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The Coral return with a new single and an album in April
Song of the Day: With a beautiful combination of organ and guitar, ghostly melody and a shuffling rhythm, this bright new song from the longstanding Merseyside band is the first single from the forthcoming LP Coral Island
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From Wu-Lu’s video for South directed by Denisha Anderson
Song of the Day: This brilliantly visceral and menacing new single by the south London producer, aka Miles Romans Hopcraft, has tales of lockdown and the destruction of a community with driving beats and lyrics with in a trip hop post-punk mix, with shades of Tricky
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Venus Furs - debut LP
Song of the Day: From his eponymous debut album, this powerful piece of psych-indie-rock by the Montreal multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Kasner has a ghostly, dark, tragic quality, and a sinister undercurrent
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Hamish Hawk
Song of the Day: Pacy, witty, and beautifully bleak, this new single by the post-punk indie artist from Edinburgh is a perfect lockdown song of paranoia, dry, dark humour and frantic delivery that builds to a fabulous frenzy
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Song of the Day: Alight with scorching post-punk guitars and searingly angry vocals, this track from new EP Disappearing Act, about tyrannical power-grabbing figures, is by Yorkshire’s answer to Idles, Shame, Fontaines D.C. and The Fall
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It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard
Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Jordana
Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas
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Songs of the Day: A triple bill of fast and furiously brilliant postpunk by duo Owen Deutsch and Sean from the New York collective and label D4MT Labs Inc, covering subjects such as war and colonialism, taken from the LP Age of Exile
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It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours
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Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton
Song of the Day: This macabre but grimly amusing and detailed love story of entwinement of the undead comes with ominous melodies, disturbing narrative and a beguiling beat, and is the first single by the brilliant Falkirk duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton in 15 years
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Martha HIll’s latest EP, Summer Up North
Song of the Day: This classy, catchy number by the artist from Scotland now based in Newcastle Upon Tyne comes from her second EP, Summer Up North, featuring her distinctive, husky voice and clever mix of electronica and guitar
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The various perspectives of Hotel Lux’s 2020 EP Barstool Preaching
Song of the Day: Contrasting in apparent confidence, two powerfully acerbic, self-examining first-person perspectives by the postpunk-pop band from Portsmouth from their EP Barstool Preaching, out on Nice Swan Records
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From the video for Undecided Voters
Song of the Day: As voting continues in the US presidential elections, a wry and catchy new number by the indie band from Toronto, with echoes of The Strokes, dips into online manipulation of the ‘undecided’ or indeed ‘undercover’
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Song of the Day: On US election day, in a song that came out last year, a pertinent reminder of what kind of sham incumbent is in the White House, and what problems must be addressed, by the veteran New York singer-songwriter
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Cover of the Tune–Yards single
Song of the Day: Brilliant new single from California’s eclectically creative Merrill Garbus and and Nate Brenner is a heady mix of loops, percussion and screaming fuzz vocals, capturing anger felt by many under conditions of being ignored and pushed to the brink
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Deadletter: Fit for music
Song of the Day: A debut single from a new London-based band takes aim, with anarchic sax-infused postpunk and caustic delivery by vocalist Zac Woolley, at the cold-hearted policy of the Tory-led Department for Work and Pensions
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Manipulations … from the video for Proxima by The God in Hackney
Song of the Day: Eclectic, eccentric and ironic, British alt-rock with complex percussion, driving bass line, stirring horn section and powerful buildup is some of the latest ‘prehistoric future music’ from new album Small Country Eclipse
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The ever practical Yard Act
Song of the Day: For all the Saturday DIYers, a jaunty, cheeky cocksure and catchy number by the band from Leeds about a fictional, but familiar character, Graeme, who tells us about a second property he’s currently doing up
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Widowspeak: Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas
Song of the Day: With a bass line to die for, and guitar riff and vocal that trips effortlessly around a beat, this number from Brooklyn pair Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas’s new album Plum, has a wry double edge and a dash of menace
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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