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FKA twigs - Eusexua
Song of the Day: The striking, stylish delicately voiced new trance-electronica single by the highly original British artist (aka Tahliah Debrett Barnett) is a sensual, heartbeat-throbbing number using her made-up word to describe the state of “momentary transcendence”, and is the title track heralding her forthcoming third album, out on Young Records
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Fresh delivery, Adult DVD’s new EP, Next Day Shipping
Song of the Day: Fresh delivery and punchy, energetic electro-postpunk by the Leeds band in the opening track from their new EP Next Day Shipping, following other singles Doomsday Prepper, Bill Murray and Yacht Money
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Our Girl
Song of the Day: Evocative, serenely beautiful and poetic, this new single by the Brighton band captures that Proustian-type moment of unleashed feelings, senses and memories, in this case hearing Ella Fitzgerald on the radio, and is the title track heralding their forthcoming album out on 8 November via Bella Union
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Julie Dawson: Bottom of the Pool
Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual, dream pop and electronica in this side project by the singer from the Galway band, NewDad, with this title track her forthcoming debut album, out on 13 September via Fair Youth Records
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Albertine Sarges - Stand Near Your Fire
Song of the Day: Exuberant, energetic indie pop by the charismatic German artist, capturing the feeling of falling for someone, the “silly happiness of meeting someone you really adore and who brings out the best in you” expressing boldness and confidence with punchy percussion and guitars
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Pelican crossing: Kim Deal …
Song of the Day: Crunchy, fuzzy, spacey, dreamy, psychedelic, this striking new single from the Breeders and former Pixies star is taken from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, out on 22 November via 4AD
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The Smile’s third album, Cutouts, is due on 4 October
Song of the Day: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, again with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner return with a brisk, sharp, staccato guitar and horn number, the latest heralding their third as The Smile, Cutouts, arriving on 4 October on XL Recordings
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Tess Parks
Song of the Day: Alluring, richly orchestrated psychedelic-tinted dream pop by the Toronto-born London-based singer-songwriter, heralding her new album Pomegranate, released on 25 September on Fuzz Club and Hand Drawn Dracula
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The Waeve: Rose Elinor Dougall and Graham Coxon
Song of the Day: Another stylish, striking, stormy sounding indie single by the Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and his partner aka Rose Elinor Dougall are releasing their second album together, City Lights, released on 20 September via Transgressive Records
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Soft and tender: Tindersticks
Song of the Day: Deliciously paced, tender melancholy in the distinctive style of vocalist Stuart Staples and the Nottingham band from their forthcoming 14th studio album, Soft Tissue, released on 13 September via Lucky Dog / City Slang
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Thus Love’s forthcoming album, All Pleasure
Song of the Day: Swaggering, stylish indie postpunk, with a touch of Arctic Monkeys, by the band from Brattleboro, Vermont, with a strangely disturbing celebratory video (also featuring an owl), and heralding their sophomore album, All Pleasure, out 1 November via Captured Tracks
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Broadcast’s final release, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, is out in September
Song of the Day: A truly gorgeous previously unreleased intimate, haunting acoustic song discovered after the passing of the British band’s singer Trish Keenan, heralding a compilation, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, and the final release from Broadcast, available from 28 September 2024 via Warp Record
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Floating Points: Cascade album is out in September
Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric electronica that grows in intensity and complexity from the British artist Sam Shepherd, heralding hiis forthcoming next LP, Cascade, released on 13 September via Ninja Tune
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Shelf Lives: John Hillyard and Sabrina Di Giulio
Song of the Day: Visceral, biting, powerful, punchy, semi-spoken, semi-screamed electro post-punk with a dark theme by the London-based duo of producer John Hillyard and Toronto-born vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio, out on Not Sorry Mom Records
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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Sasha Assad’s new EP, Casablanker
Song of the Day: After her previous EP Tearstick, a new catchy, clever, tenderly romantic indie track with a Kinks reference, by the Nottingham artist with Egyptian heritage from the next EP, Casablanker, out on Fierce Panda Records
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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She Drew The Gun, aka Louisa Roach
Song of the Day: Liverpool’s brilliant Louisa Roach returns with a powerful new number described as “like a therapy session with your shadow self. It’s a looking in the mirror song, a song to my subconscious, my shadow,” and following the title track single, heralds her forthcoming album, Howl, out on 15 November via Submarine Cat Records
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Fie Eike
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, emotive, evocative and cinematic new number about how boundaries become fluid in our existential pursuit of belonging. by the Copenhagen-based composer and singer Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, creating a soundscape from piano, electronica, field recordings from nature, and above all her soaring, beautiful voice
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Cupid’s arrow? A different sort of hit from Katy J Pearson
Song of the Day: A deliciously summery, uplifting new number about personal independence by the Bristol singer-songwriter with a beautifully quaint archery video, heralding her forthcoming third album, Someday, Now, out on 20 September via Heavenly Recordings
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