Song of the Day: Beautiful, textured, luxuriant experimental dream pop by the British artist, taken from her just released EP Dancing Shoes, out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel
Nilüfer Yanya’s new EP Dancing Shoes
Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney - Semitones
From the artwork for Madeline Kenney’s upcoming album Kiss From The Balcony
Song of the Day: Slow, simmering, mesmeric, intimate, gentle, experimental dream-pop by the Oakland, California artist, heralding her upcoming new album Kiss From The Balcony, out on 18 July via Carpark Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Ada Lea - Something in the Wind
Ada Lea’s upcoming third album, when i paint my masterpiece
Song of the Day: An ethereally beautiful new single inspired by the non-remembrance of a dream by the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and artist Alexandra Levy, heralding her upcoming third album when i paint my masterpiece, due out on 8 August via Saddle Creek Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Mac DeMarco - Home
Mac DeMarco’s upcoming new album, Guitar
Song of the Day: The LA-based Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer returns with a gentle, slow, beautiful Beatles-esque number heralding his upcoming new album, Guitar, self-released on his Mac’s Record Label
Read moreSong of the Day: The Beths - No Joy
The Beths
Song of the Day: Upbeat music but mixed lyrical misery in this engaging new single by the likeable New Zealand indie rockers Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair and Tristan Deck, heralding their upcoming new album Straight Line Was A Lie out on 29 August via ANTI- Records
Read moreSong of the Day: The Hives - Paint a Picture
From the video for The Hives’s new single, Paint a Picture
Song of the Day: The Swedish post-punk rockers return with a raucous, swaggering, riveting single with blistering changes of chorus pace, a stylish video inspired by the art style of Roy Lichtenstein, and heralding their upcoming album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, out on 29 August on Play It Again Sam
Read moreSong of the Day: Cass McCombs - Peace
Cass McCombs’ upcoming new album Interior Live Oak
Song of the Day: A beautiful, warm, rich, acoustic embrace of a song about a farewell word from the California singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Interior Live Oak, out on 15 August 2025 on Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Case Oats - Bitter Root Lake
Case Oats’ upcoming album, Last Missouri Exit
Song of the Day: Smooth, catchy, conversational, warm, gentle but also poignant country rock by the Chicago band fronted by Casey Gomez Walker, heralding their upcoming debut album, Last Missouri Exit, out on 22 August via Merge Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - MadDog
Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Song of the Day: Recently released alongside the track Adam & Steve, the innovative, alternative London indie band’s latest single combines post-punk, heavy rock, prog, and folk, decorated by violin and passionate vocal in a melange of melodious experiment, out on So Young Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Cardinals - Big Empty Heart
Cardinals
Song of the Day: A stylish, dramatic, dynamic, impassioned new single by the Irish indie-folk-rock-post-punk band from Cork comprising Aaron Hurley, Darragh Manning, Euan Manning, Finn Manning and Oskar Gudinovic, out on So Young Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Gruff Rhys - Chwyn Chwyldroadol!
Gruff Rhys
Song of the Day: A charming, catchy new number by the Cardiff-based indie singer-songwriter and former Super Furry Animals frontman, heralding his upcoming Welsh language album, Dim Probs out on 12 September, via Rock Action Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Other Lives - Mystic
Other Lives - Mystic
Song of the Day: Majestic, slow, shimmering experimental pop by the Oklahoma-formed, Portland Oregon-based band founded by Jesse Tabish, Jonathon Mooney, and Josh Onstott, heraldng their upcomng album Volume V, out on 10 October via Play It Again Sam
Read moreSong of the Day: David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (featuring Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra)
David Byrne returns in his own inimitable style, with an upcoming new album, Who Is The Sky?
Song of the Day: The ever innovative ex-Talking Heads frontman returns with a jaunty, restorative, upbeat new number capturing some universal human behaviour and emotions, heralding his new album, Who Is The Sky?, on out 5 September via Matador Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Hand Habits - Wheel of Change
Hand Habits - Wheel of Change heralds the upcoming album, Blue Reminder
Song of the Day: A tender, wistful, cautious, beautiful new number full of yearning, and walking an emotional tightrope, by the Los Angeles indie-folk-rock artist Meg Duffy, from the upcoming new album, Blue Reminder, out on 22 August via Fat Possum Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
Water From Your Eyes: Nate Amos and Rachel Brown
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pace-changing, stylishly experimental indie rock with droll, clever delivery and shades of Deerhoof by the Brooklyn band of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, heralding their forthcoming album It's a Beautiful Place, out on 22 August via Matador Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Big Thief’s upcoming album Double Infinity
Song of the Day: Heralding their upcoming new album Double Infinity, out on 5 September, via 4AD, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia return with a gorgeous, pacy new indie-folk-pop number filled with poetic images of the Canadian landscape, with lyrics also embracing change and getting older
Read moreSong of the Day: Modern Nature - Pharaoh
Modern Nature
Song of the Day: A gentle, clean sounding, krautrock-ish Can-like new single by the Cambridge, UK band with a double-edged theme “about the men we're conditioned to respect and follow and the people who inspire us to think differently”. It heralds their forthcoming new album, The Heat Warps, out on 29 August via Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Alex G - Afterlife
Alex G’s upcoming album Headlights, out on RCA
Song of the Day: With an easygoing beat, mandolin and light, catchy melody, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter and composer Alex Giannascoli’s new number out on RCA has a nostalgic, feelgood, escapist childhood theme but has other layers, such a referenced leap, into another dimension and hours of late night television
Read moreSong of the Day: Cate Le Bon - Heaven Is No Feeling
Cate Le Bon in the video for Heaven Is No Feeling, directed by H Hawkline
Song of the Day: The groundbreaking, endlessly innovative and influential Welsh artist returns with a gorgeously woozy, rich noir, melancholy track draped in heartache, heralding her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out on 26 September via Mexican Summer
Read moreSong of the Day: Elbow - Sober
Elbow - Sober
Song of the Day: The Manchester/Bury band return with a catchy disco-funk groove track relating to Guy Garvey’s past relationship with alcohol, and taken from the upcoming EP Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP5), on 6 June, a follow-up to last year’s hit LP Audio Vertigo
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