Folk

The songs on Ren?e's self-titled debut album chronicle a three-year period. These songs are about toxic relationships, seeing ghosts, ancestral baggage and blessings, and daydreaming about a lover.1. Out Loud 2. I Saw a Ghost 3. Little Flower Dance 4...

The Small Glories make their US debut with ASSINIBOINE & THE RED, an album that celebrates the Canadian Prairies. The album title references the junction of two rivers, the ASSINIBOINE AND THE RED, in the duo's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and...

The second volume of an impressive two-part label debut, Mashed Potato Records Vol II is a 12-track compilation featuring a rotating cast of outstanding New Orleans-based songwriters. Recorded over a 40 day stretch, often using combinations of the same...

The second installment in Japanese singer-songwriter Saho Terao's reimagining of Japanese folk songs! In Terao's hands, the traditional music of Japan takes on completely new forms, transforming from lullabies to pop songs; from children's play songs to...

The rich sounds of Maloya and S?ga music, originating from the R?union island (as well as Mauritius and Seychelles for S?ga), have recently been brought to the ears of the Northern hemisphere's music lovers. Hailing from the French Alps, where...

The perfect extension of her 2020 self-titled record, IRIS elevates Reb Fountain's music to new heights. Reb effortlessly combines pop elements with her trademark noir folk-punk sound; weaving authentic and anthemic tunes that create an instant and...

The perfect extension of her 2020 self-titled record, IRIS elevates Reb Fountain's music to new heights. Reb effortlessly combines pop elements with her trademark noir folk-punk sound; weaving authentic and anthemic tunes that create an instant and...

The New Faithátells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even...

The Native Howl are four brothers, bonded in music, from Metro-Detriot, MI. Through their self-started label Clean as Dirt Records, they utilize their wide variey of musical influences to record and perform many different styles, the most prominent being...

The musical duo of Shane Butler & Caity Shaffer released their debut album as Olden Yolk last year, an alluring concoction of hypnagogic folk & kosmiche rhythms, expanding & refining Butler's work in his former band Quilt toward a more focused direction...

The Montreal singer-songwriter's second album, Strange Nights, was released this month - two years after his debut Into the Woods, Out of the Woods - and the new collection's blend of classic-rock songwriting chops, nifty guitar riffing and his endearing...

The mbira maestro from Zimbabwe Jacob Mafuleni and his wife Martha Thom on vocals and percussion team up with French electro-funk prodigee Gary Gritness for a fresh and surprising take on traditional Shona music. Gary Gritness' subtle electronic...