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An outsider’s tendency to put Irish culture into neat, identifiable boxes doesn’t mean that culture should stay boxed. Gaelic is a living language... Trá Pháidín understand that, and the songs on Cloch 's Claí preach it with both humour and intensity. klofmag.com/2026/09/tra-...
Trá Pháidín – Cloch ‘s Claí (Album Review)
Gaelic is a living language…Trá Pháidín understand that, and the songs on Cloch ‘s Claí preach it with both humour and intensity.
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September 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
An outsider’s tendency to put Irish culture into neat, identifiable boxes doesn’t mean that culture should stay boxed. Gaelic is a living language... Trá Pháidín understand that, and the songs on Cloch 's Claí preach it with both humour and intensity. klofmag.com/2026/09/tra-...
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Cooked’, which brings together collaborators from Australia, Germany, Japan and Sweden, Oren Ambarchi shares the entire 22-minute song, Sleight of Hand, in the form of a short film created by Maximilien Luc Proctor. klofmag.com/2026/09/oren...
Oren Ambarchi Shares “Sleight of Hand” Short Film, from his new album ‘Cooked’
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Cooked’, Oren Ambarchi shares the entire 22-minute song, Sleight of Hand, in the form of a short film created by Maximilien Luc Proctor.
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September 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Cooked’, which brings together collaborators from Australia, Germany, Japan and Sweden, Oren Ambarchi shares the entire 22-minute song, Sleight of Hand, in the form of a short film created by Maximilien Luc Proctor. klofmag.com/2026/09/oren...
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. klofmag.com/2026/09/dean...
Dean McPhee – Northern Earth (Album Review)
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.
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September 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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. klofmag.com/2026/09/dean...
This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist features 22 new tracks, including a shamelessly naked love song from Johanna Warren, plus collaborations between Shawn James and Damien Jurado and Ann Annie, and between Meshell Ndegeocello, Bill Callahan, and Chris Thile. klofmag.substack.com/p/the-monday...
The Monday Morning Brew #173 (Playlist)
The Monday Morning Brew is here, your weekly pick-up.
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September 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM
This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist features 22 new tracks, including a shamelessly naked love song from Johanna Warren, plus collaborations between Shawn James and Damien Jurado and Ann Annie, and between Meshell Ndegeocello, Bill Callahan, and Chris Thile. klofmag.substack.com/p/the-monday...
Read our latest Substack Newsletter - New Mixtape, Spell Songs Interview, End of the Road and Festival De Musique Émergente Festival reviews, and a stack of new album reviews + Exclusive Track-by-Track Guides by Artists.https://klofmag.substack.com/p/new-klof-mixtape-and-weekly-digest?r=c4svm
New KLOF Mixtape and Weekly Digest
New Mixtape, Spell Songs Interview, End of the Road and Festival De Musique Émergente Festival reviews, and a stack of new album reviews + Artist Track-by-Track Guides.
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September 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Read our latest Substack Newsletter - New Mixtape, Spell Songs Interview, End of the Road and Festival De Musique Émergente Festival reviews, and a stack of new album reviews + Exclusive Track-by-Track Guides by Artists.https://klofmag.substack.com/p/new-klof-mixtape-and-weekly-digest?r=c4svm
Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about Spell Songs’ “In Thin Air”. 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. klofmag.com/2026/09/spel...
Spell Songs – ‘In Thin Air’ Interview
Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about “In Thin Air,” Spell Songs’ third album. They discuss birdwatching, folk tradition, protest and why physical records still matter.
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September 18, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about Spell Songs’ “In Thin Air”. 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. klofmag.com/2026/09/spel...
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, is an absolute singular album that floats freely and pierces deeply. klofmag.com/2026/09/sour...
Sourdure – Outredore
It’s foolish to attempt to situate Sourdure’s music within a historical context; it feels both pre- and post-everything. His latest, Outredore, is a singular album that floats freely and pierces deepl...
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September 18, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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, is an absolute singular album that floats freely and pierces deeply. klofmag.com/2026/09/sour...
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. From that weekend, Oldham has shared a live video performance of “Trees of Hell”. klofmag.com/2026/09/watc...
Watch: Bonnie “Prince” Billy - “Trees of Hell (Live in the City of Ghosts)”
Today marks the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “Ghosts of American Psychonauts”. Taken from the album, watch a live performance of ‘Trees of Hell’.
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September 18, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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. From that weekend, Oldham has shared a live video performance of “Trees of Hell”. klofmag.com/2026/09/watc...
New Mixtape, ft. Spell Songs, Birdvox, fishing songs from Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, cattle and work songs from Buffalo Kin...Cédric Dind-Lavoie blends folklore with ambient, and Ruth Clinton performs solo, then as a member of Poor Creature. klofmag.com/2026/09/klof...
KLOF No. 97 (Folk, Experimental, Alternative)
Alongside new tunes from Spell Songs and Birdvox, this week’s Mixtape includes Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, and a singing session at The Cobblestone Pub in Dublin.
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September 17, 2026 at 10:52 AM
New Mixtape, ft. Spell Songs, Birdvox, fishing songs from Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, cattle and work songs from Buffalo Kin...Cédric Dind-Lavoie blends folklore with ambient, and Ruth Clinton performs solo, then as a member of Poor Creature. klofmag.com/2026/09/klof...
Blair Dunlop shares a live video for "Are You Loved?", out tomorrow ahead of his sixth album "What Still Survives" (Oct 30, Navigator Records). The song takes aim at social media's hold on our need to be "liked". Watch: klofmag.com/2026/09/vide...
Video Premiere: Blair Dunlop - Are You Loved? (Live)
Blair Dunlop shares a live video for “Are You Loved?”, ahead of his sixth album “What Still Survives” (October 30th, Navigator Records).
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September 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Blair Dunlop shares a live video for "Are You Loved?", out tomorrow ahead of his sixth album "What Still Survives" (Oct 30, Navigator Records). The song takes aim at social media's hold on our need to be "liked". Watch: klofmag.com/2026/09/vide...
JP Harris shares a video for "Hang Me," the final single from "Shaving A Dead Man," out October 23 on Bloodshot Records. Love what they've done here. klofmag.com/2026/09/jp-h...
JP Harris shares “Hang Me”, the final single from his new album ‘Shaving A Dead Man’
JP Harris shares a video for “Hang Me,” the final single from his album “Shaving A Dead Man,” out October 23 on Bloodshot Records.
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September 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
JP Harris shares a video for "Hang Me," the final single from "Shaving A Dead Man," out October 23 on Bloodshot Records. Love what they've done here. klofmag.com/2026/09/jp-h...
Elanor Moss walks us through every song on her debut album, The Knife, The Needle, from a kitchen-table lyric to the tape-machine malfunction that reshaped "Improvisation." klofmag.com/2026/09/trac...
Track by Track: Elanor Moss – The Knife, The Needle
Elanor Moss talks us through every track on her debut album, The Knife, The Needle, from kitchen-table lyrics to a tape machine malfunction and writing by intuition until a voice emerges.
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September 16, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Elanor Moss walks us through every song on her debut album, The Knife, The Needle, from a kitchen-table lyric to the tape-machine malfunction that reshaped "Improvisation." klofmag.com/2026/09/trac...
Danny Neill reports from Larmer Tree Gardens as End of the Road turns twenty, sailing against the mainstream tide and delivering fresh delights, beard-stroking introspection, unexpected curveballs and the odd celebratory banger to the committed masses. klofmag.com/2026/09/live...
Live Review: End of the Road 2026
Danny Neill, alongside photographer Sophie Reichert, reports on End of the Road’s 20th anniversary at Larmer Tree Gardens — Geese, Pulp, Ty Segall, Carson McHone, ØXN’s murder ballads & lots more.
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September 16, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Danny Neill reports from Larmer Tree Gardens as End of the Road turns twenty, sailing against the mainstream tide and delivering fresh delights, beard-stroking introspection, unexpected curveballs and the odd celebratory banger to the committed masses. klofmag.com/2026/09/live...
Radie Peat announces her debut solo album “No Human Tongue Can Tell” and shares her new single “The Moon and Stars”, alongside an accompanying video directed by Peter Eason Daniels. klofmag.com/2026/09/radi...
Radie Peat Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Single ‘The Moon & Stars’
Radie Peat announces her debut solo album “No Human Tongue Can Tell” and shares her new single “The Moon and Stars”, alongside an accompanying video directed by Peter Eason Daniels.
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September 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Radie Peat announces her debut solo album “No Human Tongue Can Tell” and shares her new single “The Moon and Stars”, alongside an accompanying video directed by Peter Eason Daniels. klofmag.com/2026/09/radi...
Charlie Wheatley's "Live at the Chapel" pairs guitar with viola and two double basses inside a 19th-century Welsh church, the first chapter in a three-part folk project covering forty songs. Wonderfully fresh and vibrant. klofmag.com/2026/09/char...
Charlie Wheatley – Live at the Chapel (Album Review)
Charlie Wheatley’s “Live at the Chapel” teases a three-part folk project with guitar, viola and double bass inside a Welsh church, situated in London’s West End.
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September 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Charlie Wheatley's "Live at the Chapel" pairs guitar with viola and two double basses inside a 19th-century Welsh church, the first chapter in a three-part folk project covering forty songs. Wonderfully fresh and vibrant. klofmag.com/2026/09/char...
Jake Xerxes Fussell's sixth album, The Old Beloved Path, reworks traditional songs until they feel entirely his own — a complete document with no fat and not a wasted note. Out Sept 18th on Fat Possum. klofmag.com/2026/09/jake...
Jake Xerxes Fussell – The Old Beloved Path
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s The Old Beloved Path is his most delicately considered release yet — his most elegant and unassuming, still only getting better.
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September 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Jake Xerxes Fussell's sixth album, The Old Beloved Path, reworks traditional songs until they feel entirely his own — a complete document with no fat and not a wasted note. Out Sept 18th on Fat Possum. klofmag.com/2026/09/jake...
Festival De Musique Émergente turned Rouyn-Noranda's mining backdrop into pop-up stages, lakeside gigs and church-hall shows. Tobias Furlong reports from FME's 24th edition, where the bond between performer and crowd feels inexplicably tethered. klofmag.com/2026/09/live...
Live Review: Festival De Musique Émergente 2026
Festival De Musique Émergente turns Rouyn-Noranda into a one-of-a-kind occasion, where performer and crowd feel inexplicably tethered.
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September 15, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Festival De Musique Émergente turned Rouyn-Noranda's mining backdrop into pop-up stages, lakeside gigs and church-hall shows. Tobias Furlong reports from FME's 24th edition, where the bond between performer and crowd feels inexplicably tethered. klofmag.com/2026/09/live...
Sairie's long-awaited debut is finally here. Beneath the Spreading Tree turns hauntological folk into something stark and richly rewarding — ghostly songs built for November mists. klofmag.com/2026/09/sair...
Sairie – Beneath the Spreading Tree
Sairie’s long-awaited debut, Beneath the Spreading Tree, is starkly beautiful and richly rewarding — its ghostly landscapes rooted in a British psychogeographical and musical tradition.
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September 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Sairie's long-awaited debut is finally here. Beneath the Spreading Tree turns hauntological folk into something stark and richly rewarding — ghostly songs built for November mists. klofmag.com/2026/09/sair...
New Monday Morning Brew Playlist ft. Birdvox, Spell Songs, Brigid Mae Power, Jon McKiel, Sean Hayes, Steven R. Smith, Charlie Parr and more. Plus five new album recommendations, from African steel guitar and indie twang to kosmiche country and Irish Trad. klofmag.substack.com/p/the-monday...
The Monday Morning Brew #172 (+ Five Album Recommendations)
A new playlist Ft. Birdvox, Spell Songs, Brigid Mae Power, Jon McKiel, Charlie Parr and more. Plus five album recommendations from kosmiche country to Irish Trad.
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September 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM
New Monday Morning Brew Playlist ft. Birdvox, Spell Songs, Brigid Mae Power, Jon McKiel, Sean Hayes, Steven R. Smith, Charlie Parr and more. Plus five new album recommendations, from African steel guitar and indie twang to kosmiche country and Irish Trad. klofmag.substack.com/p/the-monday...
Birdvox's "Shamming the Drama" is a Featured Album of the Month on KLOF Mag - traditional Scottish folk collides with pulsing disco and glitchy electronica. Music to think about as well as dance to. #folk #albumreview #klofmag Thomas Blake's review: klofmag.com/2026/09/bird...
Birdvox – Shamming the Drama
One of the joys of Birdvox’s debut album, Shamming the Drama, is how combinations of the ancient and contemporary are served up in so many different ways - music for thinking about as well as dancing ...
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September 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Birdvox's "Shamming the Drama" is a Featured Album of the Month on KLOF Mag - traditional Scottish folk collides with pulsing disco and glitchy electronica. Music to think about as well as dance to. #folk #albumreview #klofmag Thomas Blake's review: klofmag.com/2026/09/bird...
Martin Simpson shares a finely crafted solo performance of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” The track also appears on “Some Kind of Jubilee,” his new album marking fifty years since his “Golden Vanity” debut, and is out September 25th on Topic Records. klofmag.com/2026/09/prem...
Premiere: Martin Simpson performs Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” Solo
Martin Simpson shares a finely crafted solo performance of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” It also features on “Some Kind of Jubilee,” his new album marking fifty years since his “Golde...
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September 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Martin Simpson shares a finely crafted solo performance of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” The track also appears on “Some Kind of Jubilee,” his new album marking fifty years since his “Golden Vanity” debut, and is out September 25th on Topic Records. klofmag.com/2026/09/prem...
Alex Neilson reviews Jarrett Gilgore and Anthony Pirog’s “Between The Earth and Where” - a fine tributary to this great river of human achievement, compelling in its subtle warmth and discreet lyricism...a delicate, nocturnal blues. klofmag.com/2026/09/jarr...
Jarrett Gilgore & Anthony Pirog – Between The Earth and Where
Jarrett Gilgore and Anthony Pirog’s “Between The Earth and Where” — two empathetic and exploratory young men playing a delicate, nocturnal blues.
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September 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Alex Neilson reviews Jarrett Gilgore and Anthony Pirog’s “Between The Earth and Where” - a fine tributary to this great river of human achievement, compelling in its subtle warmth and discreet lyricism...a delicate, nocturnal blues. klofmag.com/2026/09/jarr...
Featuring Ríoghnach Connolly, watch the accompanying video for ‘Curlew Song’, the new single from Clare Sands, taken from her upcoming album ‘They Tried to Bury Us’, out on October 9th. klofmag.com/2026/09/clar...
Clare Sands shares ‘Curlew Song’ featuring Ríoghnach Connolly
Featuring Ríoghnach Connolly, watch the accompanying video for ‘Curlew Song’, the new single from Clare Sands, taken from her upcoming album ‘They Tried to Bury Us’, out on October 9th.
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September 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Featuring Ríoghnach Connolly, watch the accompanying video for ‘Curlew Song’, the new single from Clare Sands, taken from her upcoming album ‘They Tried to Bury Us’, out on October 9th. klofmag.com/2026/09/clar...
Falmouth's Blind Yeo join Cornwall's line of wonky inventors, from Aphex Twin to Gwenno, with new album "The Lemoine Point." Alex Neilson reviews it for KLOF Mag: doing more than most to keep Cornwall weird. klofmag.com/2026/09/blin...
Blind Yeo – The Lemoine Point
Blind Yeo’s “The Lemoine Point” surges with baked Krautrock riffs and pantheistic ancient worship, doing more than most to keep Cornwall weird.
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September 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Falmouth's Blind Yeo join Cornwall's line of wonky inventors, from Aphex Twin to Gwenno, with new album "The Lemoine Point." Alex Neilson reviews it for KLOF Mag: doing more than most to keep Cornwall weird. klofmag.com/2026/09/blin...
On his second album, “Mudlark Ballads”, Dublin singer Macdara Yeates unearths little-known relics of the city’s musical history. His ability to capture the mood of a song is second to none; they are valuable treasures in his hands. klofmag.com/2026/09/macd...
Macdara Yeates – Mudlark Ballads (Album Review)
Macdara Yeates’s “Mudlark Ballads” unearths forgotten Dublin songs, and his ability to capture a song’s mood is second to none.
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September 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
On his second album, “Mudlark Ballads”, Dublin singer Macdara Yeates unearths little-known relics of the city’s musical history. His ability to capture the mood of a song is second to none; they are valuable treasures in his hands. klofmag.com/2026/09/macd...