The Bevis Frond unveil the music video for “Romany Blue”, taken from their recent 27th album “Horrorful Heights” on Fire Records. Directed by Italian filmmaker and long-time fan Roberto Beani in Bologna using a vintage Academy 1.37 aspect ratio and handheld camera, the clip arrives ahead of a UK tour beginning in Coventry on June 4th.

For all its preoccupation with what slips away — faces misremembered, friends taken too early, the houses we once lived in — “Who’s Keeping Time?” is markedly less solitary than anything Alela Diane has made since “To Be Still”. Michael Hurley’s death sent her back into the room with other musicians. The album doesn’t argue against loss; it gathers people around it.

Biita Houdei — the new moniker of singer-songwriter Lisa Houdei (formerly LéPonds) — shares debut single “Life Inside The Hourglass” via Basin Rock and Father/Daughter. Shaped in the shadows and sounds of Topanga Canyon, the sub-three-minute strum dropped into her mind “from a ghost of sorts” and was written in twenty minutes. Produced by Haley Heynderickx in her first lead production role.