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Shearwater announce their new album “The New World,” due July 31st via their own Polyborus label in partnership with Secretly Distribution. Jonathan Meiburg’s long-running outfit shares singles “More and More” and “Daydream Unbeliever,” with the latter, accompanied by a video Meiburg filmed and edited during research in Antarctica, billows out with classic Shearwater grandeur — soaring strings, a gong smashed by Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart.

Jonathan Day returns as Jonathan Hijr Day Quartet with his new single, Cafe in the Valley of the Fire Church, born from his travels among the Amazigh and recorded at Gavin Monaghan’s Magic Garden Studios. Featuring Simon Smith on bass, Meinir Olwen on harp, Niimi Day Gough on voice and Adam Knight on vibraphone, the track fuses Celtic soul with Songhoy blues.

Bedouine — the project of Azniv Korkejian — shares the video for “On My Own,” the third single from her forthcoming album Neon Summer Skin, out June 5th via Thirty Tigers. The contemplative piano ballad opens an album shaped by home, displacement and inherited identity. She has also announced new UK and European tour dates including a London show at Milton Court Concert Hall.

Lambchop announce new album Punching The Clown, due 21st August via City Slang — their first in nearly four years. Inspired by lined out singing, an obscure gospel form rooted in late-1800s Scotland and Appalachia, the album frames Kurt Wagner’s songs around guitar, banjo, voice and choir, with Justin Vernon, Andrew Broder and Mark Nevers. Lead single Weakened is out now.

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders share ‘Critical Masses,’ a new track from their forthcoming album ‘Liquid Donnon,’ out 12th June via Riot Season Records (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (US). Convened in 2019, the band — featuring members of Elkhorn and drummer Scott Verrastro, alongside guitarist-vocalist Alexander — pulls together cosmic jazz, deep psych and free improv, threaded with memory of Alexander’s late friend Donnon.

Amsterdam collective Personal Trainer have announced their third album “Human Assholes,” due 4th September via Bella Union. The 15-track follow-up to 2024’s “Still Willing” is led by first single ‘Punch Drunk Love’ — borrowing its title from the Paul Thomas Anderson film — which arrives with a typically charming new video. UK and EU tour dates run from July through October.

Croz Boyce — Animal Collective’s Dave Portner and Brian Weitz — share the Joseph Ricketts-directed video for “Steven’s Sunshine Rejected,” the second single from their self-titled debut album, out this Friday May 8th on Domino. Down-tuned guitar and slide lines stake out an overcast mood while Weitz’s electronics shift like changeable wind, before the back half tilts towards something firmer.

Zoh Amba has shared the title track and video for Eyes Full, their Matador debut, out June 5th. The track lands harder than lead single Another Time, three players threaded together as Amba’s acoustic holds the centre and asks what makes a heart full. The video, set in a gym, ends with the band joining in the fun for a pickup basketball game.

To celebrate the release of Gallants, Jim Moray is sharing a live performance of “The Nightingale,” recorded at The Arch — a 140-year-old former church in Southport — with his full live band. The recording is taken from a complete live session premiering at 8pm on Sunday May 3rd on YouTube, free to watch with a pay-what-you-want donation ticket available.

Junior Brother has shared an intimate live video for New Road, the closing track of his third album The End, captured by filmmaker Myles O’Reilly. Released last September via Strap Originals, the record earned the Co. Kerry songwriter a Choice Music Prize nomination and Artist of the Month status at KLOF. Watch the new video and read our full review and interview.

Irish alternative trad/folk trio Rattling Ark — featuring cellist Kevin Murphy of Slow Moving Clouds, with Thomas Haugh and Lizzi Murtough — announce their debut album Top of a Mountain, out 19 June 2026. The first single, ‘Leprechaun’, taken from the singing of Maggie Barry, arrives with an astonishing video by Brian Kelly and a deranged violyra solo from guest performer Aki.

The Huntress and Holder of Hands, the musical project of MorganEve Swain, have shared Doctrine, the second single from their forthcoming album, Babylon, due June 5th. Written in 2017 and reshaped through several iterations into this thumping protest song. “Honestly, I was hoping it would be obsolete by now,” Swain says.