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Skinny Pelembe’s Like A Heart Won't Beat
Song of the Day: From piano then morphing into rock guitar, a stirring crossover of soul, pop and gospel in this new single by the multi-talented Johannesburg-born, Doncaster-raised singer-songwriter and MC, out on Partisan Records
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Gaz Coombes’ forthcoming new album Turn The Car Around
Song of the Day: With a dramatic, cinematic, soaring melody, piano and backing singers, a powerfully passionate new single by the Supergrass frontman from his forthcoming new solo album, Turn The Car Around, out in January on Hot Fruit Recordings/Virgin
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Totally wired: Miss Grit’s Follow The Cyborg
Song of the Day: The title track from New York musician Margaret Sohn’s debut album, an experimental fusion of electronica and fuzz guitar with sensual vocals, with a video in which she portrays her body in the cyber world
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A Certain Ratio’s next album, 1982, is out in 2023
Song of the Day: The legendary Manchester post-punk band continue to roll out wonderfully vibrant new singles, and the latest from their forthcoming new album, 1982, is a mix of Afrobeat funk and jazz and fizzy keyboards, with vocalist Ellen Beth Abdi
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Barry (aka Joshua) with grandad and dog …
Song of the Day: A deliciously twinkly piano, nostalgic disco number by the Edinburgh-born, London-based producer Joshua Mainnie, harking back to his childhood days and the time when, age 9, his grandad bought a piano
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Röyksopp’s Profound Mysteries III features another selection of guest vocalists
Song of the Day: From the third collection of numbers and animated in in this year’s Profound Mysteries series by the Norwegian duo Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. a clever, catchy fusion of electronica, dance, soul and rave, here with the American guest singer
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Cinematic moments: Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra
Song of the Day: With vivid, cinematic lyrics, with a distinctive array of acoustic instruments, and wonderful vocal clarity, this folky ghost dance is the opening track to the forthcoming album by the Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian duo
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Le Junk: stylish simian
Song of the Day: This infectious new single by the mischievous London alt-pop artist with a a special brand of sleazy disco-rock and glitzy electronica is about evolving in a different way to others around you, and feeling content with being a bit out of place
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Albertine Sarges
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming new EP Family of Things EP, a quirky, witty, personal, talk-singing original and candid number about nicotine addiction and other self-confession oddities and struggles by the Berlin-based artist. Out on Moshi Moshi
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Steve Mason’s new single, No More, addresses British imperialism and the huge Brexit mistake
Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters
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Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus
Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH
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Pozi’s new single Slightly Shaking Cells
Song of the Day: Fabulously quirky, skittish, energetic new single by the indie pop postpunk trio of drummer/vocalist Burroughs, violinist/vocalist Rosa Brook and bassist/vocalist Tom Jones with this number about the strange beauty of the ageing process
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David Brewis’s forthcoming solo album
Song of the Day: A catchy, candid, brass-infused story of the tricky final last day of school by one half of the brother duo of Field Music, heralding his forthcoming solo album, The Soft Struggles, out on Daylight Saving Record
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Caroline Rose
Song of the Day: Delicate, intimate and whispery but slowly building, from gentle Spanish guitar and orchestral strings into an intense explosion of emotion and vocal harmonies, this is a powerfully intense new single comes from the New York singer-songwriter
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Quasi: Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss
Catchy, clever, crunch-squelchy organ-fuelled new indie single of discombobulation by the Portland-based duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater-Kinney), heralding their first album for a decade, Breaking the Balls of History, out on Sub Pop
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Say She She
Song of the Day: Beautiful disco with a delicate shimmering piano, and a nod to Nile Rodgers’ Chic, by the Brooklyn band fronted by Sabrina Cunningham, Nya Gazelle Brown & Piya Malik taken from their recent debut album, Prism, out Karma Chief / Colemine Records
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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
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Dora Jar
Song of the Day: A ghostly, breathy, ethereal and beautiful new number that marks Halloween, but is more about late October’s seasonal time of change by the California and New York alt-pop/folk singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski
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Nakhane Mahlakahlaka
Song of the Day: A raunchy disco banger by the Nakhane Mahlakahlaka, the South African singer, songwriter, actor, and novelist, and non-binary LBGTQ+ activist, here collaborating with the American musician
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Hamish Hawk’s second album, Angel Numbers, is due on early 2023
Song of the Day: The Edinburgh artist returns with anthemic panache on this new, stylish, lyrically clever single, “a tragic, romantic song about the music industry, looking at the lengths an artist may or may not go in order to have glory showered upon them.”
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