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Kae Tempest’s upcoming new album The Line Is A Curve
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Brexit-themed beach setting by DC Gore, a different style and tone, but with a connection, with the poet’s recent number expressing a melancholy love song to Britain, tasting its vulnerability and change with many vivid, nuanced, emotional lines
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DC Gore
Song of the Day: After Kittin and the The Hacker, more retro pop, partly echoing the smooth 80s synths and delivery of Pet Shop Boys, but also stepping back another way, in this catchy, darkly humorous, Brexit-themed number is a “satirical fever dream set in the wake of our current populist predicament” by the British songwriter
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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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Soothsayers
Song of the Day: With a remix by the British reggae and more legendary producer, aka Mike Pelanconi, this wonderfully positive song by the London Afrobeat and dub band is a new version from the 2020 album We Are Many
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Manipulations … from the video for Proxima by The God in Hackney
Song of the Day: Eclectic, eccentric and ironic, British alt-rock with complex percussion, driving bass line, stirring horn section and powerful buildup is some of the latest ‘prehistoric future music’ from new album Small Country Eclipse
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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Euros Childs
Song of the Day: On Brexit day, when UK officially leaves the European Union, a new, silly song from the ex-frontman of Gorky’s Zygotic Minzi that may have no connection at all, but the artist name and label – National Elf – has a certain irony
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When things get out of hand in politics …
Song of the Day: In the heat of farcical parliamentary Brexit manoeuvrings and Trump trampling through the ruins of international relations, here's a clever reimagining of a white-collar high-level meeting if it was a street-gang brawl
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England's dreaming …
Song of the Day: A title with a sneer, and all kinds of irony, one of three classics from the ultimate punk band is a tribute to Britishness and finger up the establishment, and never more appropriate than now
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From the video, inspired by Trumpton and Camberwick Green
Song of the Day: On the eve of their return to Glastonbury, we make another Trumpton connection here with the band's disturbing Wicker Man-style depiction of society in the shadow of xenophobic politics
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Only the wind is keeping these two up …
Song of the Day: To reflect on the farcical talks over Brexit and other poor political communication, we turn to a 2011 song from the Seattle artist, with answers as to why this sort thing so often goes wrong …
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Razzy Bailey, a soulful country singer
Song of the Day: On the eve of the French presidential elections, and a world divided by politics and racial tension, what better way to address this than by this supremely effective message from 1974
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The rare five-member Pink Floyd of 1968, including Dave Gilmour (front) and Syd Barrett (second left)
Song of the Day: A darkly humorous choice for the current political climate. It is when there were briefly five members of the band, and a setting that inspired a passage in Douglas Adams's famous book
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Sugaray Rayford
Song of the Day: How best to describe the Brexit situation, or any number of other blind action scenarios? Away from the EU, let's hear an appropriately great song by a Texan blues and gospel singer
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Dennis Brown
Song of the Day: To reflect on the triggering of Article 50 and the beginning of Brexit, a message in music much embraced by the best of Britain from a Jamaican, and inspired by an English poet
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Kate Tempest
Song of the Day: From PJ Harvey's war-torn English rose we move to a passionate post-Brexit poem-song with an industrial, urban edge that captures an isolated, confused, dystopian Britain and beyond
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PJ Harvey performing from Let England Shake
Song of the Day: From Nick Cave's bloody rose of murder, deep connections come with PJ Harvey and her witheringly beautiful song about war, history and so-called past British glory from her album Let England Shake
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