Digipak. Every mother has a unique story. One thing is true for every mother, though: There's no deadline quite like a pregnancy. Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell was pregnant with her first child when she booked studio time on Vancouver Island to make an album about motherhood. The nine songs on Shadow Child " one for each month of gestation " had to be ready before then, and her return flight was booked on the last day she could safely fly in her third trimester. Working with producer Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, Black Mountain), Lapell finished her songs in the studio and on rural walks beside the Pacific Ocean. She enlisted some of her favourite singers, all British Columbians, all mothers: Frazey Ford, Jill Barber, Pharis Romero. They're all people with unique, distinctive voices,? she says, which is what I'm drawn to.? Musically, Lapell was looking for a stark, acoustic sound, as opposed to 2024's Juno Award-nominated Anniversary (recorded in Niagara with Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker) and 2022's acclaimed Stolen Time (recorded in Montreal with Howard Bilerman, featuring E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons).Lapell's road to motherhood was fraught, involving years of IVF and a 2023 miscarriage " that she experienced on stage while on tour. (She finished her set.) Her son was born in November 2024. The song cycle of Shadow Child covers joy and loss, using metaphors from Maritime tragedy, little cannibals,? reproductive health, acquiring language, and lives altered by the arrival of a newborn. The title track refers to ultrasound imaging of a liminal person that doesn't quite exist yet,? says Lapell. Their status is ontologically blurry.?Shadow Child arrives May 8 " Mother's Day weekend - on CD, Digital, and Lavender vinyl LP. Singles Hazel,? Shadow Child?, and So Long? roll out starting in January.
Tracklist:
Whistle Song (One in a Million)
Hazel - ft. Jill Barber
Shadow Child - ft. Frazey Ford
Mockingbird - ft. Dana Sipos
Talking To Myself
Little Cannibal
So Long - ft. Pharis Romero
Mother Tongue
Sing A Rainbow
UPC: 623339949323Label: Outside MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
MERIDIANS Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas announce the release of their long-awaited seventh duo album MERIDIANS - new compositions representing the apex of their musical journey of the last 25 years up to this point. The album begins with "Rise Up", Natalie's call to action in challenging times, and ends with "Peace Longing", Alasdair's heart-felt plea for peace, upon reflecting on a Mother's satellite phone conversation with her son on the Ukrainian battlefield front line. Once again, Fraser & Haas share the joy and privilege of creating and playing music together, and celebrate it's unique power to connect people together across the globe.
Tracklist:
[ 4:04] Rise Up
[ 4:49] Peninsula Waltz / Lady of the
Lathe
[ 5:04] Strathree / Polska Dot
[ 4:23] Not That Song! / the Leahy Challenge
[ 4:38] Burning the Midnight Oil / Turbulence
[ 3:26] An Invitation
[ 4:13] Take a Daunder
[ 4:18] El Cinco Transatlantico / Jota Para la Princesa
Castellana
[ 4:14] Aperture / Spill the Tea / Celtic Calico
[ 3:41] the Sleeping Lady of Tamalpais
[ 4:00 Cranachan / the Oatcake Club
[ 2:50] Highland Hoedown
[ 4:16] Peace Longing
UPC: 755997013020Label: Culburnie RecordsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
2026 release. Fake Brave Life is the debut studio album by the indie-folk duo The Army, The Navy (Maia Ciambriello and Sasha Goldberg). UPC: 820233023375Label: The Army, The NavyRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Like many Birch Book/In Gowan Ring fans, we have been waiting for new releases from B'ee. So today, IFP is happy to announce the imminent release of a live recording, which has been in the works for over 10 years. The concert was recorded thirteen years ago, in August 2011, when ifp and friends invited our beloved B'ee to visit us in Siberia, where we were based at that far time. "Live in Siberia" is a 70-minute immersion in the friendly atmosphere of a small chamber hall and enjoyment of those songs that you probably know by heart.
Tracklist:
The Boat of the Moon
The Wandering Boy
Gold in the Hillside
White Angel
Crack of the Sun
Shepherd's Call
Empty Corner Of The Page
Stone of White Speckles
Clickety Clack
Gently Johnny
The Trip Goes On
Warm Wind and Rain
New Song
The Seer And The Seen
Morning's Waking Dream
Song for Isabel
Dandelion Wine
UPC: 8016670164913Label: Infinite FogRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Blue Highway - voted Favorite Bluegrass Band of All Time by the readers of Bluegrass Today - is celebrating their 30th anniversary with this live recording that shines a light on some of their most-loved songs, performed by Jason Burleson, Gary Hultman, Shawn Lane, Tim Stafford, and Wayne Taylor alongside an array of top-tier guests from the bluegrass world. The band has won 32 IBMA Awards and has been nominated for three Grammys, and their albums regularly top the bluegrass charts.
Tracklist:
I'd Rather Be a Lonesome Pine
Life of a Traveling Man
In the Gravel Yard
Some Day
The North Side
Through the Window of a Train
Tears Fell on Missouri
Emerson
Marbletown
Keen Mountain Prison
Cochise County
Top of the Ridge
Lonesome Pine
Clinch Mountain Backstep
UPC: 708857002221Label: Down The RoadRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Chris Brain is a Yorkshire-based folk singer-songwriter releasing his fourth album, Red Sun Rising. Rooted in intimate storytelling and the pastoral tradition of British folk. Chris Brain's work has received repeated national support from BBC Radio 6 Music (Cerys Matthews, Radcliffe & Maconie, Guy Garvey, Tom Robinson) and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, alongside features in Songlines, Uncut, RnR, Shindig, Guitar Magazine, Guitar World & Daily Express. In 2024 his music appeared in the major motion picture We Live in Time, and he recently completed a seven-date sold-out tour of Japan, including performances on Tokyo FM and Osaka FM. Chris toured the UK multiple times, the last time selling out 15/15 shows. He will embark on another tour of the UK & Ireland in Spring with the album release as well as a European tour later in the year
Tracklist:
Red Sun Rising
Big Hill
When All Is Said and Done
Bright March Dawning Day
Kinds of Kindness
Mornings Relief
Still Waiting
All That Goes Around
Bloom and Die
Open Up Your Eyes
Out Till Evening's End
UPC: 5051078025322Label: Big Sun RecordsRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Brandi Carlile is back with her 8th studio album and first solo project in four years. After pouring herself into collaborations with musical icons and legends, the multi-GRAMMY Award winning songwriter is looking inward, reflecting backward, and ultimately, returning home on her brand-new album, Returning To Myself. The ten-song collection is produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon.
Tracklist:
Returning to Myself
Human
A Woman Oversees
A War with Time
Anniversary
Church ; State
Joni
You Without Me
No One Knows Us
A Long Goodbye
UPC: 602478920462Label: Interscope RecordsRelease Date: 10.24.25Format: CD
Breakfield prove that a simple name change can transform your entire world. After more than a decade of making music as Boy Named Banjo, the renaming brought a fresh energy to their music. Their 11-song self-titled LP came to life in collaboration with Sadler Vaden (Jason Isbell) and strays from the rootsy sensibilities of their formative years. Breakfield ranges from country-rock anthems to gorgeous ballads, showcasing a one-of-a-kind band fully in tune with their most adventurous instincts.
Tracklist:
Canyon Walls
Angel 41
Ever Loving Mind
Rivers Run
Let A Good Thing Die
Travel On
Straight for Heartbreak
Darker Out Tonight
Live By Me
Pull Some Strings
Who Am I
UPC: 888072746909Label: RounderRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
In this recording, Brú explores repertoire from the folk dance and song heritage of Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Traditional tunes are blended with musical elements as diverse as baroque, contemporary, and a pinch of heavy metal. Tales about magical beings, spells, hope, and deceit unfold against the alluring backdrop of Nordic nature. The contrast between life and death, love and despair, is sometimes resolved tragically, but at other times with a more humorous, down-to-earth outlook. UPC: 0762497770483Label: Glaux RecordsRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Burl Ives was a unique and remarkable entertainer, a folk and pop singer and guitarist, composer, radio performer and stage and film actor, who helped to popularise traditional folk music across all generations but also had pop hits in his later career. Born in Illinois in 1909, he gave up training to be a teacher to become an itinerant troubadour-style entertainer, working on radio where he could and once jailed for vagrancy in Utah. After Army service in WWII, and appearing in Irving Berlin's "This Is The Army", he became a radio regular, and started recording, revving many US and British folk songs. His early recordings of songs like "Blue Tail Fly", "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "I Know An Old Lady" became children's radio favourites for decades. This 87-track 3-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from releases on the Columbia & Decca labels from these years, plus selected titles from the Decca albums "A Collection of Ballads & Folk Songs", "Ballads & Folk Songs Vol 2", "Folk Songs - Dramatic And Humorous", "Women (Folk Songs About The Fair Sex)", "Wild Side Of Life", "Men: Songs For And About Men", "Down To The Sea In Ships", "Songs Of Ireland", "Capt. Burl Ives Ark", "Old Time Varieties", "Australian Folk Songs" and "Cheers". It includes his hits "Riders In The Sky, "Marianne", "A Little Bitty Tear", "Funny Way Of Laughing", "Call Me Mr. In-Between" and "Mary Ann Regrets". He was a one of a kind performer, and this selection from his prolific recorded canon is a celebration of his distinctive contribution to popular culture.
Tracklist:
Wee Cooper O' Fife
Cowboy's Lament
I Know Where I'm Going
Tam Pierce
Peter Gray
On Top of Old Smoky
Cotton Eyed Joe
Darlin' Cory
Foggy, Foggy Dew
Blue Tail Fly
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Old Dan Tucker
Eddystone Light
Fox
Aunt Rhody
Down in the Valley
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
Turtle Dove
Po' Boy
Lavender Blue
On the Grand Canyon Line
Wayfaring Stranger
Riders in the Sky
Roving Gambler
John Hardy
Worried Man Blues
Mr Froggie Went A-Courtin
Mule Train
John Henry
Doughnut Song
Pretty Polly
Green Broom
Pig Pig
Wild Side of Life
This Time Tomorrow
Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
Goober Peas
Git Along Little Dogies
Hush Little Baby
I Know An Old Lady
Nellie McNess
Molly Malone
Liza Jane
Barbara Allen
Close the Door Richard
Crawdad Song
Casey Jones
Ballad of Davy Crockett
Wabash Cannonball
Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
Ox Driver's Song
Waltzing Matilda (The Jolly Swagman's Song)
Wild Rover
Frankie and Johnny
Prisoner's Song (Midnight Special)
Santy Anna
Blow Ye Winds!
Drunken Sailor
Rolling Home
Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
Kilgary Mountain
Nell Flaherty's Drake
Paddy and the Whale
Squirrel
Horace the Horse
Bestiary
The Monkey and the Elephant
In the Evening By the Moonlight
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Grandfather's Clock
Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Wild Colonial Boy
A Nautical Yarn
Botany Bay
Oh By Jingo (Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl for Me)
Tit Willow
I Never See Maggie Alone
There Is a Tavern in the Town
There's a Hole in My Bucket
Marianne
Long Black Veil
Little Bitty Tear
Shanghied
Mockin' Bird Hill
Funny Way of Laughin'
Mother Wouldn't Do That
Call Me Mr. In-Between
Mary Ann Regrets
UPC: 824046918224Label: AcrobatRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
When Belfast songwriter Joshua Burnside began writing 'It's Not Going to Be Okay', he wasn't chasing a concept. He was trying to survive. The album was born from loss, written in the quiet aftermath of his closest friend Dean Jendoubi's passing. In that stillness, Burnside stripped everything back. Gone were the dense textures and surreal folk tales; what remained were bare, trembling songs that told the truth.
Tracklist:
You and Me
With You
It's Not Going to Be Okay
Nicer Part of Town
The Last Armchair
Something Else
Nighttime Person
Good Times Are Comin'
Moon High
Remake
UPC: 067003205047Label: NettwerkRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
Expanded 15th Anniversary edition. Genuine Negro Jig is the third studio album by The Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African American string band. The album was originally released in 2010.
Tracklist:
Peace Behind the Bridge
Trouble in Your Mind
Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
Hit 'Em Up Style
Cornbread and Butterbeans
Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)
Why Don't You Do Right?
Cindy Gal
Kissin' and Cussin'
Sandy Boys
Reynadine
Trampled Rose
Avalon
Georgie Buck
City of Refuge (2025 Remaster)
Will Adams Breakdown
Jack O' Diamonds
Bring It Home
Here Rattler
Little Rabbit
Memphis Shakedown (2025 Mix)
UPC: 075597896053Label: NonesuchRelease Date: 1.23.26Format: CD
Multi-award-winning Indigenous artist and guitarist extraordinaire, Cary Morin's latest album, Pocket of Time, is a collection of songs rooted in storytelling and lived experience. The original tracks are written from the perspectives of Indigenous characters drawn from everyday life-some shaped by moments and memories from the Crow Reservation.
Tracklist:
I Remember You
When I Come Home
Crazy Town
Best of My Love
Days to Come
Pocket of Time
And It Stoned Me
Heaven From Hell
Everything to Me
Song For the Morning Star
Love Me Forever
UPC: 199891611492Label: Cary Morin MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
No One I Could Talk About This With
No Hiding Plkace Down Here/Vinegar
Come Heres and the Been Heres/Border Line Insanity
Hannibal/Would You Die for a Necktie
Lionel Say/Breakfast Serial Killers
This Town/That Town
Who Are These People?/This Person
Never Lived At All/G Chord
Hard Times/9th Ward New Orleans
Somebody's Gotta Pay/Injustice
To Be More Beautiful/ Sofas ; #2 Pencils
Isn't That So/Too Much of Nothing/Whoop
I Wanna Be Like You/The Ballad of Theodore
Breakfast Serial Killers
Blood To Wine
Thrift Store Diva (The Moon)
Sex/Lets Do It
Last Thoughts On Elvis Presley
Carnivals
You're So Mundane
Sofas and #2 Pencils
Innocence
Wild Mountain Thyme/Song
Angry Young Man
Breakfast Serial Killers [radio edit]
Credit History
Theodore/I Wanna Be Like You
Grasshopper
Time/As Time Goes By
G Chord/Vibrations
Funny Thing Happened Onthe Way to the Abyss/Candyman
Galaxy Song/Dental History
No Hiding Place/Vinegar
Unbound/Miss Your Kiss
Don't Turn Me On Like a Radio/Classic Rock
Borderline Insanity/France Ain't Nothing Like Texas
My Grandmother/Never Grow Old
UPC: 787991805028Label: SilverwolfRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
Hurts Like Hell is Charlotte Cornfield's sixth album, the first she's recorded since the birth of her daughter, an inflection point for her as a person and an artist. The album's recurrent themes of personal growth and renewal, of love's perseverance through difficulty and shame and awkwardness, are rooted there. "That experience has pulled me out of myself and given me a different outlook on things," she says. "The vulnerability and fragility and wildness of it all has made me less focused on self, more zoomed out." Hurts Like Hell is the most open-hearted, full-voiced album of her career, and also her most collaborative. Decamping to Philip Weinrobe's Sugar Mountain studio in Brooklyn, Cornfield was joined by a full backing band, including Palehound's El Kempner, Lake Street Dive's Bridget Kearney, Adam Brisbin, and Sean Mullins, with key contributions by Núria Graham, and Daniel Pencer. Cornfield then recruited Feist, Buck Meek, Christian Lee Hutson and Maia Friedman to sing on the album. The fruits of this process are immediately apparent on lead single "Hurts Like Hell," a country-saturated yearner Cornfield calls "a shy people love story," the band swelling to embrace Cornfield's idiosyncratic flow as if to cradle her protagonist's heart. That the song is so vulnerable, so lived-in, is a matter of trust between Cornfield and her bandmates, in each other and of their gut. Their sound lands somewhere between Nashville Skyline and Harvest; a warm, richly-textured response to her bruised-but-seeking call. Much of Hurts Like Hell's magic happens in the space Cornfield makes for harmony. Taken up by Meek or Hutson, characters are sung into life as if with a brushstroke. When joined by Kempner or Kearney, it's a dazzling facet of the natural, lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry of her band. On "Kitchen," Friedman mirrors Cornfield's sense of astonishment at finding herself in love, rendering the emotion at it's ethereal peak. On "Living With It," she's joined by Feist, who Cornfield connected through a group chat for mothers who are touring musicians. Cornfield has arrived at this album bearing both scars from her past and hope for the future. Standing outside of herself and taking stock of what she wanted her music to be in the wake of childbirth, she was brave enough to ask for space, for time, and for help from places and people familiar and unexpected - a group chat, songwriters she was fans of but wasn't acquainted with, friends whose long-forgotten song leant her the chorus for a new one. Every "yes," every voice memo, every shared file, every open door leading to this moment in Charlotte Cornfield's career. Call that moment what you will - an expansion, a rebirth, a breakthrough - Hurts Like Hell is big enough to meet it and has lost none of Cornfield's charm, wit, or urgency in the offing, at once a reaffirmation of her standing among the great singer-songwriters of her generation and the first articulation of her future, whatever uncertainty and love it may bring.
Tracklist:
Before
Hurts Like Hell
Lost Leader
Lucky
Living with It Feist
Number
Squiddd
Kitchen
Long Game
Bloody and Alive
UPC: 673855088129Label: Merge RecordsRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
Courtney Marie Andrews has long been celebrated as an artist who challenges herself, and who finds new interplays of Folk and Americana.. Also a vivid poet and accomplished painter, she brings a multidisciplinary richness to her work that shines throughout her 9th studio album, Valentine. Valentine is Andrews’s most sonically explorative record – she plays flute, high strung guitars, myriad synths, and draws heavy inspiration from her art outside of music. Co-produced with Jerry Bernhardt and recorded almost entirely to tape, the album features complete in-studio performances that prize raw performance rather than perfection. Andrews’s voice is gorgeous and acrobatic always, but on Valentine it finds a new depth, an assertiveness that brings new dimension to its biggest anthems and its softest moments.Written during a period of profound endings and new beginnings, the record is an honest exploration of love vs. limerence. While anticipating the imminent loss of a loved one who would eventually recover, a new but uncertain romance began to develop. Rather than lift her up, the two emotional poles seemed to bleed into each other to sow doubt, trouble, even obsession. But through her own exploration of music and art, Andrews found a way to grow stronger inside this feeling. “I didn’t want to slink into my pain, I wanted to embrace it, own it” she says. The songs that emerged are devotional in their lyrics but defiant in their energy; it’s the very sound of a woman standing in her first wisdom. With Valentine, Andrews rejects the objectification of love, the love filled with gestures and objects instead of trust, mess, and growth. In doing so, she delivers her most beautiful and loving album to date.
Tracklist:
Pendulum Swing
Keeper
Cons & Clowns
Magic Touch
Little Picture of a Butterfly
Outsider
Everyone Wants to Feel Like You Do
Only the Best
Best friend
Hangman
UPC: 732388015085Label: Loose FutureRelease Date: 1.16.26Format: CD
Acclaimed songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Dani Larkin has announced her highly anticipated new album Next Of Kin, set for release on January 23rd, 2026. The first single, End Of It All, out September 18th, offers a first glimpse at the stunning progression of her sound, fusing her signature storytelling with bold new sonic textures to create a track that is as urgent as it is unforgettable.The critical success of her debut, Notes For A Maiden Warrior (2021), garnered Folk Award and NI Music Prize nominations and led Larkin to tour with Snow Patrol, Lisa O'Neill, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Rufus Wainwright and Ye Vagabonds as well as collaborations with the Ulster Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Next Of Kin, co-produced with Ruth O'Mahony Brady (Sam Smith, Feist, Gorillaz, The Frames), is an ambitious and deeply emotive body of work. A sonic and lyrical exploration of life's most universal milestones - from the innocence of birth to the acceptance of life's end.Anchored by Larkin's striking vocals, the album moves through a trilogy-like structure:Part I journeys from darkness to coming-of-age revelations, including the spirited track David. Part II dives into adulthood's complexity - love, fear, beauty, courage, doubt, hope - with expansive orchestral arrangements and delicate storytelling. Part III closes in a place of resolution and homecoming, culminating in the poignant farewell, Danny Boy.
Tracklist:
Morning
End of It All
She Moved Through the Fair
I Wake
David
High King
To Be Enough
Come Home to Me
Caledonia
Danny Boy
UPC: 0731788143879Label: Wipe Out MusicRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
Daniel Lapp is a Canadian fiddle pioneer, recognized across the international fiddle community for his innovative approach to traditional music. This recording, Lapp's first fiddle album in over 20 years, features 14 original melodies which showcase Lapp's diverse musical mastery of many folk styles, swing and jazz. The album is intimate, just two great musicians in one room playing together. The audio was mastered onto tape creating a vivid and acoustically real listening experience.Featured on this album is the stellar guitar work of one of North America's brightest young talents, Quinn Bachand. His work is well known in the U.S.A. as a member of Jeremy Kittel's band. On this duo album, Quinn's freedom to explore spontaneous harmony and rhythmic accompaniment ideas captures a magical mind at work.
Tracklist:
Jacob's Golf Bag Rag
After 50 Years / Legacy of Love / Old As the Hills
Wafflerama Rag
Fishcakes / Saravanja Waltz
Dale's Swingin' Hammer Two-Step
Waylon's Special / Adrian's Grind
The Telephone Call
Colby's Reel / Conor's Reel
Jersey Girl
UPC: 990312241683Label: Woodbox RecordsRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD
Dervish is a celebrated Irish traditional folk band from County Sligo, formed in 1989. Fronted by charismatic singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Jordan, the ensemble also includes accomplished players on flute, fiddle, guitar, accordion, and mandola, drawing deeply on the rich musical heritage of northwest Ireland. For more than three decades, they've become one of the most respected names in Irish music, known for their dynamic live performances and a repertoire that weaves traditional Irish music with songs by contemporary Irish songwriters. The BBC, which presented the band with a lifetime achievement award in 2019, has described Dervish as "an icon of Irish music," and the group has represented Ireland on stages from Glastonbury to Rock in Rio. In 2019, they released The Great Irish Songbook, an album of traditional Irish songs featuring guests including Vince Gill, the SteelDrivers, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Earle, David Gray, and others. For their new album The Great Irish Songbook, Vol 2: Poets & Storytellers, they shifted their focus to works by modern masters of Irish songcraft including Sinead O'Connor, Shane MacGowan, Van Morrison, Glen Hansard, and Moya Brennan. They enlisted another stellar group of guest artists including Indigo Girls, Aoife O'Donovan, Iron & Wine, Sarah Jarosz, Sister Sadie, Madeleine Peyroux, the Del McCoury Band, Eddi Reader, and the aforementioned Glen Hansard and Moya Brennan.
Tracklist:
Passage West (FT. Indigo Girls)
Jackie (FT. Aoife O'Donovan)
Rock the Machine (FT. Iron ; Wine)
Blue Is the Eye (FT. Sarah Jarosz)
The Broad Majestic Shannon (FT. Cathy Jordan)
Land of My Other (FT. Sister Sadie)
One Irish Rover (FT. Eddi Reader)
Leave a Light on (FT. Glen Hansard)
Tobar An Tsaoil - the Well of the World (FT. Moya Brennan)
As I Leave Behind Neidin (FT. Madeleine Peyroux)
The Town I Loved So Well (FT. the Del McCoury Band)
UPC: 708857001729Label: Down The RoadRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: CD
Elizabeth Ziman is the singer-songwriter and creative force behind Elizabeth and The Catapult, known for her piano-driven compositions, sharp emotional insight,and disarming honesty, and who has built a career on songs that balance wit and vulnerability with striking precision. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareillesand Kishi Bash i ; collaborated with with Esperanza Spalding, Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill; and her songs have been featured innational television campaigns for Google, Amazon, Sky TV, and So You Think You Can Dance.Responsible Friend is an album about the ways in which we show up for one another. What does it mean to be a responsible friend - to be there for someone you lovewithout trying to save them? "The first lesson I learned about caregiving," says Elizabeth, "is that I need to put on my own oxygen mask before I can help anyoneelse. The next lesson (and the one you won't find in an airline seat-back) was that no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't take away anyone's pain. I wasn'tthere to fix anyone. I just had to accept them on their own terms." That philosophy runs throughout the album, with songs about a family member's passing, a friendliving with long COVID, and the shared burden of a society steeped in conflict and injustice. "I realized that everyone I knew, including myself, was being asked toprocess an enormous amount of grief at an alarming pace," she says. "Writing these songs became my way to surrender to those experiences and slow down enough tobe fully present for the people in my life."Some of the songs on Responsible Friend are joyful dedications; others feel more like letters Elizabeth wasn't sure she wanted to send. Taken together, it's a recordabout slowing down in a world that keeps accelerating. It's a commitment to friends, family, and self, at a time when everyone seems to be carrying more than they canreasonably hold. With Responsible Friend, Elizabeth Ziman delivers a record that feels both intimate and expansive, an unflinching reflection on care, grief, and thestuff it takes to keep showing up.
Tracklist:
I Love You Still
Learning To Drive
50/50
Responsible Friend
Bored Of Myself
When The Doctor Needs A Doctor
Goodbye Wisdom
90 Years Young
Lost Time
Cellophane
Stay
UPC: 766397486628Label: Compass RecordsRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
Grammy-nominated Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara returns in 2026 with MASSA, her most personal work to date. Introspective and powerful, the album explores motherhood, faith, memory, and resilience, transforming intimate reflection into universal storytelling. Through these songs, Fatoumata invites listeners, of all backgrounds, to embrace gratitude and accept that destiny is an inevitable part of the human journey. The album also carries a moving tribute to her late father, whose love continues to guide her beyond his passing. Musically, MASSA sees Fatoumata Diawara expand her sonic universe, blending her Malian musical heritage with pop textures, under the artistic direction of pop icon -M-, creating a sound that is both rooted and forward-looking. With MASSA, she reaffirms her place as one of the most vital voices in African music, transforming personal truth into universal resonance.
Tracklist:
Djanne
Mogo
Tcheba
Sigui
Massa
Fala
Denko
Farana
Tati Bakary
Nden
Djo
UPC: 3700551786961Label: No FormatRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Foy Vance’s seventh album The Wake marks the completion of a decades-long journey defined by tireless soul-searching and life-altering revelation. Produced by Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Ray LaMontagne); The Wake brings Vance’s gritty vocal to a potent convergence of folk, soul and Southern blues. In his intimate exploration of the human condition, the result is the purest distillation of his truly singular artistry, imparting defiant joy into songs of longing and loss and hard-won acceptance.
Tracklist:
A.I.
Hi, I’m The Preacher's Son
I Think I Preferred The Question
We Almost Made It
I'm Not Celebrating
Ever Feel Like Everybody's Just Coming At You?
Call Me Anytime
I Ain't Sold On Time
Money
Sleazy Bastards
Fiberoptic Love
When I See You At The Right Time
Bathed In Light
UPC: 888072745223Label: RounderRelease Date: 3.13.26Format: CD
2018 collection from the Canadian singer/songwriter. Gordon Lightfoot is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Tracklist:
If You Could Read My Mind
Summer Side of Life
Beautiful
Sundown
Carefree Highway
Rainy Day People
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Daylight Katy
The Circle Is Small 1
Baby Step Back
UPC: 603497858309Label: Rhino FlashbackRelease Date: 6.29.18Format: CD
Natalie Jane Hill's third LP for Dear Life Records brings to light a brand new approach of rollicking full band arrangements while embracing her honest, folk tinged songwriting.
Tracklist:
Rose and Pink
Never Left Me
Colors
Kitchen Table
Lady Pond
Lucky to Be
Blue is the Color of My Sun
Oranges
Endless Memory
I Thought Love Meant
UPC: 617308004038Label: Dear Life RecordsRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
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