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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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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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Emma-Jean Thackray’s forthcoming album - Yellow
Song of the Day: “There’s a spectre in my house but he doesn’t see me”. Beautiful, haunting new song by the Yorkshire-born, London-based singer and instrumentalist confronting depression and mental illness from her forthcoming debut album Yellow
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Liz Lawrence - Babies
Songs of the Day: A couple of brilliantly buoyant new indie pop numbers by the richly deep voiced singer-songwriter and guitarists from Stratford-on-Avon who is also half of the electro-pop duo Cash+David
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Witch Fever
Song of the Day: A number to blow away any cobwebs on a Monday, the Manchester all-female heavy rock/punk band’s latest is a fiercely defiant cri de coeur moving from self-harm to self-emancipation
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Girls with goals: Loose Articles
Song of the Day: A bonus SOTD to kick off the European Cup final in the form of a caustically humorous, heavily ironic number by the all-female indie punk band from Manchester
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Belfast band Enola Gay
Song of the Day: After Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue, a furniture reference of another, more restless nature with angry, stormy, noisy sonic guitar indie and punk-style bass by the band from Belfast
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The art of reclining: Wet Leg
Song of the Day: Wonderful debut indie-pop single from the Isle of Wight band with catchy, thrumming riff and a beautifully dry, humorous delivery about post-graduate horizontal languorous indolence on a favourite item of furniture
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Real Estate’s latest EP, Half A Human
Song of the Day: Particularly beautiful guitar work with rich harmonies with Alex Bleeker warm vocals are a hallmark of these two numbers taken from the EP Half A Human by the band from New Jersey and Brooklyn band
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Fruitful experience: Red Apple Happiness
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s Apples by Pushpin, another core-related song of a fruitfully inventive and eccentric nature of experimental lo-fi odd-pop by the Scottish debut album The Power of Rocks, out on Upset The Rhythm
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Pushpin songs ….
Song of the Day: Brilliantly fresh, crisp, vibrant, clever, acoustic indie pop with fast vocals, dynamic rhythm changes, sharp guitar riffs, keyboards and a thumping bass sound by the south London quartet
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Alfie Templeman
Song of the Day: Supremely catchy funk-pop by the 18-year-old British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Carlton in Bedfordshire, taken from his debut mini-album Forever Isn't Long Enough, out on Chess Club Records
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Dynamic duo: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: Two of the most currently revered American singer-songwriters join forces in their first collaborative number, singing separately and together, mixing melancholy and hope, combining country with soaring, big production piano indie-pop
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Sprints: fast garage postpunk out of Dublin
Song of the Day: With driving guitar riffs and screaming vocal delivery, a fantastically spiky and fierce garage postpunk by the four-piece band from Dublin about the cost of living and seeking to escape it
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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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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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Desperate Journalist
Song of the Day: ‘If it’s no one’s fault, then it’s everyone’s fault’. Collective responsibility. Powerful, dark, profound, visceral postpunk by the London band, from their forthcoming fourth album Maximum Sorrow!, out on 2 July 2021 on Fierce Panda Records
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Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: This thumpingly catchy, caustically ironic electro-pop by the rising Manchester star about a dysfunctional relationship has a jittery electronica spoken verse and a big indie-style chorus
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On the up: Crumb
Song of the Day: Dreamy of voice, ghostly and original of sound, dynamically clever of rhythm and catchy of melody, this floaty pop song comes from a very fine new LP, titled Ice Melt by the New York indie band
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The forthcoming album by Lightning Bug
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album A Color of the Sky, a slow, beautifully serene, soft focus, dream-like number by the New York band about time passing and changing childhood perspective
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