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Penelope Isles: sibilngs Jack and Lily Wolter and friend
Song of the Day: Powerful, beautiful, slow psych-alt-rock with soaring strings, intimate lyrics, blistering guitars and sounds of the ocean by the Brighton band of siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, from the forthcoming second album, Which Way To Happy, out on 5 November on Bella Union
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Baraka Ongeri aka binki
Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers
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moa moa
Song of the Day: With a fabulous shuffle rhythm, bassline, synths and dark lyrics relating to the dubious trade in the African-mined metal mineral coltan, used in the manufacture of mobile phones, this alt-pop single comes via the great production of Dan Carey on the Speedy Wunderground label
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Red Telephone
Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric
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The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House
Song of the Day: Dreamy electronica, guitar and voice by the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist Meg Duffy, favourably compared to Big Thief and Angel Olsen, and who has played with many other artists including Weyes Blood and The War on Drugs
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Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven
Song of the Day: The Hot Chip frontman’s new single releases are slow, beautiful but gently apocalyptic numbers that include references to the Covid epidemic and a look at religion through a distant lens. They also heralds his forthcoming solo album, Silence
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Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters
Song of the Day: This entrancing new song of interweaving melodies and shuffling rhythm by the London electronic artist was inspired by her discovering a collection of love letters that her mother wrote to her father around the time that they first got together
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Twin Shadow
Song of the Day: Taken from the fourth, self-titled album by LA-based Dominican-American artist George Lewis Jr, this fabulously funky track puts out the big universal question with fresh, vivacious guitar riffs and touches of electronica
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Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’
Song of the Day: From the latest upcoming EP Martino, the Belgian duo from Ghent’s new single is a Kraftwerk-inspired piece of delightfully catchy, tactile, rich, tasty, rumbling stereo analogue synth
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FUR
Song of the Day: With echoes of The Strokes, a superbly catchy track by the Brighton indie band about examining your position in life and the tiny margins between success and failure, particularly in the context of a relationship
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Villagers’ new album, Fever Dreams
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the Irish band with sublime chord changes and arpeggios, and a saxophone solo in a song about coming to terms with your past self in this single from their forthcoming album, Fever Dreams
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Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off
Song of the Day: This gentle, rather beautiful number by the former Maccabees frontman is taken from his forthcoming second solo album after 2020’s A Quickening, and has echoes of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk
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Spellling aka Chrystia Cabral
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s English Teacher, a band with an extra letter l, and a wonderful piece of late-Beatles-esque acoustic pop decorated with vocal harmonies, piano and other instruments in this title track by the artist Chrystia Cabral from Oakland, California, from her third album
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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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Meadow Meadow: Silouettes
Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music
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Emma-Jean Thackray’s forthcoming album - Yellow
Song of the Day: “There’s a spectre in my house but he doesn’t see me”. Beautiful, haunting new song by the Yorkshire-born, London-based singer and instrumentalist confronting depression and mental illness from her forthcoming debut album Yellow
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Liz Lawrence - Babies
Songs of the Day: A couple of brilliantly buoyant new indie pop numbers by the richly deep voiced singer-songwriter and guitarists from Stratford-on-Avon who is also half of the electro-pop duo Cash+David
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Jordan Rakei’s forthcoming album What We Call Life
Sublime, sunny sounding new soul pop that also profoundly addresses climate change by the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album What We Call Life, released 17 September on Ninja Tune
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Park Hye Jin
Song of the Day: Posing one of the biggest questions in pop music, this catchy new electro hip-hop single by the South Korean-born, LA-based artist joined by the New Jersey producer songwriter and DJ Michael Volpe and the US duo of Denzel Baptiste and David Bira
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Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon
Song of the Day: Music that sounds like an invitation - intelligent, catchy, engaging, mesmeric and escapist electro-pop dance music by the Australian DJ, producer and singer-songwriter from Sydney – Russell Fitzgibbon
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