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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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Liz Lawrence returns with Big Machine from her new album, Peanuts, out on Chrysalis
Song of the Day: Classy, articulate, stirring and strident indie electro-pop by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist with this lead single from the upcoming brand new album Peanuts, out on Chrysalis Records
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Phone addiction: Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: One of two recent singles heralding the forthcoming new album by Scotland’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, a witty, articulate, deadpan lament about online hate, mixing a disco beat with guitar line
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M(h)aol - Pursuit
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent debut album Attachment Styles, a visceral, intense single by the feminist postpunk Dublin band, about the traumatic experience of being followed home
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Nick Cave
Song of the Day: The Australian legend returns with characteristic zeal and passion with this striking narrative title track from his upcoming 18th studio album, one capturing his recurring themes of death, religion, love and violence, a reflecting on a chaotic world
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youbet’s Nick Llobet
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
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La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
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Annie Clark’s fired up with a new St Vincent single, Broken Man
Song of the Day: The acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark returns with a smouldering, explosive, swaggering, hard rock, gnarly new single featuring Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl guesting on drums, and heralding her forthcoming seventh album, All Born Screaming
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Richard Hawley
Song of the Day: The veteran Sheffield singer-songwriter returns with that shimmering guitar Duane Eddy/Link Wray sound, and story ‘about a deal that goes wrong’, heralding his new album, In This City They Call You Love
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Lip Critic - The Heart
Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption
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UCHE YARA
Song of the Day: A pair of uniquely stylish yet contrasting numbers about being away from home by the Berlin-based, Nigerian heritage singer and guitarist who has fabulously full and deep range voice – Uchenna Yara Katzmayr
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Astrel K’s forthcoming album, The Foreign Department, out on Tough Love Recordings
Song of the Day: This quirkily original, witty electro-indie-pop number by the Stockholm-based British ex-pat Rhys Edwards celebrates chaotic imagination over literalism, and heralds his forthcoming album, The Foreign Department, out on 8 March via Tough Love Recordings
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Oxford Drama’s Marcin Mrówka and Małgorzata Dryjańska
Song of the Day: Catchy, summery, indie-pop disguises this pointed, caustic political satire on modern-day truth-bending absurdity in this single by the Polish duo from Wroclaw of Małgorzata Dryjańska and Marcin Mrówka, heralding their forthcoming LP
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Ride’s seventh album, Interplay is out on 29 March
Song of the Day: A second single heralding the veteran Oxford indie shoegaze band fronted by Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, from their forthcoming seventh album, Interplay, has an epic, wistful airy power, with echoes of New Order
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Behold: Parsnip’s forthcoming new album
Song of the Day: Fresh, vibrant, punchy indie-pop by the quartet from Melbourne, with a song about sudden clarity and revelation, taken from their forthcoming new album, Behold, out on 26 April via Upset The Rhythm
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Maya Hawke’s forthcoming album, Chaos Angel
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, pointed folk with country inflections, about ambition and FOMO, by the singer, actress and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman heralding her forthcoming album, Chaos Angel, out on 31 May on Mom + Pop Records
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Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops
Song of the Day: “Each generation makes its own apology.” With a train-like rhythm, plinky piano, harp and more, one of two eccentric, inventive new singles, alongside Capricorn, to herald the lauded New York indie-art-pop band’s forthcoming new album, Only God Was Above Us, out on 5 April on Columbia Records
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YOVA - Addictions
Song of the Day: A tender, breathy, beautiful, nimble, catchy but lyrically dark indie-pop love song by the duo of Macedonian-born vocalist Jova Radevska and veteran multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Vernon
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Tabling ideas: Mike Lindsay’s forthcoming album, Supershapes Volume 1, out on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer
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Cool Sounds - BUG0BEAT - single and EP
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, eclectic, uplifting indie pop with a funk-disco flavour with delicious country acoustic guitar twangs by the appropriately named Melbourne artist (aka Danis Lacey) in this title track from his forthcoming new EP
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