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Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
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KNEECAP - Better Way To Live (featuring Grian Chatten)
Song of the Day: The pull-no-punches Belfast rappers’ latest single features the Fontaines D.C. singer in an upbeat, sharp, articulate strongly bassy number about finding that little spark of joy in life’s monotony, and in the day-to-day things
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TimlehyC Duncan - Just Like Clockwork
English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Julia Holter - Sun Girl
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the American singer-songwriter, whose last LP was 2018’s acclaimed Aviary, with a mesmeric, ethereal, experimental number featuring fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass
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The Miserable Rich - Crows
Song of the Day: Perky piano pop with a dark undertone about nature’s apocalypse by the Brighton band inspired by the clever, mysterious, tool-using corvid species, heralding a first album in 13 years
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PREGOBLIN - Nobody Likes Me
Song of the Day: A welcome return from band fronted by south London’s Jessica Winter and Alex Sebley with luxuriant beautiful, melodious pop with their characteristically mischievously dark, humorous, bittersweet lyrics
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Heartworms - May I Comply
Song of the Day: Caustically sharp lyrics, darkly thrumming and brilliantly shard-like shimmering sounds come in this new single by the London goth-postpunk band fronted by Jojo Orme, another cutting-edge single produced by Dan Carey via his label Speedy Wunderground
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From the video for This Can’t Go On
Song of the Day: Filled with huge crescendos and sweeping strings, a powerful, emotionally soaring track reminiscent of Mercury Rev’s Opus 40 and other songs, heralding the Merseyside musician and former Coral guitarist’s forthcoming album, Iechyd Da
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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Sleater-Kinney’s forthcoming album, Little Rope
Song of the Day: A brilliant, powerful, hair-tingling new single by the Washington indie rock band of 30 years, still with remaining founder members Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, and the opener from their forthcoming 11th studio album, Little Rope, out on Loma Vista Recordings
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Nathan Fake’s latest EP, Guiro.
Song of the Day: Pulsating, mesmeric electronica and dance music by the Norfolk-raised musician influenced by Aphex Twin and Orbital, and taken from his latest EP, Guiro, released on Cambria Instruments
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Becca Mancari’s latest album, Left Hand
Song of the Day: Taken from their recent album, Left Turn, a beautiful, lush, melancholy, heartbreak number of layered guitars and subtle vocals by the Nashville-based indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician from Staten Island
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Lenhart Tapes’ new album, Dens
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming second LP, Dens, by the Belgrade ethno-noise project of producer and ‘Walkman alchemist’ Vladimir Lenhart, brings a mesmeric mix of electronica and Balkan folklore sounds, here with guest vocalist Zoja Borovčanin from the Serbian alt-rock band Lira Vega
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The brilliant and incomparable Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: The collective from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, return with a vibrant, upbeat, infectious, rhythmic punk-Afro-futuristic track with a title that translates as “pain and pleasure”
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Paul, Ringo, John and George
Song of the Day: Old but new, this stirring, walking-pace, piano-based John Lennon demo from the 1970s originally had some reworking by the remaining three members in 1995, but is finally complete with some Paul MacCartney vocals, guitar and some help from AI
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Jordan Rakei - Flowers
Song of the Day: A beautiful, soaring, ode to patience, growth, his first love and wife, by the silky-voiced New Zealand-Australian musician, singer, songwriter and producer.
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Katy J Pearson’s Wicker Man EP
Song of the Day: Covering a folk tune both beautiful and oddly disturbing, the Bristol singer-songwriter is joined by collaborators with this fertility rite song from The Wicker Man (1973) from a new EP with other songs from the cult British horror film
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Ghost Woman’s Ille van Dessel and Evan Uschenko
Song of the Day: Smoky, menacing, electrifyingly dark ‘death metal’ rock with the extraordinary voluminous sound by the Canadian duo of Evan Uschenko on guitars and Ille van Dessel on drums, taken from the forthcoming album – Hindsight is 50/50
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Manchester’s Maruja
Song of the Day: Stormy, scything, dynamic post-punk with blasts of jazz by the Manchester quartet of singer-guitarist Harry Wilkinson, drummer Jacob Hayes, bassist Matt Buonaccorsi and saxophonist Joe Carroll
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