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Iron & Wine announces “Hen’s Teeth (Deluxe edition)”

Sam Beam, the visionary multi-instrumentalist behind Iron & Wine, announces ‘Hen’s Teeth (Deluxe Edition)’, out 22nd September via Sub Pop, featuring four previously unreleased songs along with acoustic versions of two fan favourites. Listen to the new single ‘California Sober’, released today, along with an acoustic version of fan favourite ‘In Your Ocean’.

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Jeffrey Silverstein shares new single & visualiser “Patchouli”

Jeffrey Silverstein’s new single “Patchouli” is out now and accompanied by a beautiful visualiser whose analogue Kodacolor vibes are the perfect match for this rhythmic, road-ready track that blends krautrock with wide-open Americana; it’s taken from his new album ‘Doggone’, out on October 23rd, via Full Time Hobby.

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Geologist (Animal Collective) Announces UK + European Tour Dates & Shares Video for “Sonora”

Animal Collective’s Geologist (Brian Weitz) began 2026 with a sonic bloom when his debut solo album, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, dropped on Drag City. This November, he’ll be presenting his rippling songscapes across stages in the UK and the Iberian Peninsula. Watch the new Nick Ciontea video for the album closer “Sonora”.

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FME 2026 — Five Acts to Catch at one of Canada’s Most Creative Festivals

This September, KLOF crosses the Atlantic for FME, the 24th edition of Canada’s Festival De Musique Émergente in Rouyn-Noranda. Over 80 concerts across four days on stages that range from lakeside settings to petrol station forecourts. We picked five acts from the wider lineup — from Erika Hagen’s punk-folk fury to Malaimé Soleil’s cosmic noise rock.

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Video Premiere: Marvin Tate – First You Hear

Made in collaboration with LeRoy Bach, with contributions from drummer Quin Kirchner and a cameo from Ben Lamar Gay, Marvin Tate’s new album, Controlled Burn, drops on August 29th via Amalgam Music. Watch the video for the album single ‘First You Hear’, – a musical firework exploding in your cerebellum.

Albums

Hollow Hand – Wish Road South

Hollow Hand deliver a fully harmonious union of folk and indie pop on ‘Wish Road South’, their best album to date. It’s a vibrant record in which you can feel the fun coursing through it, as the zest of a reconfigured and tightly knit group of musicians burns as brightly as the beautifully melodic and unique songs that they’ve forged here.

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Jeremiah Chiu shares “Plastic Mind / Elastic Machines” from the new album “Edge Conditions”

Jeremiah Chiu has announced his new album, Edge Conditions, and shared the lead single, Plastic Mind / Elastic Machines, accompanied by a feverish and surreal animation by Korey Martin. The album has been described as a shining display of Chiu’s range and depth as both a composer and producer, in which every facet of his collaborative work and sonic personality feels represented.

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Natalie Wildgoose Releases Live EP ‘Rural Tapes’

Today, Natalie Wildgoose has released Rural Tapes, a live EP of songs taken from Rural Hours – “I made Rural Tapes during a day of heavy rainfall up north, there was nothing else to do other than stay indoors, windows open and play the piano.”

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Mama's Broke – Reunion

On “Reunion”, Mama’s Broke’s third album, Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria touch the darkest aspects of human life with openness and admirable musical originality. The Nova Scotia duo weave Appalachian and Eastern European traditions into songs that touch on economic inequality, violence against women, and stunningly beautiful, lyrically enigmatic ballads in the spirit of Time (The Revelator)-era Gillian Welch. They find something worth saving in the dark.

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Alex Dupree – Talking to the Dog

Alex Dupree’s “Talking to the Dog” is outsider-folk made with a completely unique eye for lyrical detail. Dupree moves between country twang, cosmic psychedelia and soulful confession with the ease of a picaresque poet-jester-troubadour. You could pick any couplet and it would stand against the best lyric writing of the last sixty years. Let’s hope he finally gets the credit he deserves.

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Elanor Moss – The Knife, The Needle

Elanor Moss’s debut “The Knife, The Needle” balances a quiet, subtle mode of expression with a searing intensity of feeling. Arrangements create an all-enveloping sound in which the little lyrical razor blades are skilfully hidden. There is nothing loose or mild about her artistry. She is in full control of every moment, exposing the soft tissue of human emotion with unerring accuracy.

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Hana Stretton – Tiarn

Tiarn is a gorgeous sophomore record by Australian ambient-folk producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Hana Stretton. Like its predecessor, it comes alive off the record, a living and breathing tapestry of sound. Where Soon found its focus on the Australian bush, this latest project casts its gaze on the endless shores of the Pacific Ocean, where Stretton’s boundless textural explorations reflect a world suspended in blue.

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Rowena Wise – Bad Things Feel Good*

Rowena Wise’s “Bad Things Feel Good*” expands on her impressive debut with quiet sincerity and intimacy as calling cards. She moves between swooping maximalism and spine-tingling closeness, juggling contradictory elements. The mess has been transmuted into something beautiful, with a skillfully directed emotional sting—the bigger picture without losing sight of small details—the perfect soundtrack to contemporary emotional life.

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Blake Hornsby – Brugmansia

Brugmansia is a living album, not just a relic of a bygone musical era or a cynical exercise in revivalism. The latest pulse of freak folk is strong, and is defined by a real sense of musical ingenuity. There is a whole cohort of artists finding new ways of making it weird (and using that weirdness as a way of exploring landscapes and traditions), and with Brugmansia, Blake Hornsby has positioned himself at the forefront of that generation.

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Nora Stanley – Glass

Nora Stanley’s “Glass” is a quietly gorgeous debut. Previously known as an instrumentalist, Brooklyn-based Stanley has found her feet as a songwriter with remarkable speed and apparent ease, her primary muse the poet Anne Carson. As the album progresses, personal and political themes twine inseparably around each other. Perfectly timed and executed with a grace and lightness extraordinary for a debut.

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The Powers Ensemble – Kindling

How do you like your Free Folk? Plaintive yodelling over earnestly plucked strings? Freaky throat singing over microtonal mayhem? Cloudbursts of flugelhorn, clarinet and percussion like sonic prayers parachuting from heaven? Well, Kindling – the new album by Mikey Powers’ The Powers Ensemble – contains all these things and more. There’s a freshness to “Kindling” which is disarming but also makes your blood sing with recognition. Each song captures a communal rush of discovery — messy ecstasy achieved with flair and concision.

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Creekbed Carter Hogan – Peasants Revolt

Creekbed Carter Hogan’s “Peasants Revolt” is a wise piece of work, not because it tells you how to live out your life in these desperate times, but because it realises that it might be too late to do that. All you can do, Hogan seems to say, is create something beautiful in the knowledge that it might be your final meaningful act. A detailed American pastoral, Peasants Revolt is certainly a beautiful album. It’s also a powerful one. If everyone embraced authenticity in the way Hogan does, then the world wouldn’t be in nearly so much of a mess.

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Iron & Wine announces “Hen’s Teeth (Deluxe edition)”

Video Premiere: Marvin Tate – First You Hear

Hollow Hand – Wish Road South

Jeremiah Chiu shares “Plastic Mind / Elastic Machines” from the new album “Edge Conditions”

Natalie Wildgoose Releases Live EP ‘Rural Tapes’

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Big Trouble share new single ‘Dange’ from upcoming album ‘On Elephant Hill’

Chase Elodia Shares New Single “Run Around” and Announces Album ‘Real Ones’

Marvin Tate – Controlled Burn

Alex Dupree – Talking to the Dog

Elanor Moss – The Knife, The Needle

Biita Houdei Shares New Single/Video “Night Fright”

Clara Mann Shares new Single/Video ‘All My Devotion’

Arborist Shares “The Taming of Horses” from Forthcoming Album ‘Looking For Love’

Awen Ensemble Announce New EP and Share “The Walls Around Ballyfin” Title Track

Andrew Farmer, aka FRMR, Shares “Echinacea” from Forthcoming Album ‘Ochre’

Jake Xerxes Fussell Shares new singles, “Boney” & “Boll Weevil”, from new album ‘The Old Beloved Path’

The Black Wizards Share “Beat” from their new album, Force Majeure & The Acts of God

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