song of the day

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘One Evening and Other Folk Songs’, Buck Curran has shared his new single ‘Black is the Colour’ – channelling early Pentangle, it’s quite unlike anything he has done before.

Malin Lewis, the pioneering queer bagpiper, fiddler, instrument maker and composer, releases their debut album Halocline next month. Watch the stunningly scenic video for their third album single, Hiraeth. The album is inspired by European folk traditions, human nature, queerness and the universe.

Taken from his new album Locust Land, Bill MacKay shares his second single, ‘Glow Drift’, on which he locks into a relatable psychedelic groove with Mikel Patrick Avery and Sam Wagster. Intelligence and imagination are the order of the day for these sonic explorers.

Our Song of the Day comes from Remorae, a collective of folk and electronic musicians that began life as Folkatron Sessions. Listen to their new single, Johnny’s On The Water, which is due for release tomorrow and taken from their forthcoming EP Flourish in Green.

Laura J Martin shares her video for ‘Prepared’, the title track of her new solo album (& our Song of the Day) – the birdwatching video is her tribute to her binocular days, the ever-changing silence of quiet obsessions and the joy of camo…

Filmed live at Levis Corner House in Ballydehob, County Cork, watch the lyric video for Bonny Light Horseman’s (Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman) outstanding new single “When I Was Younger”, also our Song of the Day.

Our Tune of the Day comes from North Carolina-based duo Magic Tuber Stringband featuring Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan. Listen to their new single ‘Twelfth House’, taken from their forthcoming album Needlefall.

Australian guitar whizz D.C Cross has shared a video for ‘A Harebrained Adventure of An Amateur Shaman’, directed by Steve Hanft. The results speak for themselves, an experimental and adventurous collaboration…a total gem.

Our Song of the Day comes from Meernaa, a Bay Area native and Los Angeles-based, producer, songwriter, and vocalist. Listen to her gorgeous new single called “A Promise.”

South London-based experimental artist Kiran Leonard signs to Memorials of Distinction and releases his new single ‘Treat Me A Stranger’, accompanied by a video that is no less beguiling, confusing, funny and uniquely brilliant…It’s a small, intricate gem, and I love it.

Ahead of his upcoming London gig (31st January), watch British-born Tim Crabtree (better known as Paper Beat Scissors) performing Wszystkiego Najlepszego in his Montreal studio. “There’s such emotion caught in the song, such yearning, that it just transcended the fact I couldn’t understand a single word” says Crabtree.

Listen to Sessions, the new single from Tio’tiá:ke/Montreal-based musician Cedric Noel. He’s joined by Lisa Conway-Bühler (L CON), Tim Crabtree (Paper Beat Scissors, Jean-Michel Blais, Michael Feuerstack) and Mike Belyea (Jenn Grant, Jennah Barry). It’s also our Song of the Day.

Our Song of the Day is ‘When The Tide Rolls In’, the latest single from Amelia Coburn, taken from her debut album ‘Between The Moon and The Milkman’, produced by Bill Ryder-Jones. This debut should be on everyone’s radar.

Our Song of the Day comes from Kaia Kater with her new single ‘The Internet’ taken from her forthcoming album on Free Dirt Records. Her UK and European tour kicks off this month.

Taken from her forthcoming new album, our Song of the Day comes from Swimming Bell with ‘For Al and Lee’. Ripe with Laurel Canyon ambience, Schottland displays an intimacy throughout that is radiant with sincerity.

Our Song of the Day comes from LYR, featuring singer Richard Walters, producer Patrick J Pearson and poet Simon Armitage. A Brief Chronicle of Birds in the Autumn and Winter Months of 1886 PT II, is taken from their new album, An Unnatural History.

Our Song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina-based singer songwriter Emma Geiger with her new single ‘Empty’, in which she delves deeper and more fearlessly into a constantly shifting internal world.

Our Song of the Day comes from Seán R. McLaughlin and The Wind-Up Crows. Ninewells is a tremendous rootsy collision of Americana and folk influences that bodes incredibly well for their forthcoming album.