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Formerly of Wild Beasts, Tom
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, harp-sweeping, soaring, poetic and full-voiced new single by the former Wild Beasts singer Tom Fleming with a poignant small-town vignette about childhood and adulthood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts in the aisles of supermarkets
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Dora Jar
Song of the Day: Wonderfully crisp, catchy, uplifting indie pop, in a song inspired by taking an internet break and feeling more alive, by the New York-based artist Dora Jarkowski from North Carolina
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Laetitia Sadier’s forthcoming album, Rooting For Love
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming next solo album, Rooting For Love, out in early 2024, an instantly recognisable sound of slick, smooth, effortlessly beautiful pop by the singer and co-founder of Stereolab
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Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Merseyside electro-pop artist returns with a slow, beautiful number about searching for joy and love, uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life
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Floating Points - Birth4000 (artwork by Akiko Nakayama)
Song of the Day: High-octane, inventive, dynamic dance music by Manchester-raised British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician Sam Shepherd, out on Ninja Tune
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Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
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KNEECAP - Better Way To Live (featuring Grian Chatten)
Song of the Day: The pull-no-punches Belfast rappers’ latest single features the Fontaines D.C. singer in an upbeat, sharp, articulate strongly bassy number about finding that little spark of joy in life’s monotony, and in the day-to-day things
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TimlehyC Duncan - Just Like Clockwork
English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Julia Holter - Sun Girl
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the American singer-songwriter, whose last LP was 2018’s acclaimed Aviary, with a mesmeric, ethereal, experimental number featuring fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass
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The Miserable Rich - Crows
Song of the Day: Perky piano pop with a dark undertone about nature’s apocalypse by the Brighton band inspired by the clever, mysterious, tool-using corvid species, heralding a first album in 13 years
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PREGOBLIN - Nobody Likes Me
Song of the Day: A welcome return from band fronted by south London’s Jessica Winter and Alex Sebley with luxuriant beautiful, melodious pop with their characteristically mischievously dark, humorous, bittersweet lyrics
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Heartworms - May I Comply
Song of the Day: Caustically sharp lyrics, darkly thrumming and brilliantly shard-like shimmering sounds come in this new single by the London goth-postpunk band fronted by Jojo Orme, another cutting-edge single produced by Dan Carey via his label Speedy Wunderground
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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Sleater-Kinney’s forthcoming album, Little Rope
Song of the Day: A brilliant, powerful, hair-tingling new single by the Washington indie rock band of 30 years, still with remaining founder members Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, and the opener from their forthcoming 11th studio album, Little Rope, out on Loma Vista Recordings
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Nathan Fake’s latest EP, Guiro.
Song of the Day: Pulsating, mesmeric electronica and dance music by the Norfolk-raised musician influenced by Aphex Twin and Orbital, and taken from his latest EP, Guiro, released on Cambria Instruments
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Becca Mancari’s latest album, Left Hand
Song of the Day: Taken from their recent album, Left Turn, a beautiful, lush, melancholy, heartbreak number of layered guitars and subtle vocals by the Nashville-based indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician from Staten Island
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Lenhart Tapes’ new album, Dens
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming second LP, Dens, by the Belgrade ethno-noise project of producer and ‘Walkman alchemist’ Vladimir Lenhart, brings a mesmeric mix of electronica and Balkan folklore sounds, here with guest vocalist Zoja Borovčanin from the Serbian alt-rock band Lira Vega
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The brilliant and incomparable Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: The collective from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, return with a vibrant, upbeat, infectious, rhythmic punk-Afro-futuristic track with a title that translates as “pain and pleasure”
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Paul, Ringo, John and George
Song of the Day: Old but new, this stirring, walking-pace, piano-based John Lennon demo from the 1970s originally had some reworking by the remaining three members in 1995, but is finally complete with some Paul MacCartney vocals, guitar and some help from AI
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