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Gentle bedlam: Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus
Song of the Day: The supergroup singer-songwriter indie-folk trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus return with another strong single, this time about feeling sof self-inadequacy, from their forthcoming new album, The Record
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Prima Queens’ forthcoming EP, Not The Baby
Song of the Day: Beautiful close-harmony indie folk-pop by the London band fronted by Chicago’s Kristin McFadden and Bristol’s Louise Macphail, with a vividly emotional song about encountering an ex, from their forthcoming EP Not The Baby, out on Big Indie Records
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Brodie Milner
Song of the Day: A stomping indie/post-punk single with super-sharp self-deprecatory lyrics with a William Burroughs-referenced literary bent by the Hull singer and multi-instrumentalist
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The National’s forthcoming next album …
Song of the Day: Packed with vivid lyrics and referencing a certain British band, this gentle, wistful number by the five-piece Brooklyn-based band of Matt Berninger and the pairs of brothers Dessner and Devendorf comes from the next album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein
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The The - $1 One Vote
Song of the Day: With his distinctive vocal delivery and and searing guitars, London’s Matt Johnson returns with a punchy single taking aim at manufactured truth, election manipulation and key issues of our times
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Starting something: Do Nothing
Song of the Day: Brand new punchy postpunk, nothing to do with penguins, but with a theatrically entertaining video and sharp lyrics by the witty Nottingham band fronted by singer Chris Bailey. Out on Exact Truth Records
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Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft and Dan Carey
Song of the Day: A dark, alluring, boldly bass, catchy debut indie single about the claustrophobia of inner city life by a band formed by Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft of the bands Childhood and Warmduscher, and Speedy Wunderground producer Dan Carey
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Petite Noir’s forthcoming album MotherFather
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Basquiat-inspired number by ACR, more art, with a powerful, sensual soulful, indie-hip-hop fusion by the Belgian born, Congolese singer Yannick Ilunga, joined here by the charismatic Zambian rapper
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Drahla: Lip Sync
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, smart art post-punk with angular guitar, a thrumming bass line and semi-spoken vocals by the band from Leeds inspired by the idea of syncing to social norms, social deflection without being fully present
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Moreish Idols: Nocturnal Creatures
Song of the Day: Bright, dynamic, beautiful and intricate indie with lovely, crisp guitars and twittery woodwind by the London band, in another cracking single coming out of the unique Speedy Wunderground label, produced by Dan Carey
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Coach Party - Micro Aggression
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Dream Wife and a relationship warning, further punchy, blistering, female-fronted indie rock, this time by the powerful quartet from the Isle of Wight, about misguided communication
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Chappaqua Wrestling - Wide Asleep
Song of the Day: Powerfully building, anthemic wake-up call indie-pop with a big splash of 90s Oasis-style Britpop and shoegaze by the Brighton quartet from their forthcoming album Plus Ultra
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Drink in the retro disco: Girl Ray - Everybody's Saying That
Song of the Day: “Listen to your heart”. Wonderfully catchy, funky disco pop by the London indie trio of Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss, in a love song inspired by the 70s-style disco revival and the straight-to-the-heart simplicity of the disco greats
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Cowboy Nudes, the new single by Geese
Song of the Day: Slick, catchy, upbeat, fast, rhythmic, guitar indie by the Brooklyn band, their first since acclaimed 2021 debut album Projector, with a song “about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world” according frontman Cameron Winter
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Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label
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Heartworms: Jojo Orme
Song of the Day: Dark, disturbing, but arrestingly brilliant and original, a new electro post-punk track by the south London’s Jojo Orme and co from the debut EP, A Comforting Notion, out 24 March on Speedy Wunderground, produced by Dan Carey
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Lost in the bagging area …
Song of the Day: For anyone with that heavy post-weekend feeling, a brilliantly catchy, punchy, darkly humorous post-punk single with shades of The Fall, Sleaford Mods and LCD Soundsystem by the cousin duo from Glasgow
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Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia
Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith
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Enter JW Francis with a new single
Song of the Day: Quirky, catchy, charming pop by the New York artist in this love song about the fluid nature of home from his forthcoming next album, Dream House, out later this month on Sunday Best Music / Domino
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Frankie Rose’s new album Love As Projection is out in March
Song of the Day: Shimmering, lush new synth-pop by the longstanding New York indie artist, taken from her forthcoming new album Love As Projection out March on Night School and Slumberland Records
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