On their new EP, The Walls Around Ballyfin, the Leeds-based septet Awen Ensemble set sail for Ireland. Listen to their mesmerising lead single and title track, on which they bring a new lease of life to a forgotten folk song and a tune written by their drummer Eddie Bowes’s great-grandfather in County Laoise, Ireland.

Andrew Farmer, aka FRMR, has shared ‘Echinacea’, the new single from his second album, Ochre, out on August 28th via Bluestack Records. The nine-track album continues the ecological songwriting of his 2021 debut, Amelanchier, and broadens its sound alongside contributions from Michael Mormecha, Linley Hamilton, Duke Special, Luke Sital-Singh, and more.

Jake Xerxes Fussell shares “Boney” and “Boll Weevil,” two new singles from “The Old Beloved Path,” out September 18th via Fat Possum Records. “Boney” resurrects a rarely-recorded maritime chantey about Napoleon, while “Boll Weevil” draws from Charley Patton and Blind Willie McTell, reimagining a traditional standard about the invasive bug, but “like so many of us, he’s looking for a home.”

The Black Wizards have shared “Beat,” the final single from “Force Majeure & The Acts of God,” due September 4th via Hassle Records. It’s the only song on the album built drum beat-first, creeping through its shadowy opening before erupting into muscular desert-rock riffs. The Porto trio’s fourth album marks a decisive break from their earlier stoner-rock.