Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings announce Parlour Ballads, a piano-led record full of sentimental ballads that tie together parlour music and folk song. The album will be released on September 27th, 2024, via Hudson Records.
Taken from his forthcoming new album, Interloper, Jack Cheshire shares Willy Robinson’s Van Sant-inspired music video for ‘Valium’—an offbeat gem that lingers long and unfolds slowly. This is worth spending some time on…also our Song of the Day.
Haley Heynderickx has shared ‘Seed of a Seed’, her first new song since her 2018 debut record, I Need to Start a Garden. It’s a stunning offering and also our Song of the Day.
Nap Eyes announce The Neon Gate, their first album in four years – out October 18th via Paradise of Bachelors and Paper Bag Records. Listen to their new single ‘Passageway’.
Featuring several special guests, Yasmin Williams announces her third album, Acadia, due for release in October via Nonesuch Records. Listen to her new single, ‘Virga,’ featuring Darlingside, her first to include lyrics.
Watch the accompanying lyric video for ‘Boundaries’, the new single from Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Aisha Badru, taken from her newly announced second album, ‘The Sun Still Rises’.
Watch the highly touted Irish folk singer-songwriter Lorraine Nash performing a gorgeous acoustic solo version of ‘Getting Started’, her first single (released this week), taken from her new EP, due in 2025.
Taken from his latest album, Glookies Guit, watch the accompanying short film to Australian guitarist D.C Cross’s new single, ‘Rhinestones, in Black and White’, also our Tune of the Day.
“Another Tide, Another Fish” contains imaginative re-workings and improvisations by Andrew Tuttle of the late great Michael Chapman’s unfinished instrumental album. Taken from the album, watch the accompanying video for ‘Wholly Unrelated To Four Seasons’.
To celebrate the release of ‘Wes Tirey Sings Selected Works of Billy the Kid’, on Sun Cru, watch his video for ‘Work 5’ – “…Lost cowboy psych folk, maybe. Concrete cowboy poetry with a tinge of old weird Americana. Ominous lo fi 70s Western soundtrack.”
Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut album, Troubadour, is to be reissued for the first time by Drag City. Taken from that album, listen to the mesmerising Masquerade, released as a single today.
Watch Dean McPhee’s ‘The Bradford Boar’, filmed by Dave George and inspired by the Ben Wheatley film “A Field in England”. It features on a split cassette release (with Pefkin), available on Folklore Tapes as part of their Ceremonial Counties Subscription Series.
