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EP: The delicately beautiful ‘Creatures of Habit’ from Brisbane artist Aren’t is an exquisite triumph. Plus news of launch date.

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Katherine Priddy’s latest single Daybreaker, released via Cooking Vinyl, is a stunning collaboration with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage that beautifully captures the transition from winters grip to the warmth of spring. Following the success of Close Season, this second track in their poetic-musical project embodies hope and renewal, both in its lyrical themes and its …

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The Snarski brothers are indie rock royalty here in Australia. Forming the iconic Chad’s Tree in the eighties, both brothers have continued to make a major contribution to the music scene down under. Rob Snarski is possibly better known as the singer of The Blackeyed Susans and more recently SnarskiCircusLindyBand (with The Go-Betweens’ drummer Lindy …

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Polly Paulusma’s sixth studio album, Wildfires, marks a bold new chapter in her illustrious career. Released on February 28th via One Little Independent Records and Wild Sound, this expansive double album spans nearly two hours, blending folk instrumentation with spoken-word poetry and immersive natural soundscapes. Produced by the renowned Ethan Johns, Wildfires takes listeners on …

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A few months ago, experimental ritualists Heilung played the Enmore Theatre while I sat at home, consumed by a perilous FOMO for Norse gods, goat horns, and giant Viking drums trimmed with fur. The regret was real, so when the opportunity arose to catch the alluring Wardruna, I didn’t hesitate. War paint on, I was …

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Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi has shared a new single entitled ‘Sheaf & Field’ taken from his new album in four years ‘Wasteland’ due out on the 21st of February via Basin Rock. On his new album ‘Wasteland’, Jim Ghedi has created something huge. Intense, brooding, bold, at times apocalyptic, and remarkably vast. A profoundly bold sonic …

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In April 2025, dark nordic, pagan folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Kati Rán celebrates the ten-year anniversary of her debut album LYS (meaning “light” in Norwegian) with a brand-new physical release, available through Svart Records. The 2025 Anniversary Edition of LYS features the album’s ten original songs and the acoustic bonus track “Vinda” (ft. Helisir). In 2015, LYS was recorded, produced, and …

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It’s always going to be a fun evening when the Pagans and Pirates are in town and when Paganfest rolled into Manchester it was no different. Elvenking opened the preceding’s with their brand of Italian Folk Metal and immediately hit us with an impressive and powerful ‘Throes Of Atonement’, leaving no stone unturned when it …

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We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Somersault’ from Western Australian Queensland-based troubadour Ben Lunt. Starting off with a yearning, sparse introduction, highlighting Lunt’s distinctive vocals, the track launches into a luminescent jaunty song that seems to infuse the bright Australian sunshine in every note, tempered by the thread of yearning melancholia in Lunt’s …

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Australian singer-songwriter Emily Barker has come a long way since the release of her debut solo album Photos.Fires.Fables in 2006. There followed a lengthy hiatus, before she began more consistently releasing music in 2015, culminating in her song Nostalgia taking its place as the theme tune to BBC crime drama Wallander and more critically acclaimed …

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London avant-folk collective Bishopskin return with new single ‘Old Sock’. Delving into themes of spiritual fatigue, circular journeys, and the surreal interplay of human frailty and divine power. The song’s evocative imagery blends frontman Tiger Nicholson’s signature lyrical depth with the band’s hallmark sound: a potent mix of pastoral English folk, bluesy lamentations, and spiritual fervour. Recorded alongside the …

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