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Laura Cannell’s twelfth EP Winterlore, from 2024’s monthly themed ‘Lore’ series
Christmas special Song of the Day: A wonderfully haunting and beautiful strings and bells instrumental piece by the British composer from her the twelfth EP, Winterlore in the monthly ‘Year of Lore’ series of 2024
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Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back
Song of the Day: Following this year’s fabulous album World of Work, a beautiful new experimental folk-pop single by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer, deliciously decorated with strings, piano, woodwind and her haunting voice. Out on Warp Records
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Muireann Bradley’s debut album, I Kept These Blues
Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca
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Denison Witmer’s forthcoming LP Anything At All
Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records
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Clara Mann’s forthcoming album, Rift
Song of the Day: Deliciously sparse, ghostly, delicate folk in with a lovely melancholic farewell song by the London singer-songwriter, with the latest single from her forthcoming album, due to be released on 7 March 2025, via on The state51 Conspiracy
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Dutch Interior - Sandcastle Molds
Song of the Day: Sprightly drumming and innovative guitar work come apace with striking lyrics in this alluring new indie-folk-country single by the Los Angeles quintet fronted by Jack Nugent, and out on Fat Possum Records
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Jasmine 4.t;s forthcoming album, You Are The Morning, out on Saddest Factory Records
Song of the Day: A delightfully warm, tender, beautiful folk love song by the Manchester-based Trans singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank, with title track from their forthcoming album, out on 17 January via Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory Records
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Anna B Savage - Lighthouse
Song of the Day: An exquisite, tender, gentle, poetic, walking-pace new single decorated with piano, double bass and guitar and perfect intonations of the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang
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Caleb Kunle - Ease Your Strife
Song of the Day: A powerful, soaring, emotional soul number about by the troubles of his brother by the pure-voiced singer-songwriter also inspired by the three cities he calls home - Lagos, Laois and London, as well as words of the great Nina Simone: “Between a few worlds, I do belong.”
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album, The Purple Bird
Song of the Day: Homely, toe-tapping, but as ever, wittily droll, Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with a very Nashville-style folk-country number with fiddle and Grammy-winning mandolinist Tim O’Brien, heralding a new album, The Purple Bird on 31 January via Domino Records
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The Ocelots - The Good of a Bad Year - from the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly
Song of the Day: This beautiful, gently paced, piano-based single, about highlighting overlooked moments of joy, heralds the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly, by the Leipzig-based Irish twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson from Wexford
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Sophie Jamieson’s forthcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, gut-wrenching, intimate folk and electronica single by the London-based singer-songwriter about trying to find forgiveness when faced with pain, from the upcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on 17 January 2025 on Bella Union
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Kelora
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, shimmering, haunting psychedelic dream pop and cyber folk by the Glasgow-formed, London-based duo of Kitty Hall and Benedict Salter, heralding their new album, Sleepers, out on 10 February via True Panther Records
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Sunny War
Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress
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Echolalia: Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby
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Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe
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Låpsley - Church
Song of the Day: The singer-songwriter from York, Holly Lapsley Fletcher, returns with a beautiful, candid, autobiographical, acoustic finger-picking number about still waiting to find life’s directions, and with a Joni Mitchell namecheck
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In full bloom: Richard Dawson
Song of the Day: This warm, beautiful, tender, poetic new single by the British experimental folk artist evokes a gardener finding comfort in the the noble, calming, sometimes mysterious business of raising vegetables and heralds Dawson’s new album End of the Middle, to be released on 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino Records
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Anna B Savage’s upcoming third album You & i are Earth is out in January on City Slang
Song of the Day: “There’s magic here.” An exquisite, intimate but also energetic new single by the British experimental folk singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang Records
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Josh Tillman
Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world
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