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Modern Nature
Song of the Day: A gentle, clean sounding, krautrock-ish Can-like new single by the Cambridge, UK band with a double-edged theme “about the men we're conditioned to respect and follow and the people who inspire us to think differently”. It heralds their forthcoming new album, The Heat Warps, out on 29 August via Bella Union
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Alex G’s upcoming album Headlights, out on RCA
Song of the Day: With an easygoing beat, mandolin and light, catchy melody, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter and composer Alex Giannascoli’s new number out on RCA has a nostalgic, feelgood, escapist childhood theme but has other layers, such a referenced leap, into another dimension and hours of late night television
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Cate Le Bon in the video for Heaven Is No Feeling, directed by H Hawkline
Song of the Day: The groundbreaking, endlessly innovative and influential Welsh artist returns with a gorgeously woozy, rich noir, melancholy track draped in heartache, heralding her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out on 26 September via Mexican Summer
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GANS - It's Just Life
Song of the Day: Anthemic, declamatory, philosophical post-punk and electro-pop by the duo of Euan Woodman and Thomas Rhodes from Birmingham, UK, heralding their debut album Good For the Soul, set for release on 19 September via the Pete Doherty label Strap Originals
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Stealing Sheep - Found You
Song of the Day: Fun, vibrant, fizzy, percussive, and witty new work by the quirky, original Liverpool experimental pop trio of Emily Lansley, Luciana Mercer, and Rebecca Hawley, GLO (Girl Life Online) produced by Joseph Wills, out on 19 September on their new independent label G-IRL (Girl in Real Life)
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U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,
Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD
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Drugdealer - Real Thing (featuring Weyes Blood)
Song of the Day: Smooth, soft focus, luxuriantly classy 70s-Laurel Canyon-style love song pop by the Los Angeles band led by Michael Collins and the superbly pure, melodious voice of California’s Natalie Mering in this welcome reunion, out on Mexican Summer
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Disiniblud’s Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith
Song of the Day: A magically inventive creation of interwoven, ethereal vocals, strings, piano, electronica and more in this fabulous new collaboration between the Brooklyn composers and multi-instrumentalists, heralding their self-titled debut album on 18 July via Domino’s Smugglers Way
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Wednesday - Elderberry Wine
Song of the Day: A Wednesday for a Wednesday. Beautiful, bittersweet country and creek rock by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, their first new music since their breakthrough 2023 album Rat Saw God, out on Dead Oceans
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Franc Moody - Waiting For The Punchline (Swallertrip)
Song of the Day: Quirky and supremely catchy electro-pop disco the London duo of Ned Franc and Jon Moody with a song channelling the influences of Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and Fela Kuti, and released on Night Time Stories
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Kety Fusco featuring Iggy Pop - SHE
Song of the Day: “The harp is not heard as much.” That deep, unmistakable spoken voice of Iggy narrates this beautiful, intricate new instrumental by the Italian-Swiss harpist, heralding her new album BOHÈME out on 19 September via A Tree In A Field Records
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Kieran Hebden & William Tyler’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Song of the Day: The British Four Tet artist and American musician combine with a beautiful instrumental 11-minute cover of the Lyle Lovett song, fusing acoustic guitar and electronica, and heralding the pair’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, out on 19 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
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Elbow - Sober
Song of the Day: The Manchester/Bury band return with a catchy disco-funk groove track relating to Guy Garvey’s past relationship with alcohol, and taken from the upcoming EP Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP5), on 6 June, a follow-up to last year’s hit LP Audio Vertigo
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Pulp in the studio
Song of the Day: A simple, universal message in a hugely appealing, crowd-pleasing galloping indie-pop number by the Sheffield band fronted by Jarvis Cocker in this second single heralding their forthcoming album, More, out on Rough Trade on 6 June
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Wolf Alice
Song of the Day: A strikingly percussive and piano-led, stylishly syncopated, full-on floral-and-dirt metaphorical new single by the Mercury-winning London indie rock band of singer Ellie Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie and co, heralding their forthcoming fourth album, The Clearing, out on 29 August via Columbia Records/ RCA
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The Sophs
Song of the Day: Oddly mesmeric, viscerally candid yet also gently ironic, a catchy, crisp debut indie-pop single by the Los Angeles six-piece, newly signed to Rough Trade, with a song about overcompensation of grief and losing control of emotions, but also with a drily humorous performance video
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Black Honey
Song of the Day: The Brighton four-piece return with a stylish wash of dark grunge, shoegaze and dream-pop and a bio-chemical emotional metaphor, heralding their forthcoming fourth LP, Soak, out on 15 August on Foxfive
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Luvcat - Lipstick
Song of the Day: Sultry, stylish noir-rock-pop with oodles of panache and brass, a very entertaining video, and lyrics on the theme of power dynamics, yearning and surrender in a relationship by the Liverpool-born, London-based Sophie Morgan Howarth
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Alan Sparhawk
Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022
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Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?
Song of the Day: Powerful protest and dynamic, darkwave pop from the goth/post-punk duo of Johnathan Mooney (Los Angeles) and Christian Granquist (Stockholm) in this cinematic number about growing US schisms and emotional wreckage after the election return of Donald Trump
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