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Squid: digging deep into new musical territory
Song of the Day: This epic, enigmatic experimental new track, featuring harpsichord sounds alongside intricate guitars, driving beats and menacing lyrics, heralds the Brighton art-rock-post-punk band’s third LP, Cowards, out in February 2025 on Warp Records
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Broadcast’s final release, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, is out in September
Song of the Day: A truly gorgeous previously unreleased intimate, haunting acoustic song discovered after the passing of the British band’s singer Trish Keenan, heralding a compilation, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, and the final release from Broadcast, available from 28 September 2024 via Warp Record
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records
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Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records
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A scene from Squid’s multifaceted Swing (In A Dream) video directed by Yoonha Park
Song of the Day: Mellower on first listen than much their previous work, an intriguingly original dynamic exploration into the subconscious with an experimental prog element by the Brighton post-punk band, taken from their forthcoming new album O Monolith, out on Warp Records
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James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything
Song of the Day: The big-name producer (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode …) and Simian Mobile Disco member’s new intricate, clever, slow Bowie-esque electro-pop single is all about self-reliance
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The incomparable Yves Tumor
Song of the Day: Pain and pleasure intertwine on this extraordinary new track by the unique American artist (Sean Bowie) of syncopated drums, big bassline and his sensual distinctive vocals, presented video inspired by Gulliver’s Travels as the trapped giant in Lilliput
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Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label
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Jiitwam’s latest album, Third
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream
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Stereolab’s forthcoming new compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks
Song of the Day: Newly released for a forthcoming rarities compilation, but originally written in 1995, this classic krautrock-influenced number by the avant-pop band of Laetitia Sadier and co was originally written for to complement a sculpture made by the band’s artist collaborator, Charles Long, on 1995’s Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
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Caroline Polacheck
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s experimental piece by composer Jon Opstad, further unusual use of classical elements and staccato strings by the American pop singer and songwriter’s B-side to the hit Billions, here covering the innovative 2020 song by electronica’s Oneohtrix Point Never, and also giving it a big Enya-style echo
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Daniel Rossen’s forthcoming solo album is titled You Belong There
Song of the Day: Beautiful new solo number by the Grizzly Bear frontman decorated with strings and a serene melody, described as a contemplation of mortality amid the ancient and enchanting landscape of the American southwes
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LoneLady aka Julie Campbell
Song of the Day: A cracking combination of early 80s synth pop reminiscent of Cabaret Voltaire combined with a singing style not unlike Neneh Cherry by the Mancunian electronica solo artist and multi-instrumentalist singer Julie Campbell
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Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
Warp(ed). Plaid's Andy Turner and Ed Handley (sort of)
Song of the Day: Connecting to yesterday's Nicolette song, one from her album 1996 producers, the electronic music duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley. This inventively witty track from the 2003 album Dial P (Warp) builds beautifully with a series of clicks, beats and buzzes, with a video by the French collective Pleix that satirises the world of marketing and meat production
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