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The Mars Volta’s Blacklight Shine
Song of the Day: After 10 years of schisms and side projects, the Texan prog-rock experimental duo of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and band finally reunite with an unique blend of funk, rock, Cuban and Afro-Cuban drumming and English and Spanish lyrics
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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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Clas Tuuth – Say You Did EP cover
Song of the Day: Crisp, catchy, mesmeric electronica, this experimental new single by the London artist is co-written with and features Kate Stables from This Is The Kit. It’s also title track from the new EP, out on Need No Water Records
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Jesca Hoop
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment
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Regina Spektor’s upcoming album: Home, Before and After
Song of the Day: Picked a few weeks ago for our playlists for songs about bees, and while not mentioning the insect, certainly within the interpretation, this inventively striking strings-and-brass new single about relentless collection by the Russian-American singer-songwriter is from her forthcoming album Home, Before and After
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Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn
Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings
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Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon
Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"
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Cover of the forthcoming Rubber Oh album Space Craft
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Space Craft, a psychedelic-pop-rock number of rich riffing and vocal harmonies, dark menace, electronic wobbles and space adventure by Newcastle’s Sam Grant – guitarist and producer from Pigs x 7. Out on Rocket Recordings
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Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby
Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry
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Mogwai’s latest single Boltfor
Song of the Day: A majestic standalone single by the Glasgow alternative rock band known for their powerful, epic instrumentals, this one a prime example, accompanied by a beautiful video
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A visual taste of Pan Amsterdam’s Rigatoni
Song of the Day: Produced by Damu The Fudgemunk (Earl Davis), another food-titled piece of highly original hip hop by the American rapper Leron Thomas, here with a chess-move theme, and doing a jazz trumpet solo at the end
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The debut QUINQUIS album SEIM
Song of the Day: Translated from the Breton language as Nothing Anymore, and from the solo artist Émilie Tiersen’s forthcoming debut album SEIM, a mesmeric, mysterious electronica number with beautiful vocals and a rasping background element
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Stars Planets Dust Me album by A Mountain of One
Song of the Day: Taken from the recently released album Stars Planets Dust Me, a clever piece of piano-based experimental pop, disco and funk with a skipping rhythm and semi-talking delivery reminiscent of Ian Dury, by the trio of Mo Morris, Leo Elstob and vocalist/pianist Zeb Jameson
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Gwenno
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Tresor released on 1 July 2022, a mesmeric single of psych-folk-pop by the Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Mererid Saunders as usual in her native tongue, meaning The New Room
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IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly album cover
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Butterflies by Wunderhorse, another flutter now with this striking electronica and guitar title track from a new album by Portuguese artist and Terrain Ahead label founder Ivo Pacheco, here with singer Abyss X aka Evangelia Lachianina
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Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health
Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records
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Jockstrap
Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye
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Sunny disposition: Yves Jarvis
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming fourth album The Zug out on 13 May, a delightful sunny acoustic number about self-development as a musician by the Canadian experimental pop artist Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet, previously known as Un Blonde
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Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once
Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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