Song of the Day: After seven albums with her band, the Little Dragon singer launches a solo project with this beautiful serene but also defiant debut single, joined by the British singer on guitar and also a co-writer, and out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Maribou State - Otherside (featuring Holly Walker)
Song of the Day: The English electronic artists Chris Davids and Liam Ivory return with a sparkling, funky, electro-pop with the fabulous soaring voice of guest vocalist Holly Walker, heralding their forthcoming new album, Hallucinating Love, out on 31 January 2025 via Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Floating Points - Ocotillo
Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric electronica that grows in intensity and complexity from the British artist Sam Shepherd, heralding hiis forthcoming next LP, Cascade, released on 13 September via Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Glass Beams - Mahal
Song of the Day: The title track of the recent EP by the Melbourne-based trio formed around founding member Rajan Silva is a exotic, entrancing instrumental fusing eastern and western cultures, the sounds of Ravi Shankar and family, and psychedelia
Read moreSong of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the highly original London singer-songwriter with a rich crunchy guitar soundscape, ticking beats and echoes of 90s alternative radio with lyrics on the theme of realising the preciousness of time
Read moreSong of the Day: Floating Points - Birth4000
Song of the Day: High-octane, inventive, dynamic dance music by Manchester-raised British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician Sam Shepherd, out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Jordan Rakei - Flowers
Song of the Day: A beautiful, soaring, ode to patience, growth, his first love and wife, by the silky-voiced New Zealand-Australian musician, singer, songwriter and producer.
Read moreSong of the Day: George Riley - Elixir
Song of the Day: Classy eclectic soul, R&B and electronica by the London singer-songwriter taken from her forthcoming EP Un/limited Love due out on Ninja Tune in November
Read moreSong of the Day: Little Dragon - Slugs of Love
Song of the Day: Catchy alternative indie-pop by the band from Gothenburg, Sweden with a number about pleasure-seeking laziness in relationships, and in a style they imagine “being played by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colours.”
Read moreSong of the Day: Rahill - Fables (featuring Beck)
Song of the Day: Beautifully upbeat, fresh, syncopated-beat indie pop with cascading melodies by the Iranian-American singer-songwriter Rahill Jamalifard, joined here by Beck on this new track from her forthcoming album Flowers At Your Feet, on Ninja Tune imprint Big Dada
Read moreSong of the Day: Barry Can't Swim - Like The Old Days
Song of the Day: A deliciously twinkly piano, nostalgic disco number by the Edinburgh-born, London-based producer Joshua Mainnie, harking back to his childhood days and the time when, age 9, his grandad bought a piano
Read moreSong of the Day: Young Fathers - I Saw
Song of the Day: A brilliantly striking new single the innovative Edinburgh trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, from their forthcoming next album, Heavy Heavy, released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: PVA – Untethered
Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Floating Points - Vocoder
Song of the Day: For a Friday night feel, the titular but often-cliched production tool is given a new otherworldly flavour in mesmeric dance electronica by the Manchester-raised artist Sam Shepherd, in this tripping, skipping track of morphing visual and musical shapes
Read moreSong of the Day: EERA - Falling Between The Ice (from album Speak)
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
Read moreSong of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love
Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula
Read moreSong of the Day: Jordan Rakei - Family
Sublime, sunny sounding new soul pop that also profoundly addresses climate change by the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album What We Call Life, released 17 September on Ninja Tune
Read moreSongs of the Day: Leon Vynehall - An Exhale / Mothra
Songs of the Day: Ambient yet restless, stop-start yet smooth, a couple of tracks of otherworldly, dynamic, ethereal electronica by the British producer and musician from his recent second album – Rare, Forever – out on Ninja Tune
Read moreMarie Davidson and L’Œil Nu: Renegade Breakdown
Sumptuous, strutting, sexy synth funk-pop of talky-singing in the form of feminist, political defiance by the trio of old Montreal friends with 80s and 90s-style echoes of Handsome Boy Modelling School, Abba and Grace Jones
Read moreBronson: Keep Moving
Song of the Day: Dark, thudding, wonderfully sinister bass-heavy electro with a eye-poppingly satirical video on culture of the corporate workplace from the forthcoming Bronson debut album by US artists Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight of Odesza, and Australian producer Tom Stell of Golden Features
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