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Gia Ford
Song of the Day: The new single by the darkly angelic Sheffield artist brings a fabulous meaty funk and bite with catchy hook and chorus, as well as airing that soaring, beautifully serene voice of previous releases, and is out now on Chrysalis Records
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Cosmorat
Song of the Day: This opening track from the London indie-alt-pop trio’s new EP, Evil Adjacent, is a beautiful ghostly. dark, powerful creation showing the breadth of their dynamic, experimental and original range
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Storefront Chuch’s forthcoming new album, Ink & Oil
Song of the Day: Dark, cinematic, orchestral, vividly disturbing but highly evocative new work by the LA-based composer, singer and musician Lukas Frank taken from his forthcoming album Ink & Oil
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Magdalena Bay: Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin
Song of the Day: A striking, swirling, spacey, huge production number by the Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – “Imagine rain pouring, streetlights glowing. You sit at home and wait for your alien boyfriend to pick you up in his UFO…but this time, he’s not coming.”
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Pixies
Song of the Day: A blistering new short, snappy but explosive single about restlessness by the pioneering US band fronted by Black Francis, joined by the current lineup of Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Emma Richardson
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beabadoobee aka Beatrice Laus
Song of the Day: Melodious, smoothly gliding indie pop by the Filipino-born English singer singer-songwriter Beatrice Laus, with a single co-produced by Rick Rubin, and heralding her forthcoming third LP, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, out on 16 August via Dirty Hit Records
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Girl Scout
Song of the Day: A blistering new sharp riff, guitar-thrumming, fast-and-furious single by the Swedish indie band fronted vocalist/guitarist Emma Jansson with an attack on those who use the vacuous, laissez-faire, indifferent phrase “it is what it is”
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Chinese American Beaz: Bryce Barsten and Anne Tong
Song of the Day: Infectiously fun pop with tight guitar riffs and high vocals by the Brooklyn-based married duo of Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten, with a number about Tong’s Chinese childhood of trying to have fun under strict rules in her immigrant household
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Honeyglaze
Song of the Day: Dark, defiant, angry talky, experimental indie post-punk with a visceral riposte to a bad relationship by the London trio featuring the emotional voice of Anouska Sokolow, heralding their forthcoming sophomore album, Real Deal, out on September on Fat Possum
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Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Phoebe Green track, another witty, punchy, ironic pop number from the co-writer on that song – the Kent artist who fuses funk, electronic and indie with caustic lyrics in this queer pop song about body image and others’ expectations
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Number one fan: Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: Caustic, pointed, witty, self-aware talky and stylish synth-pop with a rock guitar sheen from the Manchester-based artist taken from her new EP Ask Me Now, out on The Green Dream Machine
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Loma’s forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: A beautiful, ghostly new track by the Anglo-American trio of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski (from Cross Record) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), heralding their forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out 28 June on Sub Pop Records
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潘PAN aka Pan Wei Ju
Song of the Day: An entrancing, experimental hybrid of spoken word and electronica by the Taiwanese rapper Pan Wei Ju, with a song about strength in vulnerability in the form of “a monologue of a young and not so experienced witch, who doesn’t always do all her magic and alchemy right.”
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Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture
Song of the Day: Following his fourth album Heaven Is a Junkyard (2023), a delicate, beautiful new single about angels by Idaho artist Trevor Powers, inspired by finding a piece of paper tucked into the bars of a bus-stop metal bench
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Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love
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Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Song of the Day: A slice of punchy Balkan brass fun by Toronto’s Canadian collective band, featuring fiery Ukrainian and Spanish rap against floating traditional Ukrainian polyphonic vocals in what is also the title track of their latest album
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Lava La Rue
Song of the Day: After fabulous singles and EPs, a sparkling psychedelic pop number about mixing platonic and romantic love to herald the west London artist’s forthcoming debut album Starface, sci-fi-themed about alien visitor, and all about what makes us human
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Galliano return in 2024 after 27 years
Song of the Day: The acid jazz, soul and hip hop band returns after almost three decades with a vibrant new ode-to-dance and spoken number namechecking influential artists, musicians and from Arthur Russell to Andrew Weatherall, and heralds the the forthcoming album Halfway Somewhere, out on Browswood Recordings
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Two wise men: Pete Rock and Common
Song of the Day: Two acclaimed hip-hop veterans, the Chicago MC and New York producer combine with slick, articulate new single about “past, present and future happening all at once”, heralding their upcoming collaborative album, The Auditorium Vol. 1
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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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