Named after a poor English translation of a Salvador Dali painting, Virgin of the Birds treads a line between intimate, lo-fi pop and the occasional grandeur of early art rock. Songwriter Jon Rooney has written, recorded and performed as Virgin of the Birds in both solo and band configurations, releasing two LPs on Song, By Toad Records in the UK and Abandoned Love Records in the US, several of EPs on Abandoned Love and contributions to numerous compilations on labels like Perpetual Doom, Fox Box Records, Beep Repaired and Ok, Pal Records. Now, after a long hiatus, he is back with two new songs: Telephone Songs is out today.
From Fort Collins, Colorado, Logan Farmer crafts music that lingers in the quietest corners of folk — intimate, slow-moving and heavy, with atmosphere. Soft guitars, murmured vocals, and the subtle drift of ambient textures that suggest distance, memory, and decay. Farmer’s writing often turns on the small collisions between the personal and the universal, tracing how environmental and emotional fragility echo one another. After early experiments under the name Monarch Mtn., he released his debut as Logan Farmer, Still No Mother (2020), a stark, quietly urgent meditation on isolation and climate dread. A Mold for the Bell(2022) followed, refining his sound into something even more spare and cinematic, with contributions from Mary Lattimore and Joseph Shabason adding a fragile shimmer around his voice. His most recent work, the Butchers EP (2025), turns inward again, pairing field recordings and minimalist instrumentation with lyrics that read like fragments from a fading diary. Farmer’s music occupies a rare register: contemplative but unsentimental, rooted in the folk tradition yet open to drone, ambient, and experimental gestures. Each release feels like a small, self-contained world — an invitation to listen closely, and to sit with the uneasy beauty that remains when everything else has quieted down. Nightmare World I See The Horizon, his third album, will be released by Western Vinyl on January 16th, 2026. The first single is Manhattan, which is out now.
Louis O’Hara is a singer-songwriter from Pembroke Dock, West Wales, whose music blends tender folk sensibilities with poetic lyricism and chamber-pop textures. His songs draw from memory, place, and quiet emotional truths, often described as nostalgic, emotional, and intimate. After years living in Bristol and London, O’Hara returned to West Wales in 2024, a move that inspired the writing of his forthcoming debut album,A Peaceful Kind of Fun, out November 7th via Libertino Records. Written between a cherished nylon-string guitar and his grandmother’s piano, the record reflects on themes of loss, love, and friendship, arranged with his band His Burley Chassis and recorded in Spain with producer James Trevascus (Billy Nomates, Young Fathers, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). His earlier EPs Clay (2024) and Pass The Blame (2025) established him as one of Wales’ most affecting new voices, drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Sparklehorse, and Paul McCartney. A Peaceful Kind of Fun is a 14-track collection that distils O’Hara’s poetic lyricism, tender folk roots, and subtle chamber-pop flourishes into a deeply personal yet quietly universal debut. The album gathers together fragments of memory, relationships, and place, weaving them into songs that honour the connections which shape a life. Moving between moments of joy, loss, and reflection, A Peaceful Kind of Fun lingers on the small details that stay with us – the echoes of childhood, the presence of family, the landscapes of home.
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