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Maya Hawke’s forthcoming album, Chaos Angel
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, pointed folk with country inflections, about ambition and FOMO, by the singer, actress and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman heralding her forthcoming album, Chaos Angel, out on 31 May on Mom + Pop Records
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Tabling ideas: Mike Lindsay’s forthcoming album, Supershapes Volume 1, out on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer
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Beth Gibbons’ album Lives Outgrown is due out in May
Song of the Day: This hauntingly delicate, yet powerful single heralds the Portishead singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, building through gentle strings and her distinctively beautiful, fragile vocal style
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Briston Maroney
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, tender, emotive, car-drive themed folk-country by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Knoxville, Tennessee, with a voice reminiscent of Elliott Smith
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Good call: Real Estate’s upcoming new album, Daniel
Song of the Day: Beautiful, perfect simplicity of melody is deceptively hard to achieve, but it flows freely in this new track by the Brooklyn indie-folk band, heralding their forthcoming album, Daniel, out in February on Domino Records
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Dana Gavanki’s upcoming third album, LATE SLAP, out on Full Time Hobby
Song of the Day: Heralding her forthcoming next album, LATE SLAP, the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter releases a beautifully disarming, woozily alternative folk single with deliciously droll originality
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Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
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Cerys Hafana - The Wife of Usher's Well
Song of the Day: Beautiful, vivid dark ballad folk mixing the traditional and new by the Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist from Machynlleth whose instruments include the triple harp
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Ugly - Hands of Man
Song of the Day: Rich vocal harmonies, interweaving acoustic instruments and a dynamic structure building to a powerful crescendo come in this mesmeric new single from the Cambridge-formed band
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Adrianne Lenker - Ruined
Song of the Day: The Big Thief singer-songwriter returns with gorgeously fragile, piano-based single about damaging dysfunctional, repetitive, romantic obsession with a melody that’s beautifully bittersweet
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Annie Dressner: 18 Years
Song of the Day: Bright, uplifting and elegantly shuffling in sound, but melancholy in lyrics – a classic combination – this new single by the New York folk-pop singer-songwriter is about self-recrimination:“You have nothing and no one but yourself to blame”
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Becca Mancari’s latest album, Left Hand
Song of the Day: Taken from their recent album, Left Turn, a beautiful, lush, melancholy, heartbreak number of layered guitars and subtle vocals by the Nashville-based indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician from Staten Island
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Lenhart Tapes’ new album, Dens
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming second LP, Dens, by the Belgrade ethno-noise project of producer and ‘Walkman alchemist’ Vladimir Lenhart, brings a mesmeric mix of electronica and Balkan folklore sounds, here with guest vocalist Zoja Borovčanin from the Serbian alt-rock band Lira Vega
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Katy J Pearson’s Wicker Man EP
Song of the Day: Covering a folk tune both beautiful and oddly disturbing, the Bristol singer-songwriter is joined by collaborators with this fertility rite song from The Wicker Man (1973) from a new EP with other songs from the cult British horror film
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The boygenius trio’s follow-up EP, The Rest
Song of the Day: After their acclaimed LP, The Record early this year, the Americana supergroup trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus return with a four-track EP, including this first track, a beautiful folk number that builds into a gorgeous crescendo
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Bess Atwell
Song of the Day: A simmeringly beautiful new number by the Brighton-based singer-songwriter about familial roles and relationships through an imaginary character from her childhood, and produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner
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Emma Gatrill’s latest single, Seed
Song of the Day: A gorgeously uplifting new single of gentle folk pop with strings, percussion, brass keyboards by the Brighton-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist joined here by two members of This Is The Kit and others
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Midlake and John Grant – You Don't Get To / Roadrunner Blues
Songs of the Day: In a smoothly brilliant blend, reuniting after Grant’s 2010 album Queen of Denmark, a double single release featuring the US/Icelandic solo artist’s typically caustic, humorous lyrics and the Denton folk-rock band’s classic sound
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Conchúr White
Song of the Day: A beautifully double-edged, intelligent indie-folk single referencing addiction and the longing for validation by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, Northern Ireland from his forthcoming album, Swirling Violets, out in early 2024 on Bella Union
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Big Thief
Song of the Day: A beautiful, life-spanning love song by the Brooklyn-based folk band of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and co, due to be released as a limited 7-inch single sharing another recent song, Vampire Empire, on 20 October
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