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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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Chilli Jesson
Song of the Day: Striking new pop from the former Parma Violets bassist and singer Alexander "Chilli" Jesson in this catchy number, quoting Plato, that also aims to highlight the seriousness of mental illness and examination of what a healthy relationship should be
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Ticket to ride: Spiritualized’s The Mainline Song from Everything Was Beautiful
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
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Kae Tempest’s upcoming new album The Line Is A Curve
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Brexit-themed beach setting by DC Gore, a different style and tone, but with a connection, with the poet’s recent number expressing a melancholy love song to Britain, tasting its vulnerability and change with many vivid, nuanced, emotional lines
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Pale Blue Eyes
Song of the Day: Catchy, dreamy electro-indie pop by the trio from Totnes, Devon, with crisp guitar, smooth synth lines and vocals in music variously influenced by Neu!, The Cure and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, and mixed by Dean Honer
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LIFE up in the North East of England
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Bob Vylan, another self-addressing mental and physical health issues – drinking, smoking and eating badly and FOMO, by the vibrant post-punk indie band in a title inspired by the location of their studio near the river Humber
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Matilda Mann
Song of the Day: Short, pithy, pacy and catchy, a new indie-pop number by the London-based singer-songwriter about letting go of the idea of someone you may previously have perceived by to be perfect
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Kevin Devine’s forthcoming album Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie disco pop with this second single off from the upcoming tenth record, Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong by the singer-songwriter from Staten Island who describes this as “a dance song for wallflowers, body music for the brain …”
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Mxmtoon posing as muse for someone’s potential song
Song of the Day: Bright, catchy, summer-breezy, lo-fi by the 21-year-old YouTuber, ukulele player and bedroom pop star singer-songwriter aka Maia from Oakland California, with a love song playing on the idea of being muse – inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting
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The cover of Kurt Vile’s forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Woozily mesmeric, existential new track by the laid-back Philadelphia singer-songwriter taking us on a deadpan cranial journey inside his hallucinatory thoughts with images of “pinball machine-a-mania” and his characteristic, charming, languid drawl
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FredAtlast aka Fredrik Wallin
Song of the Day: Catchy krautrock-inspired indie pop by Little Dragon Swedish bassist Fredrik Wallin with an infectious beat, drone note, and lyrics that are “a meditation on impermanence and our way of dealing with loss. A plea to our nearest to be: nearer, dearer and more daring.”
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Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr
Song of the Day: After Rheinzand’s Elefantasi and Röksopp’s dream-like fantasy, further ethereal and sea cow creatural wonder in the form of the Chicago band’s beautiful new single, following their last year’s album -io, out on Matador Records
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The eyes have it: rom the video for Yumi Zouma’s In The Eyes Of Our Love
Song of the Day: Uplifting, catchy new alt-pop by the New Zealand band taken from the forthcoming fourth studio album, Present Tense, out on 18 March on Polyvinyl Record Co. and Play It Again Sam, Australia
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Tindersticks
Song of the Day: Welcome return of unmistakably haunting voice of Stuart Staples and band with this song specially written for Claire Denis' new film Avec Amour et Acharnament starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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