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Dublin’s Lankum return, bringing a new dimension to Specials classic
Song of the Day: An extraordinarily haunting and powerful release by the experimental Irish folk band with a cover of the often topical 1981 Specials classic number, now with a different dimension of drone sounds, strings, rich vocal harmonies, piano and a climax of rippling synths and beats, released on Rough Trade
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Tunng - Anoraks
Song of the Day: Following their acclaimed, 20th anniversary celebratory latest album, Love You All Over Again, the British folktronica band return with a gorgeous, gentle, psychedelic story-song, featuring the voice of co-writer Sam Genders, and released on Full Time Hobby
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Stella Donnelly’s upcoming album Love and Fortune
Song of the Day: Beautiful, delicate, reflective piano folk-pop about period of separation, difficulty and loneliness by the Australian singer/songwriter heralding her upcoming third album Love and Fortune, out on 7 November via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Song of the Day: A beautiful, moving, gently old-fashioned new version of an older song by the veteran US-born Canadian trans singer with that distinctive, charming voice, heralding the forthcoming album, Laughter In Summer, out on 6 February 2026 via Transgressive Records. Let Us Dance was previously released as a synth-based version on the 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies
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The New Eves - Red Brick / Whale Station
Song of the Day: Following their excellent debut LP in August, The New Eve Is Rising, the Brighton experimental quartet return with with an arresting mix of spoken word and lo-fi folk-rock, developed from a jam and a poem about a trip to New York, and out on Transgressive Records
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Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Song of the Day: Following her latest album, Altogether Stranger, out earlier this year, the bright-voiced American indie DIY folk-pop singer’s new single, out on Sub Pop, is a fabulously uplifting bluesy number with vintage drum machine, her signature Omnichord, driving rhythm guitar stylish backwards soloing of her producer and accompanist, Guy Blakeslee
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Ólöf Arnalds
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union
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Steve Gunn
Song of the Day: Following this year’s instrumental album Music for Writers, the prolific Brooklyn singer-songwriter returns with a new release, and a beautiful, serene, acoustic number with guitar, chamber strings and woodwind that opens Daylight Daylight, out on 7 November via No Quarter Records
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Blue Bendy - Poke
Song of the Day: Innovative, enthralling, all-a-swirl, vividly passionate acoustic-experimental indie-folk-art-rock by the south-east London band, recently released on Practise Music and their first single since last year’s debut album So Medieval
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Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union
Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union
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Hannah Frances’s upcoming album Nested In Tangles
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, vocal-echoing, hauntingly strange, beautiful and woozily wondrous mix of avant-folk and jazz by the acclaimed Chicago composer, vocalist, guitarist, and poet, heralding her upcoming new album, Nested In Tangles, out on 10 October by Fire Talk Records
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Prewn - System
Song of the Day: Wonderfully woozy and alternative chamber folk-pop and psychedelic rock builds in this title track to the upcoming new album by the band led by Izzy Hagerup from Northampton, Massachusetts, due out on 3 October via Exploding in Sound Records
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Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You
Song of the Day: Menacing in title, but beautiful in sound, melody and execution, this extraordinarily powerful, slow-build number by the Sydney, Australia singer-songwriter is a revenge murder ballad, a cathartic retelling of Beard’s experience of sexual assault
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Olivia Barton’s upcoming album Myself and For You.
Song of the Day: Gentle, reflective indie-folk number of candid, unrequited love and yearning by the singer-songwriter from Orlando, Florida, heralding her forthcoming next album For Myself and For You, out on 10 October
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Tuxis Giant’s upcoming album You Won’t Remember This
Song of the Day: Beautifully intricate guitar work and a catchy melody by the Boston and Brooklyn indie-folk band fronted by Matt O’Connor whose songs candidly and sensitively capture themes such as selective tricks of memory and their gender journey, taken from their forthcoming album, You Won’t Remember This, out on 15 August via Worry Bead Records
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Flock of Dimes aka Jenn Wasner
Song of the Day: Beautiful gentle bittersweet acoustic single by the Baltimore indie musician and singer-songwriter aka Jenn Wasner heralding her upcoming new album, The Life You Save out on 10 October, via Sub Pop Records
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Whitney - Dandelions
Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL
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Jeff Tweedy’s upcoming album Twilight Override
Song of the Day: This eclectic, cross-rhythmic but beautiful evocative folk-rock single by the Wilco frontman is whimsical tale of a man who trips over a flower and dies, yet also celebrates the power of nature, and heralds his upcoming triple solo album, Twilight Override, out on 26 September via dBpm Records
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Emma Harner
Song of the Day: A classy, clever new folk-pop number about defying a toxic relationship, featuring with intricate arpeggiated guitar playing by the singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, taken from her recent debut EP Taking My Side
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Mina Tindle
Song of the Day: A delicate, passionate, defiant new single by the French pop and folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, aka Pauline de Lassus, joined by the American singer-songwriter on vocals and The National’s Bryce Dessner on guitars, out on S76
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