Folk music

Where old ghosts and ritual fires meet the folk-worn road: Dino DiMuro finally unleashes ELMWOOD the unfinished album, a "head-trippy excursion" concept record pulled from the archives after 20 years of dust. Kathodos conjures dark ritual chants for the Monster of Ravenna, while Wholesale Angel Market maps desolation, redemption, and animal instincts lurking in the far corners of our rooms. Zakalwe weaves Belfast indie folk with droning open tunings, and Jack Hayter returns with a "haunting, gorgeous, and occasionally unhinged" EP that Pitchfork calls "one of the weariest, most world-beaten voices around."