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Taken from her new album ‘Who’s Keeping Time?’, Alela Diane shares ‘Wide Open Spaces’ video, featuring 1986 VHS footage from a family trip on Lake Powell. Her new album is out now on Loose Music (UK/EU) and Fluff & Gravy Records (US).

For all its preoccupation with what slips away — faces misremembered, friends taken too early, the houses we once lived in — “Who’s Keeping Time?” is markedly less solitary than anything Alela Diane has made since “To Be Still”. Michael Hurley’s death sent her back into the room with other musicians. The album doesn’t argue against loss; it gathers people around it.

Grief can do strange things to a songwriter. For Alela Diane, the death of Portland folk legend Michael Hurley last year didn’t close a door — it flung one wide open. Who’s Keeping Time?, her seventh album and debut on Loose Music, arrives May 22nd as a communal, attic-recorded reckoning with time, memory, and the enduring pull of song. Listen to lead single ‘California’.

Transforming moments from her life into songs that we can all relate to, Alela Diane’s Looking Glass reveals a songwriter whose depth is undeniable and whose performances create unforgettable memories.

Following the release earlier this month of ‘Howling Wind’, Alela Diane has today released another new single titled ‘Paloma’. Watch the accompanying video which features her two daughters providing her with a unique makeover.

Alela Diane has today shared her new single ‘Howling Wind’ and an accompanying visualiser video in which finds her playing with her daughter in their garden.

Timed to coincide with her sold-out show at London’s Union Chapel yesterday, Alela Diane has shared her video for Move Us Blind from her fifth studio album Cusp – also our Song of the Day.

Alela Diane releases her new single ‘Ether & Wood’ on 12 January, the second song taken from her forthcoming album ‘Cusp’. Watch the accompanying video here.

For her fifth studio album Cusp (out 9 Feb, AllPoints), Alela Diane taps into the nurture, strength and emotion of motherhood, a sentiment that travels movingly through the eye of a lens on her new video for Emigré, our Song of the Day.

The music on Cold Moon has a deceptively gentle tone that can mask the powerful lyrics and the slowly developing theme of departure. It is also a truly, remarkable album – we can only hope that Diane and Francesconi continue collaborating and make many more like it.

Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi release the debut single Shapeless, taken from their forthcoming collaborative album Cold Moon. Listen to it here.

In our latest ‘Lost in Transmission’ mix series we have some jumping tunes and some of the most beautiful songs we’ve come across. Features The Railsplitters, Dubl Handi, Emma Ballantine, Angel Olsen, Meg Baird, James Yorkston, Conrad Vingoe, Diane Cluck, Adam Hill and many more.