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Cinematic moments: Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra
Song of the Day: With vivid, cinematic lyrics, with a distinctive array of acoustic instruments, and wonderful vocal clarity, this folky ghost dance is the opening track to the forthcoming album by the Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian duo
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Le Junk: stylish simian
Song of the Day: This infectious new single by the mischievous London alt-pop artist with a a special brand of sleazy disco-rock and glitzy electronica is about evolving in a different way to others around you, and feeling content with being a bit out of place
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Steve Mason’s new single, No More, addresses British imperialism and the huge Brexit mistake
Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters
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David Brewis’s forthcoming solo album
Song of the Day: A catchy, candid, brass-infused story of the tricky final last day of school by one half of the brother duo of Field Music, heralding his forthcoming solo album, The Soft Struggles, out on Daylight Saving Record
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Leland Whitty’s forthcoming debut solo album, Anyhow
Song of the Day: A beautiful, evocative instrumental piece, by Toronto experimental jazz BadBadNotGood's saxophonist with shimmering, gliding sounds of strings, keyboards, bass and other playing from his bandmates, heralding Whitty’s debut solo LP, Anyhow, out on Innovative Leisure
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Hekla’s second album Xiuxiuejar
Song of the Day: Haunting, mesmeric, beautifully spooky sounds and voice by the Icelandic singer theremin player and cellist who with some upbringing in Barcelona and is also influenced by the Catalan language, this track the first from her latest album, Xiuxiuejar, out on Phantom Limb
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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
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Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale
Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering
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Dora Jar
Song of the Day: A ghostly, breathy, ethereal and beautiful new number that marks Halloween, but is more about late October’s seasonal time of change by the California and New York alt-pop/folk singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski
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Ásgeir’s fifth studio album, Time On My Hands
Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent
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Sister Wives: Donna Lee, Rose Love, Lisa O’Hara, and Liv Willars
Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records
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Gretel Hänlyn
Song of the Day: Punchy, darkly sinister and rock-driven new indie single by the innovative London singer-songwriter with a distinctive deep voice and an ability to deliver songs in a variety of styles. Out on VLF Records
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Copy that: the incomparable Fever Ray from the new video
Song of the Day: The first new song from Karin Dreijer since 2017 is a evocative, strange, eerie, haunting, offbeat electro-pop visualised by a goulish office party populated by zombie-like figures and a deadpan reference to National Cinnamon Roll Day
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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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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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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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Daniela Lalita
Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush
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Sweden’s GOAT return with another single and a forthcoming album
Song of the Day: A welcome return with an infectious, syncopated, slightly Tuareg groove with crazed saxophone from the masked purveyors of psychedelic musical mythology, the mysterious band from the tiny Swedish village of Korpilombo, taken from their forthcoming new album Oh Death, out on Rocket Recordings
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The Cool Greenhouse forthcoming album Sod’s Toastie
Song of the Day: “It’s like Windows 98 in here.” From the forthcoming second album Sod’s Toastie, a brilliant blend of Bowie-esque post-punk and superbly droll, witty paradox-filled, absurdist spoken lyrics by the British band fronted by Tom Greenhouse
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