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Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records
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Yugen Blakrok
Song of the Day: The South African sorceress of mystical hip-hop returns with a poetic, powerful new single, joined here by Sa-Roc, nad heralding her forthcoming album The Illusion of Being, co-written with and produced by Kanif The Jhatmaster, out on 21 May via I.O.T. Records
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Hotgirl’s recent EP, Blast Off
Song of the Day: With shades of Sonic Youth, a searing, pacy, razor-sharp new indie-grunge-post-punk single from by the Dublin band, fronted by the charismatic singer Ashley Abbedeen, and fabulous, edgy, energetic musicianship by guitarist Sophie Boxwell, drummer Nick Stanley and bassist Jake Hurley, from their recent EP Blast Off, out on Cartoon Records
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WITCH’s forthcoming album, SOGOLO, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Continuing their triumphant re-emergence after 2023’s album Zango which ended a near-40 hiatus, Zambia’s pioneering zamrockers return with their classic psychedelic groove, heralding the forthcoming new album SOGOLO, out 13 June on Partisan Records
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The Bug Club’s upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features
Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records
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MRCY’s Barney Lister and Kojo Degraft-Johnson
Song of the Day: Powerful, rapturous, soaring as well as darkly candid soul by the British duo of south London singer-songwriter Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield-born producer-instrumentalist Barney Lister, heralding the album VOLUME 2, out 30 May on Dead Oceans
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Folk Bitch Trio
Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar
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Tropical Fuck Storm’s upcoming album Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
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Deerhoof’s forthcoming album Noble And Godlike In Ruin
Song of the Day: Uniquely oddball, innovative post-punk, hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts by the San Francisco band joined by the US rapper and poet, heralding from the forthcoming Deerhoof album, Noble And Godlike In Ruin, out on Joyful Noise Recordings
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Billy Nomates - Plans - from her forthcoming album Metalhorse
Song of the Day: A punchy yet tender love song about the uncertain future by the Bristol-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out 16 May on Invada Records
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Sorry - Jetplane
Song of the Day: Woozily strange with a fabulously throbbing bass, jittery saxophone and restless vocals, it’s the freaky new single by the north London postpunk/ indie band, following previous single Waxwing, out on Domino Records
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From the Girl Group video for Flink PIke
Song of the Day: Catchy, wittily ironic, nimble, crisply sung acoustic indie pop by the five-piece Liverpool band of Katya, Maria, Thea, Mia, and Lil, with a titular Nordic expression meaning “good girl”, and one “often used to describe young women striving to meet impossible expectations.”
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Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, Pink Elephant
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Montreal indie rockers fronted by husband and wife team of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, return with their first new music for three years, a single referring to the Chinese zodiac calendar for 2025, and announcing their new album, Pink Elephant, out on 9 May via Columbia Records
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Sensible comes from Sports Team’s upcoming third album, Boys These Days
Song of the Day: A fabulously catchy and caustically witty Britpop-indie single by the Cambridge-formed band, exploring the myth of betterment and the impossible task facing today’s youth who are given conflicting and contradictory messages of how they are to improve themselves
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Patrick Wolf - Hymn of the Haar
Song of the Day: A beautiful, passionate, poetic new single of evocative, soaring chamber pop by the British singer-songwriter inspired by three years of walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near near his home in east Kent
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Garbage in 2025
Song of the Day: A new single that’s topically dark and dystopian in flavour by the veteran American rock band fronted by Scotland’s Shirley Manson, but also an ironic title and a call to action, heralding their forthcoming album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, due out on 30 May, on BMG
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Lana Del Rey - Henry, Come On
Song of the Day: The enigmatic American singer-songwriter returns after a two-year absence with a beautiful country-inflected new single, heralding her forthcoming next album, The Right Person Will Stay, out on Polydor/Interscope/Universal
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Keeley Forsyth’s new EP, Hand to Mouth
Song of the Day: Starkly minimalist and beautiful, the opening track from the latest EP, Hand To Mouth, by the rich-voiced Oldham singer, composer and actress, joined by the English multi-instrumentalist on piano. Out on 130701 / FatCat Records
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Stereolab’s upcoming album Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Song of the Day: An instantly catchy new number with abstract, philosophical lyrics by the veteran Anglo-French kraurocky synth-pop band of Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier and co heralding their first studio album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, out 23 May on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records
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More on the horizon: Pulp’s first album since 2001 is out in June on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Heralding More, their first new album in 24 years, the beloved Sheffield indie-pop band return with instantly catchy, joyous number referencing Jarvis Cocker’s drive to perform, and a drily humorous titular reference to the legendary Stone Roses gig in Widnes in 1990
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