Song of the Day: Unstoppable bassline, fierce, driving energy, and uncompromising lyrics delivered in a talk/sing style by the British artist Tor Maries, this brilliant single has the punchy air of Sleaford Mods and also Róisín Murphy
Read moreD. McCabe – The Final Curtain
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
Read moreCult Figures – Lights Out
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
Read moreSilverbacks – Muted Gold
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
Read moreKhruangbin – So We Won't Forget
Khruangbin – unforgettable
Song of the Day: A delicious sounding, smoothly delivered new track fusing funk, soul dub, African, and psychedelia by the American musical trio from Houston, Texas, comprising Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr on drums
Read moreTalk Show – Stress
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
Read moreNick Hakim – QADIR
Nick Hakim
Song of the Day: A woozy, chilled melancholy that slowly builds into a beautifully floating portrait of personal tragedy. The new song by the Brooklyn-based producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist is an ode to a late friend and “a reminder to check on your loved ones”
Read moreJack Cheshire – Tunnel Vision
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
Read moreDralms – Plants Behind Glass
Cover art of Dralms’ new album, Love Writes Itself
Song of the Day: Delicate, atmospheric, ghostly, rather beautiful pop with a melancholy, dark humour, this new single via solo project moniker of Canada's Christopher Smith comes from the new album Love Writes Itself
Read moreLianne La Havas – Bittersweet
Lianne La Havas
Song of the Day: An exquisite vocal performance from the British soul singer, on this title track from her forthcoming third album, displaying impressive restraint that bursts into emotional power over a relationship on the rocks
Read moreThe Cool Greenhouse – The Sticks / London
The Sticks by The Cool Greenhouse
Song of the Day: The city or the sticks? A rock or a hard place? This first single from the forthcoming debut album and an older number marry driving krautrock, oddball psychedelia and echoes of The Fall with fabulous ironic humour and idiosyncratic, killer phrases
Read moreAttawalpa – Go To The Moon
Attawalpa – seeking elsewhere in a psychedelic bubble bath
Song of the Day: Seeking some existential escape? Then immerse yourself in this new, wonderfully otherworldly song by the Peruvian London-based artist whose work has echoes of Syd Barrett, from “a psychedelic bubble bath” EP
Read moreJockstrap – Acid
Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
Peaness – Kaizen
Cover for Peaness’s latest single
Song of the Day: A mischievous band name with a fresh line in indie-fuzz-pop, the female trio from Chester’s latest number with a characteristic ringing guitar riffs and vocal harmonies refers to work interconnectedness
Read moreRudi Zygadlo – Selotape
Keep scrubbing. Rudi Zygadlo
Song of the Day: What holds society together? “Everyone can see it, but we’re all afraid to say it, ‘cos it’s such a risky business that the whole damn place is silent.” Could be virally topical. A quirky, original song by mixing electronica and rock with a dash of Frank Zappa
Read moreSports Team – Here's The Thing
Wry action with Sports Team
Song of the Day: It’s all just lies … This catchy, catch-all cri-de-coeur of upbeat indie wit from the British six-piece band fronted by Alex Rice has stop-start echoes of the 90s and 00s buzz of Weezer, Franz Ferdinand and Pulp
Read moreMute Choir – Shadowboxing
Mute Choir’s debut album, Silent Conversations, is out now
Song of the Day: Crisp, full-throated funk-indie rock-pop from the fairly new Toronto band of Sam Arion, Milan Sarkadi and Iris Waters, with a song about the danger of how fear and negativity can overcome your spirit
Read moreAlexandra Lost – Fleeting Dance
Alexandra Lost - cut-ups recycling of 20th-century popular culture
Song of the Day: This first single from debut LP by the Québec band created by Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis weaves 80s new wave, electronica, pop and a dash of waltz around a theme of lost youth and mutability through the prism of old silent film footage
Read moreWarm Digits – The View From Nowhere
From the sleeve of Warm Digits’ new album Flight of Ideas
Song of the Day: Perfect pop delivered by the Newcastle electronic duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis from their new album Flight of Ideas, their work influenced by Can, Giorgio Moroder and Chemical Brothers, and here with vocals by Delgados’ Emma Pollock
Read moreClémentine March – Le Continent
Cover of Clémentine March’s new album
Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’
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