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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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Big Thief’s upcoming album Double Infinity
Song of the Day: Heralding their upcoming new album Double Infinity, out on 5 September, via 4AD, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia return with a gorgeous, pacy new indie-folk-pop number filled with poetic images of the Canadian landscape, with lyrics also embracing change and getting older
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U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,
Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD
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Maria Somerville
Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD
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Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner
Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD
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Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose
Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD
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Bartees Strange’s upcoming album, Horror
Song of the Day: Soulful but spooky alternative rock and pop by the Washington DC-based singer-songwriter and producer with single about “this that scare me and being overwhelmed by life”, heralding his forthcoming LP, Horror, out 14 February via 4AD
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Tucker Zimmerman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously gentle,, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrienne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD
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Pelican crossing: Kim Deal …
Song of the Day: Crunchy, fuzzy, spacey, dreamy, psychedelic, this striking new single from the Breeders and former Pixies star is taken from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, out on 22 November via 4AD
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Lucinda Chua’s EP, Reclaiming The Rose
Song of the Day: A deliciously intimate new love song with close-mic vocals and delicate, shimmering orchestral backing by the British singer-singer from her new EP, Reclaiming The Rose, out on 4AD
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Adrianne Lenker - Ruined
Song of the Day: The Big Thief singer-songwriter returns with gorgeously fragile, piano-based single about damaging dysfunctional, repetitive, romantic obsession with a melody that’s beautifully bittersweet
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Cover of Future Islands’ forthcoming album People Who Aren't There Anymore
Song of the Day: A poignant, vivid, uplifting, gently tuneful new electro-pop single by the Baltimore band fronted by the inimitable Samuel T. Herring, taken from the forthcoming new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, out on 26 January via 4AD
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Big Thief
Song of the Day: A beautiful, life-spanning love song by the Brooklyn-based folk band of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and co, due to be released as a limited 7-inch single sharing another recent song, Vampire Empire, on 20 October
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The National’s forthcoming next album …
Song of the Day: Packed with vivid lyrics and referencing a certain British band, this gentle, wistful number by the five-piece Brooklyn-based band of Matt Berninger and the pairs of brothers Dessner and Devendorf comes from the next album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein
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Lip-sync construction worker from the video for So Typically Now
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy, but also scathing electro-pop by New York’s Meg Remy about the cultural vacuum left by the mass exodus from wealthy Brooklyn residents to Kingston in upstate New York, leading to a real estate boom
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Jenny Hval
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Classic Objects, a thought-provoking number by the Norwegian singer-songwriter about the constrictions around public and private profiles of an artist, prompted by witnessing sudden marriage proposal at one of her gigs
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
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Tkay Maidza’s EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3
Song of the Day: Superbly slick R&B, hip hop and pop from the summer-released EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by the talented Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper
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It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard
Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death
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