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Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off
Song of the Day: This gentle, rather beautiful number by the former Maccabees frontman is taken from his forthcoming second solo album after 2020’s A Quickening, and has echoes of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk
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Spellling aka Chrystia Cabral
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s English Teacher, a band with an extra letter l, and a wonderful piece of late-Beatles-esque acoustic pop decorated with vocal harmonies, piano and other instruments in this title track by the artist Chrystia Cabral from Oakland, California, from her third album
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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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Curtis Harding
Song of the Day: Stirring brand new, but also old-school soul with beautiful brass and gospel-style backing group by the singer and songwriter from Michigan in his first new work for four years. Out on Anti Records
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Meadow Meadow: Silouettes
Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music
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The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants
Song of the Day: After Emma-Jean Thackray’s Spectre yesterday, a beautiful and whisperingly dreamy, ghostly sound in this unusual acoustic number by the Brazilian musician composer and producer under the his new Stone Giants alias from the album West Coast Love Stories
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Emma-Jean Thackray’s forthcoming album - Yellow
Song of the Day: “There’s a spectre in my house but he doesn’t see me”. Beautiful, haunting new song by the Yorkshire-born, London-based singer and instrumentalist confronting depression and mental illness from her forthcoming debut album Yellow
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Liz Lawrence - Babies
Songs of the Day: A couple of brilliantly buoyant new indie pop numbers by the richly deep voiced singer-songwriter and guitarists from Stratford-on-Avon who is also half of the electro-pop duo Cash+David
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Jordan Rakei’s forthcoming album What We Call Life
Sublime, sunny sounding new soul pop that also profoundly addresses climate change by the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album What We Call Life, released 17 September on Ninja Tune
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Park Hye Jin
Song of the Day: Posing one of the biggest questions in pop music, this catchy new electro hip-hop single by the South Korean-born, LA-based artist joined by the New Jersey producer songwriter and DJ Michael Volpe and the US duo of Denzel Baptiste and David Bira
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Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon
Song of the Day: Music that sounds like an invitation - intelligent, catchy, engaging, mesmeric and escapist electro-pop dance music by the Australian DJ, producer and singer-songwriter from Sydney – Russell Fitzgibbon
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Wanton Witch
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s Witch Fever, a differently bewitching, electronic instrumental piece of shifting, restlessly clever multiple sections by the Borneo island-born Bangkok-based trans artist and DJ
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Witch Fever
Song of the Day: A number to blow away any cobwebs on a Monday, the Manchester all-female heavy rock/punk band’s latest is a fiercely defiant cri de coeur moving from self-harm to self-emancipation
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Girls with goals: Loose Articles
Song of the Day: A bonus SOTD to kick off the European Cup final in the form of a caustically humorous, heavily ironic number by the all-female indie punk band from Manchester
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Belfast band Enola Gay
Song of the Day: After Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue, a furniture reference of another, more restless nature with angry, stormy, noisy sonic guitar indie and punk-style bass by the band from Belfast
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The art of reclining: Wet Leg
Song of the Day: Wonderful debut indie-pop single from the Isle of Wight band with catchy, thrumming riff and a beautifully dry, humorous delivery about post-graduate horizontal languorous indolence on a favourite item of furniture
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Desire Marea
Song of the Day: From the Durban artist with an extraordinary soulful voice who is also one half of South African duo FAKA, this single taken from the album Desire fuses club sounds with an operatic falsetto and the Zulu language
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Lucie Antunes
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Myd, more French pop, this time in mesmerically alternative form of non-verbal vocalisations, throaty then moving into full harmonies laid over catchy beats and electronica by the Parisian classically contemporary-trained drummer and percussionist
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Myd’s Born A Loser
Song of the Day: Catchy, eccentric ironic electro-pop by the French musician, record producer, singer, sound engineer and DJ Quentin Lepoutre, from his debut album Born A Loser, out on Ed Banger and Because Records
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Joviale
Song of the Day: Offbeat, alternative and with a mesmerising melody, this electro-pop-soul single from the London artist includes wonderful chord changes, saxophone and a strong, resonant vocal line
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