Song of the Day: A wintry scene for an equally wintry day, and continuing our creatural theme, a melancholy but beautiful number from the Glasgow band's second album of 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister
Read moreBdy_Prts – Cold Shoulder / Take It To The Top
Song of the Day: From our recent hoof-themed trot on SOTD, it's time to take a related sidestep to similar body parts in the from of the indie pop Glasgow band fronted by the twinkle-toed Jenny Reeve and Jill O'Sullivan
Read moreDeerhoof – Come Down Here & Say That / The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue
Song of the Day: Our continuing theme certainly behooves a song or two from this wonderfully quirky band hailing from San Francisco
Read moreGoat Girl – Country Sleaze
Song of the Day: Continuing our hungry bearded quadruped theme, let's turn to the young and entertaining south London female group composed of Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and L.E.D
Read moreThe Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho
Song of the Day: With 16 studio albums since 1994, so many interesting, varied and clever songs to choose from the California indie-folk band fronted by John Darnielle, but how about this goth parody from 2017?
Read moreTall Poppies – Now
Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing standing theme, a different take by these pop indie Australian identical twin sisters about being stood up by a date – on a weekday evening – and not wanting to wait until Friday …
Read moreKevin Morby – Dorothy / I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
Read moreClem Snide – I Love The Unknown
Song of the Day: Among the Boston alt-country band's greatest songs, taken from their mischievously titled second album of 1999, Your Favorite Music, and written by singer Eef Barzelay, it trips along with a sensitive, wistful, lazily-paced beauty
Read morealt-J – 3WW
Song of the Day: alt-J’s third album is full of oddities and wonders, but today’s pick is the album’s opener, the sort of fusion of disparate elements that we love at the Song Bar, mixing PlayStation imagery with Shakespeare and folk
Read moreThe Cesarians – She Said
Song of the Day: Glorious, theatrical pop from the north London group fronted by singer Charlie Finke and keyboard player Justine Armatage
Read moreSleater-Kinney – A New Wave
Song of the Day: One of the newest songs from the band formed in 1994 by the Washington pair of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, named after a street in they home town of Lacey, this typically quick-witted indie number, harking back to teenage angst, is taken from their 2015 album No Cities To Love in the Sub Pop label
Read moreCourtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best / Elevator Operator
Song of the Day: We recently highlighted Barnett's new album with Kurt Vile, but here let's enjoy a couple of tracks from Taken from the witty 2015 album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, out on Milk! Records
Read moreSuperfood – Mood Bomb / Unstoppable
Song of the Day: Two sample tracks from the Birmingham indie band currently on tour, the first from 2014, the second from this year, and attracting increasing large and young audiences. They mix driving 90s indie with humorous lyrics, bringing a raucous and entertaining mixture of Blur, Space, Kasabian and Gorillaz
Read moreThe Breeders – Cannonball / Wait In The Car
Song of the Day: To celebrate the coming first new song recorded by original Breeders lineup for 24 years a double dose from Kim Deal and co, first from the acclaimed album Last Splash (1993) and a new song which carries the classic ingredients – snarling lyrics, the power chords, the humour, the frenetic energy
Read moreThe Fall – Touch Sensitive
Song of the Day: So many to choose, but few match this one for sheer catchy, direct, repetitive brilliance. From 1999's The Marshall Suite, and co-written with Canadian guitarist and keyboard player Julia Nagle, as riffs and choruses go it's up there with the very best
Read moreDUDS – No Remark / Signal, Sign
Song of the Day: Post-punk pop meets prog meets jazz? Manchester's cutting-edge northern lathe has turned out another bunch of true originals, bringing short-sharp songs of jagged guitar, percussion, cornet, and vocal
Read moreThe The – Heartland / We Can't Stop What's Coming
Song of the Day: Two sweet-sounding, but politically charged tracks old and new from Matt Johnson and friends, including Johnny Marr, the first from the 1986 album Infected, the latter from the 2017 documentary The Inertia Variations. Divided Britain, destruction of welfare, Europe, the influence of the US, and climate disaster? Sounds familiar …
Read moreNadine Shah – Holiday Destination / Out The Way
Song of the Day: With a rich, full voice and truly original sound, from one of the best albums of 2017, two powerful songs from the intelligent South Tyneside singer-songwriter with a Norwegian/Pakistani heritage. This cuts deep into one of the burning issues of modern times, the plight and treatment of war-torn immigrants in the UK, and the divisions in our state. Think PJ Harvey and Anna Calvi with a new, contemporary, edgy twist
Read moreOmni – Southbound Station
Song of the Day: Taut as a trapeze high wire, the Atlanta band draws from influences as diverse as Talking Heads, Devo, XTC, Wire and Fire Stations. This track from the new album Multi-Task, growing on the strength of 2016's Deluxe, and is really going places
Read more