Song of the Day: After various side projects, Sunderland’s innovative alt-pop makers, the Brewis brothers David and Peter return with their first new music as Field Music for over three years and a single of synths and an absolutely gorgeous, stirring chorus
Read moreSong of the Day: Baba Ali - Heart Racer
Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger
Read moreSong of the Day: Dutch Uncles - At The Wheel
Song of the Day: Taut, tight, restrained, this classy, gently funky indie pop number is new by the quartet from Marple, south of Manchester, and follows their album released earlier this year, True Entertainment, out on Memphis Industries
Read moreSong of the Day: Baba Ali - Burn Me Out
Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries
Read moreSong of the Day: Francis Lung - Midland Hotel II: The Restaurant (Short Stories EP)
Song of the Day: Taken from the new EP, Short Stories, this beautifully intimate, vivid, narrative-spoken number that builds powerfully into a dreamy climax by the Manchester artist tells of a widow transported back in time by an onion soup
Read moreSong of the Day: Rozi Plain – Agreeing For Two
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate new number by the the British singer-songwriter about unwittingly making decisions on others’ behalf from her forthcoming album PRIZE, here with backing vocals by This Is The Kit's Kate Stables and Alabaster dePlume on saxophone
Read moreSong of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has a Mother
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment
Read moreSong of the Day: Rozi Plain - Silent Fan
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
Read moreSong of the Day: Field Music - Someplace Dangerous
Song of the Day: Taken from the Brewis brothers’ latest EP, Another Shot, a genre-spanning of clever rhythms and vivid lyrics with about change of circumstances and fear of change through the prisms of seemingly ordinary domestic details in a small town
Read moreWarm Digits – The View From Nowhere
Song of the Day: Perfect pop delivered by the Newcastle electronic duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis from their new album Flight of Ideas, their work influenced by Can, Giorgio Moroder and Chemical Brothers, and here with vocals by Delgados’ Emma Pollock
Read moreField Music – Count It Up
Song of the Day: How to create a value system for modern life? Just as this is hard to quantify, it is equally difficult to categorise the musical style of the Sunderland band, whose latest, sixth album, Open Here, addresses a variety of contemporary issues
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