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: Los Bitchos - Kiki, You Complete Me
Song of the Day: A stylish, catchy and always irresistably fun fusion of pace-changing instrumental indie, cumbia, surf and psych by the international London-based quartet, taken from their forthcoming second album Talkie Talkie, out on City Slang on 30 August
Read moreSong of the Day: Nubya Garcia - Clarity
Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz
Read moreSong of the Day: Colin Stetson - The Love It Took To Leave You
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”
Read moreSong of the Day: Ezra Collective: Ajala
Song of the Day: After 2022’s Mercury prize-winning album, Where I’m Meant To Be, the jazz and afrobeat quintet of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison return with a vibrant new single
Read moreSong of the Day: Group Listening - Frogs
Song of the Day: A wonderfully odd and beautiful release featuring field recordings of the titular resonantly relaxing amphibians by the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing duo of Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo)
Read moreSongs of the Day: Leonardo Barbadoro - Bomi / Hybr Spiro (from Musica Automata album)
Songs of the Day: Mesmeric, unusual, charming, ingenious instrumental gems released late last year by the Italian composer from an album performed by an orchestra of over 80 robots, and currently the largest robot orchestra in the world
Read moreSong of the Day: Jim Perkins - Winter
Song of the Day: A delicate, beautiful, seasonally evocative orchestral instrumental new single by the London pianist and composer out on Bigo and Twigetti
Read moreSongs of the Day: Dorothy Carter - The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing / Celtic Medley
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
Read moreSong of the Day: Yarni - Albers
Song of the Day: Inventive, intricate, oddball alternative electronica and other sounds with an intriguing build in this title track from the latest EP by Sheffield multi-instrumentalist and composer Benjamin Adam Harris
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: Nathan Fake - Sky Hook (Guiro EP)
Song of the Day: Pulsating, mesmeric electronica and dance music by the Norfolk-raised musician influenced by Aphex Twin and Orbital, and taken from his latest EP, Guiro, released on Cambria Instruments
Read moreSong of the Day: Peter Brewis - Drumeoscene
Song of the Day: A mesmerically funky, inventive instrumental composition of electronica, synths, bass, drums and guitars inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra, by one half of Sunderland’s Field Music brothers, taken from Peter’s brand new solo album, Blowdry Colossus
Read moreSong of the Day: 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
Read moreSong of the Day: Surusinghe - Skit
Song of the Day: A lively snap track for Friday packed with clever, innovative, intricately woven stop-start electronica, breaks, beats, sharp bass lines, textures and percussion in this latest single by the Naarm/Melbourne-born, London-based artist from her forthcoming new EP
Read moreSong of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Bathed In Sound (Wild Wet World EP)
Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds
Read moreSong of the Day: Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
Song of the Day: A whirlwind of brilliant dynamism, energy and invention by the British jazz drummer with the title track of his forthcoming debut solo album, out on Brownswood Recordings, Warners and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings
Read moreSong of the Day: London Brew - Miles Chases New Voodoo In The Church
Song of the Day: A fabulous swirling concoction of jazz and psychedelia by a top-class group of London musicians reinterpreting Miles Davis’ album Bitches Brew and his ode to Jimi Hendrix (Miles Runs the Voodoo Down)
Read moreSong of the Day: James Holden - Contains Multitudes
Song of the Day: A colourful, mesmeric, intricate collage of looped electronica, tabla, piano and violin come together in this epic lead single by the London artist’s forthcoming album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, out via Border Community
Read moreSong of the Day: Heith - [] () () , 21, wheel of fortune
Song of the Day: A mesmeric and strikingly original track by Italy’s Daniele Guerrini, artist and electronic musician based in Milan, here with beautiful additional guitar and brass, from his recent album, X, wheel, out on PAN Records
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