OFFICIAL FOLK ALBUMS CHART AUGUST 2025

6 new releases have entered the August chart!

Brighton-based four-piece The New Eves take the No.1 spot this month with The New Eve Is Rising (Transgressive Records). Nestled somewhere between primal rock’n’roll live performance and transcendent ritual, there’s an unmistakable alchemy that happens when The New Eves step onto a stage together and they have now distilled this visceral energy into their untamed and immersive debut.

Yoshika Colwell’s On The Wing (Blue Flowers) enters at No. 6. Her debut has received plaudits from BBC 6Music, The Line of Best Fit and more, with Colwell describing it as, “a shrine to all of the pivotal experiences that shaped me during my twenties and it’s also a tentative lean towards hopefulness for the future… The process felt quite ritualistic, akin to writing down the things you know you need to let go of on a piece of paper and burning it.”

New at No. 8 is Waiting For Wisdom (Land Pirate) by West Country based folk/punk musician Gaz Brookfield. His tenth studio album sees Brookfield tackling life’s idiosyncrasies head on, but always with a wry, cynical smile, as he navigates his way through his mid-forties with varying degrees of success.

Skerryvore come in at No. 9 with Skerryvore XX - Live At Floors Castle (Cooking Vinyl). The band’s frontman Alec Dalglish commented, “We hope that this new live album encapsulates everything that was so incredible about our 20th anniversary show… Celebrating with fans, friends and family from all corners of the planet made it the gig of a lifetime for us and we hope that it shines through on this recording.”

The Swaps’ Fast Train (Stingo Records) debuts at No. 22. Fresh from national recognition and five nominations at the 2025 UK Blues Awards, the band has evolved from a five-piece electric powerhouse into a stripped-back acoustic trio. The result is a distinctive new sound, resulting in their most intimate and emotionally resonant recording yet.

Spafford Campbell’s Tomorrow Held (Real World) is the final new entry in this month’s chart, coming in at No. 23. On their trailblazing debut conservatoire-trained virtuosos, fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell present eight largely instrumental tracks that fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. 

View the full chart HERE.