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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once
Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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C Duncan
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union
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Artwork for Oh Stephanie by Stubborn Heart
Song of the Day: From third in their Out of Our Hands series of releases, the London pair of Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald’s Electronic Soul Music number is a beguiling piece of melancholy synth pop
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Chilli Jesson
Song of the Day: Striking new pop from the former Parma Violets bassist and singer Alexander "Chilli" Jesson in this catchy number, quoting Plato, that also aims to highlight the seriousness of mental illness and examination of what a healthy relationship should be
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Dameeeela’s The Shake Up
Song of the Day: A wonderful, infectiously catchy new dance track by the Brisbane First Nation artist with Yuggera language ancestry, here channelling Detroit techno and a moment of self-escape, featuring Tjaka’s electronic didgeridoo
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P.E.
Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Ticket to ride: Spiritualized’s The Mainline Song from Everything Was Beautiful
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
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Kae Tempest’s upcoming new album The Line Is A Curve
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Brexit-themed beach setting by DC Gore, a different style and tone, but with a connection, with the poet’s recent number expressing a melancholy love song to Britain, tasting its vulnerability and change with many vivid, nuanced, emotional lines
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DC Gore
Song of the Day: After Kittin and the The Hacker, more retro pop, partly echoing the smooth 80s synths and delivery of Pet Shop Boys, but also stepping back another way, in this catchy, darkly humorous, Brexit-themed number is a “satirical fever dream set in the wake of our current populist predicament” by the British songwriter
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Miss Kittin & The Hacker
Song of the Day: Taken from their ‘Third Album’ out this week, fabulously evocative early-80s old-school-style dirty electronica by the duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France, here with a hauntingly dark, but also drily humorous tribute to the days of Berlin clubbing
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Caroline Polacheck
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s experimental piece by composer Jon Opstad, further unusual use of classical elements and staccato strings by the American pop singer and songwriter’s B-side to the hit Billions, here covering the innovative 2020 song by electronica’s Oneohtrix Point Never, and also giving it a big Enya-style echo
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Jon Opstad’s album Extensions
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s electronica to today’s acoustic piano, but with a difference - wonderfully innovative, dynamic work by the British experimental composer’s use of the Yamaha U3 Disklavier, played via computer MIDI programming and other analogue techniques
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Model 86
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Floating Points, more innovative electronica at the hands of the enigmatic London-based producer, DJ and musician
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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
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