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A scene from the new Chemical Brothers’ single, The Darkness That You Fear
Song of the Day: With clever sampling from two soulful tracks and a structure designed to bring optimism, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons return with new work, after their dark previous album, 2019 No Geography, with a sound that evokes optimism
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The Groundhogs
Song of the Day: Deliberately one day after the traditional date of Groundhog Day, life and music repeats itself with two songs by the British 60s band were inspired the great American bluesman and one of his numbers
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Jeannie Seely
Song of the Day: After powerful new songs by Julia Jacklin about the body and personal space, a classic number from the 1960s that sung first by the Titusville performer with versions by other stars
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Curtis Mayfield on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Baby Huey, whose brilliant only album was produced by Curtis Mayfield, let’s turn to the man himself with a trio classic tracks from 1972 that show the full range of his funk and orchestration prowess
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Sixto Rodriquez in the early 70s
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Vashti Bunyan, another inspirational story of obscurity to long-sought recognition fro the mysterious Detroit-born Mexican immigrant singer-songwriter, made famous in the documentary Searching For Sugar Man
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Vashti Bunyan, 1970
Song of the Day: Today's offering glides gently and delicately into Sunday by the English folk singer-songwriter, first from her rare 1970 album and then her next, 35 years later - in which she almost continues exactly where she left off
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Joni Mitchell in the early 1970s
Song of the Day: After two previous colourful entries, let's enter the vividly depicted world of the Canadian singer-songwriter, here taking us from Los Angeles to Paris and back on a journey of street and field scenes that capture big issues old and new.
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I Monster
Song of the Day: To go with the flowering of British weather, let's dream to some electronic psychedelia by the Sheffield-based pair of Dean Holder and Jarrod Gosling from their 2003 album Neveroddoreven and its sampled origins
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Syd Barrett
Song of the Day: Continuing our sequence of songs around the theme of mental health, the oddball, hallucinogenic opener from the last solo album by the founder of Pink Floyd, released in 1970
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Van Der Graaf Generator in 1970
Song of the Day: With yesterday's David Byrne tracks being two of several by him with a house theme, today we visit another songwriter who uses them as metaphor extensively – Van Der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill
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Frank Zappa: masterful, mischievous invention
Song of the Day: How could there a more joyful, eccentric, evocative and infinitely inventive opener than this, on album described by Zappa as "a movie for the ears" – 1969's Hot Rats?
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Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, but where does the inspiration come from, other than Jay-Z?
Song of the Day: You ready? Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh, no, no. An uncharacteristically commercial behemoth to be appearing on SOTD, and while it's hard to resist a song that is so undeniably catchy and brilliant, passionate pop, where does the inspiration, and indeed music, come from?
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Trees in 1970.
Song of the Day: Exquisite garden-themed eponymous track from the first of only two albums made in 1970 by the English folk band that immediately split up before reforming until 1973
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