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The latest album by Stats
Songs of the Day: Gloriously uplifting, clever dance electro-pop by the band led by songwriter Ed Seed, inspired by his childhood in and recorded in Wales, where the natural environment co-exists with the less so, from farming, forestry, tourism, and military activity
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The Coral return with a new single and an album in April
Song of the Day: With a beautiful combination of organ and guitar, ghostly melody and a shuffling rhythm, this bright new song from the longstanding Merseyside band is the first single from the forthcoming LP Coral Island
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Hamish Hawk
Song of the Day: Pacy, witty, and beautifully bleak, this new single by the post-punk indie artist from Edinburgh is a perfect lockdown song of paranoia, dry, dark humour and frantic delivery that builds to a fabulous frenzy
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It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard
Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Nation of Language
Song of the Day: “So now we find ourselves in the waiting room of history … holding hands through this absurdity.” Beautifully poignant lyrics for a world in limbo in this new song by the Brooklyn trio their 80s new wave electro-pop
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Nancy
Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall
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Jordana
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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