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Heidi Curtis
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie-pop with echoes of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac and lyrics of lively, aspirational love by the singer-songwriter from North Shields, out on AWAL Recordings
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New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song
Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar
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The Lounge Society
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Speedy Wunderground release, another from the label and produced by Dan Carey, the latest strong single by the very promising young indie band from Hebdon Bridge in West Yorkshire
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Jordana
Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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Wry action with Sports Team
Song of the Day: It’s all just lies … This catchy, catch-all cri-de-coeur of upbeat indie wit from the British six-piece band fronted by Alex Rice has stop-start echoes of the 90s and 00s buzz of Weezer, Franz Ferdinand and Pulp
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Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon
Song of the Day: From their recent collaborative EP, Myths 004, a wonderfully offbeat piece by the unique Welsh singer-songwriter and frontman of the US Indie rock band Deerhunter, with a tale of fractured love and communication between secretary and boss
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Parquet Courts – Wide Awake in 2018
Song of the Day: Yesterday's Bodega song was a cri de coeur against passivity, today's by another great New York band is the opposite - capturing the reactionary side of our fractious times in a two-part number
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Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet – musician, artist, visionary.
Song of the Day: With the recent passing of The Fall's Mark E Smith, and all the songs, tributes and stories that have followed, it now seems only appropriate to follow up with music Smith loved by one of his major influences
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Laura Gibson
Song of the Day: Continuing from our last entry, by Aldous Harding, another vocalist with a special form of melancholy, with work from the American artist's fourth solo album, Empire Builder, 2016
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Deerhoof
Song of the Day: Our continuing theme certainly behooves a song or two from this wonderfully quirky band hailing from San Francisco
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The Mountain Goats, fronted by John Darnielle
Song of the Day: With 16 studio albums since 1994, so many interesting, varied and clever songs to choose from the California indie-folk band fronted by John Darnielle, but how about this goth parody from 2017?
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Kevin Morby and co from the video to I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
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Superfood … stimulating.
Song of the Day: Two sample tracks from the Birmingham indie band currently on tour, the first from 2014, the second from this year, and attracting increasing large and young audiences. They mix driving 90s indie with humorous lyrics, bringing a raucous and entertaining mixture of Blur, Space, Kasabian and Gorillaz
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The Duke Spirit
Song of the Day: Who knows where the heart goes? From the new fifth album, Sky Is Mine, dark, stormy, powerful, passionate, Liela Moss and co spearhead yet another excellent LP after 2016's Kin
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The Surfing Magazines. Their self-titled debut album is out on on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy garage rock with a splash of surf and Lou Reed, this marvellous Moshi Moshi release sees David Tattersall and Franic Rozycki of The Wave Pictures join with Slow Club's Charles Watson
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Snapped Ankles
Song of the Day: Dancey, krautrock, postpunk psychedelia from the hairy-tree dressed four-piece based in Hackney, from their 2017 album Come Play The Trees - and that's exactly what they do
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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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Modest Mouse with Johnny Marr (second from left, standing)
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Talking Heads, we connect to another Johnny Marr collaboration, from the intelligent US indie band messing about in fishing boats, but really singing about music
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