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Stroud singer-songwriter Hamish turns years of memories, relationships and perseverance into Significant Others, an album where thoughtful melodies and meaningful words sit firmly at the centre. Released in September 2026, the record carries the warmth of music made with genuine feeling, drawing from influences as varied as Bob Dylan, David…

Martin Lloyd Howard turns the English countryside into a musical landscape on “Surrey Bells,” an evocative instrumental composition built around the imagined sound of church bells travelling across a rural Surrey valley. Soft, glistening guitar strumming forms the heart of the composition, with an echoey resonance giving the notes plenty…

Manchester singer-songwriter Alex Mara strips everything back on Alone With You, a five-track acoustic EP that feels more like sitting beside a fire while someone tells you the stories that shaped them. Written during Mara’s travels through Latin America and originally shared in hostels, rooftops and firesides, these songs carry…

ErickOscar continues to explore the warm heart of country-Americana songwriting with “Till We Turn Grey,” a tender love song that finds something profound in the quiet, ordinary moments of a long relationship. The song celebrates growing older together, suggesting that love becomes more meaningful when the fireworks fade and companionship…

Ektā, meaning “oneness” in Sanskrit, arrives as more than a New Age and Ambient album—it is a meditation on connection. Created by Cafe De Anatolia alongside Antaeus, Madame Gandhi, Amani Sol, and an international ensemble of musicians, the album brings together traditions from the Balkans, Mediterranean, Middle East, India, and…

“Children of the War,” the flagship song from Foxy Leopard’s upcoming album After, looks beyond the moment when a war is declared finished and asks what happens to the people left carrying its consequences. Built around the idea that a “child of a war” can be anyone shaped by a…

London, Kentucky’s Andrew Moore and Hooch return with Mountain, a sophomore Americana album shaped by nearly two years of writing, recording and pushing beyond the expectations set by their award-winning debut. Moore wrote every song from real-life experiences, and that personal foundation gives the record a sense of lived-in determination.…

Brit Scoops makes country music with a sideways grin on American Cheese, an eight-track debut that mixes Americana, melodic pop-rock and alt-country with stories about love, disappointment, memory and the strange little moments that make ordinary life memorable. Released September 2, 2026, the album sounds comfortable being warm and funny…

Lisa Michelle Anderson brings together Americana, folk, and rock with the perspective of a songwriter whose roots may lie in Southeast Kansas, but whose life has taken her far beyond them.  Raised in a creative household, Anderson learned early to treat music as a space for imagination. Years spent living…

Austin-based guitarist and composer Sweet Beast reaches deep into the ancient Mediterranean on “Calypso,” a debut single that turns Greek mythology and asymmetric rhythm into something strikingly contemporary. Named after the sea nymph who keeps Odysseus on Ogygia in Homer’s Odyssey, the track imagines a world of treacherous roads, dangerous…