In a surprising turn of events, the Mercury Prize has included folk legend Martin Carthy's latest album, "Transform Me Then Into A Fish," on its 2025 shortlist. This announcement, made today, marks the 84-year-old musician as the oldest artist ever nominated for this prestigious award. Source| KLOF Magazine
Featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joseph Westerlund, "at Public Records" is the latest live album from Setting, on which all four pieces stand out in very different ways, but together make a whole that is one hell of a listening experience. A worthy conclusion to a trio of live albums that feel as relevant and accomplished as their debut album, Shone a Rainbow Light On. Source| KLOF Magazine
Chicago boogie-rockers Glyders announce their signing to Drag City and a new album, 'Forever', out November 21, 2025. The new power-trio, now featuring drummer Joe Seger, celebrates with the release of their first single and video, “Stone Shadow,” a T-Rex and new wave-influenced track promising a high-energy, good time. Source| KLOF Magazine
With photography by Sophie Reichert, Danny Neill reports back from End of the Road, a brilliantly curated festival that still gets it right. Some of the shining highlights from a fully packed four days include Bug Club, Emma-Jean Thackray, Lisa O'Neill, Broadside Hacks & Mike Heron, Katy J Pearson, Jerron Paxton, Sharon Van Etten, Rosali, Scott Lavene, Muireann Bradley, Yoshika Cowell, Throwing Muses, Stewart Lee, Father John Misty and more. Source| KLOF Magazine
New York-based collective toso toso announce their self-titled debut album, and share “lluvia de meteoritos”, a lead single that upholds their album promise of an avant-pop sound that blurs the lines between structured composition and free improvisation, blending moments of furious energy with tender intimacy. Source| KLOF Magazine
On the beautiful, angry and groundbreaking live album, “Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople”, Williams delivers a message to his country and the rest of the world with unrivalled eloquence.| KLOF Mag
Songs from his mental attic, Jon Wilks says, Needless Alley is definitely somewhere well worth exploring, and, as a guitarist, he fully deserves his place alongside names such as Jansch, Carthy and Simpson.| KLOF Mag
Good Times is the latest offering from Alexei Shishkin. “...pop culture, poetics, psychology and philosophy are rolled into a surreal, lumpy ball and garnished with a palatable – and memorable – indie-pop melody.” Despite Shishkin’s lo-fi beginnings and his continuing willingness to drink from the well of slacker aesthetics, Good Times is a bold and - dare we say it - polished artistic statement. Source| KLOF Magazine
Recently shortlisted for this year's Welsh Music Prize, watch a short film on the making of The Gentle Good's latest album, Elan, and the landscape and people that inspired it. How he lets the past and present speak through his music is genuinely remarkable. Don't miss his upcoming Autumn Tour. Source| KLOF Magazine
This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Yo La Tengo, White Magic, The Owl Service, Sarah Louise, Josephine Foster, Buck Curran, Ed Askew, Maxine Funke, Myriam Gendron, and more.| KLOF Mag
Our latest Off the Shelf guests are Dublin duo Varo, featuring Consuelo Nerea Breschi and Lucie Azconaga. In this series, we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves in their homes and discuss them, a form of storytelling through objects. Varo recently released their highly anticipated new album, The World That I Knew, featuring some of the biggest names in Ireland’s contemporary folk and trad scene. Source| KLOF Magazine
To mark the release of Junior Brother's highly anticipated new album "The End", a further video from Ellius Grace has been shared for the stripped-back "Old Bell," a "rickety lo-fi folk song that grapples with impending death. Junior Brother says: “‘Old Bell’ is a song that pushes back against the forces which pull the fit and young into a pit of no return”. Source| KLOF Magazine
Guitarist Steve Gunn has announced his new album, Daylight Daylight, his first for the No Quarter label. It features contributions from Macie Stewart, Ben Whiteley, Nick Macri, and Hunter Diamond, and was produced and arranged by his old friend, James Elkington. Listen to the lead single "Nearly There" and don't miss his upcoming tour dates in the UK and EU. Source| KLOF Magazine
"I Will Swim to You: A Tribute to Jason Molina" celebrates one of the most enduring and impactful songwriters of the last thirty years with twelve loving covers. Artists like MJ Lenderman, Horse Jumper of Love, and Hand Habits explore the raw, unvarnished truth of Molina's music, reflecting on an artist who never shied away from desperation and who found a strange beauty in the struggle of modern life. Source| KLOF Magazine
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