folk

One of the most beautiful albums of all time is getting the proper vinyl release it deserves, thanks to our friends at Cascine...

Our favorite conjurer of dreamy "fantasy folk from the cajun prairies", Lafayette, Louisiana's Renée Reed shares a gorgeous and achingly haunting gem from her new J’ai rêvé EP, coming November 2nd on Keeled Scales...

New York artist Anastasia Coope's delightfully whimsical freak folk gem "Norma Ray" gets some immersive and appropriately surreal visuals, shot by Anna Brief...

Had quite a few people ask about this one after I played it on our SiriusXM show last week, and as luck would have it, North Carolina band Moa has just shared the full version of their spooky, Vashti Bunyan-inspired contribution to Netflix's Night Stalker docuseries...

For this week's lovely GvsB Sunday mix, we're honored to welcome Grammy nominee, recent NME cover star, and creator of one of the year's most beautiful albums, British singer-songwriter Laura Marling...

Magical "dream-fi folk from the cajun prairies" from Lafayette, Louisiana's Renée Reed...

We found ourselves instantly captivated by the curiously haunting "dark twee" of LA-via-Ohio artist Ashley Rhodus -- aka Wished Bone -- upon hearing her wonderful 2018 LP for Gold Flake Paint's Human Noise Records, Cellar Belly, a collection of charmingly eccentric and inviting gems that each felt a bit like its own little miniature self-contained world...

Matt Kivel shares the video for one of the standout tracks from his forthcoming 5th LP last night in america, a record inspired in part by what Kivel describes as that uniquely American ability to "to shrug and submerge terrible feelings...

Dublin's Maria Somerville just dropped her beautifully hypnotic and spectral new album All My People, which we described earlier this month as "gorgeous, hazy, distant-but-intimate dream pop that at times recalls a more bucolic Grouper". Get lost in the record below, and pick up the limited white vinyl 12" here (1 copy left as of this posting!), or purchase the regular vinyl edition

We've been entranced for weeks by the title track from Galway, Ireland artist Maria Somerville's forthcoming self-released debut LP All My People, an eerie, vaguely foreboding lullaby that Maria says was influenced as much by experimental, ambient, and club music as it was by traditional Irish folk ballads...