Song of the Day: One of the standout tracks from the London-based Canadian indie artist’s recent EP, Stains, this number has an angry but catchy half-spoken naive freshness, and concerns frustrations over a difficult queer relationship
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Bambara
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Love on My Mind, a scorching new single about a passionate encounter by the Brooklyn post-punk band formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh with Nick Cave among their influences
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From the visualiser animation by Alex Evans of Comes With Fries for The Lounge Society’s Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
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Sasami Ashworth
Song of the Day: After Molly Nilsson’s Absolute Power yesterday, another superlative through the medium of power-chord indie courtesy of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth from her forthcoming album, Squeeze
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Molly Nilsson
Song of the Day: A powerful, rousing, upbeat guitar-fuzz indie electro-pop number about taking stock of thing and control, by the Swedish Berlin-based singer and songwriter from her upcoming album Extreme, out in January 2022 on her label Dark Skies Association
Read moreSong of the Day: The Greeting Committee - Make Out
Play fight. The Greeting Committee
Song of the Day: Hembree - Operators (feat. Bodye)
Hembree’s latest single, Operators
Song of the Day: A vibrant dance track with rhythmic saxophone by the Kansas City-based indie band written during lockdown and inspired by street protests and duplicitous law enforcement agents
Read moreSong of the Day: Odd Morris - Silhouette
Odd Morris’s Silhouette, from their EP Cityscape The Ballet
Song of the Day: This evocative poem-song by the Dublin quartet builds beautifully, skipping the traditional chorus structure but with an ongoing, atmospheric guitar riff, restless percussion and powerful words, and comes from their EP Cityscape The Ballet
Read moreSong of the Day: Field Music - Someplace Dangerous
Field Music’s new EP - another shot follows their most recent album, Flat White Moon
Song of the Day: Taken from the Brewis brothers’ latest EP, Another Shot, a genre-spanning of clever rhythms and vivid lyrics with about change of circumstances and fear of change through the prisms of seemingly ordinary domestic details in a small town
Read moreSong of the Day: Pip Blom - You Don't Want This
Rippin’ it up and getting it right: Pip Blom
Song of the Day: But then again you do. From their new second studio album, Welcome Break, Amsterdam’s Pip Blom, Tender Blom, Gini Cameron, Darek Mercks return with wistful, catchy, emotional and gently humorous indie
Read moreSong of the Day: Fake Fruit - No Mutuals
Song of the Day: Wonderfully cascading guitar riffs and soaring vocals mark out this catchy post-punk number by the four-piece band from Oakland, California capturing life’s absurdities, from their self-titled album
Read moreSong of the Day: Snowy Band - Living With Myself
Snowy Band
Song of the Day: Mellow, delicate, wry, witty, almost whisperingly gentle, understated, and crisp indie pop with shades of Teenage Fanclub by the band from Melbourne from their album Alternative Endings, which was released over the summer
Read moreSong of the Day: Black Bordello - Nunhead
Nun’s head
Song of the Day: A sprawling, dark, dynamic, pace-changing art-rock single by the south London five-piece about their famous local cemetery, inspired by visits during the Covid lockdown, with thoughts of death and the destructive effects of gentrification
Read moreSong of the Day: Deep Tan - Tamu's Yiffing Refuge
Out of the darkness come … Deep Tan
Song of the Day: Dirty, droll and furry, hairy and hedonistic, this beautifully offbeat, oddball, Slits-cum-Bette Davis, sharp, stark, post-punk number by the London trio is inspired by the act of sex in animal costumes, and was recorded and produced by Dan Carey for his Speedy Wunderground label
Read moreSong of the Day: Cheap Teeth - I Am The Mud
Cheap Teeth
Song of the Day: Reminiscent of The Birthday Party, The Cramps, and The Clash, with a thumping bass riff and powerful vocal delivery by Joe Laycock, this rollicking gothic post-punk number by the Edinburgh band evokes a seedy, but infectious underworld
Read moreSong of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Dogma
Circuit des Yeux
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album -io (22 October on Matador Records), this haunting, dark, experimental number by the Chicago band has a hallucinatory flavour to the topic of blindly believing everything you hear
Read moreSong of the Day: Geese - Low Era
The forthcoming album Projector, by Geese.
Song of the Day: Slick guitar harmonies, powerful stomping bass and forceful, vivid vocal delivery by the young post-punk Brooklyn band from their forthcoming album, Projector, out on 29 October on Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam
Read moreSong of the Day: Joyeria - Here Comes Trouble
From the visualizer for Joyeria’s Here Comes Trouble
Song of the Day: Addressing personal vices and perhaps larger issues, this debut single by the Canadian multi-instrumentalist comes two parts - witty, catchy indie, moving into a frenzied instrumental of electro-krautrock
Read moreSong of the Day: Sam Evian - Knock Knock
Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt
Song of the Day: The crisp, laid back, stylish, gentle funk of this single by the Brooklyn artist comes in a clever contrast to the seriousness of subject – a divided America facing a Capitol skirmish scandal and difficult schisms to deal with and heal
Read moreSong of the Day: The Clockworks - Throw It All Away
The Clockworks
Song of the Day: ‘Half a mind to sign on. the line, and half a mind to throw it all away’. Passionate, post-punk indie by the Irish four-piece band, formed in Galway, now based in London and spotted and instantly signed by legendary mogul Alan McGee on his It’s Creation Baby label.
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