Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, smouldering, stormy indie synth-rock single by the London-born, Newcastle-raised artist with a song raging against apathy and status quo in a world of climate meltdown and political turmoil
Read moreSong of the Day: Afflecks Palace - You Are The Answer
Song of the Day: An infectiously upbeat, positive, jangly guitar, fast-paced new single by the indie Manchester band named after the city’s famous market stall building, heralding their forthcoming third album
Read moreSong of the Day: Fontaines D.C. - Starburster
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Dublin band return with the first single from forthcoming fourth album, Romance, pushing new sounds including sharp inhales, inspired by a panic attack suffered by by Grian Chatten in London’s St Pancras station and trying to grasp reality amidst chaos
Read moreSong of the Day: Bad Bad Hats - Bored In The Summer
Song of the Day: Taken from the recently released self-titled album Bad Bad Hats, a breezy, bright restless number with clever chord changes and uplifting melodies by the Minneapolis duo of Kerry Alexander and Chris Hoge
Read moreSong of the Day: Jordan Rakei - Friend or Foe
Song of the Day: The latest single by the silky-voiced London-based New Zealand-Australian soul singer brings also punchy horns and orchestra in a jazz-funk-Motown-style fusion, and comes from his forthcoming album, The Loop, out on 10 May via Decca Records
Read moreSong of the Day: GIFT - Wish Me Away
Song of the Day: A refreshing, breezy sound by the indie-psychedelic Brooklyn quintet about letting everything slip away, a laissez-faire double-edged feeling of despair and optimism, their first single for Captured Tracks
Read moreSong of the Day: Lionlimb - Dream of You (featuring Angel Olsen)
Song of the Day: A slow, powerful, rather emotive number written about a much missed pet dog who died two years ago, from New York-based project of Stewart Bronaugh, with drummer Joshua Jaeger, and featuring Angel Olsen’s fabulous voice
Read moreSong of the Day: Douglas Dare - Three Roads
Song of the Day: A new single from the British singer-songwriter and pianist’s forthcoming fourth album, Omni, brings tender melodies, but leaves aside chamber pop acoustic instruments for electronica and synths in the spirit and influence of other artists such as Arca and the late SOPHIE, and with echoes also of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yellow Magic Orchestra
Read moreSong of the Day: Big Special - Black Dog / White Horse
Song of the Day: A change of pace to a gentler style by the usually punchier post-punk Walsall duo of singer and Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney, and number with a beautiful, tender, reflective melody and lyrics
Read moreSong of the Day: Hifi Sean and David McAlmont - Sad Banger
Song of the Day: With a title that sums up that contradictory essence of great pop music, a fabulous new disco-flecked return from the Glaswegian musician and producer and the soulful, silkily, soaring voiced singer, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Daylight, out on 20 June on Rough Trade
Read moreSong of the Day: LA Priest - City Warm Heart
Song of the Day: What’s in the woods? A wonderfully upbeat and inventive swirl of nimble guitar, keyboards and vocals by the British artist Sam Eastgate from his upcoming EP La Fusion, out on 3 May via Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Imogen and the Knife - Mother of God
Song of the Day: A fabulously dark, smoky, brooding, visceral debut single with richly swelling orchestration by the British singer-songwriter Imogen Williams, one about a failing relationship expressed in vivid, recurring dream, and “a waking realisation that unless addressed, the dream, and the pain, won’t leave”
Read moreSong of the Day: couchgagzzz - GOSPORTS!!!
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: EELS - Goldy
Song of the Day: Another brilliantly darkly humorous, droll, vivid single by Mark Oliver Everett heralding a new Eels album, the 15th in all, Eels Time! and one of a few tracks he has co-written with All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter
Read moreSong of the Day: Girl and Girl - Mother / Hello
Song of the Day: A Friday pair of upbeat, emotional, stirring, catchy, candid, witty, jangly guitar indie numbers by the band from Queensland, Australia, fronted by Kai James, heralding their upcoming album Call A Doctor, out on 24th May via Sub Pop
Read moreSong of the Day: Remi Wolf - Cinderella
Song of the Day: A new, fabulous funk, soul and pop single with a humorously self-detrimentally twist and entertaining flirty video by the Californian singer-songwriter from her upcoming album, Big Ideas, out in July
Read moreSong of the Day: Anna Erhard - Botanical Garden
Song of the Day: ‘They would not allow us to pick our favourite flowers’. A beautifully droll, catchy new indie number by the witty Berlin artist, here parodying a miserably bizarre Google-type online review
Read moreSong of the Day: Goat Girl - Ride Around
Song of the Day: Engrossingly downbeat, but with rippling passages of guitar arpeggios in between strums, an alluringly deadpan song by the south London indie band, heralding their next album, Below The Waste, out on 7 June via Rough Trade
Read moreSong of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Canopy
Song of the Day: A classy, understated experimental fusion of R&B, folk and soul with crisp guitar accompaniment by the Canadian singer-songwriter taken from the forthcoming album Cyan Blue, out on 3 May via XL Recordings/ Stone Woman Music
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