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We're premiering Josaleigh Pollett's "Bed of Quiet," the final single before the release of their fourth album "If I Let It Quiet." Written across eight thousand miles with producer Jordan Watko, it pairs guitar crunch and percussive grooves with ambient production and samples from Chris Walla — an over-thinker's anthem for the sleepless, and the only time Watko sings on the record. Source

On "Home Fires Burning", his most Scottish album to date, Adam Beattie digs deep into his own family history, exploring family, legacy and belonging. An album of home, hopes and dreams, with the message that "for all the things that break and bend, love will last until the end". Source

Trá Pháidín announce "Cloch 's Claí", their first album for World of Echo, out 25th September, and share a video for launch track "An Béal Bocht". Inspired by Myles na gCopaleen's 1941 novel, the track sets images of Conamara's empty, derelict dry-stone walls against the collective's blend of Gaelic tradition, krautrock and free jazz. Source

Listen to the latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist – Over two hours of music, taking in Ambient, Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Spiritual Jazz, Afrobeat, Latin, Dream Pop, Exotica, Dub / World Fusion, Hindustani & more. Source

Fourteen tracks moving between Bamako and Belize, Dakar and Geneva. Cymande's nyah-rock, Orchestra Baobab's 1975 Afro-Cuban swing, Bonobo remixing Ghanaian funk. Oumou Sangaré and Fatoumata Diawara hold the Malian centre, Songhoy Blues the edge. The Garifuna Collective answer a bird. Sudan Archives folds Sudanese fiddle into her beats, Yalla Miku start funky and end heavy. A cratedigger's delight. Source

Emily Portman selects ten objects from her home: her grandpa's Mexican pottery owl, the mask she wore to become Blodeuwedd on the "Dominion of Spells" photoshoot, and a wedding ring cut in half by a spade and returned twenty years after it was lost. The stories behind them are quite magical. Source