Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks
Read moreSong of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Maddie Ashman
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam
Read moreSong of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
ELIZA - Anyone Else
Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Alewya - Night Drive
Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan
Read moreSong of the Day: Danalogue - Sonic Hypnosis
Danalogue aka Daniel Leavers
Song of the Day: A full flavour of future-past with mesmeric, euphoric retro acid house and electronica in this new single by Daniel Leavers, producer and the founding member of The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, out now on Castles In Space
Read moreSong of the Day: Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Song of the Day: Using a musical metaphor, beautiful, crisply rhythmical, soaring piano and atmospheric indie-pop-folk about facing your fears by the Dutch/British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album The Lighthouse, out on 23 January 2026 on Tiny Tiger Records
Read moreSong of the Day: These New Puritans - The Other Side
These New Puritans - twins Jack and George Barnett
Song of the Day: A delicate, tender, and unusually minimalist single, their first since this year’s acclaimed album Crooked Wing, by the Southend-on-Sea-born Barnett twins, here with Jack on improvised piano and George on drums and a soprano register wordless vocal, out on Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl
Song of the Day: The London experimental violin-infused indie band return with a catchy, playful love song single that’s popular on their live sets, and their first via Fiction Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Hen Ogledd - Scales Will Fall
A still from the video for Hen Ogledd’s Scales Will Fall
Song of the Day: A strikingly different, wonderfully odd, eccentric and alternative folk and protest song by the British quartet of Richard Dawson, Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies and Sally Pilkington, heralding their upcoming third album Discombobulated, out on 20 February 2026 on Weird World / Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Eden
The latest single from Avalon Emerson
Song of the Day: Following a series of tracks collectively titled Perpetual Emotion Machine, this separate new release by the New York artist is a breezy, shimmery indie-pop love song with a funky bassline, and out on Dead Oceans
Read moreSong of the Day: Bill Callahan - The Man I’m Supposed to Be
The brilliant Bill Callahan is back
Song of the Day: Resonant, poetic, moody, profound, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter returns with a song exploring feelings of a life that was lived and one that's meant to be, heralding his latest album, My Days of 58, out on 27 February 2026 via Drag City Records.
Read moreSong of the Day: Charli xcx - House (featuring John Cale)
John Cale and Charli xcx
Song of the Day: A potent, surprise collaboration comes all aswirl in this dark, haunting, gothic, cinematic piece of jagged strings and nightmarish, crashing sounds with a spoken monologue by the Velvet Underground Welsh legend dominating this song by British pop superstar best known for Brat, taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming film adaptation of Wuthering Heights
Read moreSong of the Day: Pictish Trail - Another Way
Pictish Trail - Another Way
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, slow-build psychedelic-electronica-pop eight-minute number of gradual transformation rising to a krautrock-inspired crescendo by the isle of Eigg-based Scottish musician Johnny Lynch heralding his sixth LP Life Slime, produced by Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP, out on 14 November on Lost Map / Fire Records
Read moreSongs of the Day: The Weather Station - Airport / Only The Truth
The Weather Station - Airport / Only The Truth
Songs of the Day: Recorded during the sessions for, but not included on the last album, Humanhood, two sublimely beautiful and poignant tracks with piano, woodwind and more, now released together by the Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, out on Fat Possum Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Party Dozen - Mad Rooter
Party Dozen - Mad Rooter/Ghost Rider single
Song of the Day: A stomping rock, raucously catchy new single by the Sydney Australia duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, available as 7-inch double A-side with the song Ghost Rider, single out 5 December via City Slang/GRUPO
Read moreSong of the Day: COBRAH - Torn
COBRAH - Torn
Song of the Day: Striking, high-octane and intense electronica and dance music with a stylish video by the experimental Swedish artist Clara Sofie Blom Christensen, whose previous EP Succubus won a Swedish Grammi in 2024
Read moreSong of the Day: Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI (featuring GUTS)
Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI
Song of the Day: A tasty groove and food theme by the New York rapper and trumpeter aka Leron Thomas, joined by the French DJ and producer in this this droll, witty, slick and stylish new single, following May’s album, Confines, released on Heavenly
Read moreSong of the Day: Lankum - Ghost Town
Dublin’s Lankum return, bringing a new dimension to Specials classic
Song of the Day: An extraordinarily haunting and powerful release by the experimental Irish folk band with a cover of the often topical 1981 Specials classic number, now with a different dimension of drone sounds, strings, rich vocal harmonies, piano and a climax of rippling synths and beats, released on Rough Trade
Read moreSong of the Day: Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp
Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp, his third album
Song of the Day: The south London rapper’s title track from his recently released third album, a slick and candid summary of the dilemmas and hypocrisies of social conscience, racism, social media, and protest in a time of political unrest and uncertainty
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