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Mogwai’s forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire
Song of the Day: Released in September, the first of two powerful, dynamic, stormy and serene singles so far heralding the veteran Glasgow experimental rockers’ forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire, out on 24 January 2025, on their label Rock Action Records
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Benjamin Brooker at work. (Photo: Trenity Thomas)
Song of the Day: Heralding LOWER, his first album in seven years, the innovative, eclectic, New Orleans-based American singer-songwriter returns with a dark, mysterious and unique mix of sounds of fuzz guitar, electronica, noise pop, hip-hop, ambient and indie rock, with a dream-like video
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Deradoorian - Digital Gravestone
Song of the Day: Dark, stirring, powerful, this scintillating, extraordinary new single by the New York multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer has rumbling bassline, a sleazy dirty sax sound, crystalline key stabs and jagged guitar lines, and heralds a new album out in 2025, and her first release on Fire Records
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Anna B Savage - Lighthouse
Song of the Day: An exquisite, tender, gentle, poetic, walking-pace new single decorated with piano, double bass and guitar and perfect intonations of the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang
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Caleb Kunle - Ease Your Strife
Song of the Day: A powerful, soaring, emotional soul number about by the troubles of his brother by the pure-voiced singer-songwriter also inspired by the three cities he calls home - Lagos, Laois and London, as well as words of the great Nina Simone: “Between a few worlds, I do belong.”
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KuleeAngee - Animated Love
Song of the Day: A fabulous toe-tapping, funk-disco, acid-house-influenced, talky-vocal indie-electronica groove debut by the Scottish duo of Duncan Grant and Keshav Kanabar, out on the Manchester indie label, Lab Records
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Kelora
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, shimmering, haunting psychedelic dream pop and cyber folk by the Glasgow-formed, London-based duo of Kitty Hall and Benedict Salter, heralding their new album, Sleepers, out on 10 February via True Panther Records
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Marie Davdison
Song of the Day: The Canadian DJ-producer, electronic musician and vocalist returns with a sassy, talky, catchy, witty electro-pop dance number heralding her new album, City of Clowns, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau out 28 February 2025, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label
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Sunny War
Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress
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Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe
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Decius: Birth Of A Smirk
Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher
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Squid: digging deep into new musical territory
Song of the Day: This epic, enigmatic experimental new track, featuring harpsichord sounds alongside intricate guitars, driving beats and menacing lyrics, heralds the Brighton art-rock-post-punk band’s third LP, Cowards, out in February 2025 on Warp Records
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Julia Holter (Photo: Camille Blake)
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, delicately quirky, synth-laden and gently percussive new single by the brilliantly innovative Los Angeles artist whose previous acclaimed works include the 2024 album Something in the Room She Moves and 2018’s Aviary
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Nitefire’s EP, Ameripop! out on Concord Records
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky, punchy post-punk by the young LA band with electo-pop ripples and echoes of New York’s LCD Soundsystem and the style of 90s Brit rockers Supergrass, taken from their new EP Ameripop!, now via Concord Records
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Ethel Cain - Punish
Song of the Day: Haunting, ethereal, dark, spiritual, otherworldly, and influenced by Georgian chant and Southern Goth, the latest single by the artist Hayden Anhedönia from Tallahassee, Florida, heralds her forthcoming new project, Perverts, out on Daughters of Cain Records
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LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, stripped back, electro-synth-post-punk by the popular New York band fronted by James Murphy with a new single serving as teaser for an as yet unfinished new album, out on Columbia Records
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Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - the album, is out on 7 February
Song of the Day: Springboarding a new approach and sound with her band, the New York artist’s new single, despite the dark, grief-stricken subject matter, is euphoric, and heralds her forthcoming album Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, out 7 February on Jagjaguwar
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Sorry - Waxwing
Song of the Day: A wonderfully warped and weird new single by the London-based experimental indie band, with bursts of static, spectral synths, dark humour chopped vocals from lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz and catchy pop hooks on the themes of desire and catharsis, plus a cheeky reference to a 1982 Toni Basil hit
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Tiberius b - New Life
Song of the Day: Strikingly original and new experimental pop by the London-based singer-songwriter who hails from Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada, who born Frank Belcourt. Out on Zelig Records
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Greentea Peng is back
Song of the Day: With a distinctive new fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, neo soul, dub, reggae, jazz, and psychedelia, south London artist Aria Wells returns after two years with a stylish number with a dark bassline, tinkling piano, and something of a manifesto about pure expression
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