Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
Read moreSong of the Day: Hurray for the Riff Raff – Rhododendron
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra
Read moreSong of the Day: Billy Nomates - Christmas is for Lovers, Ghosts and Children
Song of the Day: Christmas may be over, but it’s never to late to give to those who need it most, especially by this profoundly moving song by the fabulous artist Tor Maries, with this pay-what-you-like single raising funds for Feed The Homeless Bristol
Read moreSong of the Day: Spiritualized - Always Together With You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, the new single by Jason Pierce and co is a love song with an expansive, Christmassy sound and a space theme, but was inspired by the solitude of lockdown
Read moreSongs of the Day: LYR: Winter Solstice / Cascade Theory
Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second
Read moreSong of the Day: Foals - Wake Me Up
Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album
Read moreSong of the Day: Sprints - A Modern Job
Song of the Day: “This modern hope, that’s all I have.” Brilliantly angry, sharp, ironic postpunk new single by the band from Dublin expressing aspirational frustration through caustic wit, passionate vocals and searing guitar
Read moreSong of the Day: Average Life Complaints - Precious Pressures
Song of the Day: With an almost tongue-twisting title and sharp, caustic lyrics, a sample of London post-punk band’s angry, angular attack approach on modern life with guitar work to match, taken from their EP Fish & Chips
Read moreSong of the Day: Loose Fit - Exhale
Song of the Day: Tight, crisp, catchy, rolling rhythm postpunk by the band from Sydney, Australia, featuring Anna Langdon on vocals, Max Edgar on guitar, Kaylene Milner on drums, Richard Martin on bass, and Jonathan Boulet on congas
Read moreSong of the Day: Spoon - The Hardest Cut
Song of the Day: Blisteringly catchy and hard-hitting new single by the veteran indie rockers from Austin, Texas fronted by Britt Daniel, taken from their forthcoming album Devil On The Sofa, due out February 2022 on Matador Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Big Thief - Time Escaping
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
Read moreSong of the Day: Rozi Plain - Silent Fan
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
Read moreSong of the Day: Tiberius b - Steps
Song of the Day: One of the standout tracks from the London-based Canadian indie artist’s recent EP, Stains, this number has an angry but catchy half-spoken naive freshness, and concerns frustrations over a difficult queer relationship
Read moreSong of the Day: Bambara - Mythic Love
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Love on My Mind, a scorching new single about a passionate encounter by the Brooklyn post-punk band formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh with Nick Cave among their influences
Read moreSong of the Day: The Lounge Society - Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
Read moreSong of the Day: Sasami - The Greatest
Song of the Day: After Molly Nilsson’s Absolute Power yesterday, another superlative through the medium of power-chord indie courtesy of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth from her forthcoming album, Squeeze
Read moreSong of the Day: Molly Nilsson - Absolute Power
Song of the Day: A powerful, rousing, upbeat guitar-fuzz indie electro-pop number about taking stock of thing and control, by the Swedish Berlin-based singer and songwriter from her upcoming album Extreme, out in January 2022 on her label Dark Skies Association
Read moreSong of the Day: The Greeting Committee - Make Out
Song of the Day: Hembree - Operators (feat. Bodye)
Song of the Day: A vibrant dance track with rhythmic saxophone by the Kansas City-based indie band written during lockdown and inspired by street protests and duplicitous law enforcement agents
Read moreSong of the Day: Odd Morris - Silhouette
Song of the Day: This evocative poem-song by the Dublin quartet builds beautifully, skipping the traditional chorus structure but with an ongoing, atmospheric guitar riff, restless percussion and powerful words, and comes from their EP Cityscape The Ballet
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