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Big Thief
Song of the Day: A beautiful, life-spanning love song by the Brooklyn-based folk band of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and co, due to be released as a limited 7-inch single sharing another recent song, Vampire Empire, on 20 October
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Gazelle Twin: Black Dog
Song of the Day: Inimitably dark and original, a whispering, menacing new single and the title track from the brilliantly inventive, experimental British electronic artist Elizabeth Bernholz’s forthcoming new album out on Invada Records
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Marika Hackman returns with a double-edged health kick: No Caffeine
Song of the Day: This engaging, sweet-sounding new indie single by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist feels initially like some upbeat health manual, but it is dark and edgy – “rattling off tactics to prevent a panic attack while likening her anxiety to an abusive partner”
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From the cover of Art Feynman’s new album Be Good The Crazy Boys
Song of the Day: Wonderfully twisted, clever, oddly melancholy but melodiously catchy art-pop and funk by the California-based artist Luke Temple and band with synths, fabulous riffs, rhythm and sax, taken from his third album Be Good The Crazy Boys
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King Creosote aka Kenny Anderson
Song of the Day: A beautiful, uplifting new number and the first by the Scottish experimental folk singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson, from his upcoming album, I DES, his first for seven years, due out 3 November on Domino Records
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records
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Beirut return with a new album, Hadsel, in November
Song of the Day: A beautiful, tender, wistful and crisply rhythmic alternative folk number by the New Mexico band led by trumpeter Zach Condon, taken from Beirut’s upcoming tenth album, Hadsel, out on 10 November via Pompeii Records
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Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records
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Flamingods
Song of the Day: The Bahraini-British alternative psych-rockers return with with their unique sound, here layering funk guitars over wonky synths in a number inspired by Afro-synth music of the 1970s
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Fat Dog’s debut single - King of the Slugs
Song of the Day: Using that garden scourge invertebrate as humorous metaphor, a wonderfully energetic, flamboyant fusion of post-punk, psych-rock and electronica by the south London band led by frontman Joe Love with their debut single, out on Domino Records
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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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Sufjan Stevens
Song of the Day: A beautiful, intimate, delicate-yet-cutting lullaby-like breakup new song by the acclaimed US artist, heralding his forthcoming new album, Javelin, the first since 2020’s The Ascension, but one more akin to his full singer-songwriter mode, 2015’s powerfully moving Carrie & Lowell
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Modern Nature’s forthcoming album, No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union in September
Song of the Day: Not one, but actually two recent beautiful experimental folk tracks by the Cambridge-based band led by Jack Cooper – expansive, contemplative, and meditative on ideas of intricate infinity in nature, taken from the forthcoming album No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union.
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CHAI channel their philosophy of Neo Kawaii
Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, quirky, feminist post-punk-pop celebrating self-love, oddness and individuality by the Japanese quartet from Nagoya of twin sisters Mana and Kana, with rhythm section of Yuna and Yuuki
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Incoming and outgoing: The Antlers - Tide
Song of the Day: Gentle, acoustic and unusually beautiful, a new experimental number the Brooklyn duo of Peter Silberman and Michael Lerner, identifying natural phases over a lifetime with an oceanic metaphorical theme
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Seoul music: family group TENGGER
Song of the Day: A truly alternative sound from the South Korean-based family band with their beautiful, mesmeric brand of New Age psychedelia of electronica, synths, harmonium and ghostly vocals, taken from their forthcoming self-titled album
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Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise
Song of the Day: The London band who specialise in songs sampling archive footage return with a stirring, nostalgic number about the early days of radio broadcasting, in a version played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and the title track of their forthcoming new live album
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Lol Tolhurst, Budgie and Jacknife Lee
Song of the Day: “LA eats its children.” Superbly punchy, rhythmic title track with caustic, striking lyrics about the US city from the forthcoming album a supergroup trio of the ex-Cure drummer, Siouxsie drummer, producer joined by the LCD Soundsystem frontman
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Song of the Day: The Kills - LA Hex / New York
Song of the Day: Meaty fuzz guitars, trumpets and powerful, husky vocals in this new US city-themed double A-side by the Anglo-American duo of Jamie Hince and vocalist Alison Mosshart with their first new recordings in seven years
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Viji’s album, So Vanilla is out on 27 October
Song of the Day: Addictively thrumming, punchy fuzz-guitar indie pop by the London-based Austrian-Brazilian artist Vanilla Jenner with another excellent single out on Speedy Wunderground produced by Dan Carey
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