We continue our wind-down of the year with part 3 of our split series end-of-year Mixtape, ft. Michael Hurley, Dean Johnson, Rose City Band, Mike Polizze, Sir Richard Bishop, The Burning Hell, Richard Dawson, Nadia Reid, The Weather Station, Josienne Clarke and lots more. klofmag.com/2025/12/end-...

New Mixtape: A trip off the beaten track where borders don't exist and where creative freedom is the only constant. ft. tartine de clous, Thorn Wych, Chaz Knapp, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, f.ampism, Amanda Feery, D.C Cross, Msafiri Zawose and lots more klofmag.com/2025/12/mixt...

From our Archive - A Guest Mixtape by Michael Tanner (Plinth, United Bible Studies, The A. Lords): "A collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years..." www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Enjoy our new festive playlist. To deepen the midwinter mood, we’ve also included KLOF Mag’s most popular archive mixes. From pagan-inspired electronica to traditional solo ballads, it is a haunting, soulful alternative to the commercial noise. klofmag.com/2025/12/fest...

Our end-of-year playlist is out, featuring over 8 hours of music and covering over 100 albums from intimate folk and boundary-pushing jazz to ambient and experimental works. You can listen via Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify and YouTube. klofmag.com/2025/12/klof...

more eaze (Mari Rubio) announces her new album, sentence structure in the country, out March 20, 2026. Lead single “bad friend,” featuring Wendy Eisenberg, navigates social alienation through a masterful, non-traditional approach to pedal steel and electronics. klofmag.com/2025/12/more...

@emmatricca.bsky.social has released a new live album, Prisms of Winter...a soulful reimagining of her catalogue, offering fans a beautifully unpolished, heartfelt experience. klofmag.com/2025/12/emma...

As the frost settles, KLOF Mag returns with another essential winter folk mixtape, a lovingly curated journey for this festive season. klofmag.com/2025/12/folk...

Danny Neill shares his Top 10 Albums of 2025—from the “mesmerising” folk-rock of Hannah Frances to Kathryn Williams’ most personal collection to date, and the “outsider genius” of Richard Dawson to the pure vocals of Josienne Clarke. klofmag.com/2025/12/dann...

Checkout Part Two of our End-of-Year Mixtape Series, which includes tracks from our 2025 Albums of the Year. There’s a broad mix of genres from folk and jazz to experimental and ambient. klofmag.com/2025/12/end-...

A very nice end-of-year treat: This 32-track compilation from Nyahh Records is a masterful, diverse map of Ireland’s experimental landscape, ranging from decaying drones to playful, avant-garde vocal “occult freak-folk.” @nyahhrecords.bsky.social klofmag.com/2025/12/vari...

Bill Callahan unveils “Lonely City,” a new single from My Days of 58, accompanied by a striking video featuring photography by Daniel Arnold, celebrating the human spirit of our cities. klofmag.com/2025/12/bill...

As we wind down toward the year-end, we’re taking a look back at some of our 2025 Highlights via our Substack Newsletter. Read our interview with Marlon Williams; his latest album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, was one of our Top 100 albums of 2025. open.substack.com/pub/klofmag/...

Our End-of-Year Album longlist is finally here. 100 meticulously selected top albums that shaped the year, covering a vast sonic landscape—from intimate folk and boundary-pushing jazz to the dense topography of ambient and experimental works. Dive in now. klofmag.com/2025/12/klof...

Check out Thomas Blake's Top 10 Albums of 2025. From Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats’ feather-light pop to Milkweed’s eerie folk and Ben Lamar Gay’s thrilling jazz, 2025 delivered essential, fearless, and deeply distinctive records. klofmag.com/2025/12/thom...

Erlend Apneseth Trio and writer Erlend O. Nødtvedt collaborate on Black Hauge, an album that expertly fuses experimental Norwegian folk with the poetry of Olav H. Hauge. A stunningly original album that combines elements rarely seen together. klofmag.com/2025/12/erle...

Glenn Kimpton looks back at the year and selects his Top Ten Albums of 2025. As he says, “This year really feels like a real banger in terms of fascinating and exciting album releases. It was tricky choosing just ten, but each of the works…have really resonated.” klofmag.com/2025/12/glen...

Reviewed: On Open Guitar (Volume One), D.C Cross blends improvisation with composition, offering spacious, meditative soundscapes and displaying a lightness of touch that proves calm can be found within chaos. A welcome, honest gesture. klofmag.com/2025/12/d-c-...

French-Algerian icon Souad Massi returns with “Samt” (Silence), the hypnotic first single from her upcoming album Zagate, out March 6, 2026. Produced by Justin Adams, this Afrobeat-infused track redefines silence as a spiritual refuge rather than resignation. klofmag.com/2025/12/soua...

Multi-instrumentalist Colleen (Cécile Schott) announces her new album Libres antes del final, arriving March 20, 2026, on Thrill Jockey. Inspired by her journey overcoming a 30-year water phobia, the record serves as an ode to movement and resilience. klofmag.com/2025/12/coll...

Ye Vagabonds unveil “The Flood,” a lively track that reflects on the housing crisis. It’s from their upcoming album ‘All Tied Together’ and arrives with a stunning video directed by Ellius Grace. klofmag.com/2025/12/ye-v...

As we wind down the year, in a new split series Mixtape, we look back at some of our favourite music releases of 2025, including Big Thief, Varo, Eve Adams, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Cynefin, James Yorkston, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats, & many more. klofmag.com/2025/12/end-...

North Carolina’s experimental folk collective Weirs have released a mesmerising live video for “Lord Bateman,” the centrepiece of their acclaimed album Diamond Grove. klofmag.com/2025/12/weir...

Iona Zajac's 'Bang' traverses dream-pop, folk minimalism, & moody alt-rock, channelling the raw intensity of upsetters like PJ Harvey. Zajac has important things to say and a willingness to say them loudly and with a laser-like focus. A remarkably accomplished achievement klofmag.com/2025/12/iona...

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart unveil performance film for “Stone | Piece,” directed by Derrick Alexander at The Land School. klofmag.com/2025/12/whit...

Just learned of Martin Parr’s passing. Very sad; such an inspirational and supportive individual. His Foundation in Bristol is incredible: check his Sofa Session interviews, & the BOP festival is ace; One visit really inspired my son to pursue photography. Such a great loss youtu.be/aFDHLCNO-K8?...

Our latest Mixtape is a blend of folk and ambient textures ft Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Jana Horn, Iona Zajac, San Fermin & Sam Amidon, Joe Westerlund, Joseph Allred, Great Lake Swimmers, Nina Nastasia, Steve Gunn & David Moore, and more. www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Eve Adams presents Live at Studio Toute Garnie, a new EP and video session series featuring tracks from her acclaimed album American Dust. Recorded in Montreal with a full band, these performances capture the haunting intimacy and vast landscapes of her “desert requiem.” klofmag.com/2025/12/new-...

Analog Africa announces ‘Galaxia Tropical’, the second volume dedicated to Peruvian Cumbia legend Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical, out February 6. Following the artist’s passing in 2020, this 14-track compilation captures the fearless, psychedelic energy of Iquitos. klofmag.com/2025/12/anal...

Shane Cooper and Cara Stacey unite on “Mbuluzi / the flute song,” a mesmerising blend of traditional South African instrumentation and experimental tape manipulation/collage. klofmag.com/2025/12/shan...

A new Monday Morning Brew Playlist ft. Black Hauge, blending traditional Norwegian poetry with contemporary experimental music, Joe Westerlund, Bex Burch, Cocanha, Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Alice Coltrane, Henri Texier, Erlend Apneseth Trio & more. klofmag.com/2025/12/the-...

Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions share “Our Ship is Ready,” a haunting folk track originally recorded for her acclaimed album Cold Blows the Rain. Taught to Hayden by her mother, watch the accompanying live video filmed in their hometown of Todmorden. klofmag.com/2025/12/brid...

Out Today (Bandcamp Friday) Lambchop and Y La Bamba share poignant new singles from "Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers", a benefit compilation out today – December 5th via Western Vinyl. klofmag.com/2025/12/lamb...

Our latest Mixtape is a blend of folk and ambient textures featuring Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Jana Horn, Iona Zajac, San Fermin & Sam Amidon, Joe Westerlund, Isik Kural, Joseph Allred, Emily A. Sprague, M. Sage, Steve Gunn & David Moore, and more. klofmag.com/2025/12/mixt...

Our latest Subscriber recommendations include an orchestral meditation on the American women’s suffrage movement, the golden age of Thai popular music, Congolese rumba, experimental percussion, a rare archival blues by Allen Ginsberg (ft. Bob Dylan and Don Cherry) & more klofmag.com/2025/12/subs...

Sam Wenc (Post Moves) debuts under his own name with Language at an Angle, out January 30 via Lobby Art Editions. Watch the video for “Limitless of Blue,” a stunning display of kinetic pedal steel experimentation. This is sure to command significant attention in 2026. klofmag.com/2025/12/sam-...

A bold, big-hearted album guaranteed to make you smile, Mikey Kenney’s "Tiny Little Light" is a remarkably cohesive and utterly irresistible musical delight. klofmag.com/2025/12/mike...

The final volume of Jacken Elswyth’s essential Betwixt & Between series features Elspeth Anne and the historic Welsh male choir Côr Meibion Gwalia. A fitting conclusion to a project documenting British folk at its most raw and boundary-pushing. klofmag.com/2025/12/elsp...

Enjoy our latest monthly Subscriber playlist ft Elanor Moss, Sir Richard Bishop, Natalie Jane Hill, Weirs, Goblin Band, The Wave Pictures, Tashi Dorji, claire rousay, Whitney, José González, SML, Bill Callahan, Jana Horn, Robin Adams, Wendy Eisenberg, and lots more. klofmag.com/2025/12/klof...

Jana Horn returns with “All in Bet,” the second single from her self-titled album, arriving January 16, 2026. Horn and her band embrace a broken-down, elemental sound where silence speaks as loudly as the music. klofmag.com/2025/12/jana...

Points of Inaccessibility unites composer Rafael Anton Irisarri and media artist Jaco Schilp and navigates the paradox of modern connectivity, asking if we are drifting further into coordinates of our own making. klofmag.com/2025/12/echo...

Ten years after the chaos of Emotional Mugger, Ty Segall revisits the era with a ferocious new archival release. “LIVE” “AT” “THE” “BBC”, dropping January 30, 2026, captures his supergroup backing band, The Muggers, tearing through a blistering BBC session for Marc Riley. klofmag.com/2025/12/ty-s...

British underground icons The Bevis Frond return with their new album Horrorful Heights, set for release on April 3rd. Alongside the announcement comes a 2026 UK tour and the immediate release of the title track. klofmag.com/2025/12/the-...

Mysterious UK producer U maps the rural history of Archenfield. Blending ambient textures, field recordings, and plunderphonics, U moves beyond simple folk music into a complex sonic collage. Archenfield is a labyrinthine exploration of time, memory, and landscape. klofmag.com/2025/12/u-ar...

On their new album 'Forever', Chicago's Glyders, now a trio, capture electrifying energy honed through relentless touring...a high-voltage ride from futuristic glam to electric country jangle, marking an exciting, stable new chapter for the group. klofmag.com/2025/12/glyd...

The Wave Pictures have shared their charming new single “Sure and Steady,” a nostalgic track described by the band as being like “Lou Reed if he’d grown up in the East Midlands.” klofmag.com/2025/12/the-...

The latest Monday Morning Brew playlist blends the raw soul of Darondo, the Afro-funk of Karl Hector, and the avant-jazz of Gábor Szabó. It embraces global rhythms and cinematic textures, moving seamlessly from the 1960s underground to modern experimentalism. klofmag.com/2025/11/the-...

I Know How To Die is the debut album from Matthew Broadley, aka GREET - a genre-defying journey, a link between the uncanny and the everyday, a bridge between two worlds...a hugely impressive debut that doesn’t shy away from difficult musical and lyrical subjects. klofmag.com/2025/11/gree...

Recorded live in Montreal, this essential 10” vinyl split from Carbon Records offers two exhilarating, distinct sides. Side A features Sam Shalabi, and on the flip side are Liam Grant and Mike Gangloff. Absolutely exhilarating klofmag.com/2025/11/sam-...

Championing analogue warmth over digital sterility, Samana unveil the Super 8mm video for their latest single “Lakeside Song.” Originally released on Samhain, this meditative offering explores the thinning veil between the seen and the felt. klofmag.com/2025/11/vide...