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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
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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
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BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native
Song of the Day: Following their second album, National Average over the summer, the witty, punchy, Walsall, Black Country post-punk duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, return with a striking number frontman “about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy”
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The New Eves - Red Brick / Whale Station
Song of the Day: Following their excellent debut LP in August, The New Eve Is Rising, the Brighton experimental quartet return with with an arresting mix of spoken word and lo-fi folk-rock, developed from a jam and a poem about a trip to New York, and out on Transgressive Records
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Dry Cleaning
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll, different, downbeat, throwaway profundity and wit from the unmistakable delivery of vocalist Florence Shaw and Bowie-esque guitarist Tom Dowse, by the south London post-punk quartet, heralding their upcoming new album Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, and out on 9 January, via 4AD
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Getdown Services: new EP Primordial Slot Machine
Song of the Day: A brilliantly droll, witty, catchy, eclectic new single mixing a glam-rock beat and a pub-piano accompaniment by the mischievous Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler, heralding their upcoming new EP, Primordial Slot Machine, out on 6 June via Breakfast Records
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Baxter Dury’s upcoming new album, Allbarone
Song of the Day: Heralding his first album in five years, the brilliantly droll, witty, deep-voiced British artist returns with a catchy lead title track single, created with acclaimed producer Paul Epworth, the album out on 12 September on Heavenly Recordings
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Snowapple
Song of the Day: Intimate, mysterious, energetic and strikingly different, this new single by the Amsterdam collective stamps, claps, breathily speaks, has soft touches on piano and buzzing, clicking synths, and a catchy chorus in this marriage human and electronic, heralding their forthcoming album Utopia, out on 13 June
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Yugen Blakrok
Song of the Day: The South African sorceress of mystical hip-hop returns with a poetic, powerful new single, joined here by Sa-Roc, nad heralding her forthcoming album The Illusion of Being, co-written with and produced by Kanif The Jhatmaster, out on 21 May via I.O.T. Records
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: Striking and articulate as ever, this first single since 2022 by the south London rapper, lyricist, poet, playwright and author is a defiant, empowering shout-out to non-binary identity with an arresting video
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Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be
Song of the Day: Following 2023’s popular and Mercury Prize-nominated LP When Will We Land?, Edinburgh DJ and producer Joshua Mainnie’s new single, co-written with Jamie Livingstone, is a dark, menacing, spoken-word number heralding his forthcoming second album Loner, out on 30 May on Ninja Tune
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Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress
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Getdown Services: Josh Law and Ben Sadler
Song of the Day: Droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves by the enterainingly downbeat Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler taken from their new EP, Your Medal’s In The Post, out on Breakfast Records
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Benefits
Song of the Day: With a dark, sinister video by Teesside filmmaker John Kirkbride, the Middlesbrough band return with simmering rage-filled dance and spoken-word number around the corruption and frustrations of modern Britain, performed by Kingsley Hall
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Laurie Anderson
Song of the Day: With a magical, dream-like atmosphere, shimmering guitars, violin, and the soft spoken narrative voice of the veteran American musical experimentalist and artist best known for O Superman, this comes from her new album Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records
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潘PAN aka Pan Wei Ju
Song of the Day: An entrancing, experimental hybrid of spoken word and electronica by the Taiwanese rapper Pan Wei Ju, with a song about strength in vulnerability in the form of “a monologue of a young and not so experienced witch, who doesn’t always do all her magic and alchemy right.”
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LYR’s Blossomise EP
Song of the Day: To mark a special project in conjunction with The National Trust, marking the first day of spring, and also World Poetry Day, two beautifully evocative tracks from a new EP by the trio of poet laureate Simon Armitage, with music from singer Richard Walters, and producer Patrick J Pearson
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Phone addiction: Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: One of two recent singles heralding the forthcoming new album by Scotland’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, a witty, articulate, deadpan lament about online hate, mixing a disco beat with guitar line
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Peacey - Culture Bandit (featuring Vanessa Hidary)
Song of the Day: Punchy, pacy, catchy and exclamatory, a super smart talky-dance track by the Edinburgh-based DJ and electronica artist David Peace joined by New York spoken-word artist celebratory multiculturalism
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Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
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