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Prima Queen’s Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden
Song of the Day: After a series of strong singles and EPs, new serene, poignant, post-breakup, uplifting indie dream pop from charismatic transatlantic pair of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden with this title track from their forthcoming debut album, out on 25 April, via Submarine Cat Records
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Lucy Dacus
Song of the Day: A beautiful string-laden, tactile love song new single by the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia and one third of the trio Boygenius, taken from her from forthcoming new album, Forever Is A Feeling, out on 28 March, via Geffen Records
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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Joy Crookes in the video for Pass the Salt
Song of the Day: With a big, meaty, menacing bass and drum sound, the serenely smooth-voiced Brixton British singer returns, following her acclaimed 2021 LP Skin, with a spicy, bitch-back number expressing anger at someone telling lies about her, with added verse by the American rappe
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Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming album by the innovative Berlin indie artist is beautifully upbeat and serene and style, but is inspired by deeply personal and sorrowful story from her life. Girl Missing is due out on 21 February via Moshi Moshi Records
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Sports Team - Bang Bang Bang
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy yet with a darkly satirical subject, the British band return with new song inspired by the whistling spaghetti western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone, but reflecting on American gun culture, heralding their next album Boys These Days out 24 May on Bright Antenna & Distiller Records
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Fat Dog - Peace Song
Song of the Day: Following their hit 2024 album, WOOF. the south London alternative post-punk band fronted by Joe Love return with a fabulously strong melody and an entertaining video featuring an pub-based alien figure and Godzilla-sized invading dog, out on Domino Records
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Brooke Combe - This Town
Song of the Day: Breezy, escapism-themed, uplifting classic soul by the charismatic, golden voiced Scottish singer, heralding her forthcoming album, Dancing At The Edge of the World, out on Modern Sky UK
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Panda Bear’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift
Song of the Day: Trumpets, a beautifully serene melody, with an eclectic, catchy Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry clip-clopping vibe and syncopated rhythm? It’s none other than the Animal Collective drummer and vocalist Noah Lennox, who returns with a new single, taken from from his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift, out on 28 February via Domino Records
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Elea Calvet
Song of the Day: Slow, smoky, alluring, entrancing and dramatic, this is the title track of the new five-track EP by the eclectic Bristol singer-songwriter released on Hyssop & Victoria
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Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)
Song of the Day: A fabulous fusion of P-funk, jazz, pop and more about seeking refuge from the winter or any darker times, in this recent release by the Leeds-born British singer and multi-instrumentalist joined by the American comedian and musician and out on Brownswood Recordings
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Heather Nova - Ghost In The Room
Song of the Day: Ghostly by name, ethereally delicate by nature, this delicate new track by the Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet is about tangibly missing someone, and heralds her latest LP, Breath And Air, out on 21 February on V2
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Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back
Song of the Day: Following this year’s fabulous album World of Work, a beautiful new experimental folk-pop single by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer, deliciously decorated with strings, piano, woodwind and her haunting voice. Out on Warp Records
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Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Afterlife, a shuddering, powerful, perspective-scanning new indie track by the American artist and her backing band, heralding the forthcoming self-titled album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar
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Denison Witmer’s forthcoming LP Anything At All
Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records
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Anna B Savage - Lighthouse
Song of the Day: An exquisite, tender, gentle, poetic, walking-pace new single decorated with piano, double bass and guitar and perfect intonations of the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang
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Caleb Kunle - Ease Your Strife
Song of the Day: A powerful, soaring, emotional soul number about by the troubles of his brother by the pure-voiced singer-songwriter also inspired by the three cities he calls home - Lagos, Laois and London, as well as words of the great Nina Simone: “Between a few worlds, I do belong.”
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Chloe Slater - Fig Tree
Song of the Day: Powerful, intelligent, passionate, defiant indie pop by the Manchester-based with a new single about female social pressures on looks and ageing, with a metaphorical reference to the titular wrinkly tree in Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar
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Cloth - Polaroid
Song of the Day: After last year’s beautifully crafted and spun Secret Measure album, the Glasgow twins Rachael and Paul Swinton return with a thrumming, evocative, vivid new indie-pop number around the theme of memory capture, out on Mogwai’s label Rock Action Records
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The Ocelots - The Good of a Bad Year - from the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly
Song of the Day: This beautiful, gently paced, piano-based single, about highlighting overlooked moments of joy, heralds the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly, by the Leipzig-based Irish twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson from Wexford
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