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From the video for Fear by Jacquelin Tucci
Song of the Day: Darkly humorous and quirky shoegaze by the Toronto singer-songwriter about the fears and paranoias of modern life, especially in 2020, from her forthcoming debut EP – Jungle Sounds
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The Sticks by The Cool Greenhouse
Song of the Day: The city or the sticks? A rock or a hard place? This first single from the forthcoming debut album and an older number marry driving krautrock, oddball psychedelia and echoes of The Fall with fabulous ironic humour and idiosyncratic, killer phrases
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Attawalpa – seeking elsewhere in a psychedelic bubble bath
Song of the Day: Seeking some existential escape? Then immerse yourself in this new, wonderfully otherworldly song by the Peruvian London-based artist whose work has echoes of Syd Barrett, from “a psychedelic bubble bath” EP
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Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
Cover for Peaness’s latest single
Song of the Day: A mischievous band name with a fresh line in indie-fuzz-pop, the female trio from Chester’s latest number with a characteristic ringing guitar riffs and vocal harmonies refers to work interconnectedness
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Keep scrubbing. Rudi Zygadlo
Song of the Day: What holds society together? “Everyone can see it, but we’re all afraid to say it, ‘cos it’s such a risky business that the whole damn place is silent.” Could be virally topical. A quirky, original song by mixing electronica and rock with a dash of Frank Zappa
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Wry action with Sports Team
Song of the Day: It’s all just lies … This catchy, catch-all cri-de-coeur of upbeat indie wit from the British six-piece band fronted by Alex Rice has stop-start echoes of the 90s and 00s buzz of Weezer, Franz Ferdinand and Pulp
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From the video for Strange Habits. But what is the Metallica connection?
Song of the Day: How is this video connected to Metallica? A truly alternative release by the Danish producer and guitarist also known as Frederik Tao, mixing mellifluous riffs, restless percussive rhythms and jittery, high-pitched exclamatory vocals
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Mute Choir’s debut album, Silent Conversations, is out now
Song of the Day: Crisp, full-throated funk-indie rock-pop from the fairly new Toronto band of Sam Arion, Milan Sarkadi and Iris Waters, with a song about the danger of how fear and negativity can overcome your spirit
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Alexandra Lost - cut-ups recycling of 20th-century popular culture
Song of the Day: This first single from debut LP by the Québec band created by Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis weaves 80s new wave, electronica, pop and a dash of waltz around a theme of lost youth and mutability through the prism of old silent film footage
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Cover of Clémentine March’s new album
Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’
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Song of the Day: Is there gold in those hills? Perhaps not the precious metal kind, but the story of a dominant sex worker in the Dawson City, Yukon gold rush is the inspiration for this indie rock band fronted by the Toronto singer
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Freya Beer
Song of the Day: The thunder of hoof, hot, heavy breath, and the swish of mane, today’s song by the London-born singer-songwriter is inspired by Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty and Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘An Asphodel’
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Anna Calvi and Jehnny Beth
Song of the Day: Two songs for comparison, from the French and English female artists respectively, both with powerful voices and here commenting with different perspectives on gender and masculinity
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Nadia Reid
Song of the Day: Starkly beautiful new work from the New Zealander singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album, Out of My Province, is a viscerally powerful song about coming out of a troubled relationship and reclaiming her younger self
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Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon
Song of the Day: From their recent collaborative EP, Myths 004, a wonderfully offbeat piece by the unique Welsh singer-songwriter and frontman of the US Indie rock band Deerhunter, with a tale of fractured love and communication between secretary and boss
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Hann’s Hannah
Song of the Day: A chirpy, cheeky, brilliantly funny new number by the Manchester band, fronted by Hannah, about an annoying guy chatting up a girl at supermarket till, holding up all the other trolleys, is filled with snappy lines and catchy riffs
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Conershop’s new album for 2020, England Is A Garden
Song of the Day: Characteristically catchy with a simple, repetitive riff and melody, it’s familiar but also new, a bluesy, fuzzy 70s rock sound wrapped in something different. This can only be Cornershop and they do it so brilliantly
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Vanishing Twin
Song of the Day: After Agnes Obel’s Island of Doom, we take a different metaphorical direction with a song about not being alone, from the Vanishing Twin’s acclaimed 2019 album The Age Of Immunology – “we are side by side”
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From the sleeve cover of Sweating It Out by Ralfe Band
Song of the Day: After our previous entry, Runner by Tennis, more exertion in the fabulous latest song by the band fronted by Oxford-based composer, keyboard player and artist Oly Ralfe
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