of nature. Inspired by a veg-growing course, Beatha could be an anthem for self-sufficiency.
Hot on the heels of his latest album, Time Indefinite, William Tyler has announced ’41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s’, his debut collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), who also produced and mixed the album, which was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, USA. Listen to the first song, If I Had a Boat, a Lyle Lovett cover, which clocks in at over 11 minutes long.
Taken from her new album, Second Circle The Horizon, listen to Sally Anne Morgan’s latest single ‘Eye is the First’ – a rustling journey featuring a repeated slow guitar appregios and a more narrative-sounding banjo with organic sounding shimmering rustles conjuring the gentle movement of a breeze. While meditative, it also joyously reveals Morgan’s deep bond with nature and how she intuitively interweaves this into her creations.
Taken from his latest album Salt River, Sam Amidon delivered an excellent live rendition of Lou Reed’s ‘Big Sky’ on Later… With Jools Holland. In a KLOF Mag interview, Amidon told us he “exacerbated that folk-like quality in the verses…The repetitive structure of the lyrics is also very folk-like; I just felt that for all his New York edge, he was trying to give us a very simple, beautiful message.”
Fiddle and guitar duo Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell sign to Real World Records and announce Tomorrow Held. Watch the video for their lead single, MacGill, that pays homage to the creative partnership of Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell: “It’s slightly more jazz-influenced in terms of harmony and sound than the other stuff on the record,” says Spafford. “We’re going to that sweet spot at the folky end of jazz.”
Those who heard our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist (No. 103) would have heard The Rust Belt, the latest single from Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt). The accompanying video, animated by artist Jack Colbert, celebrates the myriad eclectic materials used to make the new Matmos album, Metallic Life Review, animating pocket-sized metallic objects that Colbert sourced from metal detecting.
Benoît Pioulard began his Stanza series as an early morning sonic journaling practice in 2015 using a Telecaster and tape recorder. The series evolved from hazy, unadorned experiments to more verdant and complex instrumental pieces, characterised by a blissed-out tape saturation and ambient grace that has become a hallmark of his uniquely meditative sound. Taken from his latest album in the series, Stanza IV, watch his video for Xaipe.
Available for pre-order now, Shane Parish has announced a new live LP, titled Solo At Cafe OTO (out July 1st via his own label, Red Eft Records), on which he explores British Folk ballads by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, American folk ballads by John Jacob Niles, and a song by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, from the television program Twin Peaks, called “Sycamore Trees”.
Our Song of the Day comes from Lila Tristram, whose new single ‘Overtake’ is released today. Tristram isn’t afraid of sharing her inner thoughts, but how she presents them makes them outstanding and memorable. There’s a melancholic shimmer to her delivery that does recall some of the classic contemporary folk singers of the past, and she wholeheartedly deserves those comparisons to Drake and Mitchell.