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When the chips are down …
Song of the Day: ‘I like to participate in life’s edge. From time to time I take a little ride over that edge’. Heart-racing, breathless spoken word packed with images of hedonism, pubs and fast, frantic living in this debut single by the quintessentially British MC who is a mixture of Sleaford Mods, Slowthai and the Streets
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Loose Fit’s new single, Exhale
Song of the Day: Tight, crisp, catchy, rolling rhythm postpunk by the band from Sydney, Australia, featuring Anna Langdon on vocals, Max Edgar on guitar, Kaylene Milner on drums, Richard Martin on bass, and Jonathan Boulet on congas
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Spoon’s forthcoming album Lucifer On The Sofa
Song of the Day: Blisteringly catchy and hard-hitting new single by the veteran indie rockers from Austin, Texas fronted by Britt Daniel, taken from their forthcoming album Devil On The Sofa, due out February 2022 on Matador Records
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Celestial perspective: Parks N’ Recs
Song of the Day: Splendidly soaring, wistful new pop single by the Toronto musician Marco DiFelice reflecting on the pandemic, the blessing, curse and recalibration of human behaviour, inspired by travelling through central America then arriving in New York
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Morgan Harper-Jones
Song of the Day: A gently soulful, beautifully melancholy and reflective recent number about rewinding the past in the present by the singer-songwriter from Rochdale, out on Play It Again Sam
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Liz Harris aka Grouper
Song of the Day: Taken from her new album Shade, an exquisitely delicate acoustic psychedelic folk number by the American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris, whose delivery has a delicious, dissolving quality, and has been releasing material since 2005
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
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Rozi Plain
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
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Song of the Day: One of the standout tracks from the London-based Canadian indie artist’s recent EP, Stains, this number has an angry but catchy half-spoken naive freshness, and concerns frustrations over a difficult queer relationship
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Bambara
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Love on My Mind, a scorching new single about a passionate encounter by the Brooklyn post-punk band formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh with Nick Cave among their influences
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From the visualiser animation by Alex Evans of Comes With Fries for The Lounge Society’s Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
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Hitting the hot-spot: Warmduscher
Song of the Day: Sweary, grumbling grandiloquence by Clams Baker and co in a catchy piece of disco-funk where everything gets the finger with this new single by the mischievous collective ahead of their forthcoming fourth album
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Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Doers by New York-band Bodega, another caustic and clever post-punk song about being awash with information by the London-based band fronted by vocalist Zac Woolley
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Pointed: from the Doers video by Bodega
Song of the Day: Excellent, punchy new single by the New York post-punk five-piece band from the forthcoming album Broken Equipment, here all about the crazed activity and pressure of living in the big city as well non-stop online culture
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Sasami Ashworth
Song of the Day: After Molly Nilsson’s Absolute Power yesterday, another superlative through the medium of power-chord indie courtesy of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth from her forthcoming album, Squeeze
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Molly Nilsson
Song of the Day: A powerful, rousing, upbeat guitar-fuzz indie electro-pop number about taking stock of thing and control, by the Swedish Berlin-based singer and songwriter from her upcoming album Extreme, out in January 2022 on her label Dark Skies Association
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Tkay Maidza’s EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3
Song of the Day: Superbly slick R&B, hip hop and pop from the summer-released EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by the talented Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Duval Timothy and Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: Slow, beautiful, rich, multi-layered vocal harmonies with a resonant gospel style and part of a 9-track EP recorded by the two singers between London and Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Gabriels’ new single Bloodline, with a painting of singer Jacob Lusk
Songs of the Day: Two sublime, powerful, moving, and beautiful numbers by the Los Angeles gospel, soul and jazz trio fronted by singer Jacob Lusk who has the emotive, melancholy qualities of Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, and here, with string and wind arrangements, captures a rich black history in every tone
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