Glenn Kimpton

We met up with guitarist Bill MacKay to discuss Locust Land, his third long player for Chicago label Drag City and an album whose focus and detail shouts confidence and clarity.

It’s unusual to encounter a debut full-length album with as much confidence and clarity as Malin Lewis’s Halocline. We met with the Scottish piper to learn more about it.

Locust Land is Bill MacKay’s most diverse album yet, but also his most harmonious and satisfying, which is high praise, considering the quality of his past releases.

Frankland is taking influences from all across the musical spectrum to forge a sound that is all his own. He unpacks his journey from 13-year-old rookie to debut album, Fate’s Right Hand

Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock’s Two Improvisations is absolutely fascinating music that is as mercurial as it is rhythmic and steady. Spellbinding.

Glookies Guit, the latest offering from D.C Cross, is a memorable and rich acoustic guitar album of depth and character and undoubtedly his most accomplished work to date.

Morning Improvisations / Evening Abstractions, the debut collaboration from Elijah McLaughlin and Caleb Willitz is so packed full of creative ideas and endeavour that it defies you to switch off from it for a moment.

‘Birds & Beasts’ is a fresh, confident album that marks a new beginning for SUSS while acknowledging their lost comrade. Beautifully considered, intricate and finely nuanced, it’s a great piece of work.

On Beehive Cathedral, Joseph Decosimo, Luke Richardson, and Cleek Schrey take tunes they love and make them as strong and dynamic as possible while maintaining the spirit and the magic that has kept them alive for so long.

The Australian six-stringer is now an LA session native with a roll call of credits including Rodrigo, Empress Of and Mayer Hawthorne, and she runs her own masterclass out of Pickup Music