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Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, agile, indie-folk-alt-country new single by the Canadian-Japanese artist, heralding, after previous EPs, her forthcoming debut album, SAYA, due out in February 2025 on Dirty Hit Records
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Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Ace combination: Orville Peck and Beck
Song of the Day: An irresistibly catchy horn-infused bluesy-funk-country Vegas/Elvis-style ace combination featuring the masked South African US and Canada-based country star and the acclaimed Californian alt-rocker in a high-rolling tribute to Presley’s ‘68 Comeback Special
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Alex Izenberg. Photo: Giraffe Studios
Song of the Day: Delicious, swooning, beautifully gentle melodies and subtle elements of country and psychedelia distinguish this pair of singles by the Los Angeles artist, heralding his forthcoming fourth LP, Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, out on 26th July via Weird World / Domino Records
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Divorce’s new single Gears
Song of the Day: Following last year’s acclaimed EP, Heady Metal, the Nottingham indie-alt-country quartet return with a stirring number about the frustrations of multi-tasking and balancing work, social and performance/creativity
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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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Beyoncé returns with a bold new look and claims another genre …
Song of the Day: Woo! While we make a rare move to the mainstream on SOTD, the American megastar also surprises by going catchily country with banjo and pedal steel and all, with a song from the second part of her new project, perhaps reclaiming American roots music
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Briston Maroney
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, tender, emotive, car-drive themed folk-country by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Knoxville, Tennessee, with a voice reminiscent of Elliott Smith
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Grandaddy’s forthcoming new album, Blu Wav
Song of the Day: Filled with perfectly pace and pathos, and beautifully sensitive, empathetic but also droll new number about a stifled office romance by the California indie alt-country band fronted by Jason Lytle, heralding their seventh LP in almost 30 years – Blu Wav
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The boygenius trio’s follow-up EP, The Rest
Song of the Day: After their acclaimed LP, The Record early this year, the Americana supergroup trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus return with a four-track EP, including this first track, a beautiful folk number that builds into a gorgeous crescendo
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Divorce’s new EP, Heady Metal
Song of the Day: Heralding their new EP, Heady Metal, a beguiling, beautifully melodic alternative synth-pop love song by the alt-country/indie Nottingham quartet with a metaphor about revealing your less attractive side
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Whitney’s new single, Kansas
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful, poetic fusion of Americana, country and 70s-style folk with lovely vocal harmonies by the Chicago band of Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and co, following last year’s fourth album, Spark. Out on Secretly Canadian
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From the animated video for Angelo De Augustine’s The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
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Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: A powerful, sensual, smoky slow-burn new single by the American singer-songwriter with smouldering piano, organ, jazz sax and drums, taken from the forthcoming EP Forever Means out on Jagjaguwar
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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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Meg Baird
Song of the Day: Also followed up with another single, Star Hill Song, a beautiful track of thrumming bass and ethereal vocals from the San Francisco folk singer’s forthcoming album Furling, out on Drag City Records
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Divorce: check out the playful Nottingham band with their own take on country music
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s angry Jemma Freeman track, more defiance, this time not in fast, post-punk mode, but in a slower, though as emotive, a strong melody alt-country narrative by the Nottingham indie four-piece about about a wronged woman who decides it’s time for the worm to turn
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Saya Gray’s latest album is titled 19 Masters
Song of the Day: An outstanding and unusual fusion of folk, pop, country and psychedelia by the Japanese-Canadian singer-songwriter interlacing strong acoustic guitar chords and arpeggios, explosive drums, interwoven voices and birdsong
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Kevin Morby’s forthcoming album This Is A Photograph
Song of the Day: This melodically strong and moving new number by the American singer-songwriter is the title track of his forthcoming album and vividly captures time passing and other pressures of family life through the prism of an old camera image
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