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Sharon Van Etten
Song of the Day: This powerful new standalone synth-pop single by the exceptionally voiced American singer-songwriter is a cathartic number about fighting depression, paranoia, self-doubt and a sense of dissociation, of feeling “not connected to my body”
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Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
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Helena Deland
Song of the Day: Stark, emotional and exquisite new single by the Vancouver-born, Montreal-based singer-songwriter with lyrics that touch on human fragility and mutability amid the crashing, timeless waves, all accompanied by a stunning video
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Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station
Song of the Day: A beautifully understated, melancholy piano-and-voice-only new song from Canadian Tamara Lindeman, taken from the forthcoming album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars out on 4 March on Fat Possum Records
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Dot Allison
Song of the Day: A nicely alternative, dark, spooky number for Valentine’s Day by the sensual voiced Scottish singer-songwriter and seasoned collaborator, here with a fabulous dub-reggae remix version that was the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s final project before his death last summer
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Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: It really it all anyone might want too. Excellent new electro-pop afro-funk by the London band fronted by Eno Williams from their forthcoming album Electricity, out on Merge Records and produced by Hot Chip
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Léa Sen
Song of the Day: A sensual, dreamy sun-kissed new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter and producer that touches on loses sanity but is also about wanting to grow and handle life with more wisdom
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Alewya’s EP Panther In Mode
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Panther In Mode, a sensual, powerful fusion of soul, reggae and other roots music by the charismatic London singer, here celebrating her African heritage, out on Because London Records
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Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr
Song of the Day: After Rheinzand’s Elefantasi and Röksopp’s dream-like fantasy, further ethereal and sea cow creatural wonder in the form of the Chicago band’s beautiful new single, following their last year’s album -io, out on Matador Records
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Dreamscape: Röyksopp’s new album Profound Mysteries
Song of the Day: Taken from the Norwegian electronic duo’s forthcoming album Profound Mysteries, out on 29 April on Dog Triumph Records, this serene, dreamy new single features Goldfrapp’s soaring, high, breathy, sensual vocals
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Rheinzand’s forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis, and released originally in Danish, but with French, Italian, English, Spanish and Dutch versions, with images of fantasy pink elephants, pills, mushrooms an more, catchy disco electro-pop number is “about drugs and good times, but also about hangovers, loneliness, and a twist of identity crisis.” It is decorated with wonderful string flourishes and rising swells of sound.
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From the cover of Lucius’s LP Second Nature, out on 8 April
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album Second Nature, superbly funky disco pop by the LA-based quartet fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, about dealing with grief, paranoia and depression, but how it is help by being in the right company
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The eyes have it: rom the video for Yumi Zouma’s In The Eyes Of Our Love
Song of the Day: Uplifting, catchy new alt-pop by the New Zealand band taken from the forthcoming fourth studio album, Present Tense, out on 18 March on Polyvinyl Record Co. and Play It Again Sam, Australia
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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Guerilla Toss
Song of the Day: Everything sensory. This vibrant new single by the New York/Boston art-rock band, from their forthcoming LP Famously Alive, is inspired by the pandemic yet also expresses a springing back into life with blasts of guitar, intricate rhythm and Kassie Carlson’s distinctive vocals
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From the new Methyl Ethel video directed by Jake Webb
Song of the Day: What can you see? From the forthcoming new album Are You Haunted? by the band from Perth, Australia, led by Jake Webb, duetting in a q & a style here with Stella Donnelly with a rich string arrangement, this an aurally and visually arresting new single with an art metaphor
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Melody Prochet resonates as Melody's Echo Chamber
Song of the Day: Shimmering French psychedelic pop with a beautiful bassline and the sensual breathy vocals of French artist Melody Prochet in this latest single from the forthcoming new album, Emotional Eternal, out on April 29 via Domino Records
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Jenny Hval
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Classic Objects, a thought-provoking number by the Norwegian singer-songwriter about the constrictions around public and private profiles of an artist, prompted by witnessing sudden marriage proposal at one of her gigs
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Dark Tropics’ new album, Ink
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s entry from Dublin, more beautifully melodious, soulful and vocally strong music from Ireland, this time from Belfast by the duo of singer Rio McGuinness-McCay and multi-instrumentalist Gerard Sands from their recent album Ink
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Ellen Arthur Blyth
Song of the Day: Dreamy and beautifully soulful new number by the Dublin singer who, with a mature voice, has Peggy Lee and Lana Del Rey as influences in this track taken from her forthcoming debut album Nine, a running theme in her life, being the youngest of nine children
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