Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical and experimental, an oddly beautiful, gently moving and uplifting new alt-folk single by the Glasgow-based Canadian artist about about the cyclical nature of suffering, endurance and survival
Read moreSong of the Day: Jen Cloher - Being Human
Song of the Day: Taken from the Takatāpui Australian singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album, I Am the River, the River Is Me, an impassioned, powerful track inspired by her country’s Kulin Aboriginal Nations, oppression, identity and culture
Read moreSong of the Day: Dave Okumu – Blood Ah Go Run
Song of the Day: A powerful song inspired by the documentary about the January 1981 New Cross Fire in south London that claimed 13 Black young lives, with the title from a chant of anti-racism protests that followed
Read moreSong of the Day: Nuha Ruby Ra - Self Portraiture
Song of the Day: Strangely alluring, eclectic, polyrhythmic electro-art-punk by the London artist imagines herself as a painting and being prodded and stared at by others – “Don’t touch me/ feel me”
Read moreSong of the Day: Skinny Pelembe - Like A Heart Won't Beat
Song of the Day: From piano then morphing into rock guitar, a stirring crossover of soul, pop and gospel in this new single by the multi-talented Johannesburg-born, Doncaster-raised singer-songwriter and MC, out on Partisan Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Miss Grit - Follow The Cyborg
Song of the Day: The title track from New York musician Margaret Sohn’s debut album, an experimental fusion of electronica and fuzz guitar with sensual vocals, with a video in which she portrays her body in the cyber world
Read moreSong of the Day: Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra - Mikos
Song of the Day: With vivid, cinematic lyrics, with a distinctive array of acoustic instruments, and wonderful vocal clarity, this folky ghost dance is the opening track to the forthcoming album by the Icelandic-Italian singer-songwriter and Belgian duo
Read moreSong of the Day: Le Junk - Some Monkeys
Song of the Day: This infectious new single by the mischievous London alt-pop artist with a a special brand of sleazy disco-rock and glitzy electronica is about evolving in a different way to others around you, and feeling content with being a bit out of place
Read moreSong of the Day: Steve Mason - No More (featuring Javed Bashir)
Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters
Read moreSong of the Day: David Brewis (Field Music) - The Last Day
Song of the Day: A catchy, candid, brass-infused story of the tricky final last day of school by one half of the brother duo of Field Music, heralding his forthcoming solo album, The Soft Struggles, out on Daylight Saving Record
Read moreSong of the Day: Leland Whitty - Awake
Song of the Day: A beautiful, evocative instrumental piece, by Toronto experimental jazz BadBadNotGood's saxophonist with shimmering, gliding sounds of strings, keyboards, bass and other playing from his bandmates, heralding Whitty’s debut solo LP, Anyhow, out on Innovative Leisure
Read moreSong of the Day: Hekla - The Whole
Song of the Day: Haunting, mesmeric, beautifully spooky sounds and voice by the Icelandic singer theremin player and cellist who with some upbringing in Barcelona and is also influenced by the Catalan language, this track the first from her latest album, Xiuxiuejar, out on Phantom Limb
Read moreSong of the Day: Philip Selway - Check For Signs Of Life
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: John Cale - The Story of Blood (featuring Weyes Blood)
Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering
Read moreSong of the Day: Dora Jar - Spell
Song of the Day: A ghostly, breathy, ethereal and beautiful new number that marks Halloween, but is more about late October’s seasonal time of change by the California and New York alt-pop/folk singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski
Read moreSong of the Day: Ásgeir - Borderland
Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent
Read moreSong of the Day: Sister Wives - O Dŷ i Dŷ
Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Gretel Hänlyn - Drive
Song of the Day: Punchy, darkly sinister and rock-driven new indie single by the innovative London singer-songwriter with a distinctive deep voice and an ability to deliver songs in a variety of styles. Out on VLF Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Fever Ray - What They Call Us
Song of the Day: The first new song from Karin Dreijer since 2017 is a evocative, strange, eerie, haunting, offbeat electro-pop visualised by a goulish office party populated by zombie-like figures and a deadpan reference to National Cinnamon Roll Day
Read moreSong of the Day: Francis Lung - Midland Hotel II: The Restaurant (Short Stories EP)
Song of the Day: Taken from the new EP, Short Stories, this beautifully intimate, vivid, narrative-spoken number that builds powerfully into a dreamy climax by the Manchester artist tells of a widow transported back in time by an onion soup
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