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The Bug Club’s upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features
Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records
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Folk Bitch Trio
Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar
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From the Girl Group video for Flink PIke
Song of the Day: Catchy, wittily ironic, nimble, crisply sung acoustic indie pop by the five-piece Liverpool band of Katya, Maria, Thea, Mia, and Lil, with a titular Nordic expression meaning “good girl”, and one “often used to describe young women striving to meet impossible expectations.”
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Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, Pink Elephant
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Montreal indie rockers fronted by husband and wife team of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, return with their first new music for three years, a single referring to the Chinese zodiac calendar for 2025, and announcing their new album, Pink Elephant, out on 9 May via Columbia Records
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Sensible comes from Sports Team’s upcoming third album, Boys These Days
Song of the Day: A fabulously catchy and caustically witty Britpop-indie single by the Cambridge-formed band, exploring the myth of betterment and the impossible task facing today’s youth who are given conflicting and contradictory messages of how they are to improve themselves
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Patrick Wolf - Hymn of the Haar
Song of the Day: A beautiful, passionate, poetic new single of evocative, soaring chamber pop by the British singer-songwriter inspired by three years of walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near near his home in east Kent
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Garbage in 2025
Song of the Day: A new single that’s topically dark and dystopian in flavour by the veteran American rock band fronted by Scotland’s Shirley Manson, but also an ironic title and a call to action, heralding their forthcoming album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, due out on 30 May, on BMG
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Lana Del Rey - Henry, Come On
Song of the Day: The enigmatic American singer-songwriter returns after a two-year absence with a beautiful country-inflected new single, heralding her forthcoming next album, The Right Person Will Stay, out on Polydor/Interscope/Universal
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Stereolab’s upcoming album Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Song of the Day: An instantly catchy new number with abstract, philosophical lyrics by the veteran Anglo-French kraurocky synth-pop band of Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier and co heralding their first studio album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, out 23 May on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records
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More on the horizon: Pulp’s first album since 2001 is out in June on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Heralding More, their first new album in 24 years, the beloved Sheffield indie-pop band return with instantly catchy, joyous number referencing Jarvis Cocker’s drive to perform, and a drily humorous titular reference to the legendary Stone Roses gig in Widnes in 1990
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BC Camplight with The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris
Song of the Day: The Manchester-based American singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio’s returns with sumptuous Rundgren-esque, witty piano pop, joined by The Last Dinner Party vocalist, and heralding BC’s upcoming new album, A Sober Conversation out on 27 June via Bella Union
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Gwenno
Song of the Day: The Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Saunders returns with a sunny upbeat, Smiths-feel guitar jangling nostalgic number about dancefloors that no longer exist, heralding her fourth LP, Utopia
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AURORA - The Flood
Song of the Day: After last summer’s album What Happened To The Heart?, the acclaimed Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes returns with a shimmering, soaring, sparkling new pop single of self-analysis, out on Decca/ Universal
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Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains’ mos recent album, Âge Fleuve
Song of the Day: A beautiful, smoky, sensual, dreamy new version of a recent song, now with rewritten lyrics from the French-British pop band’s most recent album, Âge Fleuve sung in French by the American singer-songwriter, and out on InFiné Records
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Obongjayar, from the video for Sweet Danger
Song of the Day: The eclectic London-based British-Nigerian artist aka Steven Umoh returns with a sensual, erotically charged number fusing electronica and afrobeat and his falsetto voice, heralding his new album, Paradise Now, out on 30 May via September Recordings
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Fighting talk: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
Song of the Day: A pugnaciously fun, indie-post-punk new single by the Isle of Wight band formed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with a catchy, scratchy, angular guitar riff and their trademark, mischievous, talky asides. It heralds their upcoming new album, Moisturizer, out on 11 July on Domino
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Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Song of the Day: A life-affirming, stridently positive new number about hope, perseverance and patience by Yorkshire’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor with grand, declamatory vocals and orchestral strings, heralding her forthcoming third album, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April via Polydor/Universal
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Maria Somerville
Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD
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CMAT from her video for Running/Planning
Song of the Day: Fabulously stylish, passionate, humorous, fantasy-scenario country-pop pours out in this new single by the charismatic Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, heralding her upcoming third album, EURO-COUNTRY, out on 29 August via AWAL Recordings
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Lucius
Song of the Day: Striking, stylish, with rich vocals, intricate alternative indie-pop by the LA quartet fronted by vocalists and co-songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a number about false identity, featuring guest Madison Cunningham, the latest single from their upcoming fourth and self-titled album, out on 2 May via Fantasy Records
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