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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Richard Russell’s forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album - Temporary
Song of the Day: A beautifully odd, ghostly, eclectic track by the producer and XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, joined by the south London experimental rock trio, and heralding his forthcoming album Temporary, out on released 28 February via XL Recordings
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Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming album by the innovative Berlin indie artist is beautifully upbeat and serene and style, but is inspired by deeply personal and sorrowful story from her life. Girl Missing is due out on 21 February via Moshi Moshi Records
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Helen Ganya
Song of the Day: A Thai-dulcimer (khim) decorates this beautiful track by the Singapore-raised, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter inspired by her heritage, her mother, and “all the diasporic mums out there”. It’s the latest track heralding her forthcoming album Share Your Care out on 7 February via Bella Union
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Tunng - Snails
Song of the Day: Delicious, delicate, detailed and poetic, it’s a beautiful acoustic new single by the British folktronica pioneers, heralding their new album Love You All Over Again, which in part celebrates 20 years of making music, out on 24 January on Full Time Hobby
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Sports Team - Bang Bang Bang
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy yet with a darkly satirical subject, the British band return with new song inspired by the whistling spaghetti western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone, but reflecting on American gun culture, heralding their next album Boys These Days out 24 May on Bright Antenna & Distiller Records
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Fat Dog - Peace Song
Song of the Day: Following their hit 2024 album, WOOF. the south London alternative post-punk band fronted by Joe Love return with a fabulously strong melody and an entertaining video featuring an pub-based alien figure and Godzilla-sized invading dog, out on Domino Records
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DARKSIDE - S.N.C
Song of the Day: Instantly stylish, hooky, engaging funk and experimental rock with a distinct cavernous sound by the New York trio of Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, and new member Tlacael Esparza, heralding the band’s forthcoming third LP, Nothing, out on 28 February on Matador Records
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Avalanche Party - Shake The Slack
Song of the Day: Panache-filled post-punk with a fierce, electrical energy and sharp lyrics by the five-piece band from the North Yorkshire Moors in a new single heralding their forthcoming album, Der Traum Über Alles, out on 7 February via AMK/ Kartel Music.
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Panda Bear’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift
Song of the Day: Trumpets, a beautifully serene melody, with an eclectic, catchy Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry clip-clopping vibe and syncopated rhythm? It’s none other than the Animal Collective drummer and vocalist Noah Lennox, who returns with a new single, taken from from his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift, out on 28 February via Domino Records
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Loraine James
Song of the Day: Gentle, tender, soulful, crisply experimental new work by the innovative British electronica artist, here joined by the vocalist, musician and fellow south Londoner Coby Sey on the EP New Year's Substitution 3, made between Christmas and New Year
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Elea Calvet
Song of the Day: Slow, smoky, alluring, entrancing and dramatic, this is the title track of the new five-track EP by the eclectic Bristol singer-songwriter released on Hyssop & Victoria
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Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)
Song of the Day: A fabulous fusion of P-funk, jazz, pop and more about seeking refuge from the winter or any darker times, in this recent release by the Leeds-born British singer and multi-instrumentalist joined by the American comedian and musician and out on Brownswood Recordings
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New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song
Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar
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Richard Dawson stands motionless among the bargain hunters …
Song of the Day: A seasonal gem of beautifully droll wit and storytelling by the brilliant experimental folk singer-songwriter, heralding his upcoming new LP, End of the Middle, out 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino
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Laura Cannell’s twelfth EP Winterlore, from 2024’s monthly themed ‘Lore’ series
Christmas special Song of the Day: A wonderfully haunting and beautiful strings and bells instrumental piece by the British composer from her the twelfth EP, Winterlore in the monthly ‘Year of Lore’ series of 2024
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Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back
Song of the Day: Following this year’s fabulous album World of Work, a beautiful new experimental folk-pop single by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer, deliciously decorated with strings, piano, woodwind and her haunting voice. Out on Warp Records
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Unknown To Known
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic experimental and engaging jazz featuring woodwind, percussion, sitar and bass by the London quartet of Idris Rahman, Jihad Darwish, Tamar Osborn and Yusuf Ahmed from their debut album, Lightship, out on Maps For Getting Lost
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Mogwai’s forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire
Song of the Day: Released in September, the first of two powerful, dynamic, stormy and serene singles so far heralding the veteran Glasgow experimental rockers’ forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire, out on 24 January 2025, on their label Rock Action Records
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Benjamin Brooker at work. (Photo: Trenity Thomas)
Song of the Day: Heralding LOWER, his first album in seven years, the innovative, eclectic, New Orleans-based American singer-songwriter returns with a dark, mysterious and unique mix of sounds of fuzz guitar, electronica, noise pop, hip-hop, ambient and indie rock, with a dream-like video
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