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I AM PROUD Collective — Angeline Morrison, Leonie Evans, Lizi Morse, Priscilla Andersohn and Rhiannon Takel — release their debut single I AM PROUD – in tribute to Sojourner Truth on 6th March, ahead of International Women’s Day. Drawing on Truth’s famous provocation “Ain’t I a Woman,” the Bristol-rooted supergroup has crafted a trans-inclusive folk anthem of solidarity and joy.
SUSS share Sunset II, the first single from their forthcoming album Counting Sunsets, due May 15th via Northern Spy. The track rides a more pronounced rhythmic pulse than much of their earlier work, stretching ambient Americana into subtly motorik terrain. Recorded in a condensed window and shaped by a year touring together, the album captures the trio at their most intuitive.
Zürich art-rock four-piece District Five have announced GLUT, due May 29 via Stone Pixel Records, and have shared the new single “Push” featuring Saul Williams. A politically unambiguous track, it arrives with an animated video by j4y depicting the fractured rhythms of a day in New York City. The album promises the band’s characteristically expansive, genre-resistant sound, captured live and raw.
Shakey Graves has announced new album Fondness, Etc., due May 15th via Secret Identity / Dualtone Records, alongside new single Time Flies — a lush cover of Frankie Sunswept’s wistful love song, adorned with strings arranged by David J. Pierce and a guitar solo from Zeke Jarmon. Captured on tape machines at home, the album is Graves’ most intimate work yet.
Jesca Hoop has shared Caravan, the latest single from her forthcoming album Long Wave Home, due 1st May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music. Following the politically charged Designer Citizen, Caravan turns inward — a song of misplaced faith and vanishing promises, tracing the distance between romantic surrender and quiet devastation. An accompanying video was shot in and around Manchester.
Chris Brain has shared Big Hill, the second single from his forthcoming album Red Sun Rising, out May 1st via Big Sun Records. Inspired by a long-promised walk in the Yorkshire Dales and featuring guest vocals from Natalie Wildgoose, the track embodies Brain’s gift for finding quiet revelation in the unhurried and the ordinary — accompanied by a live performance video.
Gum Bump’s syncopated grooves dance across the stereo spectrum in oozing fits before synthesizers erupt into heaps of magma — Setting crafting their own singular dynamic funk. Built on long exploratory sessions, Fennelly, Bowles and Westerlund have developed a shared syntax that transforms electric spontaneity into something more elaborate and impactful. Urgent and smouldering, patient and emotive: a thrilling statement.
“Life is Scary Horses” arrives as the final preview of We Are Together Again, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album. A “spiritual cover” of the Sally Timms / Jon Langford composition, it sees Timms herself appear on the track alongside strings arranged by Oldham’s cousin Ryder McNair. The accompanying video, directed by longtime collaborator Braden King, frames the piece as an elegy assembled from a disappearing world.
Brown Wimpenny’s experimental take on Raglan Road builds a dense wall of sound around Patrick Kavanagh’s Joycean poem of longing and loss. The eleven-piece collective’s version “probes the relationship between cacophony and beauty; attempting to show that by sitting with chaos and perpetual change, we can find a new cohesion.” The track is taken from a forthcoming debut album, details of which are yet to be announced.
Berkeley Street, the lead single and video from Adam Ross’ forthcoming third solo album, Bring On The Apathy, finds Ross sifting through Glasgow memories with characteristic lyricism and warmth. The single carries both the intimacy of return and the sting of passing time. Accompanied by a stellar ensemble, it’s one of his richest recordings yet.
Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer’s The Standing Stones return with Twa Sisters, an eleven-minute, three-part rendition of one of the darkest Scottish ballads — sung by Iona Zajac, accompanied by Lankum’s Daragh Lynch. The track will be encoded into a twelve-foot Welsh slate monolith under the Flower Moon in Stroud on 1st May. The New Stone Age continues.
South American field recording artist Caminauta has shared Encounters, the new single and video from her debut album Unseen Dimensions, due March 2026 via Wayside & Woodland Recordings. Shot during isolated coastal walks after three years of near-total solitude, the video captures the same unhurried, observational spirit as the music itself — organic, atmospheric, and quietly essential.