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Bartees Strange’s upcoming album, Horror
Song of the Day: Soulful but spooky alternative rock and pop by the Washington DC-based singer-songwriter and producer with single about “this that scare me and being overwhelmed by life”, heralding his forthcoming LP, Horror, out 14 February via 4AD
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Tucker Zimmerman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously gentle,, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrienne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD
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Pelican crossing: Kim Deal …
Song of the Day: Crunchy, fuzzy, spacey, dreamy, psychedelic, this striking new single from the Breeders and former Pixies star is taken from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, out on 22 November via 4AD
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Lucinda Chua’s EP, Reclaiming The Rose
Song of the Day: A deliciously intimate new love song with close-mic vocals and delicate, shimmering orchestral backing by the British singer-singer from her new EP, Reclaiming The Rose, out on 4AD
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Adrianne Lenker - Ruined
Song of the Day: The Big Thief singer-songwriter returns with gorgeously fragile, piano-based single about damaging dysfunctional, repetitive, romantic obsession with a melody that’s beautifully bittersweet
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Cover of Future Islands’ forthcoming album People Who Aren't There Anymore
Song of the Day: A poignant, vivid, uplifting, gently tuneful new electro-pop single by the Baltimore band fronted by the inimitable Samuel T. Herring, taken from the forthcoming new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, out on 26 January via 4AD
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Big Thief
Song of the Day: A beautiful, life-spanning love song by the Brooklyn-based folk band of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and co, due to be released as a limited 7-inch single sharing another recent song, Vampire Empire, on 20 October
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The National’s forthcoming next album …
Song of the Day: Packed with vivid lyrics and referencing a certain British band, this gentle, wistful number by the five-piece Brooklyn-based band of Matt Berninger and the pairs of brothers Dessner and Devendorf comes from the next album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein
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Lip-sync construction worker from the video for So Typically Now
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy, but also scathing electro-pop by New York’s Meg Remy about the cultural vacuum left by the mass exodus from wealthy Brooklyn residents to Kingston in upstate New York, leading to a real estate boom
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Jenny Hval
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Classic Objects, a thought-provoking number by the Norwegian singer-songwriter about the constrictions around public and private profiles of an artist, prompted by witnessing sudden marriage proposal at one of her gigs
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
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Tkay Maidza’s EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3
Song of the Day: Superbly slick R&B, hip hop and pop from the summer-released EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by the talented Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper
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It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard
Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Aldous Harding
Song of the Day: Another sublime voice, and here two songs from the New Zealander, whose voice coils out in a still, acoustic guitar and piano, and reveals raw, intimate emotions awash with melancholic black humour
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