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Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
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KNEECAP - Better Way To Live (featuring Grian Chatten)
Song of the Day: The pull-no-punches Belfast rappers’ latest single features the Fontaines D.C. singer in an upbeat, sharp, articulate strongly bassy number about finding that little spark of joy in life’s monotony, and in the day-to-day things
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TimlehyC Duncan - Just Like Clockwork
English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Julia Holter - Sun Girl
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the American singer-songwriter, whose last LP was 2018’s acclaimed Aviary, with a mesmeric, ethereal, experimental number featuring fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass
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The Miserable Rich - Crows
Song of the Day: Perky piano pop with a dark undertone about nature’s apocalypse by the Brighton band inspired by the clever, mysterious, tool-using corvid species, heralding a first album in 13 years
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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Nathan Fake’s latest EP, Guiro.
Song of the Day: Pulsating, mesmeric electronica and dance music by the Norfolk-raised musician influenced by Aphex Twin and Orbital, and taken from his latest EP, Guiro, released on Cambria Instruments
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Lenhart Tapes’ new album, Dens
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming second LP, Dens, by the Belgrade ethno-noise project of producer and ‘Walkman alchemist’ Vladimir Lenhart, brings a mesmeric mix of electronica and Balkan folklore sounds, here with guest vocalist Zoja Borovčanin from the Serbian alt-rock band Lira Vega
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The brilliant and incomparable Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: The collective from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, return with a vibrant, upbeat, infectious, rhythmic punk-Afro-futuristic track with a title that translates as “pain and pleasure”
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Chelsea Wolfe’s forthcoming album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She out on Loma Vista Recordings
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark, menacing, atmospheric goth-rock noir about identity and self-empowerment by the Californian artist heralding her forthcoming seventh studio album, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She out on Loma Vista
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Grandaddy’s forthcoming new album, Blu Wav
Song of the Day: Filled with perfectly pace and pathos, and beautifully sensitive, empathetic but also droll new number about a stifled office romance by the California indie alt-country band fronted by Jason Lytle, heralding their seventh LP in almost 30 years – Blu Wav
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Souleance’s new album, Beautiful
Song of the Day: Taken from the French funk duo’s recent album, Beautiful, an infectiously upbeat groovy fusion with psychedelia, indie pop, a melting pot style of London, French and Turkish influences, joined here by Kit Martin on guitar and Merve Erdem on vocals
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Priya Ragu’s debut album, Santhosam
Song of the Day: After a series of singles since 2020, a punchy, high-octane number about violence against black people, from the Sri-Lankan Tamil-Swiss singer-songwriter who merges sounds from her heritage with pop, and is taken from her debut album, Santhosam, out on Warner
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Enola Gay’s latest EP, Casement
Song of the Day: A powerful, valedictory-style number, the final from their latest EP, Casement, the explosive Dublin punk/hip-hop quartet with an evolved, more tender sound mixing elements electronica with Belfast music producer Mount Palomar
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Peter Brewis’s latest solo album, Blowdry Colossus
Song of the Day: A mesmerically funky, inventive instrumental composition of electronica, synths, bass, drums and guitars inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra, by one half of Sunderland’s Field Music brothers, taken from Peter’s brand new solo album, Blowdry Colossus
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Teeth of the Sea
Song of the Day: Mesmeric electro-pop and psychedelia with searing rock guitar, beautiful vocals by guest Kath Gifford all take flight on this single by the London band taken from their recently released album, Hive, inspired by Frank Herbert’s 1973 novel Hellstrom’s Hive
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Bess Atwell
Song of the Day: A simmeringly beautiful new number by the Brighton-based singer-songwriter about familial roles and relationships through an imaginary character from her childhood, and produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner
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Gruff Rhys’s forthcoming new album, Sadness Sets Me Free, out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, characteristically quirky and catchy new indie-pop single by the Welsh singer-songwriter, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance”
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Brimheim aka Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff
Song of the Day: A quirky, catchy and melodious indie-electro-pop love song by the Malmö-based singer-songwriter with a distinctive voice, Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff and friends, out on TAMBOURHINOCEROS
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