Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto
Read moreSong of the Day: The Pictish Trail - Natural Successor
Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail
Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original
Read moreSong of the Day: Tirzah: Tectonic
Tirzah’s recent new album, Colourgrade
Song of the Day: Minimal, mysterious, intimate, experimental electronica by the singer-songwriter Tirzah Mastin from Essex about the capturing the invisible flux between people, and is taken from her new album Colourgrade, out on Domino
Read moreSong of the Day: Helado Negro - Outside the Outside
Far In - the new album by Helado Negro
Song of the Day: A serenely catchy, friendship-themed electro-pop single by the Florida-born, Brooklyn based artist Roberto Carlos Lange, who experimentally mixes folk and Latin influences emanating from his Ecuadorian parents
Read moreSong of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Dogma
Circuit des Yeux
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album -io (22 October on Matador Records), this haunting, dark, experimental number by the Chicago band has a hallucinatory flavour to the topic of blindly believing everything you hear
Read moreSong of the Day: Horsey - Lagoon
Debonair: Horsey’s latest album
Song of the Day: A flamboyant swirl of prog, jazz, post-punk, dynamic changes of pace and volume, and more than awash with visceral metaphor, this strangely transfixing love song by suave and showy south London quartet typifies their latest album, Debonair
Read moreSong of the Day: Ben Zaidi - Ben Zaidi’s Blues
Multi-layered: Ben Zaidi’s Blues
Song of the Day: The Seattle singer-songwriter’s new single is infused with a crisp rhythm, gentle acoustic riffs and intelligent lyrics about a family bereavement launching into heap of detail about life problems, and a sensitive voice reminiscent of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Read moreSong of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love
Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love
Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula
Read moreSong of the Day: Dr. Joy - Midtown
Dr. Joy’s self-titled debut album
Song of the Day: Taken from, and typifying their just released self-titled 8-track debut album, this wonderfully woozy, cosmic psychedelic number by the Toronto collective has a collage of influences including ‘cubism, dadaism, Baltic disco, Italian soundtracks, and babbling brooks’
Read moreSong of the Day: Koreless - White Picket Fence
Song of the Day: With an extraordinary video directed by FKA twigs, this equally unclassifiable, soaring song mixing harpsichord, electronica and a quasi-medieval madrigal-style vocal comes from the London band’s debut album Agar
Read moreSong of the Day: Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture - Leywole
Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: An exhilarating crossover by the 33-year-old singer and percussionist from Guinea joining forces with the electronica duo from Margate in a number that means "whatever" in Coniagui, inspired by watching a strong woman reject the advances of a pushy man in the street
Read moreSong of the Day: Darkside - Lawmaker
Darkside’s recent new album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A menacing, strange narrative, possibly about Covid, a power-crazed doctor and popularism, and a North African vibe crossed with slow psych rock in a film noir soundtrack feel all comes in the mysterious work of New York duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington and their extraordinary new album Spiral, out on Matador Records
Read moreSongs of the Day: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Weekend Run / That Life
From the video for Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s That Life
Songs of the Day: To kick off the weekend, two new singles by Ruban Nielson and the New Zealand psych rock band for three years, bring a new hue to summer, the latter inspired by the Hieronymus Bosch Painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Read moreSong of the Day: El Michels Affair - Murkit Gem (from Yeti Season)
Yeti Season …
Song of the Day: A wonderfully oddball mix of funk, soul, hip hop, Turkish, Asian and jazz styles by the group founded by New York-based bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels, here about the famous mythical Himalayan creature, and featuring Hindi singer Piya Malik
Read moreSong of the Day: Goat - Queen of the Underground
Goat return with their compilation of rare and unreleased, Headsoup
Song of the Day: Very welcome first new material in five years from the stylish Swedish alternative band, here serving up a heavy dose of psychedelic rock with meaty guitar, mystical vocals and flute, from their forthcoming album Headsoup, which comprises rare and unreleased material
Read moreSong of the Day: Masayoshi Fujita - Morocco
Masayoshi Fujita
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Balimaya Project, more beautiful sounds, this time at the hands of the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player who turns to the marimba for this piece from his album Bird Ambience
Read moreSong of the Day: Lucie Antunes - LNM
Lucie Antunes
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Myd, more French pop, this time in mesmerically alternative form of non-verbal vocalisations, throaty then moving into full harmonies laid over catchy beats and electronica by the Parisian classically contemporary-trained drummer and percussionist
Read moreSong of the Day: Hilotrons - Theme from Lonely Cinema
Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema
Song of the Day: Following yesterdays’ Cinétique, inspired by films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, horror, science fiction, and westerns, Canadian Mike Dubue’s exciting, evocative instrumental is about disconnection from reality while watching the world through a screen, and comes from trilogy of records titled Lonely Cinema
Read moreSong of the Day: Jinjé - Cinétique
Open Unity EP by Jinjé
Song of the Day: A fantasia of mesmerising electronica by Leeds musician Lee Malcolm, from the EP Open Unity, out on the Mesh label, with a kinetic-themed animated video by Lawrie Miller using the artwork of James Lacey
Read moreSong of the Day: Museum of Love - Marching Orders
Museum of Love
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life of Mammals, inspired by the Women’s March and a Don Cherry sound, a brilliantly percussive number by the New York duo of drummer and founding LCD Soundsystem member Pat Mahoney and musician Dennis McNany, aka Jee Day
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