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Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: It really it all anyone might want too. Excellent new electro-pop afro-funk by the London band fronted by Eno Williams from their forthcoming album Electricity, out on Merge Records and produced by Hot Chip
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Dreamscape: Röyksopp’s new album Profound Mysteries
Song of the Day: Taken from the Norwegian electronic duo’s forthcoming album Profound Mysteries, out on 29 April on Dog Triumph Records, this serene, dreamy new single features Goldfrapp’s soaring, high, breathy, sensual vocals
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Rheinzand’s forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis, and released originally in Danish, but with French, Italian, English, Spanish and Dutch versions, with images of fantasy pink elephants, pills, mushrooms an more, catchy disco electro-pop number is “about drugs and good times, but also about hangovers, loneliness, and a twist of identity crisis.” It is decorated with wonderful string flourishes and rising swells of sound.
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset by Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming EP We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset, strikingly original electronica by the young Manchester composer in a track that plays with identity through rhythmic, stop-start disassociated vocals, beats and French horn
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Arad’s EP Augmented Fantasy
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Augmented Fantasy, quirky, inventive electronica by the Irish artist Dara Smith joined by the voice of Stine Omar, one half of the Berlin-based pop outfit EASTER, and here released on Berlin label Voitex
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Gentle Party
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming LP by the Vancouver band is wondrously original psychological creation about bad behaviour and whether you can separate the art from the artist, featuring vocals, harp, violin, and synth effects
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The cover of Noon Garden’s forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Dynamic new synth-pop psychedelia from the solo project of Flamingods member Charles Prest, and taken from his forthcoming debut album Beulah Spa, due to be released on 25 February 2022 out on The Liquid Label
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: This brand new, upbeat, synth-infused track and focus point of forthcoming album The Line Is A Curve by the poet, playwright and author is about channelling the energy of stress, with guest from LA hip-hop band Brockhampton, and long-time producer Dan Carey
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O-SHiN aka Stefanie Martens
Song of the Day: Evocative, enchanting, eclectic electro-pop with non-verbal, looped and layered vocals and interweaving instrumentation by the artist Stefanie Martens whose moniker means “time for a good cry” in Japanese
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Ill Peach are Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey
Song of the Day: Quirky, alluring, and strangely haunting electro-pop with strong bass thrum about two lovers who are polar opposites, who at times want to kill each other but equally can’t live apart, by the duo Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey, who hail from Wyoming and Minnesota
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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Tierra Whack: fluid delivery
Song of the Day: Fluidly innovative, oddball and quick-witted, this new track mixing hip hop with electronica and dolphin noises by the ingeniously mischievous rapper, singer, and songwriter
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Barrie Lyndsay
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy electro-pop by the New York multi-instrumentalist and singer Barrie Lindsay in this wistful perspective of social justice movements, democratic socialism and the New Deal with reference to Glen Campbell’s classic song Wichita Lineman
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Keeley Forsyth - Bring Me Water
Song of the Day: ‘There’s a place that only I have seen.’ Ghostly, beautiful, sensual and dark, this new single by the singer and actor from Oldham with a unique, rich, deep voice comes from her forthcoming album, Limbs, due in February
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50/50
Song of the Day: Newly signed to Rough Trade, the London duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye return with a pulsating new single and that pushes the boundaries of electronic and dance music with a fidgety beat, bleeps and stuttery vocal effects
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Chrysalid Homo’s new single
Song of the Day: Fabulously dark, dancey, catchy fuzzy synth-rich electro-pop by the Manchester artist describing an LGBTQ experience from beginnings on a council estate before their protagonist has a very physical queer awakening
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Leif’s new album 9 Airs
Song of the Day: The opening track of recently released album 9 Airs brings mesmeric rhythmic, electronica mixing with more acoustic strings to produce a dream-like, meditative instrumental journey by the Welsh, Bristol-based artist Leif Knowles
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Proc Fiskal’s second album Siren Spine Sysex
Song of the Day: Taken from the album Siren Spine Sysex, a mesmerising collage of synth sounds and voices by Joe Power, the Edinburgh electronica artist, who incorporates local field recordings and distorts snippets Gaelic, Irish and English folk music via the prism of pop
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