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Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Song of the Day: A stirring, profound, African- and gospel-influenced new number by the veteran distinctively soulful voiced American singer-songwriter from Philadelphia from his forthcoming new album The Ones Ahead out on 28 July on Transgressive Records
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The Smile - Bending Hectic
Song of the Day: An extraordinary new 8-minute piece of emotional power, melodic string tuning, distinctive, ghostly vocals and a climactic coda from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood with Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet
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Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records
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Madeline Kenney forthcoming new LP A New Reality Mind
Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records
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Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever
Song of the Day: With array of twinkly electronics and dance beats by the British production duo of Aaron Miller and Robert Wheatley, an uplifting, reflective number featuring the Mancunian poet about making the most of your time when life is short
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Magia Bruta’s latest album, Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records
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From the video for Snowapple’s I, CYBORG
Song of the Day: Innovative, strange, dark and mesmeric, this new single by the Netherlands-based international art collective focuses gender and politics through a cyborg prism with beguiling, gradually building alt pop, art rock, cyberpunk and sonic synth landscapes
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Palehound’s next album, Eye On The Bat, is out on July
Song of the Day: Clever, witty, candid, tender, self-detrimental, finely constructed indie by the Brooklyn artist Ellen Kempner with a song of shamefully realising “Yes, you ARE the asshole” from their new album, Eye on the Bat, out Polyvinyl Records in July.
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Holly Walker
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Margaret Glaspy, another track about feeling uncertain how to respond over a relationship, here with the beautifully haunting voice and melody of London singer-songwriter
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Teenage Fanclub
Song of the Day: With distinctive rich vocal harmonies and warm guitars, the veteran Scottish indie alt-rock band return with a single from their 13th studio album, Nothing Lasts Forever out in September on PeMa and Merge
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Saya Gray’s new EP, QWERTY
Song of the Day: The opening track of the London experimental artist’s new 7-track EP is an extraordinary mix of rippling piano, electronica, thunderous drums and oddball-beautiful vocal harmonies
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Joyeria’s EP, FIM
Song of the Day: Killer lyrics on a timeless subject with deadpan delivery, a sprinkle of woodwind and an Elvis reference from brilliant London-based Canadian singer-songwriter, reminiscent of Smog/Bill Callahan and Silver Jews with another great song from his latest EP, FIM, out on Speedy Wunderground / PIAS
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From the animated video for Angelo De Augustine’s The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
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CLT DRP
Song of the Day: Striking, powerful, turbulent punk/electronica single by the Brighton trio with searingly candid lyrics about a stormy post-breakup state of mind, shouty vocals and electrifying stop-start rhythms
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Things are looking up: Ben Howard
Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?
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Genevieve Dawson
Song of the Day: Taken from her new five-track EP, What's Mine Is Yours, out on 26 May, a beautiful new number by the London-based singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh
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Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity
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Clever licks: Anna Erhard
Song of the Day: The title track of the the Berlin artist’s latest album is beautifully crisp, oddball German electro-pop with clever licked, jagged guitars, quirky lyrics and ironic, nostalgic detail about a summer camping trip
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From the video for Celebrate Me by Baxter Dury
Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World
Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds
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