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Tindersticks
Song of the Day: Following yesterday's Prince of Tears by Baxter Dury, let's move onto another deep-voiced, orchestral-backed song of wonderful melancholy by the Nottingham band from their second album in 1995
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Baxter Dury … a different chip of the old blockhead
Song of the Day: Sounding uncannily like his dad Ian in the speaking department, but producing entirely different music and his own, more relaxed style, the opening and title tracks from his 2017 album are deeply personal and still laced with aggression, irony, self-loathing and dark humour
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The mischievous Weaves
Song of the Day: How do you create music that's brilliantly clever but also accessible, deeply meaningful but tongue-in-cheek shallow? The indefinably wonderful Canadian band seem to have the recipe
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Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold
Song of the Day: Moving into new fox territory, let's enjoy two powerful and emotionally charged tracks spanning the career so far of the Seattle indie folk band that exemplify their distinctive vocal harmony style
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Don't let yourself go hungry, fox in the snow …
Song of the Day: A wintry scene for an equally wintry day, and continuing our creatural theme, a melancholy but beautiful number from the Glasgow band's second album of 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister
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Bdy_Prts's Jenny and Jill take it to the top, and beyond …
Song of the Day: From our recent hoof-themed trot on SOTD, it's time to take a related sidestep to similar body parts in the from of the indie pop Glasgow band fronted by the twinkle-toed Jenny Reeve and Jill O'Sullivan
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Deerhoof
Song of the Day: Our continuing theme certainly behooves a song or two from this wonderfully quirky band hailing from San Francisco
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Goat Girl
Song of the Day: Continuing our hungry bearded quadruped theme, let's turn to the young and entertaining south London female group composed of Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and L.E.D
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The Mountain Goats, fronted by John Darnielle
Song of the Day: With 16 studio albums since 1994, so many interesting, varied and clever songs to choose from the California indie-folk band fronted by John Darnielle, but how about this goth parody from 2017?
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Tall Poppies. Today's pick.
Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing standing theme, a different take by these pop indie Australian identical twin sisters about being stood up by a date – on a weekday evening – and not wanting to wait until Friday …
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Kevin Morby and co from the video to I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
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Clem Snide, from the cover of their 199 album, Your Favorite Music
Song of the Day: Among the Boston alt-country band's greatest songs, taken from their mischievously titled second album of 1999, Your Favorite Music, and written by singer Eef Barzelay, it trips along with a sensitive, wistful, lazily-paced beauty
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alj-j cover for 3WW
Song of the Day: alt-J’s third album is full of oddities and wonders, but today’s pick is the album’s opener, the sort of fusion of disparate elements that we love at the Song Bar, mixing PlayStation imagery with Shakespeare and folk
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The Cesarians …
Song of the Day: Glorious, theatrical pop from the north London group fronted by singer Charlie Finke and keyboard player Justine Armatage
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Sleater-Kinney's forever animated Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, rendered literally this way for the video of A New Wave
Song of the Day: One of the newest songs from the band formed in 1994 by the Washington pair of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, named after a street in they home town of Lacey, this typically quick-witted indie number, harking back to teenage angst, is taken from their 2015 album No Cities To Love in the Sub Pop label
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Courtney Barnett … mischievous.
Song of the Day: We recently highlighted Barnett's new album with Kurt Vile, but here let's enjoy a couple of tracks from Taken from the witty 2015 album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, out on Milk! Records
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Superfood … stimulating.
Song of the Day: Two sample tracks from the Birmingham indie band currently on tour, the first from 2014, the second from this year, and attracting increasing large and young audiences. They mix driving 90s indie with humorous lyrics, bringing a raucous and entertaining mixture of Blur, Space, Kasabian and Gorillaz
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The Breeders are back
Song of the Day: To celebrate the coming first new song recorded by original Breeders lineup for 24 years a double dose from Kim Deal and co, first from the acclaimed album Last Splash (1993) and a new song which carries the classic ingredients – snarling lyrics, the power chords, the humour, the frenetic energy
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The Fall, with one of many of Mark E Smith's lineups.
Song of the Day: So many to choose, but few match this one for sheer catchy, direct, repetitive brilliance. From 1999's The Marshall Suite, and co-written with Canadian guitarist and keyboard player Julia Nagle, as riffs and choruses go it's up there with the very best
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DUDS' new album Of A Nature Or Degree
Song of the Day: Post-punk pop meets prog meets jazz? Manchester's cutting-edge northern lathe has turned out another bunch of true originals, bringing short-sharp songs of jagged guitar, percussion, cornet, and vocal
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