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The title track to Gemma Cullingford’s next album out this September
Song of the Day: Ear-catching electronica and the first single and title track from her forthcoming sophomore album by one half of the electronic post-punk duo Sink Ya Teeth. Out on Outré Disque
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Special Interest
Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years
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Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn
Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings
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Ezra Furman returns with a new album in August
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return
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Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon
Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"
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Straw Man Army’s second LP
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s blistering musical military assault by Black Midi, more excellent guitar-based alternative post-punk by the New York duo Owen and Sean with a death-defying number about information overload from their second LP SOS
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The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
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In shapes: Personal Trainer
Song of the Day: The latest in witty, catchy post-punk-pop by the Amsterdam-based seven-piece with a song loosely about dance and unity, and partly reminiscent of the style of LCD Soundsystem and Brooklyn’s Bodega
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Gwenno
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Tresor released on 1 July 2022, a mesmeric single of psych-folk-pop by the Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Mererid Saunders as usual in her native tongue, meaning The New Room
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Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health
Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records
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Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …
Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records
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Gretel Hänlyn
Song of the Day: The latest in a series of ear-catching indie-pop singles from the London singer-songwriter with a deep, rich, distinctive voice, is about holding back in social situations and becoming aware the only obstacle is yourself
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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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Chilli Jesson
Song of the Day: Striking new pop from the former Parma Violets bassist and singer Alexander "Chilli" Jesson in this catchy number, quoting Plato, that also aims to highlight the seriousness of mental illness and examination of what a healthy relationship should be
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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Ticket to ride: Spiritualized’s The Mainline Song from Everything Was Beautiful
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, Jason Spaceman’s newest single is a lockdown escape-inspired escape with a stirring momentum that evokes train journey with driving krautrock rhythm, vocal harmonies, chugging mouth organ and woodwind
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