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Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …
Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records
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Neko Case’s upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green
Song of the Day: Catchy, piano-based rolling pop and Americana by the US singer-songwriter in a song inspired by her late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the band Flat Duo Jets, and heralding Case’s first album for seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, out on 26 September via ANTI Records
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TEED - Desire
Song of the Day: The US-based British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter Edward Higginbottom, now shortening his moniker to TEED, returns with new single (with B-side The Echo) – a dreamy, wistful piece of electro-pop, out on Nice Age Records
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Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You
Song of the Day: Menacing in title, but beautiful in sound, melody and execution, this extraordinarily powerful, slow-build number by the Sydney, Australia singer-songwriter is a revenge murder ballad, a cathartic retelling of Beard’s experience of sexual assault
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Just Mustard
Song of the Day: Dreamy, mesmeric electro-indie-shoegaze-pop by the five-piece band from Dundalk, Ireland, with the title track heralding their forthcoming new album out on 24 October via Partisan Records
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Wolf Alice in the woods
Song of the Day: Heralding the British band’s upcoming fourth album The Clearing, this thrumming, Fleetwood Mac-like, acoustic 70s-style rock number is the only one from the LP to feature drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals, with Ellie Rowsell joining in the chorus
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Jens Lekman
Song of the Day: The Swedish singer/songwriter’s latest is a witty, catchy, vividly detailed narrative of a nervous wedding singer, worried about being seated at the singles table with oddballs, and heralds his new Songs For Other People’s Weddings, out on 12 September via Secretly Canadian
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Low Girl’s upcoming album Is It Too Late To Freak Out
Song of the Day: Vibrant, restless, sprawling, turbulent, simmeringly angry indie-fuzz-pop about a messy breakup in this latest single by the British band fronted by Sarah Cosgrove, heralding their debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out, due out on 22 October via AWAL
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From the video for When Boys Cry animated by Andrew Ebright
Song of the Day: A groovy deep-voiced tearjerker dance track by the veteran American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and DJ Calvin Johnson, known for bands including Beat Happening, but here under in his dance music alter ego, with the title track of his forthcoming EP out on 12 September via K Records
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Whitmer Thomas
Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series
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Westside Cowboy’s debut EP This Better Be Something Great
Song of the Day: Dynamic, powerful, passionate, stop-start and soaring indie-rock by the Manchester band, taken from their debut EP This Better Be Something Great, out now on Heist or Hit / Nice Swan Records
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Laufey
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, charming new retro-style bossa nova track, the latest single heralding the acclaimed Icelandic-Chinese pop artist’s third album, A Matter of Time, out on 22 August via AWAL
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It’s travelling … Video still from Chappell Roan’s The Subway
Song of the Day: Mixing echoes of classic full-blown 80s pop with modern twists, candid sexuality, self-detrimental humour and elements of the Sundays and the Cranberries, the American acclaimed superstar singer-songwriter returns with a soaring pop single about a transport-based encounter
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P.E.’s upcoming album, Oh!, out on Wharf Cat Records
Song of the Day: Bubbling bass, intricate beats, saxophone and the voice of The Fiery Furnaces singer characterise this innovative, catchy and stylish new single by the New York electronic music collective of Pill and Eaters, heralding their third album Oh!, out on 3 October via Wharf Cat Records
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Dutch Mustard - Life
Song of the Day: Blistering indie rock by the London-based trio fronted by the Amsterdam artist Sarah-Jayne Riedel about that sinking feeling of heartbreak you see coming, but want to at least temporarily dip out of, out on DM Records
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Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count
Song of the Day: Joined on co-lead vocals Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante, the acclaimed, flamboyant American experimental psych, rock, soul and pop performer aka Sean Lee Bowie returns with a a punchy indie rock number with some shades of the Cure, and their first release since 2023, out on Warp Records
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Nation of Language’s Ian Richard, Devaney Aidan Noell, and Alex MacKay
Song of the Day: Simple, pleasing, crisp, four-chord synthpop with brass sounds and shades of OMD by the Brooklyn band in this new single heralding their upcoming album, Dance Called Memory, out on 19 September via Sub Pop Records
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The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man
Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September
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Whitney - Dandelions
Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL
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The Last Dinner Party’s upcoming new album, From The Pyre
Song of the Day: Channelling ABBA and more – opulent, dramatic, catchy pop with a dark undercurrent of story and fable, where being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer with matching cinematic, fantasy video, by the acclaimed all-female British band following last year’s debut Prelude to Ecstasy, and heralding their second album, From The Pyre, out on 17 October on Universal Island
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