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Cover from mysterious Sault’s 2020 Untitled (Black Is) album
Song of the Day: Timeless soul and funk, stripped back with a fragile, beautiful melody, from the mysterious band who last year released two stunning albums titled 5 and 7, and now an untitled LP with powerful Black Lives Matter theme
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Millennium Culkin and Hazy James aka Birds Of Pandaemonium
Song of the Day: Seeking the positive in the face of the inevitable, this thuddingly ethereal, transcendent psychedelic debut by Brooklyn’s Millennium Culkin and Hazy James has hints of Echo & The Bunnymen and Mark Lanegan
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David and Katie Pope from The Just Joans (Photo by Allan Whyte)
Song of the Day: Two brilliantly delivered, drily humorous tracks by the Glaswegian band from their most recent album, focusing on the paradox of suffocating city summer life, and insecure youths kicking off into mindless violence
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Sondre Lerche’s 11th studio album, Patience
Song of the Day: Simply uplifting, timeless, classic piano- and guitar-based pop songwriting from the Norwegian artist now based in LA, with syncopated rhythms and a soaring vocal is taken from his recent album, Patience
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Song of the Day: Unstoppable bassline, fierce, driving energy, and uncompromising lyrics delivered in a talk/sing style by the British artist Tor Maries, this brilliant single has the punchy air of Sleaford Mods and also Róisín Murphy
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D. McCabe’s The Final Curtain single
Song of the Day: A fantastic blend of indie, psychedelia and electronica written, performed and produced by the Dublin multi-instrumentalist includes rolling drums, building to a crescendo of piano, exotic chants and remorseless, mysterious dread
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Cult Figures’ latest EP
Song of the Day: A life-affirming, survival-craving postpunk belter from the latest EP of veteran band who, as contemporaries of the likes of Subway Sect and Wire, first released singles in 1979 and 1980
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Silverbacks
Song of the Day: Crisp, staccato, spiky guitar, taut rhythms, wry, humorous lyrics and an energetic, playful delivery typify this and other songs from the Dublin indie five-piece’s forthcoming album, Fad, out in July
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From the video for Disclosure’s Energy
Song of the Day: Featuring inspirational motivational speaker and preacher Eric Thomas, who was also sampled on 2014 hit When a Fire Starts to Burn, this entertaining electro-dance number from Britain’s Lawrence brothers is the title track from their new forthcoming album
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Khruangbin – unforgettable
Song of the Day: A delicious sounding, smoothly delivered new track fusing funk, soul dub, African, and psychedelia by the American musical trio from Houston, Texas, comprising Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr on drums
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Cover from the forthcoming collaborative Keleketla! album
Song of the Day: Embracing the South African musical protest style toyi-toyi borne out of anti-apartheid, this new track fuses dance, jazz, gqom beats, hip hop and Afrobeat featuring Tony Allen alongside collaborators Coldcut, Soundz of the South, DJ Mabheko, Tenderlonious, Afla Sackey and Afrik Bawantu
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Laura Veirs - achingly beautiful response to heartbreak
Song of the Day: Following Brigid Dawson’s track, The Fool, a recent, hauntingly beautiful but powerful heartbreak track from the American singer-songwriter about her split from husband and producer Tucker Martine
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Brigid Dawson and friend
Song of the Day: An exquisite number about difficult farewells from the recent debut solo album by the member of Oh Sees. Her smoky voice combined with a brilliant bass line, drums and organ melts with wonderful, shambling melancholy
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Fontaines D.C. with actor Aiden Gillen playing the chatshow host in the video for A Hero’s Death
Song of the Day: New single from the acclaimed postpunk Dublin band is described as a positive “list of rules for the self'“, but like the wonderful video starring actor Aiden Gillen as TV chatshow host, its riffs mimic an underlying sense of dread, perhaps parodying the life of a band on the up
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Run The Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P
Song of the Day: With the early launch fo of the hip hop duo of Killer Mike and El-P’s fourth album RTJ4, proceeds of which go towards legal support for activists for social change, the final heartfelt track about fear, violence and love
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The cover of Number’s album, Binary
Song of the Day: Restlessly itchy and catchy, inspired by postpunk’s A Certain Ratio, Talking Heads, plus P funk and scratchy dub, this single is from a new band featuring Ali Friend and Rich Thair, co-founders and rhythm section of Red Snapper
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The Allergies: Roy Spencer (aka DJ Moneyshot) and Adam Volson (aka Rackabeat)
Song of the Day: Today's offering is a mixture of old and new – a classic dancefloor tune by the Bristol-based British duo of Roy Spencer (aka DJ Moneyshot) and producer/DJ Adam Volson (aka Rackabeat) from their forthcoming album, Say The Word
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The cover of the EP These People, by Talk Show
Song of the Day: Powerful, punchy new indie postpunk track from the band based in south-east London, with a definite northern English twang, and a sound reminiscent of Echo and the Bunnymen, Teenage Fanclub and New Order
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Low Hummer
Song of the Day: Terrifically catchy electronica indie with a big rock guitar chorus and deadpan delivery by the quintet from Hull, sounding like a fusion of The Pixies and The Human League, carrying that bright torch of Yorkshire-born pop music
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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