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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
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lucky break is newly signed to Fire Records
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, tender melodic acoustic indie single about pressures over life plans by the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Emma Gerson, whose influences include Fiona Apple and Bedouine, and is newly signed to Fire Records
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Lucy Gooch
Song of the Day: A gorgeously soft, serene, floaty, pastoral, ethereal new single about self-renewal, inspired by rain, the simple act of drawing a bath and “particles forming”, using electronica, piano and textured, soaring vocals by the York artist, plus delicious guest sounds from cornetist Harry Furniss, heralding Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, out on 6 June via Fire Records
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Tropical Fuck Storm’s upcoming album Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
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Deradoorian’s forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: Enthralling, inspiring, imaginative electronica and analogue percussion by the New York singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, with this latest single heralding the forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records on 9 May
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The Nightingales, fronted by Robert Lloyd
Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records
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Deradoorian - Digital Gravestone
Song of the Day: Dark, stirring, powerful, this scintillating, extraordinary new single by the New York multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer has rumbling bassline, a sleazy dirty sax sound, crystalline key stabs and jagged guitar lines, and heralds a new album out in 2025, and her first release on Fire Records
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Marta Del Grandi - The Best Sea
Song of the Day: Following last year’s exquisite album, Selva, the Italian singer-songwriter from Milan returns with a beautiful new single with a metaphor reflecting on themes of sisterhood and the evolution of close relationships
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Ella Raphael - Tangled Love
Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”
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Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Merseyside electro-pop artist returns with a slow, beautiful number about searching for joy and love, uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life
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From the cover of Death & Vanilla’s forthcoming album, Flicker
Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy baroque-psych-folk by the Swedish band from Malmö, the first single from their forthcoming new album, Flicker, their first album in four years, out in March via Fire Records
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Black Lips from their new album Apocalypse Love
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s City of Angels by Ladytron, a dark, smouldering new number by the US garage rockers from Georgia, who return with a story of a Hollywood Babylonian dreamscape, full of neon despair, a croon to the rebellious, leather, lost angel, and a new album
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Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail
Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original
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The Pictish Trail, aka Johnny Lynch, in thumb form
Song of the Day: Following Islet, more from Fire Records with some new work of otherworldly beauty from the artist also known as Johnny Lynch, electronica folk musician and resident on the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg
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Islet
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s Cate Le Bon to another Welsh band, a new song by the Powys trio from their forthcoming LP Eyelet, a mesmerising experimental whirl of electro-pop psychedelia
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Vanishing Twin
Song of the Day: After Agnes Obel’s Island of Doom, we take a different metaphorical direction with a song about not being alone, from the Vanishing Twin’s acclaimed 2019 album The Age Of Immunology – “we are side by side”
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From the cover of We’re Your Friends, Man – the newest album by The Bevis Frond
Song of the Day: Following Kamikaze Palm Tree we turn a new leaf towards the psych rock band fronted by Nick Saloman from their latest, 23rd studio album, We’re Your Friends, Man
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