Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy indie with snappy lyrics, blistering guitar and strong dash of Jonathan Richman in altogether very tasty dose by the Welsh trio of trio of Sam Willmett, Tilly Harris, and Dan Matthew from their forthcoming mini album Pure Particles
Read moreSong of the Day: FUR - The Fine Line Of A Quiet Life
Song of the Day: With echoes of The Strokes, a superbly catchy track by the Brighton indie band about examining your position in life and the tiny margins between success and failure, particularly in the context of a relationship
Read moreSong of the Day: The Mysterines - In My Head
Song of the Day: Blistering, menacing and dark, this new indie rock number about obsessive love is by the Liverpool band fronted by Lia Metcalfe, who, with EPs under their belt, have their debut LP hotly tipped on the horizon
Read moreSongs of the Day: Wings of Desire - Better Late Than Never / Choose A Life
Songs of the Day: With a band name echoing the title of the Wim Wenders film, and a momentum that echoes early Arcade Fire, these two tracks from the forthcoming EP Amun-Ra, capture a sense of time passing and self-discovery, and our automated programming which tells us to make a happiness checklist
Read moreSong of the Day: English Teacher - Wallace
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Meadow Meadow - DNO
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Emma-Jean Thackray - Spectre
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
Read moreSongs of the Day: Liz Lawrence: Babies / Saturated
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Witch Fever - Reincarnate
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Loose Articles - Kick Like A Girl
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Enola Gay - Sofa Surfing
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Real Estate - D+ / 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
Read moreSong of the Day: Buffet Lunch - 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
Read moreSong of the Day: Pushpin - Apples
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Alfie Templeman - Wait, I Lied
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Sprints - Swimming
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Moderate Rebels: These Are The Good Times
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
Read moreSong of the Day: LOUD WOMEN Collective - Reclaim These 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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