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Peter Murphy - Swoon
Song of the Day: Dark, smoky, gothy, simmering, bizarre and Bowie-esque, the Bauhaus singer joins forces with old friend and the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, relating to the state of performer and audience, and heralding his upcoming album Silver Shade out on 9 May via Metropolis Records
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The Waeve: Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records
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Rebekka Karijord’s forthcoming album, The Bell Tower
Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union
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Japanese Breakfast
Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans
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Ezra Furman
Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union
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The Nightingales, fronted by Robert Lloyd
Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records
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Caity Baser - Watch That Girl …
Song of the Day: Undeniably infectious, catchy, cheeky, flamboyant confidence-boosting, table-turning pop with brassy embellishments by the charismatic Southampton-raised, Brighton-based artist, out on Chosen Music / Capitol / Polydor
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Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey
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Dora Jar - Lucky
Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG
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Nadia Ahmed aka Nxdia
Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records
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Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress
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Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, Earthstar Mountains, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union
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Tunde Adebimpe’s upcoming album, Thee Black Boltz
Song of the Day: Following the single, Magnetic, late last year, the TV On The Radio frontman and actor returns with another striking number, heralding his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, out on 18 April via Sub Pop Records
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Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto’s upcoming album, Electric War
Song of the Day: Fizzing, fabulous, inventively rhythmic psych-blues-funk by the British rock combo of guitarist Barrie Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton joined by drummer Malcolm Catto, heralding their new album Electric War out on 19 April via Easy Eye Sound
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Yukimi’s upcoming debut solo album - For You
Song of the Day: A beguiling, gentle, vivid single of intertwining delicate vocals, accordion and strings by the singer and co-founder of acclaimed Swedish experimental band Little Dragon, heralding her debut solo LP, For You, out on 28 March on Ninja Tune
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Florist’s upcoming album, Jellywish
Song of the Day: Gentle, beautiful, reflective indie-folk by the Catskill Mountains / New York quartet of singer and songwriter Emily Sprague with Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro and Felix Walworth, heralding their forthcoming album, Jellywish, out on 4 April on Double Double Whammy
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Black Country, New Road - Besties
Song of the Day: An eccentric, eclectic, catchy new single about friendship by the Cambridge-formedm London-based British experimental band mixing folk and indie with dabbles of harpsichord, saxophone and more, heralding their upcoming third album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April on Ninja Tune
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SASAMI with Clairo (left)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, bittersweet single taking inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads with added ripples of electronica, rock guitar and intertwining vocals with the acclaimed fellow American singer-songwriter, Claire Cottrill, heralding Sasami’s forthcoming album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out on 7 March via Domino Records
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Sparks’ Russell and Ron Mael - always doing things their own way
Song of the Day: Continuing an approach they’ve followed for more than five decades, the ever entertaining brothers Ron and Russel Mael return with further fun, groundbreaking pop, heralding their 28th studio album, MAD!, out this year on Transgressive Records
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Snapped Ankles
Song of the Day: The mysterious, masked London electro-postpunk band returns with a catchy, driving, dark, dystopian-flavoured new single, heralding their fourth LP Hard Times Furious Dancing, out on 28 March on The Leaf Label
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