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Today, marks the release of Eternity Near, the new album from Ulster trio TRÚ. Watch their spellbinding new video for ‘Is Fada Liom Uaim Í’ that they learned from Kevin Burke and Micheál Ó Domhnaill’s 1982 Portland album.

Lankum did us proud at last night’s Mercury Prize for which their fourth album, False Lankum, was nominated. Watch them performing ‘Go Dig My Grave’. Radie Peat learned the song from the singing of Jean Ritchie, who recorded it in 1963.

Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell self-released their first duo album, You, Golden, almost a year ago. Make sure to attend their tour, which kicks off this month. Here are some excellent reasons why you should make the effort…

Ahead of her upcoming tour, watch a stunning live performance of Goodnight World by Lisa O’Neill, captured by Myles O’Reilly, Donal Dineen and Daniel O’Neill “… Lisa…never fails to make my hair stand up with her honest beauty, was such a thrilling and rewarding experience.”

For his latest single, ‘We Are Here’, Michael Waugh turns to the power of storytelling, delivering an anthemic, rousing folk song that praises heroes, all of whom are gay pioneers…it is a call to action: we won’t be silent anymore!

For the first time in over fifty years, Dave Evans’ 1972 folk opus Elephantasia is to be reissued on Earth Recordings in collaboration with his estate and original Village Thing producer Ian A. Anderson. Listen to Beauty Queen and Only Blue.

You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of award-winning British composer and writer Kerry Andrew, has announced the release of their forthcoming album ‘hare // hunter // moth // ghost’. Watch the haunting animated video for their new single ‘winter solstice’, made by Marry Waterson.

Unvarnished yet impeccably crafted, the music of Brown Horse has a heartfelt magnetism. They could also be Norwich’s answer to the Felice Brothers – watch their video for ‘Sunfisher’, the lead single taken from their debut album ‘Reservoir’, released on 19th January 2024 via Loose Music.

Watch the video for ‘Puppet Show’, the latest single from emerging alt-folk artist Sarah Buckley from Cork, Ireland. The song explores the experience of misplaced trust and recalls a relationship gone wrong. 

King Creosote announces his first album in seven years. I DES is released on November 3rd – watch the video for his new song “Blue Marbled Elm Trees”; a reflection on life, death, the universe, art and love. Always the big stuff with Kenny.

Jenny Sturgeon announces ‘The Living Mountain’ Tour – bringing the beauty and magic of the Cairngorms to audiences. Also, on 3rd November, she is releasing a limited edition re-pressing of ‘The Living Mountain’ and her new ‘Wintergreen’ EP. Listen to the lead track ‘Solitude’.

Directed by Jacob Forman, watch the video for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s “Willow, Pine and Oak” – “When first proposing the video to me, Will posed it as a challenge of sorts— to stray from my typical home of the handheld camera and attempt to capture that same sort of intimacy with a tripod. To ‘lock it down,’ in his words…”