Your Custom Text Here
Red alert: here’s comes De Staat
Songs of the Day: Stylish, syncopated, restless, witty, and slightly menacing, these punchy and pulsating new numbers by the entertaining Dutch alt-rockers comes from their new playlist of songs grouped under different colours – red, yellow, blue
Read more
Panda Bear aka Noah Benjamin Lennox
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Reset, this wonderfully ironic look at the life of staring at screens and mobile technology uses a retro vocal harmony style reminiscent of Beach Boys, with added electronic beeps and a dash of They Might Be Giants
Read more
Hatis Noit’s new album: Aura
Songs of the Day: Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals
Read more
The Mary Onettes’ new EP
Song of the Day: Luxuriant, rich, dreamy, 80s textured pop evoking a landscape by the Swedish band in this title track of their new EP, and “about always being a bit unsure about your surroundings …”
Read more
From the video for Lambchop’s Police Dog Blues
Song of the Day: Moving again away from his best known alt-country style, Kurt Wagner returns with an extraordinary experimental fusion of jazz, gospel and soul with this song that imagines a post-apocalyptic world where ex-police dogs roam
Read more
The Mars Volta’s Blacklight Shine
Song of the Day: After 10 years of schisms and side projects, the Texan prog-rock experimental duo of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and band finally reunite with an unique blend of funk, rock, Cuban and Afro-Cuban drumming and English and Spanish lyrics
Read more
From the new Hamish Hawk video
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Angel by First Aid Kit, another angel-themed number by the Scottish singer-songwriter – stirring, witty, wry, declamatory, black-humoured, and showing consistently fine form since last year’s album Heavy Elevator
Read more
Mogwai’s latest single Boltfor
Song of the Day: A majestic standalone single by the Glasgow alternative rock band known for their powerful, epic instrumentals, this one a prime example, accompanied by a beautiful video
Read more
Joe Unknown’s second single, Silent
Song of the Day: Sharp, fast, wildly inventive, alternative hip hop by the British rapper with unusual phrasing, mesmeric beats, breathing sounds and a rising, searing siren-like sound, all in this second single after last year’s debut Ride
Read more
Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece
Song of the Day: A supremely beautiful new track featuring the unmistakable voice of former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser working here with her partner Damon Reece, with rippling synths, guitar and drums, and taken from the forthcoming EP Sun's Signature, out 18 June on Partisan Records
Read more
Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
Read more
P.E.
Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters
Read more
Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
Read more
Ticket to ride: Spiritualized’s The Mainline Song from Everything Was Beautiful
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
Read more
Jon Opstad’s album Extensions
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s electronica to today’s acoustic piano, but with a difference - wonderfully innovative, dynamic work by the British experimental composer’s use of the Yamaha U3 Disklavier, played via computer MIDI programming and other analogue techniques
Read more
Hercules & Love Affair’s forthcoming album, In Amber
Song of the Day: The opening track from Andy Butler and co’s forthcoming new album, In Amber, has a dark, smoky, almost gothic feel but strains of with hope and defiance, and includes guest Icelandic singer Elin Ey, as well as old friend and collaborator ANOHNI as a co-producer
Read more
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
Read more
Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
Read more
Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station
Song of the Day: A beautifully understated, melancholy piano-and-voice-only new song from Canadian Tamara Lindeman, taken from the forthcoming album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars out on 4 March on Fat Possum Records
Read more
Léa Sen
Song of the Day: A sensual, dreamy sun-kissed new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter and producer that touches on loses sanity but is also about wanting to grow and handle life with more wisdom
Read more