KLOF Magazine

2 In this week’s Mixtape, we turn back the clock to the 1970s for three tracks taken from the new Martin Carthy archival boxset release, Along The Road Forever: Live at the BBC (1965-2022), which is released today (July 17th) via Madfish. This is a huge collection, and for anyone thinking this is a CD-sized boxset similar to what you often get via the excellent Cherry Red, then think again.

1 Emil Friis releases Hollow Hands today (July 17th), a four-track EP via 130701, FatCat’s modern classical imprint. The Danish composer and pianist wrote and recorded it mostly in his Copenhagen studio through the autumn of 2025, and it follows his 2025 album Moving Images, also on 130701. Opening track Hands, Hollowed arrives with a short film directed by Kevin Brooks.

2 Rowena Wise is our latest Off the Shelf guest. There’s an intimacy to her songs, like a conversation you weren’t meant to overhear. The Naarm/Melbourne singer-songwriter holds beauty and mess in the same hand, and the triple j community aptly christened her a “lyrical assassin”, which reads like a gag until you actually sit with the lyrics.

1 Horse Feathers have shared a demo of Like Lavender, the second track pulled from the deluxe reissue of their debut album, Words Are Dead, out August 28th on Kill Rock Stars. It follows Finch on Saturday, the first thing the band ever committed to tape, which we covered here. There is nothing to the recording but a guitar, a voice and a set of stairs. “‘Like Lavender’ was recorded in a single solitary take in a stairwell in our house in NE Portland,” Justin Ringle says.

3 Below, you can read Blake Wagner‘s insightful and informative interview with Derek Piotr, a far deeper dive than anything we’ve featured on KLOF before. Derek is a renowned folklorist, performer and composer based in New England. Regulars may recall that we spoke to him in 2022, around the time that he established the Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive, for which he is the lead archivist and creative director.

6 Hana Stretton has shared Before This, an AA single from tiarn, the Australian ambient-folk producer’s second album, out on August 7th. It pairs As It Was Before This with Seagull Theory II, two songs that came out of a decision to stop working alone. tiarn was self-recorded in an Australian beach town of a few hundred people, where Stretton lived in isolation near the ocean, overlooking the winter migration of whales.

1 Oren Ambarchi has shared an excerpt from Hidden Tableau, the first side of his new album Cooked, out September 25th via Drag City. It begins with piano ripples from Eiko Ishibashi and then, after a few seconds, takes a hard turn: a groaning synthetic voice enters, created by Konrad Sprenger, who produced this piece and was at the helm for Shebang in 2022.

1 maya ongaku have shared You are Silence, the new single from their album Nothing Space Music, out August 7th via Guruguru Brain. It follows lead single Astral Echoes. The Japanese trio have also announced UK and European tour dates running through September and October (dates below). You are Silence came out of Japan’s midsummer Obon season, when the spirits of the dead are believed to return home for a few days.

1 Jonathan Something has shared Country Rose, the opening track and first single from his forthcoming album One More Lonesome Cowboy Song, out 16 October via High Shelter, a new label backed by Virgin Music Group. It arrives with a live session video. Born Jonathan Searles, the Connecticut songwriter has rebuilt his sound from album to album, moving through garage rock, anti-folk, synth-pop and sample-heavy neo-soul.

1 Two Runner have shared Roadrunner, a new single from Porchlight, out August 28th via Gar Hole Records. It arrives with a video filmed and edited by Ian Fuenzalida, following Paige Anderson down the backroads on a dirt bike. The single lands a month after the album announcement in June.