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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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Hifi Sean and David McAlmont
Song of the Day: With a title that sums up that contradictory essence of great pop music, a fabulous new disco-flecked return from the Glaswegian musician and producer and the soulful, silkily, soaring voiced singer, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Daylight, out on 20 June on Rough Trade
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Goat Girl
Song of the Day: Engrossingly downbeat, but with rippling passages of guitar arpeggios in between strums, an alluringly deadpan song by the south London indie band, heralding their next album, Below The Waste, out on 7 June via Rough Trade
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Gruff Rhys’s forthcoming new album, Sadness Sets Me Free, out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, characteristically quirky and catchy new indie-pop single by the Welsh singer-songwriter, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance”
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Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity
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This Is The Kit’s new album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out in June
Song of the Day: Released today, a crisp, beautifully crafted alternative folk number with guitars, horns and intricate rhythms by Kate Stables and co, taken from the next album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out on Rough Trade and produced by Gruff Rhys
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Special Interest
Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years
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The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
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Jockstrap
Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye
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Caroline’s new self-titled album
Song of the Day: Beautifully serene, from also from great stillness to sudden rumblings expressed through erupting vocals and strings, this latest single fro the London experimental 8-piece band heralds their self-titled debut album on 25 February on Rough Trade Records
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50/50
Song of the Day: Newly signed to Rough Trade, the London duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye return with a pulsating new single and that pushes the boundaries of electronic and dance music with a fidgety beat, bleeps and stuttery vocal effects
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Cover art for black midi’s forthcoming album Cavalcade
Song of the Day: A frenetic new number about a violence-stirring cult fanatic by the lauded English young alt-rock band features a feast of nightmarish stop-starts, added violins, keyboards and a spoken narrative that points a finger at fascism
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It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours
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