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McKinley Dixon’s forthcoming album - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
Song of the Day: Slick, catchy soul and hip-hop with a serious message about gun culture and youth by the multi-talented musician from Richmond, Virginia, from his forthcoming fourth album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? out on City Slang in June
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Comfort’s forthcoming album, What’s Bad Enough?
Song of the Day: Just as the title suggests, a sensitive yet anarchically inventive fusion of alternative hip hop and beautiful, unwieldy sweeping strings and electronica by the Glasgow sibling duo from their forthcoming album What's Bad Enough? out in May on Fatcat Records
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From the video …
Song of the Day: Brilliantly energetic, angry, sweary rapping and vocals by the dynamic east London artist in a vibrant new post-punk number about the detrimental effects of social media technology and surveillance culture
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From the video for Meshell Ndegeocello’s Virgo
Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist
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Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia
Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith
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The Go! Team’s upcoming album Get Up Sequences Part 2
Song of the Day: Slick, clever, fast old-school-style hip hop from the Brighton band in this latest single written by Ian Parton and Nitzia Scott and taken from the forthcoming new album Get Up Sequences Part 2 out on Memphis Industries
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Steam Down: (We shall) Overcome
Song of the Day: A superb, powerful, stirring fusion of hip hop, jazz, afrobeat and other genres with guest rappers, by Deptford-based collective formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ahnansé
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Dave Okumu
Song of the Day: A powerful song inspired by the documentary about the January 1981 New Cross Fire in south London that claimed 13 Black young lives, with the title from a chant of anti-racism protests that followed
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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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Mother/father influences: an image from the video for Nobody Knows by Loyle Carner
Song of the Day: A stirring, candid, heartfelt new single by the acclaimed British rapper about identify, the effects of parenthood in both directions, neglect, self-hatred, with powerful gospel sample backing by Pastor T.L. Barrett & the Youth For Christ Choir
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Marlowe’s forthcoming third album
Song of the Day: Superbly slick and stylish new single by the North Carolina hip hop duo of L'Orange & Solemn Brigham from their forthcoming album Marlowe 3, with rhyme and rhythms reminiscent of classic 90s crews such as The Pharcyde
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Jiitwam’s latest album, Third
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream
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Cakes Da Killa aka Rashard Bradshaw
Song of the Day: Snappy, sexual and with a highly original style, hip hop with an LGBTQ+ twist by the New York rapper and DJ Rashard Bradshaw joined by Sevndeep, and taken from Cakes’ forthcoming second album Svengali
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Kennebec’s new single and forthcoming album cover
Song of the Day: A fantastically striking collaboration by three great US performers, beautiful guitar and beats by the moniker of Eric Phillips, alongside the superb rapping from the pseudonym of Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring, and violinist and vocalist Brittney Denise Parks
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Sudan Archives
Song of the Day: Striking, pacy, rhythmical, with interweaving vocal loops of vocals and instruments, this fabulous latest single by the LA-based singer-songwriter, violinist and rapper is about insecurities forced on a brown skin Black female by American beauty standards
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Gorillaz are back with a new single
Song of the Day: The animated outfit of Damon Albarn and co of 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel return with a funky mix of hip hop, funk and electronica with guest renowned bass player Thundercat also adding synth and extra vocals
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Stromae’s third album, Multitude
Song of the Day: An extraordinary song of harpsichord, chanson, and hip hop, as well as its video, from the recent third album, Multitude, by the innovative Belgian artist of Rwandan Tutsi descent, Paul Van Haver, about a fictional tribute to a sex worker and maternal heroic figure who has passed away, here playing the part of a leader delivering a speech from a podium
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La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity
Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP
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Some of Kendrick Lamar’s morphed appearances of well-known figures in the video for The Heart Part 5
Song of the Day: The vibrant fifth track in the acclaimed rapper’s ‘Heart’ series that began in 2010, and while also released this week, separate to his latest album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, it powerfully focuses on the problematic portrayal of black so-called culture and violence, and also includes a reworking of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You.
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