Song of the Day: A stylish new Italian electro-pop dance track by the duo of Enrico De Vecchi and Marco Capelli featuring the voice of their friend, the acclaimed Scottish author best known for Trainspotting, and out on Stolen Goods Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Pom Poko - Go
Pom Poko
Song of the Day: A fantastic frenzy of a new single about life as a messy to-do list, featuring string harmonics in both guitar and bass played at breakneck speed by the Norwegian indie postpunk band, heralding their forthcoming third album, Champion, out on 16 August on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Brijean - Euphoric Avenue
Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart
Song of the Day: Deliciously dream-like delicate vocals and rich, intertwining luscious sounds by the duo of LA-based singer and percussionist Brijean Murphy of Toro Y Moi and Poolside, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart
Read moreSong of the Day: Canty - ta-da
Canty’s new EP titled hahahahahahahahaha, out on Full Time Hobby
Song of the Day: Dark, gently thrumming, softly textured bass and a distinctive experimental electronica sound by the East London singer, musician and producer’s latest EP, hahahahahahahahaha, out on Full Time Hobby
Read moreSong of the Day: Gia Ford - Loveshot
Gia Ford
Song of the Day: The new single by the darkly angelic Sheffield artist brings a fabulous meaty funk and bite with catchy hook and chorus, as well as airing that soaring, beautifully serene voice of previous releases, and is out now on Chrysalis Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Cosmorat - St. Villain
Cosmorat
Song of the Day: This opening track from the London indie-alt-pop trio’s new EP, Evil Adjacent, is a beautiful ghostly. dark, powerful creation showing the breadth of their dynamic, experimental and original range
Read moreSong of the Day: Storefront Church - Coal
Storefront Chuch’s forthcoming new album, Ink & Oil
Song of the Day: Dark, cinematic, orchestral, vividly disturbing but highly evocative new work by the LA-based composer, singer and musician Lukas Frank taken from his forthcoming album Ink & Oil
Read moreSong of the Day: Magdalena Bay - Death & Romance
Magdalena Bay: Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin
Song of the Day: A striking, swirling, spacey, huge production number by the Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – “Imagine rain pouring, streetlights glowing. You sit at home and wait for your alien boyfriend to pick you up in his UFO…but this time, he’s not coming.”
Read moreSong of the Day: Pixies - You're So Impatient
Pixies
Song of the Day: A blistering new short, snappy but explosive single about restlessness by the pioneering US band fronted by Black Francis, joined by the current lineup of Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Emma Richardson
Read moreSong of the Day: beabadoobee - Take A Bite / Coming Home
beabadoobee aka Beatrice Laus
Song of the Day: Melodious, smoothly gliding indie pop by the Filipino-born English singer singer-songwriter Beatrice Laus, with a single co-produced by Rick Rubin, and heralding her forthcoming third LP, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, out on 16 August via Dirty Hit Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Girl Scout - I Just Needed You to Know
Girl Scout
Song of the Day: A blistering new sharp riff, guitar-thrumming, fast-and-furious single by the Swedish indie band fronted vocalist/guitarist Emma Jansson with an attack on those who use the vacuous, laissez-faire, indifferent phrase “it is what it is”
Read moreSong of the Day: Chinese American Bear - Feelin Fuzzy (毛绒绒的感觉)
Chinese American Beaz: Bryce Barsten and Anne Tong
Song of the Day: Infectiously fun pop with tight guitar riffs and high vocals by the Brooklyn-based married duo of Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten, with a number about Tong’s Chinese childhood of trying to have fun under strict rules in her immigrant household
Read moreSong of the Day: Honeyglaze - Don't
Honeyglaze
Song of the Day: Dark, defiant, angry talky, experimental indie post-punk with a visceral riposte to a bad relationship by the London trio featuring the emotional voice of Anouska Sokolow, heralding their forthcoming sophomore album, Real Deal, out on September on Fat Possum
Read moreSong of the Day: Paige Kennedy - Lingerie Model
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Phoebe Green track, another witty, punchy, ironic pop number from the co-writer on that song – the Kent artist who fuses funk, electronic and indie with caustic lyrics in this queer pop song about body image and others’ expectations
Read moreSong of the Day: Phoebe Green - Relevant
Number one fan: Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: Caustic, pointed, witty, self-aware talky and stylish synth-pop with a rock guitar sheen from the Manchester-based artist taken from her new EP Ask Me Now, out on The Green Dream Machine
Read moreSong of the Day: Loma - Pink Sky
Loma’s forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: A beautiful, ghostly new track by the Anglo-American trio of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski (from Cross Record) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), heralding their forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out 28 June on Sub Pop Records
Read moreSong of the Day: 潘PAN - Imperfect Poetry
潘PAN aka Pan Wei Ju
Song of the Day: An entrancing, experimental hybrid of spoken word and electronica by the Taiwanese rapper Pan Wei Ju, with a song about strength in vulnerability in the form of “a monologue of a young and not so experienced witch, who doesn’t always do all her magic and alchemy right.”
Read moreSong of the Day: Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture
Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture
Song of the Day: Following his fourth album Heaven Is a Junkyard (2023), a delicate, beautiful new single about angels by Idaho artist Trevor Powers, inspired by finding a piece of paper tucked into the bars of a bus-stop metal bench
Read moreSong of the Day: Rosie Lowe - Mood to Make Love
Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love
Read moreSong of the Day: Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo
Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Song of the Day: A slice of punchy Balkan brass fun by Toronto’s Canadian collective band, featuring fiery Ukrainian and Spanish rap against floating traditional Ukrainian polyphonic vocals in what is also the title track of their latest album
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