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The Bloodstreams - Clockwork Man
Song of the Day: Superb, swaggering, dramatic, a fusion of 60s garage rock, pop and postpunk with alarm clock, saxophone, trumpet, and a dash of the Rolling Stones in this second single from the London bands’ forthcoming debut album, How To Be A God
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Gabi Garbutt & Du Blonde - Panic
Song of the Day: Powerful, catchy, and cleverly constructed indie pop with a rocking riff from Garbutt’s forthcoming EP The Creation of Birds, joined here by the brilliant Du Blonde aka Beth Jeans Houghton, out on the latter’s Daemon T.V. label
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The Selecter: Human Algebra, the title track to their new album
Song of the Day: A Thursday spring-in-your-step number and title track of the forthcoming album by the 2-Tone Records ska veterans, fronted by singer Pauline Black along with Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson and Charley ‘Aitch’ Bembridge
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Lael Neale’s forthcoming album Star Eaters Delight
Song of the Day: With an environmental theme spanning the ages, a mesmerically beautiful number that slowly builds by simple repetition with guitar, drums and Omnichord by the Virginia indie artist from her forthcoming next album Star Eaters Delight, out in April on Sub Pop Records
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The Faux Faux aka Faith Vern from PINS
Song of the Day: A strong, dark, dynamic, opening indie single from the solo project of PINS member Manchester’s Faith Vern with a ironic title expressing the pain of love, and out on the revamped Drowned In Sound label
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Bleach Lab
Song of the Day: This new single from the London indie quartet has a distinctive bright guitar sound reminiscent of The Cure and The Smiths, and embellishes their consistently vibrant output and balance
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Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: A powerful, sensual, smoky slow-burn new single by the American singer-songwriter with smouldering piano, organ, jazz sax and drums, taken from the forthcoming EP Forever Means out on Jagjaguwar
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En Attendant Ana’s new album, Principia
Song of the Day: From the recently released album, Principia, an infectious and beautiful fusion of folk-pop and momentum-building krautrock and echoes of Stereolab and Nico by the Parisian indie quintet fronted by singer-songwriter Margaux Bouchaudon
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Feist’s new album, Multitudes
Song of the Day: A beautifully original, evocative and dynamic single from the Canadian singer-songwriter’s forthcoming new album, Multitudes, filled vocal harmonies and distinctive drumming
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Gentle bedlam: Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus
Song of the Day: The supergroup singer-songwriter indie-folk trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus return with another strong single, this time about feeling sof self-inadequacy, from their forthcoming new album, The Record
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Prima Queens’ forthcoming EP, Not The Baby
Song of the Day: Beautiful close-harmony indie folk-pop by the London band fronted by Chicago’s Kristin McFadden and Bristol’s Louise Macphail, with a vividly emotional song about encountering an ex, from their forthcoming EP Not The Baby, out on Big Indie Records
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Burnt Pictures comes from the forthcoming audiobooks EP, Gulliver
Song of the Day: Another catchy, witty oddball new electro-pop single by the duo of Evangeline Ling and David Wrench, taken from forthcoming EP Gulliver, and joined here by Manchester rapper OneDa
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Fire-Toolz’s forthcoming album I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There
Song of the Day: An entrancing, unwieldy energy ball of almost indescribable eclecticism comes with this experimental fusion of electronica, pop, dark metal, prog, jazz and ambience by the Chicago producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid
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James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything
Song of the Day: The big-name producer (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode …) and Simian Mobile Disco member’s new intricate, clever, slow Bowie-esque electro-pop single is all about self-reliance
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Cate Blanchett in the new Sparks video with Ron and Russel Mael
Song of the Day: Legendary brothers Ron and Russell Mael return with fabulously catchy, fun, satirical cafe-context single and the title track of their forthcoming album, with a video featuring eccentric dance moves by film star Cate Blanchett. What could be finer than that?
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Brodie Milner
Song of the Day: A stomping indie/post-punk single with super-sharp self-deprecatory lyrics with a William Burroughs-referenced literary bent by the Hull singer and multi-instrumentalist
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The The - $1 One Vote
Song of the Day: With his distinctive vocal delivery and and searing guitars, London’s Matt Johnson returns with a punchy single taking aim at manufactured truth, election manipulation and key issues of our times
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From the video for SAMO by ACR, featuring the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Song of the Day: Referencing the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, with his work animated in the the video, a fabulously funky, punchy, new electro-pop single by the legendary post-punk Manchester band from their forthcoming new album, 1982
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BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth
Song of the Day: Dark, witty, fatalistically vivid, the Manchester-based American singer-songwriter returns with this beautifully humorous but melancholy title track from his forthcoming album
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Going back to go forward: The Blessed Madonna’s new version of We Still Believe
Song of the Day: Fabulously uplifting celebration of inclusive club culture and rejection of intolerance and fascism with in new version of an older track by the American DJ, producer and musician Marea Stamper, joined by Chicago house legend Jamie Principle
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