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Japanese Breakfast
Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans
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The Nightingales, fronted by Robert Lloyd
Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records
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Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey
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Tunde Adebimpe’s upcoming album, Thee Black Boltz
Song of the Day: Following the single, Magnetic, late last year, the TV On The Radio frontman and actor returns with another striking number, heralding his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, out on 18 April via Sub Pop Records
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Yukimi’s upcoming debut solo album - For You
Song of the Day: A beguiling, gentle, vivid single of intertwining delicate vocals, accordion and strings by the singer and co-founder of acclaimed Swedish experimental band Little Dragon, heralding her debut solo LP, For You, out on 28 March on Ninja Tune
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Florist’s upcoming album, Jellywish
Song of the Day: Gentle, beautiful, reflective indie-folk by the Catskill Mountains / New York quartet of singer and songwriter Emily Sprague with Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro and Felix Walworth, heralding their forthcoming album, Jellywish, out on 4 April on Double Double Whammy
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Black Country, New Road - Besties
Song of the Day: An eccentric, eclectic, catchy new single about friendship by the Cambridge-formedm London-based British experimental band mixing folk and indie with dabbles of harpsichord, saxophone and more, heralding their upcoming third album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April on Ninja Tune
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SASAMI with Clairo (left)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, bittersweet single taking inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads with added ripples of electronica, rock guitar and intertwining vocals with the acclaimed fellow American singer-songwriter, Claire Cottrill, heralding Sasami’s forthcoming album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out on 7 March via Domino Records
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Snapped Ankles
Song of the Day: The mysterious, masked London electro-postpunk band returns with a catchy, driving, dark, dystopian-flavoured new single, heralding their fourth LP Hard Times Furious Dancing, out on 28 March on The Leaf Label
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Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly / Brutes
Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings
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Goat + MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Song of the Day: Meaning “I’m Back” in Swahili, an excellent, energised fusion of break beats, Afrobeat, fuzz psych and hip-hop by the mysterious masked Swedish band and the Kenya-born, Uganda-raised high-speed rapper
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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Richard Russell’s forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album - Temporary
Song of the Day: A beautifully odd, ghostly, eclectic track by the producer and XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, joined by the south London experimental rock trio, and heralding his forthcoming album Temporary, out on released 28 February via XL Recordings
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Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming album by the innovative Berlin indie artist is beautifully upbeat and serene and style, but is inspired by deeply personal and sorrowful story from her life. Girl Missing is due out on 21 February via Moshi Moshi Records
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Tunng - Snails
Song of the Day: Delicious, delicate, detailed and poetic, it’s a beautiful acoustic new single by the British folktronica pioneers, heralding their new album Love You All Over Again, which in part celebrates 20 years of making music, out on 24 January on Full Time Hobby
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DARKSIDE - S.N.C
Song of the Day: Instantly stylish, hooky, engaging funk and experimental rock with a distinct cavernous sound by the New York trio of Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, and new member Tlacael Esparza, heralding the band’s forthcoming third LP, Nothing, out on 28 February on Matador Records
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Panda Bear’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift
Song of the Day: Trumpets, a beautifully serene melody, with an eclectic, catchy Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry clip-clopping vibe and syncopated rhythm? It’s none other than the Animal Collective drummer and vocalist Noah Lennox, who returns with a new single, taken from from his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift, out on 28 February via Domino Records
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Loraine James
Song of the Day: Gentle, tender, soulful, crisply experimental new work by the innovative British electronica artist, here joined by the vocalist, musician and fellow south Londoner Coby Sey on the EP New Year's Substitution 3, made between Christmas and New Year
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Elea Calvet
Song of the Day: Slow, smoky, alluring, entrancing and dramatic, this is the title track of the new five-track EP by the eclectic Bristol singer-songwriter released on Hyssop & Victoria
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Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)
Song of the Day: A fabulous fusion of P-funk, jazz, pop and more about seeking refuge from the winter or any darker times, in this recent release by the Leeds-born British singer and multi-instrumentalist joined by the American comedian and musician and out on Brownswood Recordings
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