and February 25
The Delines - an American band from Portland, Oregon. Their original line-up was vocalist Amy Boone, Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) on keyboards, Sean Oldham, Freddy Trujillo and Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine) and pedal steel player Tucker Jackson (Minus 5). The band was formed in 2012 and is self-described as a "retro country soul band". Mr Luck & Ms Doom - 2025.
Back in 2016, little-known lo-fi singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank was picked by US artist Lucy Dacus to open her European tour; in the same year, Dacus met her future Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. Almost a decade later, things came full circle when Dacus turned her other Boygenius pal, Phoebe Bridgers, on to the music of the Manchester-based artist now known as jasmine.4.t, who promptly became the first UK signing to Bridgers’s label Saddest Factory (also home to Muna and Claud). All three members of Boygenius co-produced Cruickshank’s forthcoming debut album, You Are the Morning. The record sprang out of a challenging period for Cruickshank. “My first EP [2019’s Worn Through] came out pre-transition, and then I got really sick during Covid and transitioned while having long Covid,” she told Rolling Stone. “I left an abusive marriage and was homeless for a period after I wasn’t accepted by my family.”
Chris Eckman - Musician/songwriter/ producer. Released more than a dozen albums with the Seattle-based cult band The Walkabouts. Discography includes several solo albums plus collaborative records with Carla Torgerson (Chris & Carla). Current projects are Dirtmusic, The Strange, Distance, Light and Sky and The Frictions. The Land we Knew Best 2025 - Folk / Country Soul / Americana!
The English guitarist, songwriter, and song interpreter Jim Ghedi came to folk music through a side door. He grew up playing in bands and putting on shows at a DIY collective in his native Sheffield, where it was far more common to see an experimental noise gig than an acoustic guitar. A fateful Bert Jansch CD, gifted to Ghedi by an aunt, changed his trajectory. He started to dig into folk-rock groups like Pentangle and Steeleye Span, fingerstyle guitarists like John Fahey, and traditional singers like the Watersons. Before long, he was putting on folk nights at the DIY space. Wasteland -2025
The band currently consists of Mike Cooley (lead vocals, guitar, banjo), Patterson Hood (lead vocals, guitar), Brad Morgan (drums), Jay Gonzalez (keys, guitar, accordion, backing vocals), and Matt Patton (bass guitar, backing vocals). Patterson David Hood (born March 24, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers. Exploring Trees & Airplane Screams - 2025.
The artist known until now as Ulla, or Ulla Straus, U.e. makes music so delicate it’s almost weightless, propelled less by a guiding hand than by the mercurial drift of air particles warmed by the first rays of the sun. At their gentlest, Ulla’s ambient miniatures seem to consist of little more than a soft breeze brushing against guitar strings, or dust motes settling between the keys of the synthesizer. Hometown Girl is as quiet as anything Ulla has done until now, but an important shift has taken place. Instead of the softly burbling electroacoustic sound design of Tumbling Towards a Wall or the intricate digital swirls of foam, the new album foregrounds an almost purely acoustic palette: clean-toned guitar; woodwinds laid on like strips of cotton batting; watery piano, redolent of mildew and mothballs, with the creaky beach-house vibe of Grouper’s Ruins. Ulla even plays drums on a few songs, tapping away at the cymbals and toms with slow, careful movements.
Horsegirl open their second album, Phonetics On and On, with a question. On the jaunty “Where’d You Go?,” singer-guitarist Penelope Lowenstein poses that titular query and is immediately answered by singer-guitarist Nora Cheng: “Far, far, far away.” No longer high schoolers, the members of the Chicago-formed indie-rock trio moved across the country for college, temporarily abandoning that city’s nearly fairytale youth scene. While drummer Gigi Reece, the oldest of the three musicians, crafts zines and waits for the others to graduate, Lowenstein and Cheng have immersed themselves in their English majors at New York University, fawning over linguistics and using the new album as a sonic playground to rearrange syllables.

John Glacier’s debut studio album, Like a Ribbon, arrives with all the laudatory press (“perhaps one of the most London-defining artists of her era”) that comes baked into a release on Young, two years after she was featured, standing in front of Big Ben, in Daniel Lee’s first campaign for Burberry. It liberally references both the stylish post-punk rasp of London’s contemporary pop underground and the cool-kid electronic music that’s defined Young and sister label XL in the 21st century.
"It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow” is out today.
This is a collection of songs about the nature of wanting – to touch & be touched, to know & be known, to have control & then lose it. It feels true to say that the songs are about growing up and deciding what desires get fulfilled and what desires need to go unmet. It’s not a romantic album per se but I think through all the disorientation (over these twelves songs), some understanding of love comes through. Mostly, I just feel love as we release this LP out in the world.
Deep gratitude to the players who joined me: Luke Kalloch, Nat Baldwin, Peter McLaughlin, Alex Millan, Hamilton Belk, Ricardo Lagomasino, and Eliza Edens.
We recorded these songs between 2020 - 2023 in various bedrooms, desacralized churches, and old gymnasiums on or near islands in coastal Maine.
Engineered by Luke Kalloch with additional recordings engineered by Peter McLaughlin, Ricardo Lagomasino, and Prism Analog.
Mixed by Luke Kalloch
Mastered by Carl Saff
Album cover and artwork by POND Creative
Making this record was hard. So many folks were patient with me through the process – with their hands and ears, their support. Y’all know who you are. Thank you. My love and gratitude especially to Luke for going back in with me again and again, coming into our shared language around this music.
It runs so deep. Really. For all the beloveds believing in this project.
The Dead Gowns
Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He has generated rhythm for artists as diverse as the Golden Showers, Peaches, Jens Friebe, and, most recently, Oum Shatt, but most of all he works for himself: Chris Imler – Chris Imler solo – Chris Imler live. Imler’s live performances always grow out of rhythm. His beats and samples, which are both pre-programmed and played live, form the backbones of his songs. In a cold-sweated style à la DAF or evoking a present-day Cabaret Voltaire, these songs bring together melodies and lyrics that take root somewhere between the gold buyers of Kreuzberg and the concrete techno dungeons of the big city. His last album - The Internet will break my Heart, 2025.
1st March 2025Ivo Eduardo Correia