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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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Låpsley
Song of the Day: Sensual, powerful alternative pop about stirrings of religion-formed guilt by by the Southport-raised singer-songwriter Holly Lapsley Fletcher, out on Believe UK
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Barry Adamson
Song of the Day: A brilliant belter of a Motown-style soul single by the revered Manchester musician and songwriter, capturing the fatal final day of the great singer in 1964, taken from Adamson’s forthcoming new album Cut To Black
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Liz Lawrence returns with Big Machine from her new album, Peanuts, out on Chrysalis
Song of the Day: Classy, articulate, stirring and strident indie electro-pop by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist with this lead single from the upcoming brand new album Peanuts, out on Chrysalis Records
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Phone addiction: Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: One of two recent singles heralding the forthcoming new album by Scotland’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, a witty, articulate, deadpan lament about online hate, mixing a disco beat with guitar line
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King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Song of the Day: An immediately arresting, gorgeous indie Americana of poise and elegance by the Liverpool duo of singer Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, joined here by Sharon Van Etten on vocal harmonies, with the title track of their forthcoming album, out on City Slang
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M(h)aol - Pursuit
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent debut album Attachment Styles, a visceral, intense single by the feminist postpunk Dublin band, about the traumatic experience of being followed home
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Kamasi Washington
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Los Angeles virtuoso jazz saxophonist returns with this dramatic, energetic opening track, originally written by by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and heralding his forthcoming new album, Fearless Movement, out 3 May via Young Records
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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Nick Cave
Song of the Day: The Australian legend returns with characteristic zeal and passion with this striking narrative title track from his upcoming 18th studio album, one capturing his recurring themes of death, religion, love and violence, a reflecting on a chaotic world
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s upcoming new album, Eye To The Ear
Song of the Day: A fabulously oddball and inventive new aquatic-themed number by the experimental London vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who uses field recordings, human and non-human voices, with an upcoming new album Eye To The Ear
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youbet’s Nick Llobet
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
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La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
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Anastasia Coope
Song of the Day: The opening track of the New York singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Darning Women has a beautiful spooky psychedelic folk quality with slinking piano and layered, echoey choral voices before electric guitar entry, expressing a mood of both hysteria and euphoria
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Ella Raphael - Tangled Love
Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”
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Sinkane’s new album, We Belong
Song of the Day: This hugely uplifting title track from the forthcoming eighth album by the New York band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, is fabulously stylish, Sly Stone-inspired, gospel funk and soul with an energy that really flies
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Annie Clark’s fired up with a new St Vincent single, Broken Man
Song of the Day: The acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark returns with a smouldering, explosive, swaggering, hard rock, gnarly new single featuring Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl guesting on drums, and heralding her forthcoming seventh album, All Born Screaming
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Melts’ upcoming new album, Field Theory
Song of the Day: A storming new single of frenetic, krautrock-electronic-psych-rock by the Dublin band, with scintillating synth lines and the charismatic, cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny, heralding their upcoming second album, Field Theory, out on 12 April on Fuzz Club
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Lovely Eggs: Holly Ross and David Blackwell
Song of the Day: Four years since their brilliantly entertaining album I Am Moron, the Lancaster couple Holly Ross and David Blackwell return with wonderful psychedelic punk west coast rock, to herald their new album, Eggsistentialism due on 17 May via Egg Records
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The Mysterines - Stray
Song of the Day: A darkly gothic, smouldering, then explosive new rock single by the Merseyside band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Lia Metcalfe, taken from their forthcoming second album, Afraid of Tomorrows, out in June on Fiction Records
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