Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Cooked’, which brings together collaborators from Australia, Germany, Japan and Sweden, and drops this Friday on Drag City, Oren Ambarchi shares the entire 22-minute song, Sleight of Hand, in the form of a short film created by Maximilien Luc Proctor…an equal part lucid and fever dream.

Northern Earth feels like a real distillation of Dean McPhee’s sound; the music shows meticulous attention to detail, and recording it live with no overdubs makes it all the more impressive. A real sense of life and energy flows through each mercurial, exploratory piece. It is complex, painstakingly crafted music that is also focused and assured. It comes highly recommended.

Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about Spell Songs’ “In Thin Air”. The record follows the Seven Wonders of Bird: nest, egg, beak, song, feather, flight and migration, and grew out of a week-long Pembrokeshire residency. Polwart discusses ecology, folk tradition and the importance of physical albums; Morris explains her live painting alongside the band on tour and her relationship with birds.

It’s foolish to attempt to situate Sourdure’s music within a historical context; it feels both pre- and post-everything. Sung in Occitan and French, his latest offering, Outredore, features Lisà Langlois, Le Diable Dégoutant, and Eloïse Decazes. It is an absolute singular album that floats freely and pierces deeply.

Today marks the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Ghosts of American Psychonauts (Domino Records). The eight-song set was recorded at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, just a few weeks after the release of The Purple Bird. From that weekend, Oldham has shared a live video performance of “Trees of Hell”.

Blair Dunlop shares a live video for “Are You Loved?” ahead of tomorrow’s single release, previewing his sixth album “What Still Survives” (October 30th, Navigator Records). The song confronts social media’s grip on our need to be liked. Backed by Holly Carter, Jason Tebble and Fred Claridge, it names the problem instead of dancing around it.

JP Harris shares a video for “Hang Me,” the final single from his sixth album, “Shaving A Dead Man,” out October 23 on Bloodshot Records. Chance McCoy of Old Crow Medicine Show joins him on fiddle and harmonies. This is so far removed from the sterile, studio-perfect commercial versions out there; they return it to the soil.

Elanor Moss talks us through every track on her debut album “The Knife, The Needle,” out now on Merge Records. She traces “Fixer” from a single sitting at her kitchen table, the tape malfunction that reshaped “Improvisation,” and the George Saunders book that guided her to write by intuition until a voice emerged, then following that voice wherever it goes.