KLOF Mag Regular and Mixtape

New KLOF Mixtape, Interviews with Joshua Burnside, Mark Fry and Hayden Pedigo. New Artist of the Month: Poor Creature. Plus, a wealth of album reviews, recommendations, and more.

Jul 04, 2025

New Mixtape

Listen to our latest Mixtape ft. Bill Callahan (Live), Poor Creature, Brìghde Chaimbeul, ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH, Cerys Hafana, Me Lost Me, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Faun Fables, Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders, Fletcher Tucker, and The Alien Dub Orchestra.

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Interview: Joshua Burnside

Teeth of Time, Joshua Burnside’s latest album, feels like a mid-career record: a precursor to middle age, to the wonders of parenthood, the mourning of what’s passed, and hopes for what’s to come. Christian Wethered caught up with him and spoke about folk, influence, and the world from which he writes. “I just try to write songs that feel honest to me.”

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Off the Shelf with Mark Fry

Best known for his loosely conceptual 1972 psychedelic folk classic Dreaming with Alice, Normandy-based English singer-songwriter and painter Mark Fry is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest – a form of storytelling through objects. His selections capture that painter’s eye detail as he recalls distant memories with beautiful clarity. It’s an excellent read. Mark’s new album, ‘Not on the Radar’, is out now on Second Language.

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Interview: Hayden Pedigo

This year sees the end of an era of sorts for Texan instrumentalist Hayden Pedigo, with the release of I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away completing his ‘Motor Trilogy’. We met to find out more about the making of this ‘bittersweet’ finale. “…it’s far more maximalist. We utilised heavy strings, mellotrons, synths, and bass; there’s a lot more on this record…the compositions are more intense and bolder…”

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Artist of the Month: Poor Creature

Tension, contrast and juxtaposition are words that inevitably come to mind at multiple points throughout All Smiles Tonight. Poor Creature are masters at harnessing that tension and creating soundworlds that are utterly compelling from start to finish. This is music that straddles darkness and light, and traverses the blasted terrain of loss in wholly unexpected ways, picking apart and reassembling the whole idea of folk music as it goes.

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Recommended: Ironclad Grooves: Jazzman Lifts the Curtain on Eastern European Spiritual Jazz

For decades, the sonic landscape behind Winston Churchill’s infamous Iron Curtain remained largely opaque to Western ears. Tales of artistic suppression and cultural isolation painted a grim picture, yet, as Jazzman Records’ Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind The Iron Curtain – Sounds Beyond Barriers Pt 1 & 2 unequivocally proves, creativity not only survived but thrived in the unlikeliest of corners. These two double LPs offer an archaeological dig into the resilient, often defiant, spirit of jazz in the Soviet Bloc.

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Recent Album Reviews

As regular readers are aware, due to the length of our articles, we provide excerpts (except for select full-length features in our paid newsletter). To read in full, click on a title below, which will take you to the full article on KLOF Mag.

Me Lost Me – This Material Moment

This Material Moment is Me Lost Me’s most personal album yet. On this new release, Newcastle-based Jayne Dent’s songwriting has become both more immediate and more accomplished, with each song existing in its own undeniable present. It’s an alarmingly good album, stormy and intense at one moment, wise and contemplative the next.

Sally Anne Morgan – Second Circle the Horizon

Sally Anne Morgan’s Second Circle the Horizon continues in a similar vein to 2021’s ‘Cups’ while leaning gently on some of the slightly broader-sounding arrangements on her other albums. The result is spot on: a quiet, sometimes enigmatic celebration of the purity of nature and life through the lens of versatile music inspired by the Appalachian tradition. It’s her most cohesive and accomplished album so far.

Sally Anne Morgan was also the latest guest on Thrill Jockey’s Deep Digs series:

Brìghde Chaimbeul – Sunwise

While Brìghde Chaimbeul has already established a distinctive musical voice, on Sunwise, she utilises it in new and unfettered ways; she treats experimentation and tradition with equal respect, always with an overriding sense that music is meant to be enjoyed.

Faun Fables – Counterclockwise

Faun Fables’ Counterclockwise is a strange, beguiling musical world. Overall, the record is an exploration of time, not simply thematically, for it also shifts perspectives, delighting in the head-spinning effect these shifting sands can have on your senses. It is a deep and eccentric work, but ultimately a deeply satisfying experience, with so many recognisable elements that you cannot help but sense a welcome familiarity too.

Joseph Allred – Old Time Fantasias

For Old Time Fantasias, Joseph Allred enlisted the help of pianist Hans Chew. Before long, the project had burgeoned into what Allred calls ‘probably the most involved and densely orchestrated album I’ve made to date.’ Featuring banjo, strings, pump organ and trombones, Allred’s visionary music will carry you into an ever-changing world of dreamy American pastoralia.

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms

Like Eric Satie in his day, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer realise that intelligent, modern music doesn’t have to be brow-furrowingly serious, even when serious themes are being explored. Different Rooms is the perfect example of how quick and luminous this kind of music can be.

Bonnie Dobson and The Hanging Stars – Dreams

While “Morning Dew” may be recognised as Bonnie Dobson’s most iconic track, on her new album, Dreams, she showcases a collection of impressive new compositions. Partnering with the UK’s The Hanging Stars, her sound is infused with renewed vitality, resulting in a brilliantly fruitful collaboration. We can only hope that there will be more to come.

Eric Arn – fixe Idee

On fixe Idee, guitarist Eric Arn puts the mostly unadorned acoustic through its paces. Throughout this eclectic set, there are hints of early Robbie Basho, with a loose and free style of playing conjuring an image of carefree, sepia-toned summer life. It is the sound of an accomplished guitarist playing in his own style(s), and the result is excellent: singular, exciting and adventurous.

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Here’s a linked-list to some of our other highlights that you may have recently missed - we’ve been very busy.

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