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
With his indie breed of country/folk-rock, Alex Amen makes his ATO Records full-length debut with 'Sun of Amen': a body of work that opens a space for sustained and quiet wonder, offering up songs touched with both magnetic ease and extraordinary beauty. Last year, with only a handful of singles to his name, the Texas-born / Brooklyn-based artist landed on the lineups to tastemaking festivals like Pitchfork London, Newport Folk, and Austin City Limits.
Tracklist:
Diamonds
Cabin By The Sea
Please Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
Peaches
Her Spirit Wanders
Memories of You
California Blues
Changes
April
Lonely People
UPC: 880882694425Label: Ato RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Some people change your life in every way that a life can be changed. David Lynch is one of those people. When Alicia Witt first worked with him at age 7 on his classic Dune (1984) she had no idea what he meant to anyone as a filmmaker, nor that she would work with him 3 more times over the course of his life and that he would become one of her greatest influences. She only knew that she had found a kindred spirit and that she loved him.
Between Heaven & Earth is a tribute to his energy, his legacy, and most of all, his love. When Alicia attended his memorial gathering shortly after his passing in 2025, she was struck by the depth of the relationships in that space. The knowing that if you were loved by David, you stayed loved. As those in the room spoke of their shared experience that David was still among them - directing from beyond - Alicia became ever more aware that she was being encouraged to create an album from this space of eternal unconditional love. ‘Use my name,’ David whispered. And so it was.
Produced by renowned producer and singer-songwriter Joe Henry (Emmylou Harris; Milk Carton Kids; Bonnie Raitt; Rodney Crowell), this album was recorded live in studio in 5 days in New York City in January 2026. Alicia Witt on piano and vocals, accompanied by a band of 5 musicians, take you on a sonic journey that could never be recreated, channeling the energy that was brought together in this moment to honor the immeasurable effect that David Lynch had and still has on the world. He was palpably present in every moment of the making of this album. The 13 songs that were chosen reflect everything Alicia feels she learned about love from David - the acceptance, the insistent optimism, the curiosity, and the permanence. The final song, The Director, recounts messages he has sent to her from beyond over the year since he passed away. The songs appear in the order in which they were recorded, as the band drew deeper and deeper into the matrix. All are original works by Alicia Witt, 7 solo writes and 6 co-writes, including Thank You, the first single from the album, written with and featuring Grammy winner John Paul White (Civil Wars).
Between Heaven & Earth takes the listener on a journey to a place where only love is real, hanging suspended amongst the fragments of the day to day life we can see and touch - and another timeline just beyond this one.
Tracklist:
Love Anyway
Between Heaven and Earth
Artifacts
Kindred
Test Drive
You Just Do
Freeze Frame
Blue Moon
Build Me A Dream
Thank You (feat. John Paul White)
Undivided
More
The Director
UPC: 732388032181Label: Alicia Witt MusicRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: CD
In the Hour of Chaos is less a third “solo record” and more a mixtape to a musical yet to be written. The album comes at a time when connection is needed more than ever. A generative connector and community leader Allison Russell, alongside production team dim star, cast a creative circle of collaborators to bring the songs to life, emerging from honest, raw dialogues between friends, lovers, chosen family, humans. The new record features Norah Jones, Joy Oladokun, Kara Jackson, Denitia, Ruby Amanfu, Devon Gilfillian, Kashus Culpepper, Brittney Spencer, Sara Watkins, Kyshona, Julie Williams, Chibueze Ihuoma and Ahya Simone.
Tracklist:
Rainbows
No Springtime ft Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams
Cold April ft Kara Jackson, Denitia & Explore! Pop Choir
Black Lavender ft Brittney Spencer
Really Real ft Norah Jones
Just Like Saturday ft Ruby Amanfu
Chaos Theory ft Kyshona & Sara Watkins
Love is a Golden Lion ft Devon Gilfillian
Searchlight ft Kashus Culpepper
Two Stars ft Chibueze Ihuoma
Good Omens ft Ahya Simone
UPC: 888072754713Label: FantasyRelease Date: 7.10.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Buffalo Skinners
Waiting at the Gate
Wallace-Taylor Train/Bet on Wallace
Pastures of Plenty
Rambling Round Your City
Tom Mooney Is Free
Seamen Three
1913 Massacre
Tom Joad
Rangers Command
Mister Charlie Lindbergh
Never Tire of the Road
UPC: 5065023660384Label: Last Music CompanyRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: CD
Angus & Julia Stone's seventh studio album, Karaoke Bar, is another evolution in the pair’s history of songwriting, recording, and producing. A vibrant collection of songs born out of adventures across the world, carrying with them the spirit of the places, people and moments that inspired their creation. With Karaoke Bar, they open the doors to yet another chapter: a record that leans into joy.
Across the record, Angus and Julia share vocals — singing line for line, together in unison or in harmony throughout — set within musical production that brings the songs to life, making choices that elevate the story of each song in that way Angus and Julia do so well. Lyrically and musically, they bring to life a feeling we all know but can’t quite reach without music — something between nostalgia, melancholy, and presence. A portal into a sense of life being lived.
Tracklist:
Karaoke Bar
Monroe
Celestial Bodies
The Start
Strangely Strangely
Brightest Place
Take Me Back to Japan
Cowgirls Lover Boi
The Cherry Farm
Mexico City
UPC: 823375134527Label: Angus & Julia StoneRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: 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
The trilogy that began with ""Pomegranate (The Chant of the Elementals)"" and continued with ""Centaurea"" has reached the moment of it's grand completion with a third chapter, one that seals the story in a truly triumphant way. It is an honour for us to collaborate with Ataraxia. An even greater one that their thirtieth album bears our emblem. What they have conjured this time is for you to discover on your own. It is a rare thing to encounter a circle of artists so devoted to their craft, who do not merely make a living from music, but live for music itself
Tracklist:
Alabaster Breanwinn
Alqua
Sylfaera
Silvertine
Loona
Ilawarra
Muirreann (CD Bonus Track)
Ojos Sagrados
Crowea
UPC: 634240413797Label: The Circle MusicRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: CD
As The Binoculars, Brooklyn's Kaethe Hostetter and Chloë Swanttner welcome you to their proverbial picnic blanket where they peer into melodies new and old using harmony vocalis, violin, guitar, lap steel, and country vocal harmonies.The enchanting duo have played music together since they were kids, singing lovely country style harmonies on their debut album. Double Whammy features covers of songs by the Louvin Brothers, Doc Watson, The Delmore Brothers, The Kershaw Brothers, Lee Hazelwood, and more. They performed an enchanting set at the Brooklyn Folk Festival. UPC: 199384355223Label: Jalopy RecordsRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: 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
Sixteen(!) years after Vol. III - A Hand Full of Days, B'ee returns with the long-awaited next chapter - Vol. IV: Casting Lines - A Museum of Memory. We all know B'erth as one of the most remarkable and unique songwriters of our time. His psychedelic symbolist folk music has shone through his projects In Gowan Ring and Birch Book since the early '90s. A new album from him is always a rare and important event.
Tracklist:
A Room with a View
Secret Garden
Only Waiting for Me
Old Dirt Road
Birch Blossoms I
A Beautiful Day
These Fragile Things
Games to Play
Pale Shadow Waltz
Birch Blossoms II
UPC: 8016670172659Label: Infinite FogRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: 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
Bob Shane - Best Of Bob Shane / Specially priced 2 CD set w Kingston Trio founding member Bob Shane' solo recordings. His Trio work made revival in the late 50's, early sixties, - A specially priced 2 CD set which covers the solo career of Kingston Trio founding member Bob Shane. Shane's work with the trio was the heart of the folk-pop revival in the late 50's, early sixties, resulting in hits like "Tom Dooley," "MTA" and Sloop John B. This work literally established acoustic music as an art form. The made the clean cut look with matching stripe shirts a famous look. And with 4 albums simultaneously in the top 10, appearances on college campuses across the country as well as major network TV the norm.
Tracklist:
The World Needs A Melody
The Dutchman
The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night
Lock All The Windows
When My Love Was Here
High Heeled Shoes
Qua La Linta
A Rolling Stone
Cool Tattoo
She Was Too Good To Me
All Of The Hard Days Are Gone
Scotch And Soda
The Seine
I Can't Go On Loving You
Reason To Believe
Simple Gifts
Ballad Of lucy Jordan
Both Sides Now
How's The Weather
Lonely People
Don't Make Promises
Scotch And Soda
Lady Came From Baltimore
A Simple Thing As Love
Weeping Annaleah
Getting Paid For Work When You're Stoned
The Dutchman
Country Lane
I Don't Think Of You Anymore
Honey
Pupu A'O Ewa
Less Of Me
Every Inch Of The Way
UPC: 787991803628Label: SilverwolfRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: 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
Pieta Brown's magnetic and ethereal 10-song album Dreamin' Of was produced by Bon Iver's S. Carey and Mike Lewis alongside the songwriter, recorded in Justin Vernon's studio, and in a delicate, cinematic song cycle, it tackles themes including Nature, Love, Loss, War and Addiction. Pieta's unmistakable style, lush harmonies, potent ambience, and incandescent grooves are all interlaced throughout the album.  In addition to S. Carey and Mike Lewis, a handful of friends bring their unique contributions to the album including Jeremy Ylvisaker, Bertand Belin, Amos Lee, Bo Ramsey, Barbara Jean Meyers, Bryan Vanderpool, and Romain Collin.
Tracklist:
Time of the Night
Was the One
Dreamin' of
So This May I
Nothin' But Trouble
Laura
Drinkin' Side
Someday Someday
Love Letters
Glitter Town
UPC: 748731712815Label: Invasion MerchRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: 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
Tracklist:
You Got Me
Ridin' in the Sky
Welcome to the Islands
Gypsy in the Photograph
Thought You'd Like to Know
Upper Hand
Strong Gentle Lovers
Hit and Run
Alice
Fat Harry
Just An Old Woman
You Divide and I'll Choose
UPC: 787991802621Label: SilverwolfRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: CD
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