Song of the Day: A mischievous band name with a fresh line in indie-fuzz-pop, the female trio from Chester’s latest number with a characteristic ringing guitar riffs and vocal harmonies refers to work interconnectedness
Read moreRudi Zygadlo – Selotape
Song of the Day: What holds society together? “Everyone can see it, but we’re all afraid to say it, ‘cos it’s such a risky business that the whole damn place is silent.” Could be virally topical. A quirky, original song by mixing electronica and rock with a dash of Frank Zappa
Read moreSports Team – Here's The Thing
Song of the Day: It’s all just lies … This catchy, catch-all cri-de-coeur of upbeat indie wit from the British six-piece band fronted by Alex Rice has stop-start echoes of the 90s and 00s buzz of Weezer, Franz Ferdinand and Pulp
Read moreThe Informations – Strange Habits
Song of the Day: How is this video connected to Metallica? A truly alternative release by the Danish producer and guitarist also known as Frederik Tao, mixing mellifluous riffs, restless percussive rhythms and jittery, high-pitched exclamatory vocals
Read moreMute Choir – Shadowboxing
Song of the Day: Crisp, full-throated funk-indie rock-pop from the fairly new Toronto band of Sam Arion, Milan Sarkadi and Iris Waters, with a song about the danger of how fear and negativity can overcome your spirit
Read moreAlexandra Lost – Fleeting Dance
Song of the Day: This first single from debut LP by the Québec band created by Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis weaves 80s new wave, electronica, pop and a dash of waltz around a theme of lost youth and mutability through the prism of old silent film footage
Read moreClémentine March – Le Continent
Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’
Read moreSkye Wallace – Body Lights The Way
Song of the Day: Is there gold in those hills? Perhaps not the precious metal kind, but the story of a dominant sex worker in the Dawson City, Yukon gold rush is the inspiration for this indie rock band fronted by the Toronto singer
Read moreFreya Beer – Dear Sweet Rosie
Song of the Day: The thunder of hoof, hot, heavy breath, and the swish of mane, today’s song by the London-born singer-songwriter is inspired by Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty and Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘An Asphodel’
Read moreJehnny Beth – I'm The Man / Anna Calvi – As A Man
Song of the Day: Two songs for comparison, from the French and English female artists respectively, both with powerful voices and here commenting with different perspectives on gender and masculinity
Read moreNadia Reid – Get The Devil Out
Song of the Day: Starkly beautiful new work from the New Zealander singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album, Out of My Province, is a viscerally powerful song about coming out of a troubled relationship and reclaiming her younger self
Read moreCate Le Bon and Bradford Cox – Secretary
Song of the Day: From their recent collaborative EP, Myths 004, a wonderfully offbeat piece by the unique Welsh singer-songwriter and frontman of the US Indie rock band Deerhunter, with a tale of fractured love and communication between secretary and boss
Read moreHann – Checkout Girl
Song of the Day: A chirpy, cheeky, brilliantly funny new number by the Manchester band, fronted by Hannah, about an annoying guy chatting up a girl at supermarket till, holding up all the other trolleys, is filled with snappy lines and catchy riffs
Read moreCornershop – No Rock: Save In Roll
Song of the Day: Characteristically catchy with a simple, repetitive riff and melody, it’s familiar but also new, a bluesy, fuzzy 70s rock sound wrapped in something different. This can only be Cornershop and they do it so brilliantly
Read moreVanishing Twin – You Are Not An Island
Song of the Day: After Agnes Obel’s Island of Doom, we take a different metaphorical direction with a song about not being alone, from the Vanishing Twin’s acclaimed 2019 album The Age Of Immunology – “we are side by side”
Read moreRalfe Band – Sweating It Out
Song of the Day: After our previous entry, Runner by Tennis, more exertion in the fabulous latest song by the band fronted by Oxford-based composer, keyboard player and artist Oly Ralfe
Read moreTennis – Runner
Song of the Day: Anyone for Tennis? No need to work up a sweat, it’s just the latest otherworldly single by the indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, the husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley
Read moreWarmduscher - Midnight Dipper / I Got Friends
Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.
Read moreThe Bevis Frond – And Relax …
Song of the Day: Following Kamikaze Palm Tree we turn a new leaf towards the psych rock band fronted by Nick Saloman from their latest, 23rd studio album, We’re Your Friends, Man
Read moreKamikaze Palm Tree – Sharpie Smile / Tucan's Nose
Song of the Day returns with a pair of extraordinary, experimental songs from the San Francisco psych band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley from their 2019 debut album Good Boy
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