This week’s KLOF mixtape features Fust & Sluice, plus Brown Wimpenny get a double ahead of their debut album, as does Wendy Eisenberg. Plus Plankton Wat, Brown Horse, Big Thief, Steve Gunn, and lots more. klofmag.com/2026/04/klof...

Reviewed: "Eisenberg has crafted ten exquisite songs and, in doing so, has cemented their place as one of the most talented musical artists of their generation." @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social @wendyeyes.bsky.social klofmag.com/2026/03/wend...

Watch the video for The Roustabout Song by Old Spot, taken from their new album “Old Spot (II),” out April 24th on Scribe Records. The track traces a transatlantic thread, rendered here as a joyful fiddle-and-banjo reimagining with deep political undertones. klofmag.com/2026/03/old-...

Brown Wimpenny Announce Debut Album ‘Long Live Brown Wimpenny’ and Share “Old Molly Metcalfe” - A cinematic reinvention of a Jake Thackray song about the life of a North Yorkshire shepherdess. klofmag.com/2026/03/brow...

Tommy Peltier’s “Echo Park (The 70’s Sessions)” catches the moment a jazz lifer reinvented himself as a songwriter in 1970s Los Angeles. Recorded in a hillside house near Echo Park Lane, these eleven tracks brim with melodic invention. klofmag.com/2026/03/tomm...

Watch the video for “King Orfeo,” the debut single from Birdvox — a new project ft Sarah Hayes, Inge Thomson, Jenny Sturgeon &Charlotte Printer. An adaptation of a traditional Orpheus myth with a refrain in Norn, a now extinct language that used to be spoken in Shetland. klofmag.com/2026/03/prem...

The latest KLOF Mixtape moves from Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou’s dreamlike soundscapes to the airy, pastoral improvisations of Prymek & Sage. Plus Sam Grassie, Magic Tuber Stringband, Juni Habel, ancient recordings from Tibet and Greece - for unhurried listening. klofmag.com/2026/03/klof...

Shelter, the new album from Chaz Prymek and Matthew Sage, is a rather beautiful, unhurried recording built from live improvisations in a pole barn studio...intricate and spacious, very elegantly performed. Also features in our new Mixtape. klofmag.com/2026/03/prym...

Durham, NC quartet Sluice release Companion, their third album and Mtn Laurel Recording Co. debut tomorrow (March 27th). A hard-won testament to music as companionship. Highly recommended. klofmag.com/2026/03/nort...

Joshua Abrams’ Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation is a single, thirty-five-minute swathe of all-enveloping, slow-moving minimalism — a matrix of abundant...intersections, there to be explored, to inspire fierce thought, but also to luxuriate in or meditate on. klofmag.com/2026/03/josh...

Juni Habel releases ‘Pearl Cloud Song,’ a lush instrumental from her forthcoming album “Evergreen In Your Mind,” out 10th April on Basin Rock. Born from an open tuning discovery, it's a beautiful, unhurried piece from one of folk’s most compelling new voices. klofmag.com/2026/03/juni...

Sam Grassie’s debut album, “Where Two Hawks Fly”, arrives after years of adversity and sounds all the more remarkable for it. His guitar playing is deft and unshowy, worthy of hero Bert Jansch - deeply assured, generous and communal. klofmag.com/2026/03/sam-...

Magic Tuber Stringband share “Where the Place Becomes Forgetting,” a gorgeous single from their upcoming album “Heavy Water”. Watch the intimate live performance video now. klofmag.com/2026/03/magi...

The Huntress and Holder of Hands announce ‘Babylon’, their second album. A decade on from their debut, MorganEve Swain’s project — born from the loss of her husband and musical partner, Dave Lamb (Brown Bird) — returns heavier and fuller. Listen to lead single Promethean klofmag.com/2026/03/the-...

Gun Outfit have shared the video for So Easy To Love, the latest single from their double album Process & Reality. The video features excerpts from The Western Ends, a 16mm film collaboration between DeNardo, Nicoletta Beyer, and band members Carrie, Dylan, and Daniel. klofmag.com/2026/03/gun-...

Plankton Wat’s “The Vanishing World” is a belter – a love letter to the era of the big studio album. James Shaver’s killer bass lines power mercurial instrumentals, while drummer Dustin Dybvig and trumpeter Victor Nash inject pure joy... out now on @suncru.bsky.social klofmag.com/2026/03/plan...

Lemoncello (Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella) announce their second album, “Perfect Place,” out May 8th via Claddagh Records, and share the video for new single “Articulate Animal.” The album has evolved from the duo’s folk-soaked debut into bolder sonic territory. klofmag.com/2026/03/lemo...

Hiss Golden Messenger shares “Shaky Eyes,” the second single from forthcoming album “I’m People” (May 1st, Chrysalis Records), alongside a new video. An ode to MC Taylor’s California origins. klofmag.com/2026/03/hiss...

Mikey Kenney has shared the video for “On A Blue Day,” the latest single from his acclaimed album “Tiny Little Light.” A tribute to fiddle music and the players of days past. Filmed in Cornwall, the video accompanies a spring UK tour. klofmag.com/2026/03/vide...

Frog announce their eighth studio album, Frog for Sale, out April 17th via @audioantihero.bandcamp.com — their third record in just fourteen months. Lead single “Je Ne Sais Pas” is out now. klofmag.com/2026/03/frog...

Fruit Bats announces The Landfill, a vibrant full-band album. Following the stripped-back solo outing Baby Man, Eric D. Johnson reconvened his touring band at Bear Creek Studios – watch the conceptual video for the title track, directed by Adam Willis. klofmag.com/2026/03/frui...

Cole Berliner has signed to Drag City for his debut solo album, The Black Door. The title track is out now with a music video by Fred Joseph. klofmag.com/2026/03/cole...

Rob Mazurek has released Alternate Moon Cycles Live at The Land School, a Qobuz-exclusive live recording documenting his reunion with Matthew Lux and Mikel Patrick Avery at International Anthem’s Southside Chicago headquarters. Watch the accompanying film by Brian Ashby. klofmag.com/2026/03/rob-...

KLOF’s new mixtape gathers thirteen tracks around a shared quality of patience and drift — from Juni Habel’s Nordic folk opener, Joshua Burnside’s haunting evocation of personal loss, to the closing shimmer of Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou. klofmag.com/2026/03/klof...

On “sentence structure in the country,” more eaze leans into her love of song and embraces her upbringing as a folk-oriented fiddle player. ...A bewildering array of influences leveraged into a sustained, emotionally resonant and surprisingly compact work of art. klofmag.com/2026/03/more...

Rua Rí announces his debut album, “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” and shares “Johnny Workman.” Rooted in the streets, fields and familiar settings of Cobh and Cork, the album captures the fleeting moments of youth with warmth, humour, and grounded introspection. klofmag.com/2026/03/rua-...

Marisa Anderson shares ‘Sarvi Simin’ — an ecstatic duet between Anderson’s guitar and Gisela Rodríguez Fernández’s violin — interprets a piece from a 1977 Melodiya Records release, transcribed while Anderson travelled by bus through southern Mexico. klofmag.com/2026/03/mari...

Born from a need to reconnect with the place that shaped him, Spencer Cullum's trilogy has also become a platform for the generous, collaborative spirit of the Nashville community he now calls home. klofmag.com/2026/03/spen...

"Burnside is the most consistently human and also the most surprising of songwriters. Details spring out at you like spiders from the cracks between floorboards. Meteors and energy-efficient light bulbs...The profound and the quotidian occupy the same arena" klofmag.com/2026/03/josh...

Alive to the sound of the world...News from Planet Zombie is another important dispatch from the Notwist’s entirely unique corner of the musical world, an album full of closely-observed detail that warrants rapt attention. klofmag.com/2026/03/the-...

This week’s Mixtape stretches, twists, and shapeshifts —Glasgow’s Uzganc choir, a collaboration between Weirs and The Magic Tuber Stringband, Spencer Cullum, BIG|BRAVE, Wendy Eisenberg, Bill Orcutt, balladeer Wheatie Mattiasich, Rhodri Davies, Oliver Barrett & more klofmag.com/2026/03/klof...

Spencer Cullum opens the door to his Nashville garden shed for our latest Off the Shelf feature — the makeshift studio where Coin Collection 3 came to life. klofmag.com/2026/03/off-...

Bill Orcutt follows up the celebrated “Music for Four Guitars” with “Music in Continuous Motion,” his second studio album for four guitars. A fully realised and finely honed set by a master of experimental guitar, this is unmissable. Bring on the live shows. klofmag.com/2026/03/bill...

Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio share a video for the title track of their new album Somewhere Good, out 5th June via World of Echo. klofmag.com/2026/03/tara...

Chaz Prymek and Matthew Sage announce Shelter, their first duo full-length in six years, out April 10th on AKP. Lead single Hill Blocks View is streaming now. klofmag.com/2026/03/chaz...

Wendy Eisenberg shares Vanity Paradox, the final single from their self-titled album (out April 3rd via Joyful Noise), accompanied by a Ruby Mars-directed video filmed around Atlantic City’s 65-foot Lucy the Elephant. klofmag.com/2026/03/wend...

Power-drone and folk opera from the occult margins of England — Bell Lungs and AHRKH conjure psychedelic ritual from ancient stones, cursed monks and liturgical shadow on the latest Ceremonial Counties release from Folklore Tapes. klofmag.com/2026/03/ahrk...

BIG|BRAVE have announced their tenth album, in grief or in hope, due June 12th, sharing first single, the ineptitude for mutual discernment. klofmag.com/2026/03/bigb...

Deer Tick have announced their ninth album Coin-O-Matic, due 5th June via ATO Records. Watch the video for their lead single Mary Singletary. klofmag.com/2026/03/deer...

Cat Clyde comes flying in like a midnight courier, express‑delivering through Concord Records the most intimate dispatches of her life. Mud Blood Bone crackles with urgency even as Cat bares her soul. It is her most personal record yet and also her most electrifying... klofmag.com/2026/03/cat-...

Trippers & Askers new album, Tried to Do’s, is out May 8th via Sleepy Cat Records. Lead track Kin traces tangled threads of family and cultural inheritance in Jackson, Tennessee, setting the tone for Jay Hammond’s most personal album. klofmag.com/2026/03/trip...

Our latest Mixtape pairs familiar KLOF favourites with a few artists that caught our attention recently. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Gregory Uhlmann, Jesca Hoop, Kris Drever, SUSS, Setting, Adam Ross, Brown Wimpenny, Trippers & Askers & Riley/Radley — Press play & let it run. klofmag.com/2026/03/mixt...

“Seven Lefts” is a mammoth, tangible album of improvised drone, muscular riffs and deep-thinking ambition — unlike anything Nathan Bowles has done before. ...an addictive set that demonstrates the range and ambition of this meticulous musician. Boom. klofmag.com/2026/03/nath...

Georgia Shackleton tells the story behind “From the Floorboards” — an album marking 125 years since the launch of the Discovery, when her distant cousin, Sir Ernest Shackleton, set sail aboard her with Captain Robert Falcon Scott. klofmag.com/2026/03/geor...

‘Extra Stars’ is an album obsessed with natural processes — some organic and cellular, others more cosmic — it showcases Uhlmann as guitarist, arranger, composer and improviser, his musical curiosity working in tandem with his expansive imagination @intlanthem.bsky.social klofmag.com/2026/03/greg...

Latest Album Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “We Are Together Again” sees Will Oldham slip into folky singer-songwriter mode — sometimes confessional, sometimes gnomic, always intriguing. This is some of his best work. klofmag.com/2026/03/bonn...

SUSS share Sunset II, the first single from their forthcoming album Counting Sunsets, due May 15th via Northern Spy. Recorded in a condensed window and shaped by a year touring together, the album captures the trio at their most intuitive. klofmag.com/2026/03/suss...

Jesca Hoop has shared Caravan, the latest single from her forthcoming album Long Wave Home. Following the politically charged Designer Citizen, Caravan turns inward — a song of misplaced faith and vanishing promises. The video was shot in and around Manchester. klofmag.com/2026/03/jesc...

Chris Brain has shared Big Hill, the second single from his forthcoming album Red Sun Rising. Inspired by a long-promised walk in the Yorkshire Dales and featuring guest vocals from Natalie Wildgoose. Watch the accompanying live performance video. klofmag.com/2026/03/chri...

Katherine Priddy’s third album, These Frightening Machines, marks a bold shift in energy and intent. No longer anchored by the standard tools of her genre, Priddy moves between folk tenderness and fierce, pop-inflected urgency with rare confidence. klofmag.com/2026/03/kath...