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On The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Marisa Anderson reinterprets music from beyond America's borders â an open-armed gesture of connecting that could hardly be better timed.
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Marisa Anderson - The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music (Album Review)
Marisa Anderson reinterprets music from beyond Americaâs borders on âThe Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Musicâ â beautifully studied and played, and a resounding success.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/marisa-anderson-the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music/
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Inspired by a nuclear-contaminated stretch of the Savannah River, North Carolinaâs Magic Tuber Stringbandâs âHeavy Waterâ binds Appalachian folk to intellectual rigour and ecological grief.
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Magic Tuber Stringband â Heavy Water (Album Review)
Inspired by a nuclear-contaminated stretch of the Savannah River, North Carolinaâs Magic Tuber Stringbandâs âHeavy Waterâ binds Appalachian folk to intellectual rigour and ecological grief.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/magic-tuber-stringband-heavy-water/
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Tara Clerkin Trio have shared âLazy Daisyâ, the latest track from their forthcoming album âSomewhere Goodâ, out 5th June via World of Echo.
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Tara Clerkin Trio Share New Single âLazy Daisyâ
Tara Clerkin Trio share new single âLazy Daisyâ ahead of new album âSomewhere Goodâ, out 5th June via World of Echo â the Bristol trioâs most realised work yet.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/tara-clerkin-trio-share-new-single-lazy-daisy/
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Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith return with âWakefire: A Summer Albumâ, a full-scale double album that trumps its predecessor in both ambition and reward.
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Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith â Wakefire: A Summer Album
Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith return with âWakefire: A Summer Albumâ, a full-scale double album that trumps its predecessor in both ambition and reward.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/lady-maisery-and-jimmy-aldridge-sid-goldsmith-wakefire-a-summer-album/
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BCMC â Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain â return with âTĂȘte-Ă -TĂȘteâ, the second single from their forthcoming Drag City Records album âStashâ, out June 26th. Where lead single âKaleidosmokeâ unfurled in patient, accumulative psychedelia, this one rotates skyward.
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BCMC Share âTĂȘte-Ă -TĂȘteâ From Forthcoming Drag City Album âStashâ
BCMC â Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain â share the visualiser for âTĂȘte-Ă -TĂȘteâ, the Krautrock-leaning second single from their forthcoming Drag City album âStashâ, out June 26th.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/bcmc-share-tete-a-tete-from-forthcoming-drag-city-album-stash/
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On their self-titled debut, The MerKaBa Brotherhood treat rhythm as a vessel for hidden knowledge, shaping sound the way mystics shape symbols...parachuting us into the place where all the in-between notes live.
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The MerKaBa Brotherhood â The MerKaBa Brotherhood
The MerKaBa Brotherhoodâs self-titled Mississippi Records debut behaves like a coded manuscript â Roman Norfleet and Andre Raiah turn noise into philosophy, vibration into shared language.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/the-merkaba-brotherhood-the-merkaba-brotherhood/
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Kevin Morby's âLittle Wide Openâ is a road record: tangled highways, small towns, roadside crosses... From the engine-rumble of opener âBadlandsâ to the open-armed homecoming of closer âField Guide For The Butterflies,â Morby writes with weary-eyed honesty
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Kevin Morby â Little Wide Open (Album Review)
Across its runtime, Little Wide Open takes you across endless highways and mountain paths, and through quiet towns. âWelcome to our little corner of the world,â offers Kevin Morby.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/kevin-morby-little-wide-open/
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An intricate fusion of Americana and electronic soundscapes â 'Counting Sunsets' is SUSS's finest, most fully realised expression of 'ambient country' yet.
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SUSS â Counting Sunsets (Album Review)
An intricate fusion of Americana and electronic soundscapes, âCounting Sunsetsâ is SUSSâs finest, most fully realised expression of âambient countryâ yet.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/suss-counting-sunsets/
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For all its preoccupation with what slips away...âWhoâs Keeping Time?â is markedly less solitary than anything Alela Diane has made since âTo Be Stillâ. Shaped by Michael Hurleyâs death, the album doesnât argue against loss; it gathers people around it.
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Alela Diane â Whoâs Keeping Time? (Album Review)
Michael Hurleyâs death sent Alela Diane back into the room with other musicians on âWhoâs Keeping Time?â â her seventh album, and her most generous yet.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/alela-diane-whos-keeping-time/
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The Bevis Frond unveil the music video for âRomany Blueâ, taken from their recent 27th album âHorrorful Heightsâ on Fire Records. Directed by Italian filmmaker and long-time fan Roberto Beani in Bologna using a vintage Academy 1.37 aspect ratio and handheld camera.
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The Bevis Frond Share Roberto Beaniâs Video for âRomany Blueâ Ahead of UK Tour
Watch the new video for The Bevis Frondâs âRomany Blueâ, directed by Italian filmmaker Roberto Beani, from their recent album âHorrorful Heightsâ on Fire Records.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/the-bevis-frond-roberto-beanis-video-romany-blue-uk-tour/
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Biita Houdei â the new moniker of singer-songwriter Lisa Houdei (formerly LĂ©Ponds) â shares debut single âLife Inside The Hourglassâ. Shaped in the shadows and sounds of Topanga Canyon, it was produced by Haley Heynderickx in her first lead production role.
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Topanga Magic: Biita Houdei Shares Debut Single âLife Inside The Hourglassâ
Watch the video for âLife Inside The Hourglass,â the debut single from Biita Houdei â the new moniker for singer-songwriter Lisa Houdei, formerly known as LĂ©Ponds.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/topanga-magic-biita-houdei-shares-debut-single-life-inside-the-hourglass/
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Pharis & Jason Romero return on June 12th with âThese Are The Days That Turn In To Yearsâ, their seventh studio album for Free Dirt Records...âa songwriterâs deep exhale, replete with stories, love, and nostalgia.â Title track âThese Are The Daysâ is out now.
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Pharis & Jason Romero Share âThese Are The Daysâ From Forthcoming Album
Pharis & Jason Romero share title track âThese Are The Daysâ from their seventh album, soundtracking footage of their âmermaid daughterâ swimming in the lake.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/pharis-jason-romero-share-these-are-the-days-from-new-album/
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Mallory Hawkâs self-released debut album, Chinook, arrives July 31st, 2026. Lead single and accompanying video âRevolverâ is a jangly yet lush, yearning love song about being a hopeless sucker for someone, caught in the endless cycles of faulty loyalty.
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Mallory Hawk Announces Debut Album Chinook, Shares Revolver Video
Mallory Hawk shares the video for âRevolverâ â a jangly, yearning lead single from her self-released debut album âChinook,â out July 31st, 2026. Preorder available now.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/mallory-hawk-announces-debut-album-chinook-shares-revolver-video/
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Laura Veirs returns on 14th August with her fourteenth solo album, âTemple Songsâ, released via her own Raven Marching Band Records. Her lead single, âFlying Into Darknessâ, arrives with a video that Veirs filmed herself during a recent French tour.
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Laura Veirs announces new album âTemple Songsâ and shares âFlying Into Darknessâ
Laura Veirs announces her fourteenth solo album, Temple Songs, out 14th August on Raven Marching Band Records, and shares the self-shot video for âFlying Into Darknessâ.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/laura-veirs-announces-new-album-temple-songs-and-shares-flying-into-darkness/
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On their self-titled debut âAmarante-Cerisierâ, Marine Debilly Cerisier and Mauricio Amarante deliver a fitting addition to the canon of Francophone double-acts. Their free-form folk thrives on paradox and fruitful mystery...a refractive collection of sweet, sharp songs.
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Amarante-Cerisier â Amarante-Cerisier (Album Review)
On their self-titled debut âAmarante-Cerisierâ, Marine Debilly Cerisier and Mauricio Amarante deliver a deceptive, refractive collection of sweet, sharp songs â free-form folk of fruitful mystery.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/amarante-cerisier-amarante-cerisier/
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A final album from Ed Askew is on the way. âThe Final Painting,â a posthumous album, arrives July 31st (Drag City)â assembled in his last years with producer Jerry David DeCicca. Lead single âGray Air-o-Plane,â featuring Sharon Van Etten, is out today.
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One Last Portrait: Ed Askewâs Posthumous Album âThe Final Paintingâ Arrives July 31st
Ed Askewâs posthumous album âThe Final Paintingâ arrives July 31st. Lead single âGray Air-o-Plane,â featuring Sharon Van Etten, drops today with an accompanying music video.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/ed-askew-posthumous-album-the-final-painting-gray-air-o-plane/
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Irish alternative trad/folk group Rattling Ark share âColeraine Jig,â from their forthcoming debut album âTop of a Mountainâ...this haunting instrumental piece fuses cello with cascading zithers and percussion â the melody framed before resolving into a trancelike groove.
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Irish Trio Rattling Ark Share New Single âColeraine Jigâ
Irish trad/folk group Rattling Ark share âColeraine Jig,â a haunting instrumental from forthcoming debut album âTop of a Mountain.â
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/rattling-ark-share-coleraine-jig/
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The pastoral vibes of this weekâs Monday Morning Brew arrive courtesy of Mark Fry, Cinder Well, Vic Chesnutt, Jessica Pratt, Smog, Roy Harper, The Innocence Mission, John Fahey, Bert Jansch & Hope Sandoval, Michael Chapman, Marina Allen and more.
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The Monday Morning Brew #155
The pastoral vibes of this weekâs Monday Morning Brew arrive courtesy of Mark Fry, Cinder Well, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, Jessica Pratt, Smog, John Fahey, and more, plus a deep dive into the music of M...
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/the-monday-morning-brew-155/
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New Mixtape ft. Kevin Morby, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Mary Hampton, Cinder Well, Yo La Tengo, Daughter of Swords, No-No Boy, Damian Dalla Torre and Ts Bayandalai â plus a reading from Beat Poet Gregory Corso, and Jeff Parker's âLike Swimwearâ.
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KLOF No. 83 (Folk, Jazz, Experimental, Alternative)
Thirteen tracks from KLOFâs recent listening pile â Kevin Morby, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Mary Hampton, Yo La Tengo, Cinder Well, Jeff Parker, Gregory Corso and more. Press play.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/klof-no-83-folk-jazz-experimental-alternative/
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BBC Folk Award winner Sam Carter has shared a new video for âCanadee-i-oâ to herald his live album âSam Carter Sings Nic Jones: Live At Celtic Connections,â recorded with the Jones familyâs blessing; due 26th June via Captain Records + UK Tour Dates
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A Faithful Hand: Sam Carter Revisits âCanadee-i-oâ for New Nic Jones Tribute Album
Watch Sam Carterâs new video for âCanadee-i-o,â heralding his live album âSam Carter Sings Nic Jones: Live At Celtic Connections,â a devoted tribute out 26th June.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/a-faithful-hand-sam-carter-revisits-canadee-i-o-for-new-nic-jones-tribute-album/
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Adam Ross's âBring On the Apathyâ is his third album under his own name and is his most mature and rewarding yet. Out today on Fika Recordings. Read the full review here:
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Adam Ross â Bring On The Apathy (Album Review)
âBring On the Apathyâ is Adam Rossâs most mature and rewarding album yet â deceptively gentle melodies paired with lyrics that are witty and frequently biting.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/adam-ross-bring-on-the-apathy/
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Abigail Lapell, whose new album âShadow Childâ is out now, selects ten meaningful objects from her home for KLOFâs Off the Shelf series. Her picks span a wooden dala horse picked up in Stockholm while touring with baby Charlie, to the hood ornament of a beloved camper van
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Off the Shelf with Abigail Lapell
Abigail Lapell, whose new album âShadow Childâ is out now, selects ten objects from her home â from a Swedish Dala horse to a Camper Van hood ornament.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/off-the-shelf-with-abigail-lapell/
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@henryparkerbfd.bsky.social
âs âThe Dark Peakâ delivers pristine, impeccably fingerpicked acoustic music recorded on the moors of the Peak District. With tight melodies and wonderfully evocative natural sounds permeating the songs, this is a gem.
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Henry Parker â The Dark Peak
Henry Parkerâs âThe Dark Peakâ is a little gem â a mini-album of pristine, impeccably fingerpicked acoustic music recorded on the moors of the Peak District.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/henry-parker-the-dark-peak/
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Daisy Rickman and Magpahi take a side each on âCeremonial County Series Vol. XXIIIâ from Folkore Tapes. Rickmanâs piece ties East Sussex bonfire myths to pagan ritual, and Magpahi summons a malevolent Lancashire water spirit.
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Daisy Rickman & Magpahi: Ceremonial County Series Vol. XXIII - East Sussex | Lancashire
Daisy Rickman and Magpahi take a side each on âCeremonial County Series Vol.XXIIIâ: bonfire myths, a Lancashire river-hag â Folklore Tapesâ penultimate slice of weird England.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/daisy-rickman-magpahi-ceremonial-county-series-vol-xxiii-east-sussex-lancashire/
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Trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan announces âPeasants Revoltâ, out 24th July via Gar Hole Records. The lead single âCutbank of Clevesâ â paired with a video directed and edited by Lexi Kiecker â finds Hogan playing court jester in the halls of a dying empire.
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Creekbed Carter Hogan Announces âPeasants Revoltâ & Shares âCutbank of Clevesâ Video
Trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan announces new album âPeasants Revoltâ, out July via Gar Hole Records, sharing lead single and video for âCutbank of Clevesâ.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/creekbed-carter-hogan-peasants-revolt-cutbank-of-cleves-video/
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Settingâs second studio album sees the North Carolina-based experimental trio distilling their blend of acoustic instrumentation, cassette loops and electronics to thrilling effect. Their clearest expression yet â without a doubt, the perfect title.
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Setting â Setting (Album Review)
On their Thrill Jockey debut, Setting (Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund) distil acoustic instrumentation, cassette loops and electronics to thrilling effect â âSettingâ is the trioâs c...
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/setting-setting/
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Teddy Thompsonâs "Never Be The Same" digs back into rockier seams...exploring love, change and the passage of time. The album title may speak of flux, but Thompsonâs brilliance remains predictably constant throughout.
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Teddy Thompson â Never Be The Same (Album Review)
Teddy Thompson digs back into rockier seams on âNever Be The Sameâ â songs of love, change and the passage of time, his brilliance predictably constant.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/teddy-thompson-never-be-the-same/
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Peals â the Baltimore duo of William Cashion (Future Islands) and Bruce Willen (Double Dagger) â return on 31st July via Thrill Jockey with twin live albums: âThe Compound 76â on limited LP and âLe Pantoum 46â digitally. Listen to the lead single âEssential Attitudesâ.
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Peals Announce âThe Compound 76â and âLe Pantoum 46â
Peals â William Cashion and Bruce Willen â share âEssential Attitudesâ ahead of twin releases âThe Compound 76â and âLe Pantoum 46â via Thrill Jockey, 31st July.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/peals-announce-the-compound-76-and-le-pantoum-46/
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Sir Richard Bishop returns to Drag City on July 31st with âHillbilly Eroticaâ, a sequel of sorts to 2025âs âHillbilly Ragasâ. Watch his video for the lead single âFinger, Tennesseeâ.
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Sir Richard Bishop Announces âHillbilly Eroticaâ and Shares âFinger, Tennesseeâ
Watch âFinger, Tennesseeâ â the reckless, anthemic lead single and self-directed video from Sir Richard Bishopâs new album âHillbilly Eroticaâ, out July 31st on Drag City.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/sir-richard-bishop-returns-with-hillbilly-erotica-shares-finger-tennessee/
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Following his place on KLOF Magâs Albums of the Year 2025 with âFiery Gizzardâ and ahead of his UK Tour this month with Joe Danks, Joseph Decosimo returns with a solo guitar take on âCumberland Gap,â filmed in his Durham backyard amid white-throated sparrows.
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Watch Joseph Decosimo performing âCumberland Gapâ + UK Tour This Month - May 2026
Watch Joseph Decosimoâs solo guitar take on âCumberland Gapâ â a Morgan Sexton banjo tune mapped onto six strings â ahead of his May UK tour.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/watch-joseph-decosimo-performing-cumberland-gap-uk-tour-this-month-may-2026/
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Shearwater announce their new album âThe New World,â due July 31st and share singles âMore and Moreâ and âDaydream Unbeliever,â with the latter, accompanied by a cinematic video that Meiburg filmed and edited during research in Antarctica.
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Shearwater Announce âThe New Worldâ and Share Antarctica-Filmed âDaydream Unbelieverâ
Shearwater announce new album âThe New Worldâ and share lead singles âMore and Moreâ and âDaydream Unbelieverâ, the latter accompanied by a video filmed and edited by Jonathan Meiburg during research ...
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/shearwater-the-new-world-antarctica-video-daydream-unbeliever/
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Shaped by acute personal grief and the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Asheville, Tried To Doâs, Jay Hammondâs second album as Trippers & Askers, turns inward without losing generosity. Itâs a slow-burning, finespun record of bold sincerity and steady groundedness.
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Trippers & Askers â Tried To Doâs (Album Review)
On Tried To Doâs, Jay Hammondâs Trippers & Askers turns grief into something generous â a slow-burning, finespun folk album of bold and disarming sincerity.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/trippers-askers-tried-to-dos/
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Jonathan Day returns as Jonathan Hijr Day Quartet with his new single, Cafe in the Valley of the Fire Church, born from his travels among the Amazigh and recorded at Gavin Monaghanâs Magic Garden Studios.
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Jonathan Day - new single âCafe in the Valley of the Fire Churchâ
Jonathan Day returns as Jonathan Hijr Day Quartet with new single, Cafe in the Valley of the Fire Church, fusing Celtic soul and Songhoy blues.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/jonathan-day-new-single-cafe-in-the-valley-of-the-fire-church/
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A decade on from Junun, Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express return with Ranjha - twenty-one musicians at full creative tilt, this long-awaited follow-up is a big, rich, funk-leaning record built on ensemble craft and devoted love.
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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express â Ranjha
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express return with Ranjha, a decade on from Junun â twenty-one musicians, Oxford studio, ensemble funk and devotion.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/shye-ben-tzur-jonny-greenwood-the-rajasthan-express-ranjha/
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Lemoncello return with their second album, Perfect Place, via Claddagh Records, still carrying the quiet confidence of a duo who have already carved out a distinctive place in contemporary Irish folk; this is their strongest statement yet.
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Lemoncello â Perfect Place (Album Review)
Lemoncelloâs âPerfect Placeâ finds Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella refining the intimate, instinctive interplay that has carved out their distinctive place in contemporary Irish folk - their stronges...
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/lemoncello-perfect-place/
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Sara Parkmanâs "Aster, atlas" tackles the biggest themes: life, death, faith, grief, and the passage of time...Parkman has given us something precious and gutsy, an album that, like the gardens that inspired it, has its own inscrutable rhythms of growth and decay.
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Sara Parkman â Aster, Atlas (Album Review)
Sara Parkmanâs Aster, atlas is uncanny and darkly magical from its opening seconds â a precious and gutsy album with inscrutable rhythms of growth and decay.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/sara-parkman-aster-atlas/
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Bedouine shares the video for âOn My Own,â the third single from her forthcoming album Neon Summer Skin, out June 5th via Thirty Tigers. The contemplative piano ballad opens an album shaped by home, displacement and inherited identity.
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Bedouine Shares âOn My Ownâ Video from âNeon Summer Skinâ
Bedouine shares the video for âOn My Own,â the third single from forthcoming album Neon Summer Skin, out June 5th. UK and European dates announced.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/bedouine-shares-on-my-own-video-from-neon-summer-skin/
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Long Wave Home masterfully pairs the voice of Jesca Hoop, sounding like the calmest of seas, with a diverse, textural approach to her arrangements that sparkle like a coral reef, hiding multitudes below the surface.
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Jesca Hoop â Long Wave Home
Long Wave Home masterfully pairs the voice of Jesca Hoop, sounding like the calmest of seas, with a diverse, textural approach to her arrangements that sparkle like a coral reef, hiding multitudes bel...
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/jesca-hoop-long-wave-home/
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Lambchop announce new album Punching The Clown, due 21st August via City Slang â their first in nearly four years. Inspired by lined out singing, an obscure gospel form rooted in late-1800s Scotland and Appalachia - Lead single Weakened is out now.
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Lambchop announce new album, Punching The Clown, and share âWeakenedâ
Lambchop announce new album Punching The Clown, due 21st August via City Slang â their first in nearly four years. Lead single Weakened is streaming now.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/lambchop-announce-new-album-punching-the-clown-and-share-weakened/
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Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders share video for âCritical Masses,â a new track from their forthcoming album âLiquid Donnon,â out 12th June via Riot Season Records (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (US).
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Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders Share âCritical Massesâ
Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders share Critical Masses, a new track from their forthcoming album Liquid Donnon, out 12th June via Riot Season Records/Feeding Tube.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/jeffrey-alexander-the-heavy-lidders-share-critical-masses/
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Following years of IVF and an on-stage miscarriage, Abigail Lapell was pregnant with her first child when she made Shadow Child. Nine of the songs represent a month of gestation - Sweet and tender, the album is tinged with sadness but comes to full term with hope and joy.
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Abigail Lapell â Shadow Child
On Shadow Child, Abigail Lapell offers nine songs representing a month of gestation â sweet and tender, tinged with sadness, but coming to full term with hope and joy.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/abigail-lapell-shadow-child/
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Amsterdam collective Personal Trainer have announced their third album âHuman Assholes,â due 4th September via Bella Union. The first single âPunch Drunk Loveâ â borrowing its title from the Paul Thomas Anderson film â arrives with a typically charming new video.
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Personal Trainer Share âPunch Drunk Loveâ and announce new album
Amsterdam collective Personal Trainer announce third album âHuman Assholesâ for September via Bella Union, sharing first single âPunch Drunk Loveâ with a charming accompanying video.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/personal-trainer-third-album-human-assholes-video-punch-drunk-love/
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The cover of next month's "Beatdom #26: The Allen Ginsberg Special". It will be released on June 3, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Beat poet. The cover was made by Waylon Bacon:
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Croz Boyce â Animal Collectiveâs Dave Portner and Brian Weitz â share the Joseph Ricketts-directed video for âStevenâs Sunshine Rejected,â the second single from their self-titled debut album, out this Friday May 8th on Domino.
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Croz Boyce Share âStevenâs Sunshine Rejectedâ Video Ahead of Fridayâs Debut Album
Animal Collectiveâs Portner and Weitz, as Croz Boyce, share the Joseph Ricketts-directed video for âStevenâs Sunshine Rejected,â ahead of Fridayâs self-titled Domino debut.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/croz-boyce-share-stevens-sunshine-rejected-video-ahead-of-fridays-debut-album/
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Zoh Amba has shared the title track and video for "Eyes Full," their Matador Records debut, out June 5th, and announced EU/UK Tour Dates. Watch the video, directed by Grace Bader Conrad.
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Zoh Amba Shares Title Track and Video for âEyes Fullâ
Zoh Amba shares the title track and video for Matador debut âEyes Fullâ â three players threaded together, asking what makes a heart full.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/zoh-amba-video-for-eyes-full-uk-european-tour-dates/
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Originally released in 2008 and now reissued with two bonus covers, Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee â the quartet of Darren Hayman, David Watkins, Dan Mayfield and David Tattersall â is an absolute joy to rediscover.
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Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee (Album Review)
Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee â Darren Hayman, David Watkins, Dan Mayfield and David Tattersall â reissue their 2008 East London bluegrass gem with two bonus covers.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/hayman-watkins-trout-lee-bonus-tracks-review/
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My very talented husband's new album is out today. Obviously I've heard it a lot but it's bloody great and I highly recommend.
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New Mixtape: May Day wears two faces â we celebrate both in this extra-long Mixtape covering folk, dub, jazz, experimental vibes, and so much more. From Gil Scott-Heron to a WampĂs-Aboutface collaboration drawn from the Peruvian Amazon. Zoom out:
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KLOF No. 82 - A May Day Special (Folk, Jazz, Ambient, Dub Experimental, Alternative)
Garlands and grievances: an extra-long May Day Mixtape weaving folk, dub, spiritual jazz, and global threads, from Gil Scott-Heron to Bonny Billy and many beyond.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/klof-no-82-may-day-folk-jazz-ambient-dub-experimental/
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To celebrate the release of Gallants, Jim Moray is sharing a live performance of âThe Nightingale,â recorded at The Arch â a 140-year-old former church in Southport â with his full live band.
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Watch: Jim Moray â The Nightingale (Live At The Arch)
Watch Jim Morayâs live performance of The Nightingale from his new album, Gallants, ahead of the full session premiere on Sunday, May 3rd.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/watch-jim-moray-the-nightingale-live-at-the-arch/
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Maisy Owenâs debut Dark On A Sunny Day is a singer-songwriter album that, for a first attempt, shows remarkable maturity and a kind of timelessness in her style. Even when stripped down to the bare bones of voice and guitar, it still has enough detail to hold its spell.
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Maisy Owen â Dark On A Sunny Day (Album Review)
Nashvilleâs Maisy Owen delivers a debut of remarkable maturity on Dark On A Sunny Day â an acoustic record trusting its songs to stand on their own merits.
https://klofmag.com/2026/05/maisy-owen-dark-on-a-sunny-day/
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