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Yannick Ilunga, aka Petite Noir
Song of the Day: The Congolese musician joins forces with Florida trumpeter Theo Croker on this beautiful jazz-infused number about taking back your power from those who manipulate it, “a song to embrace harmony, reject division, and recognise that freedom comes from within."
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Totally wired: Miss Grit’s Follow The Cyborg
Song of the Day: The title track from New York musician Margaret Sohn’s debut album, an experimental fusion of electronica and fuzz guitar with sensual vocals, with a video in which she portrays her body in the cyber world
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Cinematic moments: Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra
Song of the Day: With vivid, cinematic lyrics, with a distinctive array of acoustic instruments, and wonderful vocal clarity, this folky ghost dance is the opening track to the forthcoming album by the Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian duo
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Albertine Sarges
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming new EP Family of Things EP, a quirky, witty, personal, talk-singing original and candid number about nicotine addiction and other self-confession oddities and struggles by the Berlin-based artist. Out on Moshi Moshi
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Steve Mason’s new single, No More, addresses British imperialism and the huge Brexit mistake
Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters
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Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus
Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH
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Leland Whitty’s forthcoming debut solo album, Anyhow
Song of the Day: A beautiful, evocative instrumental piece, by Toronto experimental jazz BadBadNotGood's saxophonist with shimmering, gliding sounds of strings, keyboards, bass and other playing from his bandmates, heralding Whitty’s debut solo LP, Anyhow, out on Innovative Leisure
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Hekla’s second album Xiuxiuejar
Song of the Day: Haunting, mesmeric, beautifully spooky sounds and voice by the Icelandic singer theremin player and cellist who with some upbringing in Barcelona and is also influenced by the Catalan language, this track the first from her latest album, Xiuxiuejar, out on Phantom Limb
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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
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Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale
Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering
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Ásgeir’s fifth studio album, Time On My Hands
Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent
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Sister Wives: Donna Lee, Rose Love, Lisa O’Hara, and Liv Willars
Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records
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Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, part of the Decius project
Song of the Day: Clubby, mesmeric, darkly addictive and laced with the Roland 808 and Chicago house by South London’s Trashmouth Records founders Liam and Luke May, Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London/ Warmduscher) and Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi, taken from the forthcoming Decius Vol. 1.
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Orbital brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll
Song of the Day: A brilliant riposte to the omnishambles of the ongoing British Conservative government and all those voters responsible who blame others, including immigrants, in a no-holds-barred mix of beats by Phil and Paul Hartnoll and incomparably biting delivery of Jason Williamson
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Young Fathers’ next LP Heavy Heavy is due on February 2023
Song of the Day: A brilliantly striking new single the innovative Edinburgh trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, from their forthcoming next album, Heavy Heavy, released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune
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Movulango aka Mozes Mosuse
Song of the Day: Dark, mysterious, psychedelic folk and woozy electronica by the Belgian musician and producer Mozes Mosuse aka Movulango from his forthcoming debut EP Mirror In Man, out on Soulwax’s DEEWEE label
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Copy that: the incomparable Fever Ray from the new video
Song of the Day: The first new song from Karin Dreijer since 2017 is a evocative, strange, eerie, haunting, offbeat electro-pop visualised by a goulish office party populated by zombie-like figures and a deadpan reference to National Cinnamon Roll Day
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June McDoom
Songs of the Day: Smoky, intense, ghostly and emotional, a double entry today by the New York singer-songwriter with two numbers decorated with guitar, piano, birdsong, and especially her beautiful, breathy voice, heralding a forthcoming eponymous album, out on Temporary Residence
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Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
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Mamalarky: Livvy Bennett, Michael Hunter
Song of the Day: Highly original post-punk psychedelic rock with a shiny, dream-pop vocal layer, and distinctive stop-star guitar, bass and percussion by the Atlanta and LA band, taken from their sophomore album Pocket Fantasy out on Fire Talk Records
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