Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Mumford is back with their new record (and title track) Rushmere (out March 28). The band shares: “…this has been the most prolific two years we’ve ever had as a band. We have a lot of songs to share with you… and it all begins where we started, really, with ‘Rushmere.’ We’re restless to get going, relieved and excited to share this first one with you.”
Anna B Savage, “Agnes” (featuring Anna Mieke)
The wonderful new album from London-born, Donegal based Anna B Savage, You and i are Earth, is out today. Of the new song “Agnes” Savage shares: “In therapy we had been meditating and visualizing, a practice that is in turns frightening and deeply comforting. Concurrently, I was reading about Selkies and Faeries, and it was when I read this tweet that I felt the folklore melding with my own personal therapeutic experiences. That moment of potential relief followed by a deep terror, and the act of turning your clothes inside out to release your entrapment from the ‘stray sod.'”
Sunny War, “Cry Baby” (featuring Valerie June)
Armageddon In A Summer Dress, the new album from Sunny War, is out on February 21. The new song “Cry Baby” features special guest Valerie June. From Sunny: “I’ve opened for Valerie June quite a bit and years ago I asked her if I could try and write a song for her. Somewhere in Portland, OR, I wrote ‘Cry Baby’ with Valerie in mind. I always listen to her when I want to be calmed down or hugged. I’m stoked that she was down to sing on this song inspired by her.”
Trampled by Turtles & Sumbuck, “For Emma”
This collaboration between Trampled by Turtles and Sumbuck (the solo project of Taylor Meier from Caamp) is a Bon Iver cover, recorded last winter at the legendary Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota (home to albums like Nirvana’s In Utero and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me).
