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Song of the Day: Celeste - This is Who I Am
Song of the Day: The welcome return of the golden-voiced British soul singer from Brighton feels like another timeless classic – slow falling bassline, soaring coda, powerfully emotive, with piano and orchestra, it comes from the new TV drama version of The Day of The Jackal
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Doves’ forthcoming sixth studio album, Constellations For The Lonely
Song of the Day: The Manchester indie band return forthcoming album Constellations For The Lonely with a dark, powerful, cinematic number inspired by the film Blade Runner and the speech by Roy Batty speech on inevitable death, yet “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”
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Jacob Alon: Fairy In A Bottle
Song of the Day: Gorgeous fragility and high-voiced, delicate control with a wonderful melody all come in this exquisite performed debut by the singer songwriter from Glasgow, here produced by Dan Carey, and out on Universal
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The Cure: Alone, taken from
Song of the Day: The first new song released by Robert Smith and the legendary British band for 16 years, this dark, melancholic majestic number heralds their forthcoming album, Songs of a Lost World, out on 1 November
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Michael Kiwanuka - Lowdown
Song of the Day: Peerlessly powerful and serene slow-build soul and psychedelia by much acclaimed British singer-songwriter, in this double-track heralding his forthcoming fourth album, Small Changes, out on 15 November, via Polydor/ Universal
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Song of the Day: Produced by Danger Mouse and with backing vocals by Inflo, the British soul star and Mercury Prize-winner returns with a gorgeous, soaring, classy single, and his first new music for three years
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Yard Act … they make hits
Song of the Day: The Leeds band fronted by James Smith return with another catchy, clever, talky, ironic post-punk single, here parodying the very nature of what they do, and heralding the new album, Where’s My Utopia
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Sans Soucis - Mexico City
Song fo the Day: An uplifting single for a winter Monday of pop-funk escapism to a hotter climate by the London-based Italian singer-songwriter Giulia Grispino and co-producer Cid Rim (Clemens Bacher) with guest vocals by Charles
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Ratbag’s EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing?
Song of the Day: Sharp, catchy, renegade-themed indie post-punk from New Zealand by the band of Auckland artist Sophie Brown with the opening track from her debut EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing, alongside a panache for Gorillaz-style visuals
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Paul, Ringo, John and George
Song of the Day: Old but new, this stirring, walking-pace, piano-based John Lennon demo from the 1970s originally had some reworking by the remaining three members in 1995, but is finally complete with some Paul MacCartney vocals, guitar and some help from AI
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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.
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Enola Gay’s latest EP, Casement
Song of the Day: A powerful, valedictory-style number, the final from their latest EP, Casement, the explosive Dublin punk/hip-hop quartet with an evolved, more tender sound mixing elements electronica with Belfast music producer Mount Palomar
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Nadine Shah. Her new album Filthy Underneath is released in February 2024
Song of the Day: A wonderfully potent title and lyrics brings the welcome return of the powerful voiced singer-songwriter from Whitburn, South Tyneside with darkly humorous single about comically tense exchanges with a counsellor
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The Last Dinner Party. From the video for My Lady of Mercy
Song of the Day: Another dynamic, passionate, luxuriant pop-rock single by the British five-piece, this time about girl admiringly seeing for the first time a painting of Joan of Arc, feeling a huge romantic crush, but also one that’s affected by the “bloody, carnal language of religious experience”
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Queens of colour: Jessie Ware and Róisín Murphy
Song of the Day: A disco banger with an updated double dose of fun and funk and fabulous costumes from Jessie’s latest album, That! Feels Good!, now released in a new version with the Irish iconic singer
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Yard Act
Song of the Day: The Leeds post-punk quartet return with a blistering new single about constant social shifts in perception, ownership and recognition through the metaphor of a classic piece of clothing, with frontman James Smith’s biting lyrics alongside a driving dance-punk energy
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The Last Dinner Party
Song of the Day: A polished, catchy, candid and declamatory art-pop-rock debut by the south London five-piece band with chorus that has musical shades of ABBA and Sparks
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Jessie Ware - Begin Again
Song of the Day: The British singer-songwriter’s luxuriant latest return comes in a wonderfully opulent and upbeat mix of disco, pop, funk, soul and gospel with brass, and heralds her forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled That! Feels Good!
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Underworld - And The Colour Red
Song of the Day: British electronic dance music veterans Karl Hyde and Rick Smith return with a mesmeric, infectiously brilliant banger filled with oddball phrased-in sounds and gnomic phrases
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