Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas
Read moreSong of the Day: Jordana – Reason
Jordana
Song of the Day: Goat Girl – The Crack
It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours
Read moreSong of the Day: Tierra Whack – Peppers and Onions
Tierra Whack is back
Song of the Day: Whistles, tongue clicks and super slick vocal delivery make up this clever number by the 25-year-old singer and rapper from Philadelphia who has her own uniquely eccentric and humorous style
Read moreSong of the Day: Fana Hues – Desert Flower
Fana Hues
Song of the Day: Like its subject, the music and delivery of this perfectly formed song is beautifully simple and delicate by the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Pasadena, California, from her album, Hues, released in December
Read moreSong of the Day – Arab Strap: The Turning of Our Bones
Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton
Song of the Day: This macabre but grimly amusing and detailed love story of entwinement of the undead comes with ominous melodies, disturbing narrative and a beguiling beat, and is the first single by the brilliant Falkirk duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton in 15 years
Read moreGabriels: Love and Hate in a Different Time
The cover of the Gabriels EP Love and Hate in a Different Time
Song of the Day: The title track of a EP released in October recalls the era of Northern Soul, with a wonderful vocal by Los Angeles-based gospel singer Jacob Lusk who makes up the band alongside producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope
Read moreNayana IZ: Partner In Crime
Nayana IZ
Song of the Day: The latest number by the British-Asian rapper and singer from the London creative collective, NiNE8, is a love song with rich layers of jazz, soul, R&B and Bollywood, with horn and keyboard parts and a strong, smooth assertive voice
Read moreArlo Parks: Green Eyes
The cover for Arlo Parks’ forthcomign LP Collapsed in Sunbeams
Song of the Day: Smooth, soulful and soul-searching, the latest single from the impressively mature 20-year-old London singer-songwriter Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho examines a difficult relationship fraught by social prejudice
Read moreMax Pope: (Not) The End Of The World
In Limbo: Max Pope
Song of the Day… But you can see it from here. This alluring recent single by the London singer-songwriter has a smooth, soulful, rich sound, but also beautifully captures a droll sense of personal and universal uncertainty, insecurity and limbo
Read moreJoel Culpepper: Return
He’s back: Joel Culpepper
Song of the Day: A classy, richly layered, new funk-pop-soul number by the high-voiced south R&B London singer-songwriter who has echoes of Curtis Mayfield
Read moreArp Frique: Minin Bem Li
Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album
Song of the Day: Electro-pop, Chic-era New York City 70s disco vibes, African, Caribbean and Cape Verdean influences are interwoven in this infectious, eccentric newest single by Amsterdam’s Niels Nieuborg, with guest Americo Brito
Read moreCyril Cyril: Les Gens
The two Swiss Cyrils: Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Song of the Day: The people! Wonderfully catchy krautrock-inspired electro-pop that began as a reaction to tourist overcrowding and since Covid has a nostalgic feel by the eccentric duo from Geneva, Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Read moreJane Weaver: The Revolution of Super Visions
Jane Weaver’s new album, Flock, is out in March 2021
Song of the Day: Do you look at yourself and find nothing? After Martha Hill and Lui Hill, the funky electro-pop self-questioning theme continues with this great new single by the Liverpudlian artist echoes elements of David Bowie and St Vincent
Read moreLui Hill: Creatures
Lui Hill’s new single
Song of the Day: ‘Calling the creatures I do have inside’. From Martha Hill to Lui Hill, and a new, humorously dark funk-pop number that examines the method of finding your inner self – by the Berlin-based artist
Read moreMartha Hill: Landslide
Martha HIll’s latest EP, Summer Up North
Song of the Day: This classy, catchy number by the artist from Scotland now based in Newcastle Upon Tyne comes from her second EP, Summer Up North, featuring her distinctive, husky voice and clever mix of electronica and guitar
Read moreHotel Lux: The Loneliness Of The Stage Performer / Tabloid Newspaper
The various perspectives of Hotel Lux’s 2020 EP Barstool Preaching
Song of the Day: Contrasting in apparent confidence, two powerfully acerbic, self-examining first-person perspectives by the postpunk-pop band from Portsmouth from their EP Barstool Preaching, out on Nice Swan Records
Read moreCLT DRP: I Don't Want To Go To The Gym
Remix cover of CLT DRP’s album Without The Eyes
Song of the Day: Blisteringly angry bass and energetic apathy wrapped in quasi-satirical feminine punk-pop? It’s all here in this track by the electro-punk trio based in Brighton from their debut album Without The Eyes, out on Small Pond Recordings
Read moreKiwi Jr. – Undecided Voters
From the video for Undecided Voters
Song of the Day: As voting continues in the US presidential elections, a wry and catchy new number by the indie band from Toronto, with echoes of The Strokes, dips into online manipulation of the ‘undecided’ or indeed ‘undercover’
Read moreAmy Rigby: The President Can't Read
Song of the Day: On US election day, in a song that came out last year, a pertinent reminder of what kind of sham incumbent is in the White House, and what problems must be addressed, by the veteran New York singer-songwriter
Read moreTune-Yards: Nowhere, Man
Cover of the Tune–Yards single
Song of the Day: Brilliant new single from California’s eclectically creative Merrill Garbus and and Nate Brenner is a heady mix of loops, percussion and screaming fuzz vocals, capturing anger felt by many under conditions of being ignored and pushed to the brink
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