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Alexandra Lost - cut-ups recycling of 20th-century popular culture
Song of the Day: This first single from debut LP by the Québec band created by Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis weaves 80s new wave, electronica, pop and a dash of waltz around a theme of lost youth and mutability through the prism of old silent film footage
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From the sleeve of Warm Digits’ new album Flight of Ideas
Song of the Day: Perfect pop delivered by the Newcastle electronic duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis from their new album Flight of Ideas, their work influenced by Can, Giorgio Moroder and Chemical Brothers, and here with vocals by Delgados’ Emma Pollock
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Cover of Clémentine March’s new album
Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’
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Song of the Day: Is there gold in those hills? Perhaps not the precious metal kind, but the story of a dominant sex worker in the Dawson City, Yukon gold rush is the inspiration for this indie rock band fronted by the Toronto singer
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Freya Beer
Song of the Day: The thunder of hoof, hot, heavy breath, and the swish of mane, today’s song by the London-born singer-songwriter is inspired by Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty and Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘An Asphodel’
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Anna Calvi and Jehnny Beth
Song of the Day: Two songs for comparison, from the French and English female artists respectively, both with powerful voices and here commenting with different perspectives on gender and masculinity
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Nadia Reid
Song of the Day: Starkly beautiful new work from the New Zealander singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album, Out of My Province, is a viscerally powerful song about coming out of a troubled relationship and reclaiming her younger self
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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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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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The Orielles
Song of the Day: After the retro-funk disco of Róisín Murphy, another new track with a parallel style but a new twist from the young Halifax quartet, who have their own unique blend of fresh, pace-changing indie-dance-funk-pop
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Some images from the extraordinary video for Igorrr’s Very Noise
Song of the Day: An unholy fusion of black metal, drum’n’bass, baroque, breakcore, electronica and more, this latest creative brain explosion by the French musician, also known as Gautier Serre, is an otherworldly onslaught of wit and arrhythmic anarchy
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Conershop’s new album for 2020, England Is A Garden
Song of the Day: Characteristically catchy with a simple, repetitive riff and melody, it’s familiar but also new, a bluesy, fuzzy 70s rock sound wrapped in something different. This can only be Cornershop and they do it so brilliantly
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