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Doechii - Anxiety
Song of the Day: Re-released and re-recorded after her more recent success with last year’s album Alligator Bites Never Heal, a fabulous, sharp, inventive number from the Tampa, Florida rapper and singer, sampling Gotye’s 2011 hit Somebody That I Used To Know
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Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner
Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose
Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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Ora The Molecule aka Nora Schjelderup
Song of the Day: Witty, droll, fun funk-disco by the Norwegian artist and producer aka Nora Schjelderup, heralding her upcoming album, Dance Therapy, out on 21 March via Mute Records
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Hamilton Leithauser
Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music
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Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside
Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records
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Brian D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs
Song of the Day: Classic 70s-inspired pop-rock with a fabulously strong melody and basslines, all entirely played and sung by one of multi-instrumentalist siblings, The Lemon Twigs on an 8-track, and co-produced with brother Michael, out on Headstack Records
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Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding in the striking new video for No Front Teeth
Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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The Waeve: Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records
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Japanese Breakfast
Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans
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Divorce’s upcoming album, Drive to Goldenhammer
Song of the Day: A clever, passionate, powerful new single with an extended game metaphor by the Nottingham indie band from their forthcoming album Drive to Goldenhammer out on 7 March via Gravity Records / Universal
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Caity Baser - Watch That Girl …
Song of the Day: Undeniably infectious, catchy, cheeky, flamboyant confidence-boosting, table-turning pop with brassy embellishments by the charismatic Southampton-raised, Brighton-based artist, out on Chosen Music / Capitol / Polydor
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Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey
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Dora Jar - Lucky
Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG
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Nadia Ahmed aka Nxdia
Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records
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Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, Earthstar Mountains, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union
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Yukimi’s upcoming debut solo album - For You
Song of the Day: A beguiling, gentle, vivid single of intertwining delicate vocals, accordion and strings by the singer and co-founder of acclaimed Swedish experimental band Little Dragon, heralding her debut solo LP, For You, out on 28 March on Ninja Tune
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SASAMI with Clairo (left)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, bittersweet single taking inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads with added ripples of electronica, rock guitar and intertwining vocals with the acclaimed fellow American singer-songwriter, Claire Cottrill, heralding Sasami’s forthcoming album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out on 7 March via Domino Records
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