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The Cure: Alone, taken from
Song of the Day: The first new song released by Robert Smith and the legendary British band for 16 years, this dark, melancholic majestic number heralds their forthcoming album, Songs of a Lost World, out on 1 November
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Elias Rønnenfelt
Song of the Day: Dylan-esque in narrative style and delivery, with a simple backbeat and guitars, an arresting new single by the charismatic Copenhagen musician and poet, better known as the lead singer and lyricist of Danish band Iceage, heralding his debut solo album Heavy Glory, out on 25th October via Escho
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Lambrini Girls: Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira
Song of the Day: Blistering, brilliant, angry, articulate punk by the Brighton duo of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira addressing key, ongoing issues of inequality of gender and sexuality in the workplace. Familiar problem? Just finishing your working week? Let off some steam with this …
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Wussy
Song of the Day: Graveyard themed, but also referencing the euphonic phrase considered the most among the English language’s most beautiful, a catchy, spooky lo-fi krautrocky title track with a fabulous retro disco footage video, from the Cincinnati band’s latest EP, out on Shake It Records
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Mandrake Handshake - King Cnut
Song of the Day: A mesmeric spread of instruments stir this potent cauldron of a new single by the London band of “flowerkraut”, a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, here inspired by the 11th-century Norse ruler of Britain, released on the cult indie label Tip Top Recordings
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Franz Ferdinand's forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out in January
Song of the Day: The return of Alex Kapranos and the witty Glasgow indie-rockers comes with an uplifting number about defiance, heralding their new LP titled The Human Fear, out in January, via Domino Records
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Goat’s forthcoming album, simply titled Goat, is out in October via Rocket Recordings
Song of the Day: Tribal, earthy grooves with a catchy, thrumming riff, flutes and psychedelic fuzz/wah guitar mark out the instantly recognisable return of the wonderful, enigmatic Swedish collective, mixing the corporeal and the cosmic, and heralding their next album, simply titled Goat, out on Rocket Recordings out on 11 October
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Manic Street Preachers: Sean Moore, Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield
Song of the Day: The popular Welsh rockers return with their signature triumphant sound and a stirring, piano-rippling number with massive chorus, a song about “realisation and understanding – of celebrating the tiny miracles that still exist whilst accepting and embracing managed decline”
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Albertine Sarges - Stand Near Your Fire
Song of the Day: Exuberant, energetic indie pop by the charismatic German artist, capturing the feeling of falling for someone, the “silly happiness of meeting someone you really adore and who brings out the best in you” expressing boldness and confidence with punchy percussion and guitars
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Pelican crossing: Kim Deal …
Song of the Day: Crunchy, fuzzy, spacey, dreamy, psychedelic, this striking new single from the Breeders and former Pixies star is taken from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, out on 22 November via 4AD
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The Smile’s third album, Cutouts, is due on 4 October
Song of the Day: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, again with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner return with a brisk, sharp, staccato guitar and horn number, the latest heralding their third as The Smile, Cutouts, arriving on 4 October on XL Recordings
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The Waeve: Rose Elinor Dougall and Graham Coxon
Song of the Day: Another stylish, striking, stormy sounding indie single by the Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and his partner aka Rose Elinor Dougall are releasing their second album together, City Lights, released on 20 September via Transgressive Records
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Thus Love’s forthcoming album, All Pleasure
Song of the Day: Swaggering, stylish indie postpunk, with a touch of Arctic Monkeys, by the band from Brattleboro, Vermont, with a strangely disturbing celebratory video (also featuring an owl), and heralding their sophomore album, All Pleasure, out 1 November via Captured Tracks
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Shelf Lives: John Hillyard and Sabrina Di Giulio
Song of the Day: Visceral, biting, powerful, punchy, semi-spoken, semi-screamed electro post-punk with a dark theme by the London-based duo of producer John Hillyard and Toronto-born vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio, out on Not Sorry Mom Records
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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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She Drew The Gun, aka Louisa Roach
Song of the Day: Liverpool’s brilliant Louisa Roach returns with a powerful new number described as “like a therapy session with your shadow self. It’s a looking in the mirror song, a song to my subconscious, my shadow,” and following the title track single, heralds her forthcoming album, Howl, out on 15 November via Submarine Cat Records
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The Bug Club's new album On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy and witty fuzz guitar number about self-comparative delusions of grandeur by the humorous Welsh rock indie trio who have a dash of Modern Lovers and AC/DC, heralding their third LP, On The Intricate Inner Workings of The System, out on 30 August via Sub Pop Records
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Crows: Vision of Me
Song of the Day: Shades of both Joy Division and Killers come in this stridently powerful, high octane rock single about identity, with a Terry Gilliam’s Brazil-inspired dystopian video shot at the Barbican, and hails the London band’s forthcoming album Reason Enough, out on 27 September via Bad Vibrations
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Public Service Broadcasting’s forthcoming album, The Last Flight, captures the final story of Amelia Earhart
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s electricity-themed SOTD, the latest bright-spark history-inspired release by the British band of Willgoose, Wrigglesworth and co comes from the plane name of pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart, and heralds their new album The Last Flight
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