Song of the Day: Short, punchy, catchy and fast, the infectiously energetic title track from the recent debut mini album by the band from Bari, Italy, with inspiration from the Australian punk scene, style they herald budget rock and synth punk, but also with echoes of the Ramones
Read moreSong of the Day: Formal Sppeedwear - Bunto
Song of the Day: A brilliantly wonky and original mixture of clever, oddball riff, arrhythmic post-punk/new wave by the Stoke on Trent trio from their upcoming self-titled EP, with echoes of XTC and Talking Heads and Scary Monsters-era Bowie
Read moreSong of the Day: A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down to This
Song of the Day: With an ever-evolving sound, a belter of a new single by the veteran Manchester post-punk trio brings electronic twists, sharp lyrics and the production magic of Speedy Wunderground label’s Dan Carey with the title track of their forthcoming new LP
Read moreSong of the Day: Hungry - On Sight
Song of the Day: Blisteringly energetic, new-wave guitar pop and post-punk with socio-political songwriting by the Manchester-based quartet in new single about turning against moral standards for profit
Read moreSong of the Day: Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Alma Jodorowsky - Palace In My Head
Song of the Day: Dark, deep, ghostly but strangely alluring, and reminiscent of early Human League or early-80s goth-synth-pop, this new single by the Finnish musician joined by French French actress, fashion model and singer
Read moreSong of the Day: Sweeping Promises - Ideal No (Good Living Is Coming For You LP)
Song of the Day: Taken from their recently released album Good Living Is Coming For You, fantastically punchy, catchy, witty early-80s-style post-punk by the band comprising Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug from Lawrence, Kansas
Read moreSong of the Day: Borough Council - Prescribed
Song of the Day: With a mesmeric, rhythmic, riffing krautrock momentum and some echoes of the Cure, a dark but fresh, eclectic debut the Hastings trio of Haydn Ackerley, Joe Ackerley and Tom Healey
Read moreSong of the Day: Lawn Chair - Rhoenians Death
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s new Blur track, more indie, here with with a theme of exhuberent restlessness and a witty, punchy postpunk edge in this excellent second single by the band from Cologne, German, from their EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!
Read moreSong of the Day: abracadabra - talk talk (shapes & colors album)
Song of the Day: Clever, quirky, mischievous 80s-style new wave post-punk electro-pop with a dash of Talking Heads by the Oakland California duo of Hannah Skelton and Chris Niles from their forthcoming album, Shapes & Colors, out on Melodic Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Housepainters - Fixed Position
Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
Read moreSong of the Day: Wooze – Cowardly Custard
Song of the Day: Channelling deep-voiced 80s pop, funk, rock and new wave from Heaven 17 to Bowie to the Human League, this anarchically fun new single by the colourful core vocal Korean/British duo of Theo Spark (guitars) and Jamie She (drums) comes from rom their latest EP The Magnificent Eleven
Read moreSong of the Day: The Umlauts – Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
Read moreSong of the Day: Gabe Gurnsey - Push
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album Diablo, and a follow-up to his debut, Physical, the Manchester artist and founder of duo Factory Floor, releases a catchy, passionate blend of old-school electronica and 808-inspired dance music
Read moreSong of the Day: PVA – Untethered
Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Nixer - People Feel
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming EP by the duo of Seán Keenan & Gearóid Peggs from Dublin, a banging new single with shades of early 80s new wave or New York’s Suicide, but with a fresh, viscerally powerful Irish semi-spoken delivery
Read moreSong of the Day: binki: Revolve
Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers
Read moreSong of the Day: Red Telephone - Happy Man
Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric
Read moreSong of the Day: Whispering Sons - Surface
Song of the Day: This mesmerically vivid, dark, atmospheric and geologically themed number about isolation is by the electro-goth-post-punk band from Brussels fronted by Fenne Kuppens and comes the forthcoming album Several Others
Read moreSong of the Day: The Umlauts - Boiler Suits and Combat Boots
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
Read moreSong of the Day: Nation of Language - A Different Kind of Life
Song of the Day: “So now we find ourselves in the waiting room of history … holding hands through this absurdity.” Beautifully poignant lyrics for a world in limbo in this new song by the Brooklyn trio their 80s new wave electro-pop
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