Parts & Spares Wrote Windfalls for Mornings When Music Drifts up the Stairs

A Father, Daughter and Her Girlfriend Made Six Indie Folk Songs About What Memory Keeps

Picking windfalls in the pouring rain, under the boughs of trees someone else grew, is the image at the heart of Apple Yard. That song opens Windfalls, the first EP from Parts & Spares. Released on 22 April 2026, it gathers six indie folk songs from a London trio. Frida Jones, her dad Luther Jones and her girlfriend Kaisha McGroarty write from a home where three generations live together.

Parts & Spares open Windfalls with Apple Yard, and that song is now in the playlist below, next to the contemporary folk this desk plays most. The trio’s coverage lives on the Parts & Spares profile. The EP reached NewMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play on the playlist, then read on for the family behind it.

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Parts & Spares Wanted Windfalls to Sound Like Music Drifting Up the Stairs on a Country Morning

One picture guided this record: songs floating up the stairs on a morning that smells of coffee and toast. A member of the band has strong memories of being woken that way at their parents’ house, deep in the Lincolnshire countryside. Warm sun and a cold breeze came through the window, and birds sang outside. Meanwhile, The Lark Ascending or Chelsea Morning drifted up from below. That is the space the band wanted Windfalls to live in. They nursed the songs through a long winter to get there.

The house the songs come from now is in West London. Luther’s father, Frida’s grandpa, moved in there with Nana in 2025. Thirty-five years ago he taught Luther Bob Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right on guitar. He also wrote many songs of his own, and these days he paints what he sees every day.

Memory is the subject the band keep returning to. As they see it, a memory starts to shift the moment it is made. It fragments, reshapes itself around the gaps, and changes again as those gaps widen. Windfalls is their attempt to bottle some of those memories before they change any further.

Even the band’s name works that way. Parts & Spares is a definition of sorts: what remains once time has taken its cut, pieced back together until it runs again. An EP suited the idea, too. The band find the format freeing, less singular than a single and less weighty than an album. So six songs can share a mood without carrying a grand statement.

Apple Yard Opens the EP, and All Three Wrote It

Apple Yard went out as a single on 25 March, four weeks before the EP. The band count it among the most honest things they have made. It is a song about memory and identity, and about how both drift and get lost over time. Subscribers to their monthly letter heard it the night before release, along with a preview of the lyric video. Soon after, the trio started working out how to play it live.

On Apple Yard, Frida Jones sings lead, while Luther Jones plays acoustic guitar and adds backing vocals. Kaisha McGroarty covers electric bass, electric guitar and piano, and all three share the writing credit. Sean Rogan produced and mixed the track and plays electric piano on it. He works out of Pony Studios in London Fields. After starting out in Manchester, he found that London’s traditional folk sessions deepened his love of acoustic instruments.

Windfalls Gives Parts & Spares Six Songs in 20 Minutes, From Apple Yard to Terra Firma

The EP runs 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Apple Yard opens it, and The Melody, You Won, Stones, Ghost Writer and Terra Firma follow. Two of those songs were already out. You Won arrived as a single in February, and it reached Seattle fast. The band wrote directly to Cheryl Waters at KEXP, a presenter whose show had been introducing them to new music for years. She replied within five minutes, said she loved the track and asked to play it.

Stones has a story of its own, because it is the only song Parts & Spares have written with someone outside the band. They wrote it with their friend Serena Sun in her home studio, months before the EP took shape. She has since gone back to Canada after three years in the UK.

Every song also has its own cover. Their friend Johnny Wen illustrated all six, and together the pictures build a small folklore around the record. Kaisha appears as The Hare on the covers of Stones and The Melody.

The songs have travelled since. In April the trio were booked into the BBC studios to record three of them for BBC Introducing Leeds and Sheffield. They had first played the new material to an audience at a listening party at Green Note in Camden on 4 March. Later, they booked their own headline show at the Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds for 31 July.

What Windfalls Answers for Parts & Spares

In the end, Windfalls answers the question the band’s name asks: what a family makes from what remains. Making it also gave the band new memories alongside the old ones. Those came from the friends who drew the covers, produced the songs and came to hear them. They are already at work on the next project with the producer Peter Waterman. So far it has meant five days of recording on the Devon coast. Meanwhile, they have been testing the new songs on stage, including a Sofar evening for about 200 people in Bart’s North Wing.

The Joni Mitchell and Neil Young Songs Behind Windfalls

Joni Mitchell wrote Chelsea Morning about her room in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City. There, a mobile made from shards of coloured glass and wire coat hangers filtered the light coming through the window. Other artists recorded the song first, and Judy Collins released it as a single in April 1969. So Mitchell held her own version back for her second album, Clouds. It is a song built from one room’s light. Windfalls works the same way, from an apple yard, a family house and the music on the stairs.

Neil Young is the other touchstone, and his song Harvest Moon is a favourite in the house. Its album of the same name, released on 2 November 1992, brought back many of the musicians from Harvest twenty years on. Its songs look at a long partnership from an older vantage point. Parts & Spares love songs about love over time, with the gratitude and the melancholy that come with it. In their own telling, that mix always finds a way into what they write.

Who Should Hear Parts & Spares and Windfalls

This EP suits listeners who keep indie folk for quiet mornings and like songs written by people who know each other well. It also fits anyone who has watched a family change shape and wanted music that holds the old version and the new one at once. Start with Apple Yard, then let the six songs run in order.

From the NewMusic.News curator team: “Windfalls puts its two longest songs, Apple Yard and Terra Firma, at either end. In between, Ghost Writer passes in 65 seconds just before the close. That is album thinking on a six-song debut EP, and it is why the record feels finished rather than collected.”

Follow Parts & Spares

Hear Windfalls on Apple Music and Bandcamp, where the band also sell their merch. Follow Parts & Spares on their Spotify artist page, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Gig dates are on their official website, the monthly letter is on Substack, and every other link is on their Linktree.

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