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Pale Blue Eyes
Song of the Day: Catchy, dreamy electro-indie pop by the trio from Totnes, Devon, with crisp guitar, smooth synth lines and vocals in music variously influenced by Neu!, The Cure and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, and mixed by Dean Honer
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Dana Gavanski
Song of the Day: Beautiful, upbeat new pop with an electro and folk flavour and an eccentric twist by the London-based Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album When It Comes, out on Full Time Hobby
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Ishmael Ensemble
Song of the Day: “I keep questioning this war …. Whose fight is this? Who wrote the rules? I struggle to understand the reasons. Where was my right to choose?” A powerful, prescient but also timelessly relevant new version of the song by the Bristol jazz collective featuring words by the Gloucester poet, rapper and MC
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Kevin Morby’s forthcoming album This Is A Photograph
Song of the Day: This melodically strong and moving new number by the American singer-songwriter is the title track of his forthcoming album and vividly captures time passing and other pressures of family life through the prism of an old camera image
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LIFE up in the North East of England
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Bob Vylan, another self-addressing mental and physical health issues – drinking, smoking and eating badly and FOMO, by the vibrant post-punk indie band in a title inspired by the location of their studio near the river Humber
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Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Sharp, articulate, witty and candidly bang-on point new single by the London rapper about junk food, poverty, education and health from his forthcoming album Bob Vylan Presents The Price of Life, out on 22 April
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Steamy Sworn Virgins
Songs of the Day: A pair of stomping electro-pop tracks with a sexual twist and echoes of Suicide from the by side project featuring Clams Baker from Warmduscher taken from the EP Strangers Hands, out on Soulwax’s Deewee label
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Whirlybird soundtrack, written by Ty Segall
Song of the Day: Fabulously inventive and evocative instrumental track with staccato guitar and percussion by the Californian musician, taken from the soundtrack the 2021 documentary film Whirlybird, now released on Drag City Records
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Matilda Mann
Song of the Day: Short, pithy, pacy and catchy, a new indie-pop number by the London-based singer-songwriter about letting go of the idea of someone you may previously have perceived by to be perfect
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Alex Izenberg’s forthcoming album I’m Not Here
Song of the Day: Eccentric, enigmatic but infectiously catchy like film musical number, with added woodwinds and wailing guitar, influences such as Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, this joyously odd single from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter comes from his forthcoming album I'm Not Here
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Destroyer’s forthcoming new album, Labyrinthitis
Song of the Day: Restless, catchy and a little irreverent, this second single from the forthcoming album Labyrinthitis by Dan Bejar from Vancouver features his distinctive vocal delivery underpinned by jazz intro then a infectious funk disco beat
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Kevin Devine’s forthcoming album Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie disco pop with this second single off from the upcoming tenth record, Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong by the singer-songwriter from Staten Island who describes this as “a dance song for wallflowers, body music for the brain …”
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Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta
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Mxmtoon posing as muse for someone’s potential song
Song of the Day: Bright, catchy, summer-breezy, lo-fi by the 21-year-old YouTuber, ukulele player and bedroom pop star singer-songwriter aka Maia from Oakland California, with a love song playing on the idea of being muse – inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting
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Seratones, fronted by AJ Haynes
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming third album Love & Algorhythms, an upbeat, and truly uplifting positive fusion of pop, soul, funk and gospel by the soul-rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Out no New West Records
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Fantastic Negrito
Song of the Day: Fabulous mix of funk, blues and African influences in this ironic song by the flamboyant musician from Oakland, California about greed, excess, commodities and racial prejudice inspired in style by Taj Mahal’s idea of the “gods of Africa meeting the ghosts of Mississippi”
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Sharon Van Etten
Song of the Day: This powerful new standalone synth-pop single by the exceptionally voiced American singer-songwriter is a cathartic number about fighting depression, paranoia, self-doubt and a sense of dissociation, of feeling “not connected to my body”
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The cover of Kurt Vile’s forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Woozily mesmeric, existential new track by the laid-back Philadelphia singer-songwriter taking us on a deadpan cranial journey inside his hallucinatory thoughts with images of “pinball machine-a-mania” and his characteristic, charming, languid drawl
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FredAtlast aka Fredrik Wallin
Song of the Day: Catchy krautrock-inspired indie pop by Little Dragon Swedish bassist Fredrik Wallin with an infectious beat, drone note, and lyrics that are “a meditation on impermanence and our way of dealing with loss. A plea to our nearest to be: nearer, dearer and more daring.”
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Kamasi Washington
Song of the Day: A powerful new number by the great American jazz saxophonist, tumultuously dynamic, with writhing solos and a main theme that centres of the chaos of our times, and the struggle to get to grips with it
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