Crooked Words #3: Lisa O'Neill, Haley Heynderickx, runo plum, Glyders
Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right
It's been some two-and-a-half years since Lisa O'Neill released the astonishing All Of This Is Chance LP, and the weight of those recordings feel as resolute as ever; a heft shaped by the words and sounds that ache and breathe and drift out of them.
And now a new step, a new EP to be released digitally next month with a physical release to follow in the new year. Called The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right, it's preceded by the title-track, a song some 8 years in the making, a dark and stunning reflection of the world we live in now.
Some terrors are born out of nature
Some terrors are born overnight
Some terrors are born out of leaders
With their eye on a different prize
Featuring Iona Zajac on backing vocals, and coupled with a striking video, it's a truly striking six-minutes; beautiful is a word for it, if beauty can be pulled from such heaviness (it has to be, it has to be).
Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - Fluorescent Light
We had to wait a long old time for Haley Heynderickx to follow-up her 2018 masterpiece, I Need To Start A Garden, but now just a year on from the record that finally did just that, Haley has announced another LP, this time a new collection from her burgeoning collaboration with Max Garcia Conover.
Having previously released Among Horses together in October of 2018, the pair join forces again for a new record to be released next month. Full details are slim just now however, writing on Instagram, Haley says : "After many years Max and I took the leap to write from a Woody Guthrie inspired lens...recorded to tape in a barn in Vermont."
Lead single Fluorescent Light is a think of delight, Haley's voice and the overall performance as warm and intriguing as we've come to expect; an unexpected and beautifully warm new chapter.
runo plum - pond
The forthcoming runo plum album, which arrives in mid-November, is one of those records that might well slip through the cracks that begin to form when we move into November, as the calendar draws to a close in a hazy swell of the year-end list race.
It shouldn't though, because patching is right up there with 2025's best work – a brooding, hefty display of indie-rock that knows exactly when to shrink and exactly when to burst right open.
New single 'pond' just about holds itself in check, always threatening to fully let go, to spill over the edge but feeling all the more powerful for never doing so, for finding a way to hang right on the precipice. Intimate, intense and enigmatic, it's a wholly captivating performance, ahead of the full album that's released November 14th; another addition to the ever-impressive Winspear roster.
Glyders - Moon Eyes
Drag City are one of those labels that have earned your attention regardless of how familiar you are with those asking for it. Formed in 1989, and home to the likes of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, and Silver Jews among countless others, they label continue to find goodness in the shadowy edges of the musical world.
Current case in point: Chicago trio Glyders, who have have just shared new single 'Moon Eyes', the latest offering from their forthcoming Forever LP, which is released via the aforementioned label toward the end of November.
Carrying a Felice Brothers-like lilt and energy, the song is both wistful and endearing, a sprightly energy carrying us into its Autumnal glow with open arms and heart.
