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Jon Opstad’s album Extensions
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s electronica to today’s acoustic piano, but with a difference - wonderfully innovative, dynamic work by the British experimental composer’s use of the Yamaha U3 Disklavier, played via computer MIDI programming and other analogue techniques
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Hercules & Love Affair’s forthcoming album, In Amber
Song of the Day: The opening track from Andy Butler and co’s forthcoming new album, In Amber, has a dark, smoky, almost gothic feel but strains of with hope and defiance, and includes guest Icelandic singer Elin Ey, as well as old friend and collaborator ANOHNI as a co-producer
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Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
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Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
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Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station
Song of the Day: A beautifully understated, melancholy piano-and-voice-only new song from Canadian Tamara Lindeman, taken from the forthcoming album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars out on 4 March on Fat Possum Records
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Léa Sen
Song of the Day: A sensual, dreamy sun-kissed new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter and producer that touches on loses sanity but is also about wanting to grow and handle life with more wisdom
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The eyes have it: rom the video for Yumi Zouma’s In The Eyes Of Our Love
Song of the Day: Uplifting, catchy new alt-pop by the New Zealand band taken from the forthcoming fourth studio album, Present Tense, out on 18 March on Polyvinyl Record Co. and Play It Again Sam, Australia
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Caroline’s new self-titled album
Song of the Day: Beautifully serene, from also from great stillness to sudden rumblings expressed through erupting vocals and strings, this latest single fro the London experimental 8-piece band heralds their self-titled debut album on 25 February on Rough Trade Records
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Tindersticks
Song of the Day: Welcome return of unmistakably haunting voice of Stuart Staples and band with this song specially written for Claire Denis' new film Avec Amour et Acharnament starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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Guerilla Toss
Song of the Day: Everything sensory. This vibrant new single by the New York/Boston art-rock band, from their forthcoming LP Famously Alive, is inspired by the pandemic yet also expresses a springing back into life with blasts of guitar, intricate rhythm and Kassie Carlson’s distinctive vocals
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From the new Methyl Ethel video directed by Jake Webb
Song of the Day: What can you see? From the forthcoming new album Are You Haunted? by the band from Perth, Australia, led by Jake Webb, duetting in a q & a style here with Stella Donnelly with a rich string arrangement, this an aurally and visually arresting new single with an art metaphor
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Jenny Hval
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Classic Objects, a thought-provoking number by the Norwegian singer-songwriter about the constrictions around public and private profiles of an artist, prompted by witnessing sudden marriage proposal at one of her gigs
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Arad’s EP Augmented Fantasy
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Augmented Fantasy, quirky, inventive electronica by the Irish artist Dara Smith joined by the voice of Stine Omar, one half of the Berlin-based pop outfit EASTER, and here released on Berlin label Voitex
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Gentle Party
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming LP by the Vancouver band is wondrously original psychological creation about bad behaviour and whether you can separate the art from the artist, featuring vocals, harp, violin, and synth effects
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Branching out with new music: Shamir Bailey
Song of the Day: Powerful, heavy-rock guitar rises to impressively soaring countertenor even higher than Prince’s Camille in this recent single wrestling with the constraints of gender definition by the talented singer-songwriter from Las Vegas
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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C Duncan
Song of the Day: More space now, with a song about change from microcosm to the macrocosm, this new single by the composer, singer and musician from Glasgow comes with a sublime melody and a dream-like, cinematic quality
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Keeley Forsyth - Bring Me Water
Song of the Day: ‘There’s a place that only I have seen.’ Ghostly, beautiful, sensual and dark, this new single by the singer and actor from Oldham with a unique, rich, deep voice comes from her forthcoming album, Limbs, due in February
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Cascade Theory by LYR
Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second
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