Song of the Day: From Tim Buckley’s driver perspective to one from the customer, this time in the dry humour of the Swedish singer-songwriter who finds it a haven after missing the last tram home
Read moreJens Lekman – Black Cab
Jens Lekman
Antony and the Johnsons – Hope There's Someone
Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty
Song of the Day: After Nico delivering deliciously stone-cold world-weariness, lets turn to a different edge-of-existence song – with the extraordinary voice of Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty, from 2005's I Am A Bird Now album
Read moreVashti Bunyan - Diamond Day / If I Were / Same But Different
Vashti Bunyan, 1970
Song of the Day: Today's offering glides gently and delicately into Sunday by the English folk singer-songwriter, first from her rare 1970 album and then her next, 35 years later - in which she almost continues exactly where she left off
Read moreLCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge / Killing Joke – Change
The sleeve for LCD Soundsystem's debut first single
Song of the Day: After our previous Eric B. and Rakim number, Know The Ledge, it's a different, double-edged song, and a debut by Brooklyn's James Murphy and co satirising the fear of not staying in vogue
Read moreLouis XIV – Finding Out True Love Is Blind
Louis XiV, featuring frontman Jason Hill (second from left)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Arctic Monkeys after sun-down, sleazy sex-industry number, we cross the Atlantic again to go down and dirty with with the band from San Diego from their 2005 album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Read moreThe Fall – Blindness (and farewell Mark E Smith)
Mark E Smith 1957-2018
Song of the Day: With the sudden news of the passing of Mark E Smith, how can we choose a song to exemplify this force of nature, this difficult genius, this guttural great, this prince of post-punk lyricists inspired by HP Lovecraft, William Blake, Wyndham Lewis, Gene Vincent and krautrock
Read moreDanger Doom - Sofa King
Danger Doom, aka MF Doom, left, and Danger Mouse. Of course.
Song of the Day: Connections abound with our last two songs in another Danger Mouse collaboration, here with the brilliantly inventive rapper MF Doom from their album of 2005, The Mouse and the Mask
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