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The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House
Song of the Day: Dreamy electronica, guitar and voice by the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist Meg Duffy, favourably compared to Big Thief and Angel Olsen, and who has played with many other artists including Weyes Blood and The War on Drugs
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Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven
Song of the Day: The Hot Chip frontman’s new single releases are slow, beautiful but gently apocalyptic numbers that include references to the Covid epidemic and a look at religion through a distant lens. They also heralds his forthcoming solo album, Silence
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Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters
Song of the Day: This entrancing new song of interweaving melodies and shuffling rhythm by the London electronic artist was inspired by her discovering a collection of love letters that her mother wrote to her father around the time that they first got together
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Song of the Day: A new single of sharp, caustic 80s-style postpunk by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Hartlepool in County Durham, this one pointing the finger at the cold-hearted resilience capitalism and government even during the Covid-19 epidemic
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From the video for Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s That Life
Songs of the Day: To kick off the weekend, two new singles by Ruban Nielson and the New Zealand psych rock band for three years, bring a new hue to summer, the latter inspired by the Hieronymus Bosch Painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Twin Shadow
Song of the Day: Taken from the fourth, self-titled album by LA-based Dominican-American artist George Lewis Jr, this fabulously funky track puts out the big universal question with fresh, vivacious guitar riffs and touches of electronica
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Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’
Song of the Day: From the latest upcoming EP Martino, the Belgian duo from Ghent’s new single is a Kraftwerk-inspired piece of delightfully catchy, tactile, rich, tasty, rumbling stereo analogue synth
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Yeti Season …
Song of the Day: A wonderfully oddball mix of funk, soul, hip hop, Turkish, Asian and jazz styles by the group founded by New York-based bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels, here about the famous mythical Himalayan creature, and featuring Hindi singer Piya Malik
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FUR
Song of the Day: With echoes of The Strokes, a superbly catchy track by the Brighton indie band about examining your position in life and the tiny margins between success and failure, particularly in the context of a relationship
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The Mysterines’ Lia Metcalfe
Song of the Day: Blistering, menacing and dark, this new indie rock number about obsessive love is by the Liverpool band fronted by Lia Metcalfe, who, with EPs under their belt, have their debut LP hotly tipped on the horizon
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Goat return with their compilation of rare and unreleased, Headsoup
Song of the Day: Very welcome first new material in five years from the stylish Swedish alternative band, here serving up a heavy dose of psychedelic rock with meaty guitar, mystical vocals and flute, from their forthcoming album Headsoup, which comprises rare and unreleased material
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David and Chloe of Wings of Desire
Songs of the Day: With a band name echoing the title of the Wim Wenders film, and a momentum that echoes early Arcade Fire, these two tracks from the forthcoming EP Amun-Ra, capture a sense of time passing and self-discovery, and our automated programming which tells us to make a happiness checklist
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Masayoshi Fujita
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Balimaya Project, more beautiful sounds, this time at the hands of the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player who turns to the marimba for this piece from his album Bird Ambience
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Balimaya Project
Song of the Day: Frenetically complex and also mesmerically beautiful, this instrumental number of African and jazz music by the 16-strong collective led by UK-based Djembe player Yahael Camara Onono from the new album Wolo So
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Villagers’ new album, Fever Dreams
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the Irish band with sublime chord changes and arpeggios, and a saxophone solo in a song about coming to terms with your past self in this single from their forthcoming album, Fever Dreams
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Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off
Song of the Day: This gentle, rather beautiful number by the former Maccabees frontman is taken from his forthcoming second solo album after 2020’s A Quickening, and has echoes of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk
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Spellling aka Chrystia Cabral
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s English Teacher, a band with an extra letter l, and a wonderful piece of late-Beatles-esque acoustic pop decorated with vocal harmonies, piano and other instruments in this title track by the artist Chrystia Cabral from Oakland, California, from her third album
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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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Curtis Harding
Song of the Day: Stirring brand new, but also old-school soul with beautiful brass and gospel-style backing group by the singer and songwriter from Michigan in his first new work for four years. Out on Anti Records
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Meadow Meadow: Silouettes
Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music
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