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Things are looking up: Ben Howard
Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?
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Genevieve Dawson
Song of the Day: Taken from her new five-track EP, What's Mine Is Yours, out on 26 May, a beautiful new number by the London-based singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh
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Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity
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Clever licks: Anna Erhard
Song of the Day: The title track of the the Berlin artist’s latest album is beautifully crisp, oddball German electro-pop with clever licked, jagged guitars, quirky lyrics and ironic, nostalgic detail about a summer camping trip
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From the video for Celebrate Me by Baxter Dury
Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World
Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds
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Ash Walker
Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals
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Fran Lobo
Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship
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The Clientele are back …
Song of the Day: With their first new music for six years, beautifully shiny, polished, twinkling indie pop by the London-based band from the forthcoming ninth album, I Am Not There Anymore, out on 28 July via Merge Records
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Tiberius b
Song of the Day: Clever, engaging, energetic experimental pop by the London-based artist, aka Frank Belcourt, from their forthcoming new EP, DIN, out on 30 June via Mark Ronson's label Zelig Music
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Manchester band Nightbus’s new single, Mirrors
Song of the Day: A dark, atmospheric, thrumming piece of cityscape psychology post-punk by the trio of Jake Cottier, Olivia Rees and Zac Melrose from Manchester, with shades, or indeed Shadowplaym of Joy Division, out So Young Records
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Polly Jean Harvey
Song of the Day: The acclaimed British indie artist returns with slow, intense, inventive bird-themed new single about solace and love, from her forthcoming album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, out in July Partisan Records
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Pozi: Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook and Tom Jones
Song of the Day: Fabulously thrumming bass, glissando and rhythmic violin, drums and vocal harmonies by the British post-punk trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones in this political song taken from their forthcoming new album Smiling Pools, out on PRAH
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LOCKS’ new EP, Tall Tales
Song of the Day: A wonderful Tom Waits-esque oddball new release of gory imagery, rattled chains and stomping staccato by the dark, Tiger Lillies cabaret-style gypsy folk London band from their recent EP, Tall Tales
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The return of Patrick Wolf
Song of the Day: Taken from his recent EP, The Night Safari, his first release for a decade, the multi-talented south Londoner singer and musician’s dynamic, dark new alternative baroque pop single is a fusion of electronica, viola, violin, Celtic harp, celeste, suitcase organ and bowed psaltery
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Little Dragon return with Slugs of Love
Song of the Day: Catchy alternative indie-pop by the band from Gothenburg, Sweden with a number about pleasure-seeking laziness in relationships, and in a style they imagine “being played by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colours.”
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Yova’s new single
Song of the Day: Punchy, rhythmic alternative indie pop by the duo of Macedonia-born vocalist Jova Radevska and London-based musician Mark Vernon with penetrative jagged guitar, organ and trumpet parts in a song about tendency to form addictions to alleviate pain
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From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony
Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best
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Mary Ocher’s
Song of the Day: Taken from the charity EP, Power and Exclusion from Power (out on Underground Institute) released on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a powerful anti-nationalist alternative electronica hymn by the Jewish-Ukranian political artist
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Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, Dear Departed, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Sounding from another era, that of the 70s and Harry Nilsson, a wonderfully powerful and romantic voice and number from the contemporary Los Angeles singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album Dear Departed, out in July on Partisan Records
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