Song of the Day returns with a pair of extraordinary, experimental songs from the San Francisco psych band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley from their 2019 debut album Good Boy
Read moreThe Futureheads – Jekyll
Song of the Day: “I remember a fight in school. I was horrified. The evil grins and suffering burnt into my mind. And it left a scar.” Powerful lines about modern masculinity repression and more from the Sunderland band’s first track for seven years
Read moreRobert Forster – Inferno (Brisbane In Summer)
Song of the Day: As summer simmers on, a hot weather cracker from the new album by the Australian singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Go-Betweens, about his native Brisbane, but one that also hints heavily at global warming
Read moreThe Claypool Lennon Delirium – Toady Man's Hour
Song of the Day: After worms and slugs, we turn to a toad, but this time this metaphor by Sean Lennon and Les Claypool’s band appears to lambast the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, from their 2019 album South of Reality
Read moreShana Cleveland – Night Of The Worm Moon / Face Of The Sun
Song of the Day: After John Myrtle’s slug song, a different take on a slimy earth creature, and in a another style, an exquisite title track and first single, by the lead singer of Los Angeles psych band La Luz, from her 2019 solo album
Read moreJohn Myrtle – Cyril The Slug
Song of the Day: After POZI’s Diggers and Squid’s Houseplants, it’s time to dig out an actual gardening connection, from the point of view of an unwanted guest, in a delightfully eccentric offbeat number by the London singer and songwriter
Read morePOZI - Watching You Suffer / Diggers
Song of the Day: After Houseplants by Squid, what’s the connection? With the title Diggers, it could be gardening, but these short, snappy numbers by the postpunk London trio hit more on housing problems and also have a drummer lead singer
Read moreSquid – Houseplants
Song of the Day: As spring comes into full bloom, a brilliant new song and band also bursting into life, but with an energetic twist – about not being able to afford a house or garden, nor plan for your future
Read moreMichael Chapman – It's Too Late / Rainmaker
Song of the Day: A pair of songs that bookend the remarkable and prolific career of the great, influential folk guitarist-singer from Leeds, from his debut album of 1969, Rainmaker, to his latest in 2019, True North
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