Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
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Magdalena Bay’s Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Young Gun Silver Fox, further rich, luxuriant synth-pop funk with a spacey, dreamy feel by LA-based Florida duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin from their latest album Mercurial World (Deluxe), out on Luminelle
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Technology + Teamwork: Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester. Photo: Luke Atkinson
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy new disco electro-pop by the duo of Sarah Jones and drummer Anthony Silvester in a number about an imagined conversation between two people who have drifted apart
Read moreSong of the Day: Aircooled - Supermotodisco
The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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Fujiya & Miyagi
Song of the Day: The title track of the forthcoming ninth studio album by the UK Brighton-formed band is a finely formed, catchy piece of electro-funk-disco-pop that touches both on the theme of tiny differences in human genetics as well as perceived subtle musical variations
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Playfully pleasing to the eye and ear: Peel Dream Magazine
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s dreamy number by Alice Boman to another dreamy sound of marrying the visual and aural with gentle drums and keyboards, in this gently catchy, and softly sung number by the LA-based artist Joseph Stevens for the forthcoming third album, Pad, out 7 October on Tough Love Recordings/Slumberland Records
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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
Read moreSong of the Day: Louis Cole – I'm Tight
Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght
Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion
Read moreSong of the Day: The Umlauts – Another Fact
The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
Read moreSong of the Day: LUNGE: Off With Their Heads
LUNGE: Viva Seifert and Mark ‘Arp’ Cleveland
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky synth-pop with a retro 80s feel, shades of OMD and high vocals somewhere between Associates and Kate Bush, this new single about severance and letting go is by the duo of Viva Seifert and Mark “Arp” Cleveland
Read moreSong of the Day: Leftfield – Pulse
Leftfield’s forthcoming fourth studio album
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British electronic duo of Neil Barnes and Adam Wren in this mesmeric clever dancefloor number that has a wobbly echo of the classic 1990s single Phat Planet, and comes from the forthcoming album This is What We Do
Read moreSong of the Day: U.S. Girls – So Typically Now
Lip-sync construction worker from the video for So Typically Now
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy, but also scathing electro-pop by New York’s Meg Remy about the cultural vacuum left by the mass exodus from wealthy Brooklyn residents to Kingston in upstate New York, leading to a real estate boom
Read moreSong of the Day: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom - Edge Of The Edge
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 moreSong of the Day: Stereolab - Robot Riot
Stereolab’s forthcoming new compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks
Song of the Day: Newly released for a forthcoming rarities compilation, but originally written in 1995, this classic krautrock-influenced number by the avant-pop band of Laetitia Sadier and co was originally written for to complement a sculpture made by the band’s artist collaborator, Charles Long, on 1995’s Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
Read moreSong of the Day: Kode9 – Torus
Song of the Day: Taken from his new album Escapology, the first since 2019’s Nothing, an extraordinary, incomparable piece of electronica with oddball rhythmic chords, beats and and scratchy trickling sounds by the alias of Hyperdub record label Steve Goodman
Read moreSong of the Day: Gabe Gurnsey - Push
Gabe Gurnsey with Tilly Morris
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album Diablo, and a follow-up to his debut, Physical, the Manchester artist and founder of duo Factory Floor, releases a catchy, passionate blend of old-school electronica and 808-inspired dance music
Read moreSong of the Day: Four Tet - Scythe Master
Eat Your Own Ears’ new compilation EP1
Song of the Day: A joyously intricate new number mixing keyboards, beats and more acoustics from a thumb piano to hammered dulcimer quality, by the British electronic artist Kieran Hebden, taken from a new limited edition release from the label Eat Your Own Ears Recordings, EP1
Read moreSong of the Day: Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers
Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers
A beautiful four-part piece by the Scottish musician and composer blending the sounds of piano, harp, cello, violin and vocals with electronics as part of the summer 2022 Superbloom project played at site of wildflowers grown around the moat of The Tower of London
Read moreSong of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Is it Me or is it You?
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Is it Me or is it You?
Song of the Day: With interweaving vocals and beats, fantastically shapeshifting experimental electronica from the forthcoming album Let's Turn It Into Sound by the LA-based composer, performer and producer from Orcas Island, Washington State
Read moreSong of the Day: Stromae - Fils de Joie
Stromae’s third album, Multitude
Song of the Day: An extraordinary song of harpsichord, chanson, and hip hop, as well as its video, from the recent third album, Multitude, by the innovative Belgian artist of Rwandan Tutsi descent, Paul Van Haver, about a fictional tribute to a sex worker and maternal heroic figure who has passed away, here playing the part of a leader delivering a speech from a podium
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