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Matt Berninger’s forthcoming second solo album, Get Sunk
Song of the Day: The frontman of The National’s new solo single has his distinctive rich vocal tones, a warm, swelling indie sound and here some gently caustic, vivid lyrics about a tricky reunion. It heralds his second solo album Get Sunk out 30 May, on Concord Records
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Deradoorian’s forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: Enthralling, inspiring, imaginative electronica and and analogue percussion by the New York singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, with this latest single heralding the forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records on 9 May
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: Striking and articulate as ever, this first single since 2022 by the south London rapper, lyricist, poet, playwright and author is a defiant, empowering shout-out to non-binary identity with an arresting video
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Billy Nomates - The Test
Song of the Day: Dealing with a turbulent 18 months including the death of her father, the innovative British artist Tor Maries returns with a powerful new track heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out on 16 May via Invada Records
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Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be
Song of the Day: Following 2023’s popular and Mercury Prize-nominated LP When Will We Land?, Edinburgh DJ and producer Joshua Mainnie’s new single, co-written with Jamie Livingstone, is a dark, menacing, spoken-word number heralding his forthcoming second album Loner, out on 30 May on Ninja Tune
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Léa Sen’s forthcoming album, Levels, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Deliciously fluid, smooth, relaxed, gentle, melancholy indie-pop by the Paris-born, French-Martiniquan London-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, heralding her forthcoming debut album, Levels, out on 30 May via Partisan Records
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Jacob Alon
Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI
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Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Weirdly and wonderfully inventive, oddball wonky work by the Manchester electronic artist with a number about habits and coping mechanisms through a repeating 5/4 rhythm and reverse saxophone sample, from her new EP Unsolicited Advice, out on 16 May on PRAH
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Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars
Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records
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Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner
Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose
Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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Model/Actriz
Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records
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LIttle Simz (centre), with Obongjayar (left) and Moonchild Sanelly (right)
Song of the Day: Three standout artists together in this extraordinary, thunderous, dark, exciting, menacing, mythological new single of hip-hop and African drumming by the London rapper, with the Nigerian and South African singers
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Hamilton Leithauser
Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music
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Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside
Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records
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Yugen Blakrok - Osiris Awakens
Song of the Day: The first single from the new album, an alluring, dark, mystical hip-hop by the charismatic South African rapper collaborating with the Madrid-based psychedelic rock band in a number about awakening a sleeping giant – resistance in the face of tyranny
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Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding in the striking new video for No Front Teeth
Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Preoccupations
Song of the Day: A pulsating, sharp new number on history’s repeating patterns with a gripping video showing footage of various cults, this heralds the Calgary, Canadian post-punk/ new wave quartet’s forthcoming album Ill At Lease, ou on Born Losers Records on 9 May
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