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Cover of Wilma Archer’s album A Western Circular
Song of the Day: Taken from the British producer and multi-instrumentalist’s album, A Western Circular, this wonderfully eclectic fusion of classical and jazz intertwined and MF Doom’s unmistakable rapping, tells a tale of a New York drug dealer
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Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
From the video for Strange Habits. But what is the Metallica connection?
Song of the Day: How is this video connected to Metallica? A truly alternative release by the Danish producer and guitarist also known as Frederik Tao, mixing mellifluous riffs, restless percussive rhythms and jittery, high-pitched exclamatory vocals
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Some images from the extraordinary video for Igorrr’s Very Noise
Song of the Day: An unholy fusion of black metal, drum’n’bass, baroque, breakcore, electronica and more, this latest creative brain explosion by the French musician, also known as Gautier Serre, is an otherworldly onslaught of wit and arrhythmic anarchy
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Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS
Song of the Day: Two numbers from the Scottish composer who has a beguiling ability to mix multiple genres, from classical to pop, and here from her new album FIBS, creates an extraordinary world of beats, electronica and melodies
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Kamikaze Palm Tree
Song of the Day returns with a pair of extraordinary, experimental songs from the San Francisco psych band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley from their 2019 debut album Good Boy
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Daniel Johnston: 1961 -2019
Song of the Day: A short tribute to the recently departed 58-year-old American singer-songwriter. Eccentric, troubled, mentally fragile, his emotional, vulnerable style helped created songs of lo-fi, acoustic, quirky, rough-edged beauty
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John Myrtle
Song of the Day: After POZI’s Diggers and Squid’s Houseplants, it’s time to dig out an actual gardening connection, from the point of view of an unwanted guest, in a delightfully eccentric offbeat number by the London singer and songwriter
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Coda for a stellar career? David Bowie’s Blackstar
Song of the Day: Exactly three years ago Bowie released his final album, on his birthday, and two days before he died. Was that opening track a coda for a stellar career, referencing a life’s work, his demons and impending death?
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The Animals may have done the best-known cover version, but there are arguably others than better it
To some it’s a masterpiece, to others a dirge, but from 17th century England to 20th century New Orleans, with artists that include Woody Guthrie, Nina Simone, The Animals and alt-J it’s a song that keeps evolving
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Howling, growling, tenderly looming: Tom Waits is a moon poet
Song of the Day: On this day of this rare astronomical eclipse event, and after a series of other lunar-related songs, we come to an artist who has, across the course of his career, described this celestial body in around 100 different ways
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Over the moon and far away: Can in 1973 and their cover for the album Soon Over Babaluma
Song of the Day: Continuing the lunar theme, and extending to the outer limits of experimentalism after Moondog and Captain Beefheart, the sequence also ties in with the German band also highly influential on the late Mark E Smith
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Moondog in Manhattan
Song of the Day: After Captain Beefheart, could there be any musical figure more influential, eccentric, strange and innovative? Louis Thomas Hardin, aka the Viking figure who for years silently stalked New York's 6th Avenue, is a strong contender
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Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet – musician, artist, visionary.
Song of the Day: With the recent passing of The Fall's Mark E Smith, and all the songs, tributes and stories that have followed, it now seems only appropriate to follow up with music Smith loved by one of his major influences
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