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Hania Rani
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Ghosts, a song of beautiful fragility with piano, delicate electronica, percussion and exquisite vocals by the Polish singer-songwriter, composer and pianist joined here by the Portico Quartet drummer
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Image from La Battue’s latest album, Farrago
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful in vocals and synths, but filled with restless, protesting, lyrical anguish, a newly released electro-pop number by the French band from Rennes, taken from their latest album, Farrago, released earlier this year on Parapente
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Divorce’s new EP, Heady Metal
Song of the Day: Heralding their new EP, Heady Metal, a beguiling, beautifully melodic alternative synth-pop love song by the alt-country/indie Nottingham quartet with a metaphor about revealing your less attractive side
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Song of the Day: Dark, deep, ghostly but strangely alluring, and reminiscent of early Human League or early-80s goth-synth-pop, this new single by the Finnish musician joined by French French actress, fashion model and singer
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Big Thief
Song of the Day: A beautiful, life-spanning love song by the Brooklyn-based folk band of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and co, due to be released as a limited 7-inch single sharing another recent song, Vampire Empire, on 20 October
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Upchuck’s upcoming second album, Bite The Hand That Feeds
Song of the Day: Energetic, fun, fuzz-guitar punk-pop, voracious life-loving and an affirmation of being different by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, the opening track from their upcoming second album, Bite The Hand That Feeds, out on 13 October via Famous Class Records
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Pigeon’s new EP, Backslider
Song of the Day: Fabulous electro-pop and afro-rock by the Margate-based band, fronted by the Guinean singer Falle Nioke, and taken from the new EP, Backslider, out on Soundway Records
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Gazelle Twin: Black Dog
Song of the Day: Inimitably dark and original, a whispering, menacing new single and the title track from the brilliantly inventive, experimental British electronic artist Elizabeth Bernholz’s forthcoming new album out on Invada Records
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George Riley’s upcoming EP Un/limited Love, out on Ninja Tune
Song of the Day: Classy eclectic soul, R&B and electronica by the London singer-songwriter taken from her forthcoming EP Un/limited Love due out on Ninja Tune in November
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Marika Hackman returns with a double-edged health kick: No Caffeine
Song of the Day: This engaging, sweet-sounding new indie single by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist feels initially like some upbeat health manual, but it is dark and edgy – “rattling off tactics to prevent a panic attack while likening her anxiety to an abusive partner”
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From the cover of Art Feynman’s new album Be Good The Crazy Boys
Song of the Day: Wonderfully twisted, clever, oddly melancholy but melodiously catchy art-pop and funk by the California-based artist Luke Temple and band with synths, fabulous riffs, rhythm and sax, taken from his third album Be Good The Crazy Boys
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King Creosote aka Kenny Anderson
Song of the Day: A beautiful, uplifting new number and the first by the Scottish experimental folk singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson, from his upcoming album, I DES, his first for seven years, due out 3 November on Domino Records
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The Stones and their heavy hint ad placed in east London’s Hackney Gazette, before a press event at the Hackney Empire
Song of the Day: “I'm still taking the pills and I'm off to Brazil.” The veterans’ first new music since 2005, starts up their instantly recognisable Richards guitar with Jagger vocals, and capturing a lovers’ argument, was released today in east London to herald the forthcoming album, Hackney Diamonds, out on 20 October
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records
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Beirut return with a new album, Hadsel, in November
Song of the Day: A beautiful, tender, wistful and crisply rhythmic alternative folk number by the New Mexico band led by trumpeter Zach Condon, taken from Beirut’s upcoming tenth album, Hadsel, out on 10 November via Pompeii Records
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Haiku Hands
Song of the Day: Punch-the-air, life-affirming electro-pop by the band from Sydney, Australia, taken the taken from the forthcoming new album, Pleasure Beast, out 1 December on Spinning Top Records
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Bouncing back … Soft Play’s Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent
Song of the Day: A brilliant banger of a Friday song to blow your socks off with sackfuls of searingly humorous satire about from anti-PC culture and other current divisions in this punk number by the duo of Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent, formerly known as Slaves
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Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records
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Teleman’s String Theory appears on a deluxe version of their album Good Time / Hard Time
Song of the Day: Beautiful, wistful, stripped-back electro-pop with a space and time theme and a Georgio Moroder-inspired outro in this new single by the British band, heralding a deluxe version of their album Good Time/ Hard Time
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Flamingods
Song of the Day: The Bahraini-British alternative psych-rockers return with with their unique sound, here layering funk guitars over wonky synths in a number inspired by Afro-synth music of the 1970s
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