29/05/2026
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY 🎸
This week we are delighted to be joined by Ae Mak!
'Folk Songs For Mama & Papa' is out today.
Irish artist Ae Mak (Aoife McCann) unveils her highly anticipated debut album Folk Songs For Mama & Papa, out now May 29th, 2026, on digital and vinyl via Spacer Records.
After years of making genre-defying, other-worldly pop music and performing visceral, kinetic shows across Europe and the UK, this record marks a quiet and profound shift. Mainly inspired by her own spirit and influenced by artists such as Björk, Judee Sill, Aldous Harding and Paul Simon, Folk Songs For Mama & Papa steps away from character-making and toward essence. It is a cosmical - spiritual folk record rooted in voice, breath, and emotional resonance in the body.
At the heart of Folk Songs For Mama & Papa is a shedding of masks. After years of classical training, character-led performance, mimicry, and joyful make-believe, Ae Mak lets her own voice lead - technically grounded, emotionally bare, and fully embodied. Teaching vocal interpretation in Berlin and rediscovering the joy of singing folk songs at parties - Dylan, Baez, Joni - cracked something open. The title isn’t a nod to The Mamas & The Papas, but to her own mam and pappi, who raised her on folk records and harmony and left albums leaning by the turntable for easy reaching.
This is a record born from pain and searching, but also from humour and devotion. It is about illumination, creation, connection, and the quiet, ecstatic knowing that we are not alone - we are spiritual beings having a human experience - “we came from the stars, you see.”
Be sure to check this one out 🎧