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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
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Maja Lena
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s Regina Spektor nectar collecting song, two beautiful but melancholy floral referencing folk pop numbers, the former brand new and from forthcoming album Pluto, the latter from 2021’s album The Keeper by the half-Swedish and Stroud-based musician Marianne Parrish
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Sylvie’s forthcoming album, out in October, but currently available to pre-order and partly download
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow track of mid-70s Laurel Canyon-style songwriting by South Carolina’s Ben Schwab, here featuring the vocals of Sam Burton from a forthcoming self-titled album, and inspired by the discovery by Schwab of a box of 1975 tape recordings by his father John’s band, Mad Anthony
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Otherworldly and delicate: Florist
Song of the Day: An exquisitely otherworldly, delicate, shimmering folk-pop single with a space theme by the New York quartet featuring singer Emily Sprague, taken from their forthcoming 19-track self-titled album, out on Double Double Whammy
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Rachel Sermanni’s forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Seaside Haiku by Laura Veirs, another beautiful shoreline-themed number, by the Scottish signer-songwriter, the first with Courtney Harman, taken from her forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea, out on Jellygirl Records
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Laura Veirs
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming album, Found Light, a beautiful grungey folk-pop number by the singer-songwriter created from haiku poems written on a visit to the cold, windy beach of windy beach in Seaside, Oregon, and about coming to terms with being single
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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
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BATTS aka Tanya Batt
Song of the Day: A beautiful slow-burning new number suffused grief but also hope, from Melbourne singer-songwriter Tanya Batt, duetting here with Sharon Van Etten, whom she supported in Australia, both voices sublimely complementary
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Arooj Aftab
Song of the Day: An exquisite new song about sudden memory of an absent friend, by the Grammy Award-winning US-base sublime Pakistani singer and composer, best known for the song Mohabbat, joined here by the famous British-Indian-American Indian sitar player
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Nina Nastasia
Song of the Day: A lazy Sunday song? There’s so more going on here in this new single from American folk singer-songwriter, taken from her forthcoming seventh album, Riderless Horse, and first for 12 years since 2010’s Outlaster
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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Dana Gavanski
Song of the Day: Beautiful, upbeat new pop with an electro and folk flavour and an eccentric twist by the London-based Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album When It Comes, out on Full Time Hobby
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Helena Deland
Song of the Day: Stark, emotional and exquisite new single by the Vancouver-born, Montreal-based singer-songwriter with lyrics that touch on human fragility and mutability amid the crashing, timeless waves, all accompanied by a stunning video
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Midlake
Song of the Day: The Texas folk rock band return with a haunting, melancholy but warmly energetic track named after the amphitheatre site from the Woodstock festival, and taken from their forthcoming album For the Sake of Bethel Woods, their first since 2013’s Antiphon
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Grace Cummings
Song of the Day: From Grace Carter yesterday to another Grace today, also addressing and questioning the religious idea, with the Melbourne singer-songwriter'’s powerful, gritty, distinctive voice and acoustic guitar, taken from her forthcoming album Storm Queen
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Cascade Theory by LYR
Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second
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Liz Harris aka Grouper
Song of the Day: Taken from her new album Shade, an exquisitely delicate acoustic psychedelic folk number by the American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris, whose delivery has a delicious, dissolving quality, and has been releasing material since 2005
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Rozi Plain
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
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Proc Fiskal’s second album Siren Spine Sysex
Song of the Day: Taken from the album Siren Spine Sysex, a mesmerising collage of synth sounds and voices by Joe Power, the Edinburgh electronica artist, who incorporates local field recordings and distorts snippets Gaelic, Irish and English folk music via the prism of pop
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