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Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album, The Purple Bird
Song of the Day: Homely, toe-tapping, but as ever, wittily droll, Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with a very Nashville-style folk-country number with fiddle and Grammy-winning mandolinist Tim O’Brien, heralding a new album, The Purple Bird on 31 January via Domino Records
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SASAMI’s forthcoming album, Blood On The Silver Screen
Song of the Day: Superbly soaring, stirring, classy melodic rock-pop by the Los Angeles singer-songwriter and classically trained French horn player Sasami Ashworth, with a new single about that sense of dizzying longing in that in-between state of an ambiguous relationship, and heralding her next album, Blood On The Silver Screen
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Catchy: Franz Ferdinand
Song of the Day: Glasgow’s favourite art-pop-rockers, fronted by the articulate Alex Kapranos, return with another catchy, jaunty new love song heralding their forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out 10 January 2025 on Domino Records
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Decius: Birth Of A Smirk
Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher
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Julia Holter (Photo: Camille Blake)
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, delicately quirky, synth-laden and gently percussive new single by the brilliantly innovative Los Angeles artist whose previous acclaimed works include the 2024 album Something in the Room She Moves and 2018’s Aviary
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In full bloom: Richard Dawson
Song of the Day: This warm, beautiful, tender, poetic new single by the British experimental folk artist evokes a gardener finding comfort in the the noble, calming, sometimes mysterious business of raising vegetables and heralds Dawson’s new album End of the Middle, to be released on 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino Records
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Sorry - Waxwing
Song of the Day: A wonderfully warped and weird new single by the London-based experimental indie band, with bursts of static, spectral synths, dark humour chopped vocals from lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz and catchy pop hooks on the themes of desire and catharsis, plus a cheeky reference to a 1982 Toni Basil hit
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Ela Minus
Song of the Day: The Colombian experimental dance electro-pop artist returns with her alluring voice and presence, vibrant synthesizers and an infectious beat, but also themes of suffering and resilience, in this new track heralding her upcoming album, DIA, set for release on 17 January 2025, via Domino Records
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Franz Ferdinand's forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out in January
Song of the Day: The return of Alex Kapranos and the witty Glasgow indie-rockers comes with an uplifting number about defiance, heralding their new LP titled The Human Fear, out in January, via Domino Records
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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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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Hayden Thorpe’s upcoming album, Ness
Song of the Day: A beautiful, crisp, enchanting, experimental number of interweaving polyrhythms with clarinet, by the British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and former Wild Beasts frontman taken from the upcoming album Ness, out 27 September on Domino
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Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album, RITUAL
Song of the Day: The innovative British electronic musician returns with a mesmeric lead single designed to capture the idea of “opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried” and heralds his forthcoming electronic symphony album, RITUAL, out on 30 August via Domino Records
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LA Priest’s upcoming EP, La Fusion
Song of the Day: What’s in the woods? A wonderfully upbeat and inventive swirl of nimble guitar, keyboards and vocals by the British artist Sam Eastgate from his upcoming EP La Fusion, out on 3 May via Domino Records
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Beth Gibbons’ album Lives Outgrown is due out in May
Song of the Day: This hauntingly delicate, yet powerful single heralds the Portishead singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, building through gentle strings and her distinctively beautiful, fragile vocal style
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Julia Holter’s forthcoming sixth album, Something in the Room She Moves out on Domino
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, experimental, incantational new single by the Los Angeles artist about “being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment”, taken from her forthcoming sixth album, Something in the Room She Moves
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Fat White Family - Religion For One
Song of the Day: The mischievously erudite British post-punk experimentalists return with a gently caustic, darkly sinister Leonard Cohen-style take on cultural narcissism with a video parodying art and self-expression
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Formerly of Wild Beasts, Tom
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, harp-sweeping, soaring, poetic and full-voiced new single by the former Wild Beasts singer Tom Fleming with a poignant small-town vignette about childhood and adulthood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts in the aisles of supermarkets
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Julia Holter - Sun Girl
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the American singer-songwriter, whose last LP was 2018’s acclaimed Aviary, with a mesmeric, ethereal, experimental number featuring fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass
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From the video for This Can’t Go On
Song of the Day: Filled with huge crescendos and sweeping strings, a powerful, emotionally soaring track reminiscent of Mercury Rev’s Opus 40 and other songs, heralding the Merseyside musician and former Coral guitarist’s forthcoming album, Iechyd Da
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