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Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale
Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering
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Ásgeir’s fifth studio album, Time On My Hands
Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent
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Sister Wives: Donna Lee, Rose Love, Lisa O’Hara, and Liv Willars
Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records
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Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, part of the Decius project
Song of the Day: Clubby, mesmeric, darkly addictive and laced with the Roland 808 and Chicago house by South London’s Trashmouth Records founders Liam and Luke May, Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London/ Warmduscher) and Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi, taken from the forthcoming Decius Vol. 1.
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Orbital brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll
Song of the Day: A brilliant riposte to the omnishambles of the ongoing British Conservative government and all those voters responsible who blame others, including immigrants, in a no-holds-barred mix of beats by Phil and Paul Hartnoll and incomparably biting delivery of Jason Williamson
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Young Fathers’ next LP Heavy Heavy is due on February 2023
Song of the Day: A brilliantly striking new single the innovative Edinburgh trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, from their forthcoming next album, Heavy Heavy, released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune
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Ladytron’s forthcoming new album Time’s Arrow
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the Liverpool-formed electro-pop band with an ethereal but catchy number about forgetting, described as “inverting sensual imagery into a vision of a near future collapse of cultural memory", the title track from the forthcoming album out Cooking Vinyl
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Movulango aka Mozes Mosuse
Song of the Day: Dark, mysterious, psychedelic folk and woozy electronica by the Belgian musician and producer Mozes Mosuse aka Movulango from his forthcoming debut EP Mirror In Man, out on Soulwax’s DEEWEE label
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Copy that: the incomparable Fever Ray from the new video
Song of the Day: The first new song from Karin Dreijer since 2017 is a evocative, strange, eerie, haunting, offbeat electro-pop visualised by a goulish office party populated by zombie-like figures and a deadpan reference to National Cinnamon Roll Day
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Giving it the full Welly
Song of the Day: “The sweet smell of Lynx and regret, you can’t beat it”. Wonderfully catchy, witty, self-derogatory, unabashed 80s pop-influenced indie single by the Brighton-based band about sneak ways to make new friends
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Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
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Magdalena Bay’s Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Young Gun Silver Fox, further rich, luxuriant synth-pop funk with a spacey, dreamy feel by LA-based Florida duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin from their latest album Mercurial World (Deluxe), out on Luminelle
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Technology + Teamwork: Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester. Photo: Luke Atkinson
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy new disco electro-pop by the duo of Sarah Jones and drummer Anthony Silvester in a number about an imagined conversation between two people who have drifted apart
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The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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Fujiya & Miyagi
Song of the Day: The title track of the forthcoming ninth studio album by the UK Brighton-formed band is a finely formed, catchy piece of electro-funk-disco-pop that touches both on the theme of tiny differences in human genetics as well as perceived subtle musical variations
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Playfully pleasing to the eye and ear: Peel Dream Magazine
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s dreamy number by Alice Boman to another dreamy sound of marrying the visual and aural with gentle drums and keyboards, in this gently catchy, and softly sung number by the LA-based artist Joseph Stevens for the forthcoming third album, Pad, out 7 October on Tough Love Recordings/Slumberland Records
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Daniela Lalita
Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush
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Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght
Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion
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The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
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LUNGE: Viva Seifert and Mark ‘Arp’ Cleveland
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky synth-pop with a retro 80s feel, shades of OMD and high vocals somewhere between Associates and Kate Bush, this new single about severance and letting go is by the duo of Viva Seifert and Mark “Arp” Cleveland
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