The Monday Morning Brew #178
A new playlist (and some recommendations) to ease you into the week featuring Blair Coron, Ballaké Sissoko, Buck Curran, Neil Young, Jeffrey Silverstein, Nicole Mitchell and Joe Westerlund and more. Source
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Off the Shelf with Good Habits
For our latest “Off the Shelf” feature, Good Habits’ Bonnie Schwarz and Pete Shaw, whose new album “Better for Now” is a KLOF Mag Featured Album of the Month, choose ten objects from home. They include a stable door, a Mozart Mouse and a Beethoven Bear...there's also a healthy discussion on whether…
Album | The Cat’s Miaow – When You Smiled And Turned Away
For a band whose first cassette was released in 1992, the 34-year gestation period for The Cat’s Miaow’s debut album, When You Smiled And Turned Away , seems a bit extreme. Yet things aren’t quite that simple. Melbourne’s Bart Cummings and Andrew Withycombe began recording on their own, using a…
Shovel Dance Collective – Everything in Readiness
With "Everything in Readiness", Shovel Dance Collective have combined vision and virtuosity, intuitive gristle and scholastic rigour to create the best folk album of the year. This is folk music in its most potent form. By allowing itself to be hybridised and mongrelised by other influences, they…
Christian Wethered shares new single ‘The First Thing’
Dublin-based songwriter and poet Christian Wethered has released “The First Thing”, the opening track from his new album “From The Balustrade”, due in 2027 via LVP Records. His poetry takes centre stage, with dreamlike verses left open to interpretation. A playful, quirky arrangement flows through…
Declan O’Rourke on “Oceanic”, Old Friends and Writing Novels Instead of Songs
Declan O’Rourke talks about “Oceanic”, his eighth studio album, recorded in Sydney with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil. Give an artist a palette of colours, he says, and “you can’t expect them to stick with yellow or red.” He also talks about finding his old classical guitar teacher after about ten…
Spitzer Space Telescope shares ‘Bound For Calais-O’ ahead of Broadside Hacks Roster Tour
Spitzer Space Telescope shares the sea shanty single “Bound For Calais-O” a day before the Broadside Hacks Roster Tour begins in Lewes. Dan MacDonald calls sea shanties “a well of inspiration”, and this is the jolly “foc’sle” variety, with Mareva Lindo singing harmonies. It channels The Clancy…
Darren Hayman – I’m Your Team
Darren Hayman completed “I’m Your Team” in 2022, and it sat on the shelf for four years. Built on constraint, with a DX7 synth at its centre, it sees him at his most undiluted and emotionally stark, delivering some of the best songs of his career. Source
Toria Wooff shares new single and video “Noiselessly”
Toria Wooff’s new album “Aleister” is due on 12 January 2027 via Sloe Flower Records. Her new single “Noiselessly” is out today. She wrote it alone in her flat, five years after her best friend’s passing. The lyrics come from the eulogy she wrote at the time. The video follows her across the moors…
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