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The two Swiss Cyrils: Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Song of the Day: The people! Wonderfully catchy krautrock-inspired electro-pop that began as a reaction to tourist overcrowding and since Covid has a nostalgic feel by the eccentric duo from Geneva, Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
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Tactics, the EP by Soccer96
Song of the Day: This synth-krautrock fusion of wonderfully droll apathetic humour comes via the synth-drums duo Danalogue and Betamax from The Comet Is Coming, with the dry delivery vocals of jazz experimentalist Alabaster dePlume
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Artwork for Rian Treanor’s new album File Under UK Metaplasm
Song of the Day: Extraordinary and unpredictable rhythmic electronica over a fast metronomic click makes up this vibrant new instrumental by the experimental musician and DJ from Rotherham, taken from his forthcoming second LP – File Under UK Metaplasm
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Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping
Song of the Day: This mind-bending number of brilliant, experimental cosmic jazz-electronica with wonky, twisting sonics and rhythm by London’s Nathan Curran-Tugg is a cavalcade of musical wit, infinite jest and energy from the new album Trans-Neptunia
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From the cover of Fragile X’s new EP, Lifetime
Song of the Day: A change of pace into a new collaboration between producer Dylan Chase (Caffeine Worldwide) and vocalist Inga Schunn is a vibrant mix of deep house beats, keyboards and flute, out on Bouquet Records
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From the cover of Polly Scattergood’s 2020 album, In This Moment
Song of the Day: Detailed description, fevered imagination, driving momentum, narrative style and dark intensity by the alternative electro-pop artist from Wivenhoe, Essex mark this title track from her latest, third album out on Future Paradise
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The cover of Sufjan Stevens’ 12-minute single
Song of the Day: After Janelle Monáe’s democracy-themed Turntables, two extraordinary new songs by the American singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album The Ascension, the first described as "a protest song against the sickness of American culture”
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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Song of the Day: Unstoppable bassline, fierce, driving energy, and uncompromising lyrics delivered in a talk/sing style by the British artist Tor Maries, this brilliant single has the punchy air of Sleaford Mods and also Róisín Murphy
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D. McCabe’s The Final Curtain single
Song of the Day: A fantastic blend of indie, psychedelia and electronica written, performed and produced by the Dublin multi-instrumentalist includes rolling drums, building to a crescendo of piano, exotic chants and remorseless, mysterious dread
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The cover of Number’s album, Binary
Song of the Day: Restlessly itchy and catchy, inspired by postpunk’s A Certain Ratio, Talking Heads, plus P funk and scratchy dub, this single is from a new band featuring Ali Friend and Rich Thair, co-founders and rhythm section of Red Snapper
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From the video for Moses Sumney’s Cut Me
Song of the Day: A death-defying cri de coeur of soul, electronica, jazz, topped with delicate piano chops, horns, ambulance sounds and the American singer’s extraordinary falsetto voice reminiscent of the fabulous David McAlmont with a dash of Prince
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Cover of Wilma Archer’s album A Western Circular
Song of the Day: Taken from the British producer and multi-instrumentalist’s album, A Western Circular, this wonderfully eclectic fusion of classical and jazz intertwined and MF Doom’s unmistakable rapping, tells a tale of a New York drug dealer
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Cover art of Dralms’ new album, Love Writes Itself
Song of the Day: Delicate, atmospheric, ghostly, rather beautiful pop with a melancholy, dark humour, this new single via solo project moniker of Canada's Christopher Smith comes from the new album Love Writes Itself
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Attawalpa – seeking elsewhere in a psychedelic bubble bath
Song of the Day: Seeking some existential escape? Then immerse yourself in this new, wonderfully otherworldly song by the Peruvian London-based artist whose work has echoes of Syd Barrett, from “a psychedelic bubble bath” EP
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From the video for Strange Habits. But what is the Metallica connection?
Song of the Day: How is this video connected to Metallica? A truly alternative release by the Danish producer and guitarist also known as Frederik Tao, mixing mellifluous riffs, restless percussive rhythms and jittery, high-pitched exclamatory vocals
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Alexandra Lost - cut-ups recycling of 20th-century popular culture
Song of the Day: This first single from debut LP by the Québec band created by Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis weaves 80s new wave, electronica, pop and a dash of waltz around a theme of lost youth and mutability through the prism of old silent film footage
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The Pictish Trail, aka Johnny Lynch, in thumb form
Song of the Day: Following Islet, more from Fire Records with some new work of otherworldly beauty from the artist also known as Johnny Lynch, electronica folk musician and resident on the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg
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Islet
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s Cate Le Bon to another Welsh band, a new song by the Powys trio from their forthcoming LP Eyelet, a mesmerising experimental whirl of electro-pop psychedelia
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Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon
Song of the Day: From their recent collaborative EP, Myths 004, a wonderfully offbeat piece by the unique Welsh singer-songwriter and frontman of the US Indie rock band Deerhunter, with a tale of fractured love and communication between secretary and boss
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