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Maja Lena, aka Marianne Parrish
Song of the Day: Beautiful, eerie singing and songwriting branches out in the solo project and Swedish nickname of Marianne Parrish, who is based Stroud in Gloucestershire, and is formerly of the alt-folk band Low Chimes
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Horsegirl’s latest release
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s angry, pacy Grand National by Liverpool’s Courting, a far gentler, lo-fi but dynamically building number by the young indie female trio from Chicago, with echoes of Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian and keenly observed lyrics
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Grand National by Courting
Song of the Day: On a day when one of the most famous horse races returns, a better bet is this fiercely caustic, fast and furious, post-punk critical perspective about the Aintree event by a nearby band, the Liverpool-based indie four-piece
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Aksak Maboul’s new EP, Tous KO
Song of the Day: After a series of French songs, time to move to Belgium, a beautifully quirky, percussive, woodwind-whistle-y version of a song by the long-running experimental band co-founded by Marc Hollander who also founded and runs the Crammed Discs label
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Kit Sebastian, a rich mix of musical influences including from France and Turkey
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-French theme, a new number from the London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, who also move between Turkey and France with refreshing hybrid of French 60s psychedelic pop sound
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C’est le pop magnifique …
Song of the Day: Glorying in all things Gallic, the new solo EP project by Dan Synge of Daniel Takes a Train is an joyfully unrestrained embrace of 60s and 70s French pop styles from Gainsbourg to Dutronc, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday
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Gloria
Song of the Day: Who doesn’t love Paris in springtime? So let’s go there for an upbeat fusion of 60s-style French psychedelic pop and Motown by the bandf Gloria from their LP Sabbat Matters, out on Howlin Banana Records
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Llyr’s EP: 3D Reworks 003
Song of the Day: With surging voluminous dynamics and a huge range of sounds, an astonishing electronica experience that requires listening through headphones from the EP 3D Reworks 003 by Berlin-based artist Gareth Williams
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Cover art for black midi’s forthcoming album Cavalcade
Song of the Day: A frenetic new number about a violence-stirring cult fanatic by the lauded English young alt-rock band features a feast of nightmarish stop-starts, added violins, keyboards and a spoken narrative that points a finger at fascism
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The Lazy Eyes
Song of the Day: Wonderfully eccentric prog-rock-pop with classic guitar solos, a dash of King Gizzard, Deerhoof, and a fabulous dramatic pause, this number by the Sydney psych rock quartet is a joyful musical brain scramble
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Sports sport their sunglases
Song of the Day: Taken from their EP Take A Good Look Pt 1, this smooth funk-pop number with a nod to Prince, by the duo of Cale Chronister from Christian Theriot from Tulsa, Oklahoma, parodies the culture of male fashion modelling
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Tony Allen 1940-2020. His music lives on in this and upcoming posthumous releases, including the album There Is No End
Song of the Day: Another fantastic posthumous release by the legendary drummer and Afrobeat pioneer from a forthcoming album, There is No End, here featuring the writer Ben Okri and rapper Skepta on vocals
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Julie Pavon
Song of the Day: “I think I might be jealous of my own mind”. Addictively Idiosyncratic, stripped down electronica-funk-pop filled with wonky sounds by the Honduran and Danish artist based Copenhagen, with echoes of Billie Eilish
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Skullcrusher aka Helen Ballantine
Songs of the Day: Two beautifully delicate acoustic numbers by the New York-born, LA-based singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine who humorously names herself after a powerlifting move, but sounds more like Elliott Smith
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Song of the Day: ‘I’ll get your mother’. A beautiful, melancholy but drily humorous number by the Bristol-based Glaswegian singer-songwriter Paul Tierney about the limits of connection with parents on the habitually awkward telephone call home
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Blanketman
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s track by northerners FYI Chris who live in south-east London and Manchester’s Thick Richard, a catchy, restless indie number by the Mancunian quartet about considering to leave the capital
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On the button: Earth Scum by FYI Chris
Song of the Day: The final track on the album Earth Scum by the Yorkshire and Macclesfield duo of Chris Coupe and Chris Watson features viscerally acerbic, self-deprecating gallows humorous delivery by Mancunian poet and performer Thick Richard
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S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-theme of horticulture after Billie Marten, plus William Doyle and Chad VanGaalen in the album section, a fabulously catchy new single by the London multi-instrumentalist who mixes funk, disco and electronica sprinkled liberally with flute and saxophone
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Billie Marten’s new LP, Flora Fauna
Song of the Day: With intimate, hushed voice and sound, particularly in the verse section that echoes Fiona Apple and Billie Eilish, this beautiful metaphorical single by the British singer-songwriter from Ripon in North Yorkshire comes from her new LP, Flora Fauna
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Cover art for Nubya Garcia’s album – Source
Song of the Day: With a brilliantly bold melody, added developed rhythm and carefully crafted keyboards, an addictive new arrangement of the original instrumental from 2020 album Source by the Camden-born jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
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