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We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset by Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming EP We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset, strikingly original electronica by the young Manchester composer in a track that plays with identity through rhythmic, stop-start disassociated vocals, beats and French horn
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Arad’s EP Augmented Fantasy
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Augmented Fantasy, quirky, inventive electronica by the Irish artist Dara Smith joined by the voice of Stine Omar, one half of the Berlin-based pop outfit EASTER, and here released on Berlin label Voitex
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Gentle Party
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming LP by the Vancouver band is wondrously original psychological creation about bad behaviour and whether you can separate the art from the artist, featuring vocals, harp, violin, and synth effects
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Song of the Day: Transcendent, dream-like pop about veganism and a key difference between plants and animals, by the now London-based Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara, who previously founded the Maloya-influenced psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui
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Emmy Hartman
Song of the Day: Fresh, infectiously melodic, and mostly made of a capella vocals, this recent single comes from 22-year-old Emmy Hartman from Cleveland, Ohio, who made her name placing her cover versions on TikTok, and is particularly inspired by Björk's album Medulla
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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Cascade Theory by LYR
Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second
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50/50
Song of the Day: Newly signed to Rough Trade, the London duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye return with a pulsating new single and that pushes the boundaries of electronic and dance music with a fidgety beat, bleeps and stuttery vocal effects
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Measured compositions: Drift by Marco Nyberg
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s entropy-themed song by Big Thief, a cinematic recent single by the Helsinki-based Finnish electronic composer with a rippling, driving, dynamic number capturing a sense of things drifting apart then coming back together again
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
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Rozi Plain
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
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Duval Timothy and Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: Slow, beautiful, rich, multi-layered vocal harmonies with a resonant gospel style and part of a 9-track EP recorded by the two singers between London and Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Leif’s new album 9 Airs
Song of the Day: The opening track of recently released album 9 Airs brings mesmeric rhythmic, electronica mixing with more acoustic strings to produce a dream-like, meditative instrumental journey by the Welsh, Bristol-based artist Leif Knowles
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Proc Fiskal’s second album Siren Spine Sysex
Song of the Day: Taken from the album Siren Spine Sysex, a mesmerising collage of synth sounds and voices by Joe Power, the Edinburgh electronica artist, who incorporates local field recordings and distorts snippets Gaelic, Irish and English folk music via the prism of pop
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George Fitzgerald - Ultraviolet
Song of the Day: Slowly building, then evoking a high-speed train passing through a vivid landscape, this vibrant new instrumental single by the English electronic artist is his first new music since the 2018 album All That Must Be
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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