Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Floating Points, more innovative electronica at the hands of the enigmatic London-based producer, DJ and musician
Read moreSong of the Day: Model 86 - Get At
Model 86
Song of the Day: Floating Points - Vocoder
Vocoder by Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd
Song of the Day: For a Friday night feel, the titular but often-cliched production tool is given a new otherworldly flavour in mesmeric dance electronica by the Manchester-raised artist Sam Shepherd, in this tripping, skipping track of morphing visual and musical shapes
Read moreSong of the Day: Poppy Ajudha - PLAYGOD
Poppy Ajudha’s forthcoming album The Power In Us
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album The Power In Us, the latest of several passionate, soulful pop songs about society and politics by the London singer-songwriter, focuses on the damaging system of male control that screws up relationships and pro-choice
Read moreSong of the Day: Hercules and Love Affair - Grace
Hercules & Love Affair’s forthcoming album, In Amber
Song of the Day: The opening track from Andy Butler and co’s forthcoming new album, In Amber, has a dark, smoky, almost gothic feel but strains of with hope and defiance, and includes guest Icelandic singer Elin Ey, as well as old friend and collaborator ANOHNI as a co-producer
Read moreSong of the Day: Oumou Sangaré - Wassulu Don
Oumou Sangaré
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Timbuktu, a fabulously stirring and upbeat number by the Malian superstar singer and rights campaigner celebrating independent women in her hometown area of Wassulu, released last week to coincide with International Women's Day
Read moreSong of the Day: Hannah Peel and Paraorchestra - We Are Part Mineral
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
Read moreSong of the Day: Pale Blue Eyes - Dr Pong
Pale Blue Eyes
Song of the Day: Catchy, dreamy electro-indie pop by the trio from Totnes, Devon, with crisp guitar, smooth synth lines and vocals in music variously influenced by Neu!, The Cure and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, and mixed by Dean Honer
Read moreSong of the Day: Dana Gavanski - Indigo Highway
Dana Gavanski
Song of the Day: Beautiful, upbeat new pop with an electro and folk flavour and an eccentric twist by the London-based Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album When It Comes, out on Full Time Hobby
Read moreSong of the Day: Ishmael Ensemble - Empty Hands (Rider Shafique version)
Ishmael Ensemble
Song of the Day: “I keep questioning this war …. Whose fight is this? Who wrote the rules? I struggle to understand the reasons. Where was my right to choose?” A powerful, prescient but also timelessly relevant new version of the song by the Bristol jazz collective featuring words by the Gloucester poet, rapper and MC
Read moreSong of the Day: Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph
Kevin Morby’s forthcoming album This Is A Photograph
Song of the Day: This melodically strong and moving new number by the American singer-songwriter is the title track of his forthcoming album and vividly captures time passing and other pressures of family life through the prism of an old camera image
Read moreSong of the Day: LIFE - Big Moon Lake
LIFE up in the North East of England
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Bob Vylan, another self-addressing mental and physical health issues – drinking, smoking and eating badly and FOMO, by the vibrant post-punk indie band in a title inspired by the location of their studio near the river Humber
Read moreSong of the Day: Bob Vylan - Health Is Wealth
Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Sharp, articulate, witty and candidly bang-on point new single by the London rapper about junk food, poverty, education and health from his forthcoming album Bob Vylan Presents The Price of Life, out on 22 April
Read moreSong of the Day: Sworn Virgins - Searching For Hiro / Slide Little Monster
Steamy Sworn Virgins
Songs of the Day: A pair of stomping electro-pop tracks with a sexual twist and echoes of Suicide from the by side project featuring Clams Baker from Warmduscher taken from the EP Strangers Hands, out on Soulwax’s Deewee label
Read moreSong of the Day: Ty Segall - Lawrence Welk III (from Whirlybird soundtrack)
Whirlybird soundtrack, written by Ty Segall
Song of the Day: Fabulously inventive and evocative instrumental track with staccato guitar and percussion by the Californian musician, taken from the soundtrack the 2021 documentary film Whirlybird, now released on Drag City Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Matilda Mann - Four Leaf Dream
Matilda Mann
Song of the Day: Short, pithy, pacy and catchy, a new indie-pop number by the London-based singer-songwriter about letting go of the idea of someone you may previously have perceived by to be perfect
Read moreSong of the Day: Alex Izenberg - Egyptian Cadillac
Alex Izenberg’s forthcoming album I’m Not Here
Song of the Day: Eccentric, enigmatic but infectiously catchy like film musical number, with added woodwinds and wailing guitar, influences such as Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, this joyously odd single from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter comes from his forthcoming album I'm Not Here
Read moreSong of the Day: Destroyer - Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread
Destroyer’s forthcoming new album, Labyrinthitis
Song of the Day: Restless, catchy and a little irreverent, this second single from the forthcoming album Labyrinthitis by Dan Bejar from Vancouver features his distinctive vocal delivery underpinned by jazz intro then a infectious funk disco beat
Read moreSong of the Day: Kevin Devine - How Can I Help You?
Kevin Devine’s forthcoming album Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie disco pop with this second single off from the upcoming tenth record, Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong by the singer-songwriter from Staten Island who describes this as “a dance song for wallflowers, body music for the brain …”
Read moreSong of the Day: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges - B-Side (from Texas Moon EP)
Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta
Read moreSong of the Day: mxmtoon - Mona Lisa
Mxmtoon posing as muse for someone’s potential song
Song of the Day: Bright, catchy, summer-breezy, lo-fi by the 21-year-old YouTuber, ukulele player and bedroom pop star singer-songwriter aka Maia from Oakland California, with a love song playing on the idea of being muse – inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting
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