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Emily Breeze
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s narrated number about the passing of time from Francis Lung, a wistful yet optimistic, melancholy but upbeat, talking-singing catchy pop single by the charismatic Bristol artist with a nostalgic celebration of life in the absence of conventional success
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The beautifully vivid Short Stories EP by Francis Lung
Song of the Day: Taken from the new EP, Short Stories, this beautifully intimate, vivid, narrative-spoken number that builds powerfully into a dreamy climax by the Manchester artist tells of a widow transported back in time by an onion soup
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Technology + Teamwork: Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester. Photo: Luke Atkinson
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy new disco electro-pop by the duo of Sarah Jones and drummer Anthony Silvester in a number about an imagined conversation between two people who have drifted apart
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The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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Lady Blackbird
Song of the Day: “Before we rise we all must take a fall.” After last year’s acclaimed album Black Acid Soul, a brand new, yet already classic-feel single by the LA-based bouffant-haired classy jazz and soul singer Marley Munroe
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The Orielles
Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming new album, Tableau, some mesmeric, shapeshifting 8-minute, gradual-build celestial dream pop by the Yorkshire trio from Halifax, with an ever wider innovative range
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Melby’s forthcoming album Looks Like A Map
Song of the Day: Gorgeously profound, beautiful and gentle love song by the indie-pop Swedish quartet of Matilda Wiezell, Are Engen Steinsholm, David Jehrlander and Teo Jernkvist from their forthcoming album Looks Like A Map, out on Rama Lama Records
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Cover image for Weyes Blood’s forthcoming new album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Song of the Day: ‘Living in the wake of overwhelming changes’. The individual and universal join in this sublimely beautiful, simple but profound new number by the American artist Natalie Mering, with piano, her distinct voice, orchestral strings and harp from Mary Lattimore
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Mother/father influences: an image from the video for Nobody Knows by Loyle Carner
Song of the Day: A stirring, candid, heartfelt new single by the acclaimed British rapper about identify, the effects of parenthood in both directions, neglect, self-hatred, with powerful gospel sample backing by Pastor T.L. Barrett & the Youth For Christ Choir
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Gilla Band, formerly Girl Band
Song of the Day: A distorted buzz, a belting relentless beat, a strikingly assertive, ironic drawl of a talky Mark E Smith-style post-punk vocal and oddball guitar strokes, this new number by the Dublin band (formerly formerly Girl Band) smashes out its presence and heralds the upcoming thrid album Most Normal
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Marlowe’s forthcoming third album
Song of the Day: Superbly slick and stylish new single by the North Carolina hip hop duo of L'Orange & Solemn Brigham from their forthcoming album Marlowe 3, with rhyme and rhythms reminiscent of classic 90s crews such as The Pharcyde
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From the video for Rozi Plain’s new single, Agreeing For Two
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate new number by the the British singer-songwriter about unwittingly making decisions on others’ behalf from her forthcoming album PRIZE, here with backing vocals by This Is The Kit's Kate Stables and Alabaster dePlume on saxophone
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The Big Moon’s forthcoming album Here Is Everything is delivered in October
Song of the Day: The London indie quartet’s new single, from their forthcoming third album, Here Is Everything. as an easy, carefree feel, but has a more emotive theme about memories of walking over a railway bridge to the hospital to give birth and how the memory deals with pain
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Wooze’s Theo Spark and Jamie She
Song of the Day: Channelling deep-voiced 80s pop, funk, rock and new wave from Heaven 17 to Bowie to the Human League, this anarchically fun new single by the colourful core vocal Korean/British duo of Theo Spark (guitars) and Jamie She (drums) comes from rom their latest EP The Magnificent Eleven
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Elemental fusion of opposites: who else, but Björk?
Song of the Day: The iconic Icelandic artist returns, literally with a bang – mixing mighty opposites in a song about how such things may combine – clattering, hammering beats, involving Indonesian experimental duo Gabber Modus Operandi – and clarinets, joining from disharmony into into an eventual frenetic unison
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Caitlin Rose’s forthcoming album CAZIMI
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, emotive, vivid and a mix of country, pop and rock, the latest single reflecting on a dark relationship by the Nashville singer-songwriter comes from her forthcoming latest album CAZIMI, out in November on Pearl Tower Records
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Cari Cari: Stephanie Widmer and Alexander Köck
Song of the Day: The latest single and title track of their EP by the stylish rock duo from Vienna, drummer and singer Stephanie Widmer and guitarist/singer Alexander Köck is a rockabilly-psych-krautrock apocalyptic number with shades of Kasabian
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Fujiya & Miyagi
Song of the Day: The title track of the forthcoming ninth studio album by the UK Brighton-formed band is a finely formed, catchy piece of electro-funk-disco-pop that touches both on the theme of tiny differences in human genetics as well as perceived subtle musical variations
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Playfully pleasing to the eye and ear: Peel Dream Magazine
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s dreamy number by Alice Boman to another dreamy sound of marrying the visual and aural with gentle drums and keyboards, in this gently catchy, and softly sung number by the LA-based artist Joseph Stevens for the forthcoming third album, Pad, out 7 October on Tough Love Recordings/Slumberland Records
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