Song of the Day: Taken from the London band’s latest LP, Anywhere But Here, an innovative, emotional latest single, arguably a perfect song for a rain-hit British summer, but one about feelings of isolation and confusion
Read moreSong of the Day: Maple Glider - Dinah
Song of the Day: The Melbourne singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch returns with a fusion of the cutting and beautiful with a song about religious shaming, inspired by the biblical story of Dinah, a woman sexually assaulted but victim-blamed
Read moreSong of the Day: Metric - Just the Once
Song of the Day: Described by the Canadian band as regret disco, and a song for when you need to dance yourself clean, ‘once’ is an ambiguous term in this catchy, clean indie-electro pop by the four-piece
Read moreSong of the Day: Borough Council - Prescribed
Song of the Day: With a mesmeric, rhythmic, riffing krautrock momentum and some echoes of the Cure, a dark but fresh, eclectic debut the Hastings trio of Haydn Ackerley, Joe Ackerley and Tom Healey
Read moreSong of the Day: Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum
Song of the Day: The Leeds post-punk quartet return with a blistering new single about constant social shifts in perception, ownership and recognition through the metaphor of a classic piece of clothing, with frontman James Smith’s biting lyrics alongside a driving dance-punk energy
Read moreSong of the Day: Blonde Redhead: Melody Experiment
Song of the Day: An alluring, sensual new single about a conversation by the experimental New York pop-rock trio of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace, from their first new album in nine years, Sit Down for Dinner, out on 29 September via section1
Read moreSong of the Day: Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Stand Anthem
Song of the Day: A stirring, profound, African- and gospel-influenced new number by the veteran distinctively soulful voiced American singer-songwriter from Philadelphia from his forthcoming new album The Ones Ahead out on 28 July on Transgressive Records
Read moreSong of the Day: The Smile - Bending Hectic
Song of the Day: An extraordinary new 8-minute piece of emotional power, melodic string tuning, distinctive, ghostly vocals and a climactic coda from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood with Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet
Read moreSong of the Day: Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Madeline Kenney – I Drew A Line
Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Magia Bruta - Biking (Algo mejor)
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Snowapple - I, CYBORG
Song of the Day: Innovative, strange, dark and mesmeric, this new single by the Netherlands-based international art collective focuses gender and politics through a cyborg prism with beguiling, gradually building alt pop, art rock, cyberpunk and sonic synth landscapes
Read moreSong of the Day: Palehound - My Evil
Song of the Day: Clever, witty, candid, tender, self-detrimental, finely constructed indie by the Brooklyn artist Ellen Kempner with a song of shamefully realising “Yes, you ARE the asshole” from their new album, Eye on the Bat, out Polyvinyl Records in July.
Read moreSong of the Day: Holly Walker - How Can I Tell You
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Margaret Glaspy, another track about feeling uncertain how to respond over a relationship, here with the beautifully haunting voice and melody of London singer-songwriter
Read moreSong of the Day: Teenage Fanclub - Foreign Land
Song of the Day: With distinctive rich vocal harmonies and warm guitars, the veteran Scottish indie alt-rock band return with a single from their 13th studio album, Nothing Lasts Forever out in September on PeMa and Merge
Read moreSong of the Day: Saya Gray - DIZZY PPL BECOME BLURRY (from QWERTY EP)
Song of the Day: The opening track of the London experimental artist’s new 7-track EP is an extraordinary mix of rippling piano, electronica, thunderous drums and oddball-beautiful vocal harmonies
Read moreSong of the Day: Joyeria - Death
Song of the Day: Killer lyrics on a timeless subject with deadpan delivery, a sprinkle of woodwind and an Elvis reference from brilliant London-based Canadian singer-songwriter, reminiscent of Smog/Bill Callahan and Silver Jews with another great song from his latest EP, FIM, out on Speedy Wunderground / PIAS
Read moreSong of the Day: Angelo De Augustine - The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
Read moreSong of the Day: CLT DRP - New Boy
Song of the Day: Striking, powerful, turbulent punk/electronica single by the Brighton trio with searingly candid lyrics about a stormy post-breakup state of mind, shouty vocals and electrifying stop-start rhythms
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