Song of the Day: Catchy funk and 80s-inspired electro-pop get the full phat treatment from the witty Iceland-based American artist in this new single heralding his forthcoming next album, The Art Of The Lie, released 14 June 2024 via Bella Union
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Songs of the Day: Midlake and John Grant – You Don't Get To / Roadrunner Blues
Songs of the Day: In a smoothly brilliant blend, reuniting after Grant’s 2010 album Queen of Denmark, a double single release featuring the US/Icelandic solo artist’s typically caustic, humorous lyrics and the Denton folk-rock band’s classic sound
Read moreSong of the Day: Conchúr White - I Did Good Today
Song of the Day: A beautifully double-edged, intelligent indie-folk single referencing addiction and the longing for validation by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, Northern Ireland from his forthcoming album, Swirling Violets, out in early 2024 on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Modern Nature - Cascade / Murmuration
Song of the Day: Not one, but actually two recent beautiful experimental folk tracks by the Cambridge-based band led by Jack Cooper – expansive, contemplative, and meditative on ideas of intricate infinity in nature, taken from the forthcoming album No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union.
Read moreSongs of the Day: congratulations: Junk / Zeitgeist
Songs of the Day: A pair of enthralling, energetic, clever, humorous fuzz-guitar, indie-rock / noise-pop numbers by the Brighton band, taken from their debut EP, Woo Hoo, out in September on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth
Song of the Day: Dark, witty, fatalistically vivid, the Manchester-based American singer-songwriter returns with this beautifully humorous but melancholy title track from his forthcoming album
Read moreSong of the Day: Helen Ganya - Afterparty
Song of the Day: Ethereal, soaringly aria-like, building with strong synths, strings and galloping drums, a beautiful, Kate Bush-reminiscent track taken from the Brighton-based songwriter’s recent album, Polish The Machine, out on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Lowly - Seasons
Song of the Day: Delicate, lush, textured, beautifully building electro-pop by the Danish alternative indie quintet from their forthcoming next album Keep Up The Good Work out on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra - Mikos
Song of the Day: With vivid, cinematic lyrics, with a distinctive array of acoustic instruments, and wonderful vocal clarity, this folky ghost dance is the opening track to the forthcoming album by the Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian duo
Read moreSong of the Day: Philip Selway - Check For Signs Of Life
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Laura Veirs: Seaside Haiku
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming album, Found Light, a beautiful grungey folk-pop number by the singer-songwriter created from haiku poems written on a visit to the cold, windy beach of windy beach in Seaside, Oregon, and about coming to terms with being single
Read moreSong of the Day: Ezra Furman - Forever In Sunset
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return
Read moreSong of the Day: C Duncan - Bell Toll
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Spiritualized - The Mainline Song
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
Read moreSong of the Day: Father John Misty - Q4
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
Read moreSong of the Day: Midlake - Bethel Woods
Song of the Day: The Texas folk rock band return with a haunting, melancholy but warmly energetic track named after the amphitheatre site from the Woodstock festival, and taken from their forthcoming album For the Sake of Bethel Woods, their first since 2013’s Antiphon
Read moreSong of the Day: C Duncan - Alluvium
Song of the Day: More space now, with a song about change from microcosm to the macrocosm, this new single by the composer, singer and musician from Glasgow comes with a sublime melody and a dream-like, cinematic quality
Read moreSong of the Day: Spiritualized - Always Together With You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, the new single by Jason Pierce and co is a love song with an expansive, Christmassy sound and a space theme, but was inspired by the solitude of lockdown
Read moreSong of the Day: Penelope Isles - Sailing Still
Song of the Day: Powerful, beautiful, slow psych-alt-rock with soaring strings, intimate lyrics, blistering guitars and sounds of the ocean by the Brighton band of siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, from the forthcoming second album, Which Way To Happy, out on 5 November on Bella Union
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