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Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Song of the Day: Recently released alongside the track Adam & Steve, the innovative, alternative London indie band’s latest single combines post-punk, heavy rock, prog, and folk, decorated by violin and passionate vocal in a melange of melodious experiment, out on So Young Records
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Deki Alem - House Fire
Song of the Day: Stirring, dark, stylish hip-hop, trip-hop and dance music by the Swedish band fronted by Sammy and Johnny Boakye Bennett, with shades of The Prodigy and Faithless, heralding their upcoming debut album, Forget In Mass, out on Amuseio AB
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David Byrne returns in his own inimitable style, with an upcoming new album, Who Is The Sky?
Song of the Day: The ever innovative ex-Talking Heads frontman returns with a jaunty, restorative, upbeat new number capturing some universal human behaviour and emotions, heralding his new album, Who Is The Sky?, on out 5 September via Matador Records
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Water From Your Eyes: Nate Amos and Rachel Brown
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pace-changing, stylishly experimental indie rock with droll, clever delivery and shades of Deerhoof by the Brooklyn band of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, heralding their forthcoming album It's a Beautiful Place, out on 22 August via Matador Records
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Sudan Archives - DEAD
Song of the Day: With her first new music since the 2022 LP Natural Brown Prom Queen, the LA-based American experimental violinist, singer, and songwriter Brittney Denise Parks’ new single is written as an exploration of orchestral Black dance music and the parts of ourselves that are more human than machine, and vice versa
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Junior Brother
Song of the Day: Striking, mesmerically idiosyncratic, alternative, dark, flute-rich Irish folk by singer-songwriter aka Ronan Kealy from County Kerry, with a fantastical tale of modern madness, heralding his third album,The End, out on 5 September via Strap Originals
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Cate Le Bon in the video for Heaven Is No Feeling, directed by H Hawkline
Song of the Day: The groundbreaking, endlessly innovative and influential Welsh artist returns with a gorgeously woozy, rich noir, melancholy track draped in heartache, heralding her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out on 26 September via Mexican Summer
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Stealing Sheep - Found You
Song of the Day: Fun, vibrant, fizzy, percussive, and witty new work by the quirky, original Liverpool experimental pop trio of Emily Lansley, Luciana Mercer, and Rebecca Hawley, GLO (Girl Life Online) produced by Joseph Wills, out on 19 September on their new independent label G-IRL (Girl in Real Life)
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U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,
Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD
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Disiniblud’s Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith
Song of the Day: A magically inventive creation of interwoven, ethereal vocals, strings, piano, electronica and more in this fabulous new collaboration between the Brooklyn composers and multi-instrumentalists, heralding their self-titled debut album on 18 July via Domino’s Smugglers Way
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Kety Fusco featuring Iggy Pop - SHE
Song of the Day: “The harp is not heard as much.” That deep, unmistakable spoken voice of Iggy narrates this beautiful, intricate new instrumental by the Italian-Swiss harpist, heralding her new album BOHÈME out on 19 September via A Tree In A Field Records
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Kieran Hebden & William Tyler’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Song of the Day: The British Four Tet artist and American musician combine with a beautiful instrumental 11-minute cover of the Lyle Lovett song, fusing acoustic guitar and electronica, and heralding the pair’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, out on 19 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
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Elbow - Sober
Song of the Day: The Manchester/Bury band return with a catchy disco-funk groove track relating to Guy Garvey’s past relationship with alcohol, and taken from the upcoming EP Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP5), on 6 June, a follow-up to last year’s hit LP Audio Vertigo
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Alan Sparhawk
Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022
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Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?
Song of the Day: Powerful protest and dynamic, darkwave pop from the goth/post-punk duo of Johnathan Mooney (Los Angeles) and Christian Granquist (Stockholm) in this cinematic number about growing US schisms and emotional wreckage after the election return of Donald Trump
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Lucy Gooch
Song of the Day: A gorgeously soft, serene, floaty, pastoral, ethereal new single about self-renewal, inspired by rain, the simple act of drawing a bath and “particles forming”, using electronica, piano and textured, soaring vocals by the York artist, plus delicious guest sounds from cornetist Harry Furniss, heralding Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, out on 6 June via Fire Records
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Getdown Services: new EP Primordial Slot Machine
Song of the Day: A brilliantly droll, witty, catchy, eclectic new single mixing a glam-rock beat and a pub-piano accompaniment by the mischievous Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler, heralding their upcoming new EP, Primordial Slot Machine, out on 6 June via Breakfast Records
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Kaeto
Song of the Day: Stylish, shimmering, dark pop by the Scottish singer-songwriter with a co-written number with Mathias Wang about language and how perspective shapes meaning and inspired by Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood, out on Polydor/Republic Universal
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Avalon Emerson - On It Goes
Song of the Day: The inventive American DJ and producer returns in the latest single of her Perpetual Emotion Machine project with bouncy, quirky dance track, a sped-up reworking of the gospel soul of Storm Queen number, out on Dead Oceans
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Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: A magical, strikingly original staccato-and-smooth vocal blend of traditional West African, folk and electronica by the Guinea-born, now Margate-based, singer and multi-instrumentalist in a song about his teenage years of life-changing relocation, from his forthcoming debut album Love From The Sea on 26 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
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