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: Saya Gray – If There's No Seat In The Sky (Will You Forgive Me?)
Saya Gray’s latest album is titled 19 Masters
Song of the Day: An outstanding and unusual fusion of folk, pop, country and psychedelia by the Japanese-Canadian singer-songwriter interlacing strong acoustic guitar chords and arpeggios, explosive drums, interwoven voices and birdsong
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: 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: Sudan Archives – NBPQ (Topless)
Sudan Archives
Song of the Day: Striking, pacy, rhythmical, with interweaving vocal loops of vocals and instruments, this fabulous latest single by the LA-based singer-songwriter, violinist and rapper is about insecurities forced on a brown skin Black female by American beauty standards
Read moreSong of the Day: The Mars Volta – Blacklight Shine
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
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
Read moreClas Tuuth – Say You Did (featuring Kate Stables)
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has a Mother
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Regina Spektor – Up The Mountain
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Sylvan Esso: Sunburn
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics
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"
Read moreSong of the Day: Rubber Oh - Hyperdrive Fantasy
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Crack Cloud - Please Yourself
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Mogwai - Boltfor
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Pan Amsterdam - Rigatoni
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
Read moreSong of the Day: QUINQUIS - Netra Ken
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
Read moreSong of the Day: A Mountain of One - Surrender
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Gwenno – An Stevel Nowydh (The New Room)
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
Read moreSong of the Day: IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly (featuring Abyss X)
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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