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So Much Wine covered by Phoebe Bridgers
Songs of the Day: It’s the season where music market is flooded with Christmas songs seeking to cash in with the cheesy, sentimental and traditional. Here, there’s still no shortage of sleigh bells, but from covers to originals this small selection might be worth a listen at any time …
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency
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Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl
Song of the Day: Given a wider audience by its inclusion on the Killing Eve TV series soundtrack, this fusion of glam rock and electro-pop by the trio of LA’s Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia and Belfast producer and DJ David Holmes is sexy and stylish, and now also comes with some brand new ear-catching remixes including by Horse Meat Disco
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Ishmael Ensemble
Song of the Day: “I keep questioning this war …. Whose fight is this? Who wrote the rules? I struggle to understand the reasons. Where was my right to choose?” A powerful, prescient but also timelessly relevant new version of the song by the Bristol jazz collective featuring words by the Gloucester poet, rapper and MC
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Whirlybird soundtrack, written by Ty Segall
Song of the Day: Fabulously inventive and evocative instrumental track with staccato guitar and percussion by the Californian musician, taken from the soundtrack the 2021 documentary film Whirlybird, now released on Drag City Records
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Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta
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Dot Allison
Song of the Day: A nicely alternative, dark, spooky number for Valentine’s Day by the sensual voiced Scottish singer-songwriter and seasoned collaborator, here with a fabulous dub-reggae remix version that was the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s final project before his death last summer
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Alewya’s EP Panther In Mode
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Panther In Mode, a sensual, powerful fusion of soul, reggae and other roots music by the charismatic London singer, here celebrating her African heritage, out on Because London Records
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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Dark Tropics’ new album, Ink
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s entry from Dublin, more beautifully melodious, soulful and vocally strong music from Ireland, this time from Belfast by the duo of singer Rio McGuinness-McCay and multi-instrumentalist Gerard Sands from their recent album Ink
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Arad’s EP Augmented Fantasy
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Augmented Fantasy, quirky, inventive electronica by the Irish artist Dara Smith joined by the voice of Stine Omar, one half of the Berlin-based pop outfit EASTER, and here released on Berlin label Voitex
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Enjoyable Listens? Certainly
Song of the Day: The band with a self-fulfilling name deliver tender, pathos-filled, humorous, country-infused baroque indie pop of shimmery guitars and the velvety deep voice of singer Luke Duffett, here in a serenade about embracing idiosyncrasies
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Branching out with new music: Shamir Bailey
Song of the Day: Powerful, heavy-rock guitar rises to impressively soaring countertenor even higher than Prince’s Camille in this recent single wrestling with the constraints of gender definition by the talented singer-songwriter from Las Vegas
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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: “Take me downtown … the darkness downtown …” A first new single since the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman’s 2019 solo album No Home Record, this powerful protest number with thrumming bass and dissonant guitars is a charity abortion rights fundraiser for Fund Texas Choice
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Nilüfer Yanya
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album, Painless, due in March, an excellent indie single with a whispering restlessness and driving beat by the London-based British artist
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Melt Yourself Down’s latest single
Song of the Day: A single o blistering pace and riff released a couple of months ago by the London band that fuses jazz, punk, jazz, funk and North African influences, led by tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and joined by vocalist Kushal Gaya
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Ghostbaby
Song of the Day: Humorous, droll, catchy and full of pathos, this single comes from the four-piece indie-punk band from Paisley and the Glasgow area, their sound reflecting a love of the Pixies (check the Debaser reference), as well as echoes of early Blur and Libertines
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Sweeping Promises’s Pain Without A Touch
Song of the Day: Thumpingly catchy post-punk about tricky love by the American indie duo of Lira and Caufield who hail from Lawrence, Kansas and Boston, Massachusetts with this recent new single now out on Sub Pop
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Song of the Day: Transcendent, dream-like pop about veganism and a key difference between plants and animals, by the now London-based Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara, who previously founded the Maloya-influenced psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui
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