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Manipulations … from the video for Proxima by The God in Hackney
Song of the Day: Eclectic, eccentric and ironic, British alt-rock with complex percussion, driving bass line, stirring horn section and powerful buildup is some of the latest ‘prehistoric future music’ from new album Small Country Eclipse
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The ever practical Yard Act
Song of the Day: For all the Saturday DIYers, a jaunty, cheeky cocksure and catchy number by the band from Leeds about a fictional, but familiar character, Graeme, who tells us about a second property he’s currently doing up
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Widowspeak: Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas
Song of the Day: With a bass line to die for, and guitar riff and vocal that trips effortlessly around a beat, this number from Brooklyn pair Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas’s new album Plum, has a wry double edge and a dash of menace
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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Song of the Day: A double set of titular pairs from the Netherlands singer-songwriter, whose style is a beautifully eerie and ethereal, silky voiced indie pop. Her EP This Is Not.A Democracy, out on AT EASE, is due for release in September
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From the cover art of Bright Eyes’ new album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Song of the Day: Delving deep into natural disasters, mass surveillance and the extreme relief of humanity’s tiny place in a much bigger planetary history, this single comes from the first new Bright Eyes album for a decade, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: With beautifully wry and drily performed lyrics, and taken from the forthcoming mischievously titled album Gold Record, this new song from the Smog artist is about a limo driver advising newlyweds, and cheekily namechecks two other songwriting greats
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This Is The Kit’s new single, taken from the forthcoming album Off Off On out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Wonderfully sprightly acoustic new single by the band fronted by British artist Kate Staples. The finger-picked banjo and clever lyrical structure captures a growing feeling of panic and directionless blame
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David and Katie Pope from The Just Joans (Photo by Allan Whyte)
Song of the Day: Two brilliantly delivered, drily humorous tracks by the Glaswegian band from their most recent album, focusing on the paradox of suffocating city summer life, and insecure youths kicking off into mindless violence
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D. McCabe’s The Final Curtain single
Song of the Day: A fantastic blend of indie, psychedelia and electronica written, performed and produced by the Dublin multi-instrumentalist includes rolling drums, building to a crescendo of piano, exotic chants and remorseless, mysterious dread
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Cult Figures’ latest EP
Song of the Day: A life-affirming, survival-craving postpunk belter from the latest EP of veteran band who, as contemporaries of the likes of Subway Sect and Wire, first released singles in 1979 and 1980
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Silverbacks
Song of the Day: Crisp, staccato, spiky guitar, taut rhythms, wry, humorous lyrics and an energetic, playful delivery typify this and other songs from the Dublin indie five-piece’s forthcoming album, Fad, out in July
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Laura Veirs - achingly beautiful response to heartbreak
Song of the Day: Following Brigid Dawson’s track, The Fool, a recent, hauntingly beautiful but powerful heartbreak track from the American singer-songwriter about her split from husband and producer Tucker Martine
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Fontaines D.C. with actor Aiden Gillen playing the chatshow host in the video for A Hero’s Death
Song of the Day: New single from the acclaimed postpunk Dublin band is described as a positive “list of rules for the self'“, but like the wonderful video starring actor Aiden Gillen as TV chatshow host, its riffs mimic an underlying sense of dread, perhaps parodying the life of a band on the up
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The cover of the EP These People, by Talk Show
Song of the Day: Powerful, punchy new indie postpunk track from the band based in south-east London, with a definite northern English twang, and a sound reminiscent of Echo and the Bunnymen, Teenage Fanclub and New Order
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Low Hummer
Song of the Day: Terrifically catchy electronica indie with a big rock guitar chorus and deadpan delivery by the quintet from Hull, sounding like a fusion of The Pixies and The Human League, carrying that bright torch of Yorkshire-born pop music
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Alternative visions: Jack Cheshire
Song of the Day: Alluringly atmospheric with a driving rhythm, this new indie psych number by the London-based multi-instrumentalist is all about balancing a positive view and keeping focus within dark times, inspired by a quote from Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci
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Cover of the new Nightingales album, out in May
Song of the Day: A belter of a new song from Birmingham’s truly great independent postpunk band. Fronted by founder singer and lyricist Robert Lloyd, ironic twists of fate come with fabulous riffs, pace and rhythm changes and cross-tangled narratives
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Deeper …
Song of the Day: Created before the Covid-19 outbreak, this strangely topical song by the Chicago postpunk quartet from their new album Auto-Pain, has a fabulously sharp, driving guitar and vocal energy reminiscent of The Cure, New Order and Pavement
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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