Song of the Day: Electronic pop and afro-funk combine in this Hot Chip-produced new single by the vibrant London band exploring the connection between people and the power resource, and through all of life’s complexities, why it’s a simple answer
Read moreSong of the Day: George Fitzgerald - Ultraviolet
Song of the Day: Slowly building, then evoking a high-speed train passing through a vivid landscape, this vibrant new instrumental single by the English electronic artist is his first new music since the 2018 album All That Must Be
Read moreSong of the Day: Susobrino - El Camino Refleja
Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto
Read moreSong of the Day: Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul - Thank You
Song of the Day: A clever, heavily ironic riposte to unwanted online communication, this talky-electronica pop number by the French-born Belgian-Caribbean singer and her Ghent-based collaborator is also also co-produced by Soulwax
Read moreSong of the Day: The Pictish Trail - Natural Successor
Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original
Read moreSong of the Day: David Holmes - Hope Is The Last Thing To Die (with Raven Violet)
Song of the Day: This stirring dance track by the Belfast producer composer and DJ with the French singer calls out the world governments on corruption and incompetence during the pandemic and, ahead of COP26, over inaction in the face of the climate crisis
Read moreSong of the Day: Jodie Langford - I Miss It (feat. EndofLevelBaddie)
Song of the Day: A punchy, bouncy spoken word number expressing a witty double-edged perspective on lockdown and afterwards by the Hull poet, here joined by the electronica artist, DJ and producer and taken from an album by local young persons’ mental health charity The Warren Youth Project
Read moreSong of the Day: Tirzah: Tectonic
Song of the Day: Minimal, mysterious, intimate, experimental electronica by the singer-songwriter Tirzah Mastin from Essex about the capturing the invisible flux between people, and is taken from her new album Colourgrade, out on Domino
Read moreSong of the Day: Gaspard Augé (Justice) - Hey! / Force Majeure
Song of the Day: A pair of swirling orchestral electro-disco-pop 70s-style instrumentals from one half of the French duo Justice that gallop into full-on chorus after chorus and are taken from Augé’s solo album Escapades out on Ed Banger Records and Because Music
Read moreSong of the Day: Helado Negro - Outside the Outside
Song of the Day: A serenely catchy, friendship-themed electro-pop single by the Florida-born, Brooklyn based artist Roberto Carlos Lange, who experimentally mixes folk and Latin influences emanating from his Ecuadorian parents
Read moreSong of the Day: Ben Zaidi - Ben Zaidi’s Blues
Song of the Day: The Seattle singer-songwriter’s new single is infused with a crisp rhythm, gentle acoustic riffs and intelligent lyrics about a family bereavement launching into heap of detail about life problems, and a sensitive voice reminiscent of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Read moreSong of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love
Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula
Read moreSong of the Day: Koreless - White Picket Fence
Song of the Day: With an extraordinary video directed by FKA twigs, this equally unclassifiable, soaring song mixing harpsichord, electronica and a quasi-medieval madrigal-style vocal comes from the London band’s debut album Agar
Read moreSong of the Day: Mindchatter - Here I Go Again
Song of the Day: Spookily catchy electronica with wonderfully dry, humorous lyrics about internal indecision, with rich, dark bass sounds under the pseudonym of New York producer Bryce Connolly
Read moreSong of the Day: Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture - Leywole
Song of the Day: An exhilarating crossover by the 33-year-old singer and percussionist from Guinea joining forces with the electronica duo from Margate in a number that means "whatever" in Coniagui, inspired by watching a strong woman reject the advances of a pushy man in the street
Read moreSong of the Day: Darkside - Lawmaker
Song of the Day: A menacing, strange narrative, possibly about Covid, a power-crazed doctor and popularism, and a North African vibe crossed with slow psych rock in a film noir soundtrack feel all comes in the mysterious work of New York duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington and their extraordinary new album Spiral, out on Matador Records
Read moreSong of the Day: binki: Revolve
Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers
Read moreSong of the Day: moa moa - Coltan Candy
Song of the Day: With a fabulous shuffle rhythm, bassline, synths and dark lyrics relating to the dubious trade in the African-mined metal mineral coltan, used in the manufacture of mobile phones, this alt-pop single comes via the great production of Dan Carey on the Speedy Wunderground label
Read moreSong of the Day: Red Telephone - Happy Man
Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric
Read moreSong of the Day: Hand Habits - Aquamarine
Song of the Day: Dreamy electronica, guitar and voice by the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist Meg Duffy, favourably compared to Big Thief and Angel Olsen, and who has played with many other artists including Weyes Blood and The War on Drugs
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