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Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station
Song of the Day: With echoes of Talk Talk, a powerful buildup bass, drums, piano and flute flourishes and the voice of Tamara Lindeman, aka Toronto’s The Weather Station, are hallmarks of huge maturity in her music
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Nancy
Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall
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Jordana
Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas
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Dark and delicate: Little Dragon & Moses Sumney –The Other Lover
Song of the Day: A deliciously dark and delicate duet between the Swedish electronic band featuring singer Yukimi Nagano and the American who released the album Grae in 2020 – two of the most innovative artists around today
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Oumou Sangaré
Songs of the Day: A triple bill of fast and furiously brilliant postpunk by duo Owen Deutsch and Sean from the New York collective and label D4MT Labs Inc, covering subjects such as war and colonialism, taken from the LP Age of Exile
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Jazmine Sullivan
Song of the Day: The pick of the songs from the Philadelphia R&B singer’s recently released EP, Heaux Tales, is one that shows off her dynamic range and is among a set of songs that reject male ego and embrace feminine strength and independence
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The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess
Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person
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It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours
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Tierra Whack is back
Song of the Day: Whistles, tongue clicks and super slick vocal delivery make up this clever number by the 25-year-old singer and rapper from Philadelphia who has her own uniquely eccentric and humorous style
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Fana Hues
Song of the Day: Like its subject, the music and delivery of this perfectly formed song is beautifully simple and delicate by the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Pasadena, California, from her album, Hues, released in December
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Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton
Song of the Day: This macabre but grimly amusing and detailed love story of entwinement of the undead comes with ominous melodies, disturbing narrative and a beguiling beat, and is the first single by the brilliant Falkirk duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton in 15 years
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The cover of the Gabriels EP Love and Hate in a Different Time
Song of the Day: The title track of a EP released in October recalls the era of Northern Soul, with a wonderful vocal by Los Angeles-based gospel singer Jacob Lusk who makes up the band alongside producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope
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Song of the Day: This remarkable number from Bob’s 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways plays with the idea of the many ways to perceive and be perceived, parodying his various personas with the Frankenstein metaphor
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Made Kuti
Song of the Day: During these dark days, a wonderfully new bright and uplifting layered jazz-Afrobeat sound of trumpet, sax and keyboards from the multi-instrumentalist Made, grandson of Fela and son of Femi
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Nayana IZ
Song of the Day: The latest number by the British-Asian rapper and singer from the London creative collective, NiNE8, is a love song with rich layers of jazz, soul, R&B and Bollywood, with horn and keyboard parts and a strong, smooth assertive voice
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The cover for Arlo Parks’ forthcomign LP Collapsed in Sunbeams
Song of the Day: Smooth, soulful and soul-searching, the latest single from the impressively mature 20-year-old London singer-songwriter Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho examines a difficult relationship fraught by social prejudice
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In Limbo: Max Pope
Song of the Day… But you can see it from here. This alluring recent single by the London singer-songwriter has a smooth, soulful, rich sound, but also beautifully captures a droll sense of personal and universal uncertainty, insecurity and limbo
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The Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: Released earlier in 2020, a sample of the fabulously energised music of the musicians’ collective in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, led by eco activist Pisko Crane who play instruments made from recycled rubbish
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He’s back: Joel Culpepper
Song of the Day: A classy, richly layered, new funk-pop-soul number by the high-voiced south R&B London singer-songwriter who has echoes of Curtis Mayfield
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