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Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Weirdly and wonderfully inventive, oddball wonky work by the Manchester electronic artist with a number about habits and coping mechanisms through a repeating 5/4 rhythm and reverse saxophone sample, from her new EP Unsolicited Advice, out on 16 May on PRAH
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Group Listening’s Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo). Photo: Huw Evans
Song of the Day: A wonderfully odd and beautiful release featuring field recordings of the titular resonantly relaxing amphibians by the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing duo of Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo)
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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Pozi: Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook and Tom Jones
Song of the Day: Fabulously thrumming bass, glissando and rhythmic violin, drums and vocal harmonies by the British post-punk trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones in this political song taken from their forthcoming new album Smiling Pools, out on PRAH
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Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus
Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH
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Pozi’s new single Slightly Shaking Cells
Song of the Day: Fabulously quirky, skittish, energetic new single by the indie pop postpunk trio of drummer/vocalist Burroughs, violinist/vocalist Rosa Brook and bassist/vocalist Tom Jones with this number about the strange beauty of the ageing process
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Sniffany & The Nits
Song of the Day: From their recently released album The Unscratchable Itch, searingly witty punk by the London band with a number from the point of view of a wife whose husband is into swinging, with all the visceral, fetid detail that may entail
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Donna Thompson
Song of the Day: With soulful voice reminiscent of Lianne La Havas and Minnie Riperton, this beautiful new number about yearning in a long-distance relationship (especially over lockdown) comes from the London singer and drummer from her upcoming debut EP Something True on PRAH Recordings
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We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset by Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming EP We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset, strikingly original electronica by the young Manchester composer in a track that plays with identity through rhythmic, stop-start disassociated vocals, beats and French horn
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Song of the Day: Transcendent, dream-like pop about veganism and a key difference between plants and animals, by the now London-based Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara, who previously founded the Maloya-influenced psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui
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Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming new EP, Marasi, a beautiful number by the Margate-based artist from Guinea, who sings in West African Coniagui, here with Joel Wastberg (aka sir Was) the Gothenburg-based electronic artist
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
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