Laura Veirs’ “Temple Songs” is a set of songs that are personal and immediate, crafted alone in a backyard studio with two microphones and a laptop. Veirs embraces wabi-sabi, welcoming imperfection and the environment seeping into takes. At 29 minutes and 11 songs, so many multitudes are contained within — a recording that chooses truth over gloss.

“Porchlight” is Two Runner’s first album with Paige Anderson as sole frontperson. Its twelve songs encompass transition, loss and journeys both literal and personal. Quality story songs are matched by the beautiful yearning of more intimate numbers — a fine record from a performer with burgeoning talent and an even more promising future.

“Donn Dubh” is a challenging and exhilarating reimagining of Scots Gaelic traditions by two fearless musical cosmonauts at the top of their game. Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison’s collaborative debut calls to mind Eno and Byrne’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” — samples, distortion and elegiac piano channelling folk’s ancient past while forecasting its glittering future.

Jon Wilks releases his rendition of “Geordie” on September 4th, marking fifty years of Martin Carthy’s “Crown of Horn.” Carthy’s version was so definitive that recording his own “always felt like turning up to a house that was already lived in.” The Songs of Martin Carthy tour changed that — two semitones up, with a new jaunt and swing.

Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth have today shared their second single, ‘Distance From Then’. With its earthy birdsong opening and unadorned banjo and violin, Ruth soon creates a whole world around it. As Allison says, “Like so much of the music on this album, our two very different musical worlds sent the tracks in unexpected directions.”

Spell Songs’ third studio album, In Thin Air, is a creative reaction to Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s The Book of Birds. Fifteen songs deal with different aspects of avian life, from nest-building to migration, building up a noticeable narrative thrust. Again and again, this album cleverly conflates the lives of birds with human experience. It is an album in constant fluttering movement, one that soars and sings.