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The Orielles
Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming new album, Tableau, some mesmeric, shapeshifting 8-minute, gradual-build celestial dream pop by the Yorkshire trio from Halifax, with an ever wider innovative range
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Elemental fusion of opposites: who else, but Björk?
Song of the Day: The iconic Icelandic artist returns, literally with a bang – mixing mighty opposites in a song about how such things may combine – clattering, hammering beats, involving Indonesian experimental duo Gabber Modus Operandi – and clarinets, joining from disharmony into into an eventual frenetic unison
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Daniela Lalita
Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush
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Sweden’s GOAT return with another single and a forthcoming album
Song of the Day: A welcome return with an infectious, syncopated, slightly Tuareg groove with crazed saxophone from the masked purveyors of psychedelic musical mythology, the mysterious band from the tiny Swedish village of Korpilombo, taken from their forthcoming new album Oh Death, out on Rocket Recordings
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The Cool Greenhouse forthcoming album Sod’s Toastie
Song of the Day: “It’s like Windows 98 in here.” From the forthcoming second album Sod’s Toastie, a brilliant blend of Bowie-esque post-punk and superbly droll, witty paradox-filled, absurdist spoken lyrics by the British band fronted by Tom Greenhouse
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Red alert: here’s comes De Staat
Songs of the Day: Stylish, syncopated, restless, witty, and slightly menacing, these punchy and pulsating new numbers by the entertaining Dutch alt-rockers comes from their new playlist of songs grouped under different colours – red, yellow, blue
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Panda Bear aka Noah Benjamin Lennox
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Reset, this wonderfully ironic look at the life of staring at screens and mobile technology uses a retro vocal harmony style reminiscent of Beach Boys, with added electronic beeps and a dash of They Might Be Giants
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Hatis Noit’s new album: Aura
Songs of the Day: Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals
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The Mary Onettes’ new EP
Song of the Day: Luxuriant, rich, dreamy, 80s textured pop evoking a landscape by the Swedish band in this title track of their new EP, and “about always being a bit unsure about your surroundings …”
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From the video for Lambchop’s Police Dog Blues
Song of the Day: Moving again away from his best known alt-country style, Kurt Wagner returns with an extraordinary experimental fusion of jazz, gospel and soul with this song that imagines a post-apocalyptic world where ex-police dogs roam
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The Mars Volta’s Blacklight Shine
Song of the Day: After 10 years of schisms and side projects, the Texan prog-rock experimental duo of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and band finally reunite with an unique blend of funk, rock, Cuban and Afro-Cuban drumming and English and Spanish lyrics
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From the new Hamish Hawk video
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Angel by First Aid Kit, another angel-themed number by the Scottish singer-songwriter – stirring, witty, wry, declamatory, black-humoured, and showing consistently fine form since last year’s album Heavy Elevator
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Mogwai’s latest single Boltfor
Song of the Day: A majestic standalone single by the Glasgow alternative rock band known for their powerful, epic instrumentals, this one a prime example, accompanied by a beautiful video
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Joe Unknown’s second single, Silent
Song of the Day: Sharp, fast, wildly inventive, alternative hip hop by the British rapper with unusual phrasing, mesmeric beats, breathing sounds and a rising, searing siren-like sound, all in this second single after last year’s debut Ride
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Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece
Song of the Day: A supremely beautiful new track featuring the unmistakable voice of former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser working here with her partner Damon Reece, with rippling synths, guitar and drums, and taken from the forthcoming EP Sun's Signature, out 18 June on Partisan Records
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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P.E.
Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Ticket to ride: Spiritualized’s The Mainline Song from Everything Was Beautiful
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
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