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This Is The Kit: Careful Of Your Keepers
New album: Another peach of an LP from Kate Stables and band, whose voice especially with her acoustic alternative folk, effortlessly caresses the microphone with clarity, beauty, profundity and minimalism, and is produced by Gruff Rhys
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Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan
New album: The Grammy-nominated vocal harmonising duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan from Eagle Rock, California, release a new collection of beautiful, bittersweet acoustic American folk of moving and vivid narratives
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James Howard: Peek-a-Boo
New album: Like a slow caress of wry beauty, a deliciously paced alt-folk-Americana debut by the English producer and multi-instrumentalist with a collection aptly described as 'twinkling like a glitterball in an abandoned dancehall’
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Fatoumata Diawara: London KO
New album: The Mali star returns with an third LP, mixing Afro-futurism and feminism wassoulou traditions and western, but also celebrating her links the UK and and collaborations, notably with co-producer Damon Albarn, and other guest including Angie Stone and Roberto Fonseco
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Susanne Sundfør: Blómi
New album: Strange and strikingly beautiful, the sixth album by the Norwegian singer-songwriter is a mix of classic 70s piano-pop and alternative folk, with echoes everything from Karen Carpenter to Rufus Wainwright
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Tiny Ruins: Ceremony
New album: Gorgeously intricate, beautifully paced experimental folk comes in this fourth LP by the band of New Zealand’s Hollie Fullbrook, with songs that are poignant, melancholy, but also intelligently uplifting
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Lucy Farrell: We Are Only Sound
New album: Another beautiful folk release, this the long-awaited full debut by established Kent-born Canada-based singer-songwriter who recorded this in the medieval walls of Wenlock Abbey, home to Nick Drake’s sister Gabrielle, who allowed us of her brother’s instruments
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Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well’s new album, Cadence
New album: Beautifully stark, slow, vividly lyrical, bathed in warm resonator guitar with gentle percussion and violin, and the sensitive, resonant voice of Amelia Baker, whose folk songs are inspired by and capturing her Californian coast upbringing and beloved rural Ireland home
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Lael Neale: Star Eaters Delight
New album: The American singer-songwriter returns with a third album of ethereal alternative folk-pop, inspired by moving from the bright lights of LA to the calm of the family Virginia farm and polarities of country-city, humanity-technology, solitude- relationship
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Oracle Sisters: Hydranism
Debut album: Classy, and timelessly classic piano pop and more debut by the Paris-based trio of Lewis Lazar, Christopher Willatt and Finnish musician Julia Johansen filled with melting, moving ballads, intimate folk songs, catchy bangers and generally vision of the world suspended in a timeless place
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Spencer Cullum returns with further treasures
New album: Following 2021’s beautiful first coin collection, another delicious release of gentle 70s-style folk with light touches of country, jazz and pop by the Romford artist who has made his home in Nashville, Tennessee
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Small scenes, Big Picture. Fenne Lily’s perfectly formed bittersweet new album
New album: Crisp, stripped back, gentle, intricate and sensitive singer-songwriter folk by the Bristol artist with third album about the last two years of her life, capturing “worry and doubt and letting go”, treading a beautifully bittersweet line between the melancholic and uplifting
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Feist’s sixth album, Multitudes
New album: A beautifully intricate, delicate, intelligent and innovative new LP by the Canadian singer-songwriter with among others, a theme the many selves we possess and present, now, in the past and future
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Daughter’s third album, Stereo Mind Game
New album: The London-formed trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli, and Remi Aguilella return with their third album in a decade with a selection of powerful, breathy, indie-folk-shoegaze, their first since 2016’s Not To Disappear
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Billie Marten’s fourth LP, Drop Cherries
New album: A sublime fourth album by the singer-songwriter Isabella Sophie Tweddle from Ripon in Yorkshire, building on 2021’s excellent Flora Fauna with folk love songs blooming with exquisite beauty and intimacy
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Altin Gün’s fifth album, Aşk
New album: The Amsterdam psychedelic and electro-pop-funk rockers make a fabulous fifth LP with their special interpretations of traditional Turkish and Anatolian folk, echoing the heavier sound of their earlier albums On and Gece
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Four masters making a perfect blend: (from left) Vincent Peirani, Ballaké Sissoko, Émile Parisien and Vincent Segal
New album: A gorgeous genre-spanning jazz-folk-Anatolian LP featuring Malian kora maestro Ballaké Sissoko, specialist improv cellist Vincent Segal, accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani and French soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien
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Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus together as boygenius
New album: After 2018’s EP, a fabulous LP debut of folk, Americana and indie combining the talents of American singer-songwriter trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, who have each also released three successful solo LPs
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Death & Vanilla: Flicker
New album: The trio from Malmö, Sweden return with another selection of smooth, delicate, vintage Moog synth dream pop and psych-folk, more upbeat than 2019’s Are You A Dreamer, but still creating a musical “melancholic utopia”
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Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra: Racing The Storm
New album: Charming, beautifully arranged acoustic intricacy in this crisp collaboration between the clear-voiced Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian multi-instrumentalist duo Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans and friends
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