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Surusinghe
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2
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L’Rain, aka Taja Cheek
Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer
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JJerome87’s upcoming debut solo album, The Canyon
Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin
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Ibeyi twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz
Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings
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Kristin Hersh
Song of the Day: Following 2023’s Clear Pond Road, the Rhode Island-raised former Throwing Muses artist returns with a powerful, dark, resonant number about her and her brother’s childhood, heralding a 12th solo LP, Sugar On Blackstone, out on 18 August via Fire Records
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Dead Pioneers’ upcoming new album, Wagon Burner
Song of the Day: Sharply identifying sources of much of the world’s problems with this catchy, punchy new track, the Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist Gregg Deal and his indie-punk Denver, Colorado band are joined here by the Sleaford Mods’ rapper, heralding the upcoming new album Wagon Burner, out on 26 June via Hassle Records
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Gilla Band are back
Song of the Day: With their first new music in almost four years, the influential and innovative Dublin quartet unleash an arresting, visceral hybrid of post-punk and noise rock, a stream of consciousness in dynamic, evolving sections, and with some echoes of The Fall, out now on Rough Trade
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corto.alto - THIEF
Song of the Day: An unusual experimental mix of jazz nd electronica with chopped classical strings, thumping breakbeats and Jersey club bass rhythms, by Glasgow’s multi-instrumentalist producer, composer and performer Liam Shortall, out on Ninja Tune
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Kelsey Lu’s upcoming album So Help Me God
Song of the Day: Rapturous soaring pop and soul with luscious orchestration by the London artist, heralding her upcoming album So Help Me God, out on 12 June via Dirty Hit Records
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Mary In The Junkyard - New Muscles
Song of the Day: Quirky, droll, entertaining, cleverly rhythmic, lo-fi experimental indie rock by the London trio and a song about personal improvement, heralding their debut album Role Model Hermit out on 3 July via AMF Records
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Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: Darkly witty, humorous and catchy, and described as “a sort of disco-metal incantation” and themed around mental and physical health struggles but also love, this welcome return from Scotland’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat, heralds their upcoming new album, Half-Told Tales, out on September 4, via Rock Action Records
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Laura Veirs’ new album Temple Songs is out in August
Song of the Day: A beautiful, fragile, quietly defiant new lo-fi folk number about vulnerability in an uneasy world by the revered Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter heralding her upcoming new albumTemple Songs, out on 14 August via her label Raven Marching Band Records
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RIP Magic - Screwdark
Song of the Day: Stylish, voluminous, experimental hip-hop and electropunk by the London band led by Marco Pini and Felix Bayley-Higgins who, with just a few singles out, have supported influences LCD Soundsystem and Fcukers
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Sofia Cordoba
Song of the Day: This beautiful acoustic single that then soars into stirring rock-pop ballad by the Colombian singer-songwriter is her first English language release, and heralds an upcoming EP
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Lambchop’s upcoming album, Punching The Clown
Song of the Day: Gorgeously stripped-back, poetic Americana with a woozy, dream-like ending by the Nashville band of Kurt Wagner, featuring Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) on banjo, taken from the upcoming album Punching The Clown, out on 21 August via Merge Records/City Slang
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ear - Ne Plus Ultra
Song of the Day: An oddball, intriguingly inventive new single by US duo Yaelle Avtan and Jonah Paz, featuring buzzy bass, spaceship blips, icy vocals, cut-and-paste sound, kitten meows and 2000s electronica, out on A24 Music
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Shearwater’s album The New World is out on 31 July
Song of the Day: A pair of gorgeous, meditative, cinematic tracks by the Austin, Texas experimental indie rock band fronted by Jonathan Meiburg, heralding their upcoming album, The New World out on 31 July via their own Polyborus label and Secretly Distribution
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The Healing Power of Horses’ debut single - i wait, i sink
Song of the Day: A dark, smoky, stylish, seductive, smoothly clattering, classy yet unclassifiably trip-hop adjacent debut single by the Cambridge duo, now newly signed to section1, the Los Angeles-based sister label to Partisan Records
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Kelela’s upcoming album, New Avatar, out on Warp Records
Song of the Day: A stylish, striking fusion of electronica, indie and R&B by American artist Kelela Mizanekristos, heralding the forthcoming album New Avatar, out on 10 July via Warp Records
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Boards Of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz
Song of the Day: A hypnotic new double-A side by the Scottish electronica brother duo, with a prelude of spectral, retro-futurist synths, followed by a mesmeric ambient slow build with mutated vocals, and named after the deep space frequency used in the search for extra-terrestrial life
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