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Meadow Meadow: Silouettes
Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music
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The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants
Song of the Day: After Emma-Jean Thackray’s Spectre yesterday, a beautiful and whisperingly dreamy, ghostly sound in this unusual acoustic number by the Brazilian musician composer and producer under the his new Stone Giants alias from the album West Coast Love Stories
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Shannon Lay
Song of the Day: A beautiful folk-pop number with acoustic guitar and layered vocal harmonies about dealing with the challenges of change and allowing yourself to awaken and embrace this, by the singer-songwriter from Los Angeles
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José González’s forthcoming album Local Valley
Song of the Day: Today’s offering is a sunnier, more mellow number about society, the new single by the Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist heralds his album Local Valley, musing on the bigger picture, unity, ignorance, nature, and the future
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Moderate Rebels
Song of the Day: This track from the first part of the London collective’s new 30-track trilogy album If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right is a heavily deadpan ironic list song about political, social and cultural trends of a slow-creep malaise
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What A Difference A Day Makes, by singer-songwriter and artist, Someone.
Song of the Day: “ … but I won’t let it get me down.” This beautifully serenely performed single with guitars, piano, and strings is by singer-songwriter and artist Tessa Rose Jackson, who is based in Amsterdam
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Fyfe Dangerfield’s new EP, Birdwatcher
Song of the Day: Following on from Howie Lee’s Birdy Island, the title track of the Midlands singer-songwriter and Guillemots founder’s new EP also features avian sounds and is a passionate, soaringly melodious and magnificent piece of work
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Bess Atwell
Songs of the Day: Two tender, pointed and rather beautiful numbers by the English singer-songwriter, one referring to a song playing in a supermarket and a tricky relationship, the other tracking time and unfolding self-doubt
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Anna Leone
Song of the Day: A beautifully fragile, emotive voice and soaring melody in this gentle but powerful acoustic guitar and piano number by the singer-songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden
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Maja Lena, aka Marianne Parrish
Song of the Day: Beautiful, eerie singing and songwriting branches out in the solo project and Swedish nickname of Marianne Parrish, who is based Stroud in Gloucestershire, and is formerly of the alt-folk band Low Chimes
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Skullcrusher aka Helen Ballantine
Songs of the Day: Two beautifully delicate acoustic numbers by the New York-born, LA-based singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine who humorously names herself after a powerlifting move, but sounds more like Elliott Smith
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Song of the Day: ‘I’ll get your mother’. A beautiful, melancholy but drily humorous number by the Bristol-based Glaswegian singer-songwriter Paul Tierney about the limits of connection with parents on the habitually awkward telephone call home
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Billie Marten’s new LP, Flora Fauna
Song of the Day: With intimate, hushed voice and sound, particularly in the verse section that echoes Fiona Apple and Billie Eilish, this beautiful metaphorical single by the British singer-songwriter from Ripon in North Yorkshire comes from her new LP, Flora Fauna
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Song of the Day: This remarkable number from Bob’s 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways plays with the idea of the many ways to perceive and be perceived, parodying his various personas with the Frankenstein metaphor
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Kama Vardi. Photograph: Goni Riskin
Song of the Day: Sunny but bittersweet, this new folk-pop song infused with French new-wave is by the Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, with a theme based on the idea that while you may find love and a home, it could also cause others suffering
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The cover of Sufjan Stevens’ 12-minute single
Song of the Day: After Janelle Monáe’s democracy-themed Turntables, two extraordinary new songs by the American singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album The Ascension, the first described as "a protest song against the sickness of American culture”
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This Is The Kit’s new single, taken from the forthcoming album Off Off On out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Wonderfully sprightly acoustic new single by the band fronted by British artist Kate Staples. The finger-picked banjo and clever lyrical structure captures a growing feeling of panic and directionless blame
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Astral Swans’ new single
Song of the Day: Fowl play? A bright, beautifully catchy number of darkly humorous self-loathing and paranoia, the Canadian artist imagining being mocked by local birdlife, all inspired by a wintertime walk through Amsterdam’s Vondelpark
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Laura Veirs - achingly beautiful response to heartbreak
Song of the Day: Following Brigid Dawson’s track, The Fool, a recent, hauntingly beautiful but powerful heartbreak track from the American singer-songwriter about her split from husband and producer Tucker Martine
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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