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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.

Two Runner have shared “Roadrunner”, the latest single from “Porchlight”, out 28th August via Gar Hole Records. Filmed by Ian Fuenzalida, the accompanying video follows Paige Anderson down the backroads on a dirt bike, with the song’s chorus urging you to “jump on over the line, like a roadrunner making up time.”

Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced a new album, “The Old Beloved Path”, out September 18th via Fat Possum, and shared lead single “Rock Island Line” — a folk standard he’d long avoided until a Lonnie Donegan recording drew him in, marrying it to an old English nursery rhyme until it felt like his own.

Sairie premiere the video for “Harder Than It Seemed”, the first single from their debut album “Beneath the Spreading Tree”. Drawing influences from 70s folk, the Brighton trio’s stripped-back arrangements emphasise Emma’s striking vocals, lending an otherworldly, transportive beauty to their sound. KLOF has followed them since 2020, and this first full-length release marks a significant milestone, out 12 September.