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Cover for the forthcoming album This Is A Mindfulness Drill by Hypnotic Jazz Ensemble
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful number of slow, gentle interweaving brass by the Chicago eight-piece band with mesmerically tender vocals by the American singer-songwriter from the forthcoming album Jagjaguwar label album This Is A Mindfulness Drill
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Shannon Lay
Song of the Day: A beautiful folk-pop number with acoustic guitar and layered vocal harmonies about dealing with the challenges of change and allowing yourself to awaken and embrace this, by the singer-songwriter from Los Angeles
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Dynamic duo: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: Two of the most currently revered American singer-songwriters join forces in their first collaborative number, singing separately and together, mixing melancholy and hope, combining country with soaring, big production piano indie-pop
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José González’s forthcoming album Local Valley
Song of the Day: Today’s offering is a sunnier, more mellow number about society, the new single by the Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist heralds his album Local Valley, musing on the bigger picture, unity, ignorance, nature, and the future
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Regressive Left
Song of the Day: Sharp, angry quirky post-punk with keyboards and semi-spoken delivery by the London trio, their second single, which “is about how neoliberalism acts as a shield for irresponsible politicians and greedy profiteers”
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Sprints: fast garage postpunk out of Dublin
Song of the Day: With driving guitar riffs and screaming vocal delivery, a fantastically spiky and fierce garage postpunk by the four-piece band from Dublin about the cost of living and seeking to escape it
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Moderate Rebels
Song of the Day: This track from the first part of the London collective’s new 30-track trilogy album If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right is a heavily deadpan ironic list song about political, social and cultural trends of a slow-creep malaise
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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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Desperate Journalist
Song of the Day: ‘If it’s no one’s fault, then it’s everyone’s fault’. Collective responsibility. Powerful, dark, profound, visceral postpunk by the London band, from their forthcoming fourth album Maximum Sorrow!, out on 2 July 2021 on Fierce Panda Records
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Folly Group
Song of the Day: An uplifting new postpunk number about rediscovering the carefree side of childhood joy by the south London quartet from Brixton’s Windmill scene, taken from the forthcoming debut EP Awake and Hungry
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What A Difference A Day Makes, by singer-songwriter and artist, Someone.
Song of the Day: “ … but I won’t let it get me down.” This beautifully serenely performed single with guitars, piano, and strings is by singer-songwriter and artist Tessa Rose Jackson, who is based in Amsterdam
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Rebecca Taylor’s new Self Esteem track, I Do This All The Time
Song of the Day: Filled with killer lines and frankness, a darkly humorous, acerbic, self-derogatory instructional monologue of passion and irony about a relationship and more, with an added gospel chorus and orchestral backing by the Sheffield singer, heralding her second album as Self Esteem
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Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: This thumpingly catchy, caustically ironic electro-pop by the rising Manchester star about a dysfunctional relationship has a jittery electronica spoken verse and a big indie-style chorus
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From the video for Introvert by Little Simz
Song of the Day: With epic orchestral production by Inflo, aka Dean Josiah Cover, who also co-wrote with the British rapper also known as Simbiatu Ajikawo, this powerful new single is about art, social injustice and summoning quiet person within oneself
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Drink it in … Kojaque with Town's Dead
Song of the Day: Check your head. A wonderfully surreal mix of electronica, hip hop and punk by the Dublin artist packed with strange sounds, beats and witty, caustically angry lyrics about modern life in his city and society
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Ghost Woman’s forthcoming EP, Lost Echo’s
Song of the Day: A blistering new garage rock number with demonic energy by the band led by Evan Uschenko from Alberta, Canada, from their forthcoming EP Lost Echo's, with its oddly spelled title taken from a religious tract in Phoenix, Arizona
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Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Song of the Day: A dynamic, cascading, piano-led mix of jazz, electronica, gospel and soul about guilty feelings over a friendship ending by the Brooklyn-born and based singer and multi-instrumentalist
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Beyond retro: Silvertwin. Drink it all in.
Song of the Day: Piano, plucked orchestral strings and rich vocal delivery, this new song by the London band is deliciously feelgood retro pop reminiscent of Jeff Lyne and Electric Light Orchestra, mid-1970s Paul McCartney and Supertramp
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Gilligan Moss
Song of the Day: After recent birdsong-related entries, more avian sound effects, but this time framed in catchy disco-funk-pop by the duo Ben and Evan from Chicago from their self-title debut album
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Fyfe Dangerfield’s new EP, Birdwatcher
Song of the Day: Following on from Howie Lee’s Birdy Island, the title track of the Midlands singer-songwriter and Guillemots founder’s new EP also features avian sounds and is a passionate, soaringly melodious and magnificent piece of work
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