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Becca Mancari’s latest album, Left Hand
Song of the Day: Taken from their recent album, Left Turn, a beautiful, lush, melancholy, heartbreak number of layered guitars and subtle vocals by the Nashville-based indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician from Staten Island
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Grandaddy’s forthcoming new album, Blu Wav
Song of the Day: Filled with perfectly pace and pathos, and beautifully sensitive, empathetic but also droll new number about a stifled office romance by the California indie alt-country band fronted by Jason Lytle, heralding their seventh LP in almost 30 years – Blu Wav
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Souleance’s new album, Beautiful
Song of the Day: Taken from the French funk duo’s recent album, Beautiful, an infectiously upbeat groovy fusion with psychedelia, indie pop, a melting pot style of London, French and Turkish influences, joined here by Kit Martin on guitar and Merve Erdem on vocals
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Nadine Shah. Her new album Filthy Underneath is released in February 2024
Song of the Day: A wonderfully potent title and lyrics brings the welcome return of the powerful voiced singer-songwriter from Whitburn, South Tyneside with darkly humorous single about comically tense exchanges with a counsellor
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Gruff Rhys’s forthcoming new album, Sadness Sets Me Free, out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, characteristically quirky and catchy new indie-pop single by the Welsh singer-songwriter, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance”
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Brimheim aka Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff
Song of the Day: A quirky, catchy and melodious indie-electro-pop love song by the Malmö-based singer-songwriter with a distinctive voice, Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff and friends, out on TAMBOURHINOCEROS
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John J Presley’s second album
Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, menacing new single with shades of Nick Cave by the singer and multi-instrumentalist from Walsall, here featuring some frenetic saxophone by Terry Edwards, and taken from John’s forthcoming second LP, Chaos & Calypso
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Conchúr White
Song of the Day: A beautifully double-edged, intelligent indie-folk single referencing addiction and the longing for validation by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, Northern Ireland from his forthcoming album, Swirling Violets, out in early 2024 on Bella Union
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The Murder Capital
Song of the Day: With captivating, intelligent lyrics, an unrelenting intensity and powerful build, this new new single by the Dublin post-punk band follows their second album, Gigi’s Recovery, released earlier this year
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Lola Young
Song of the Day: Following her debut album My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely, earlier this year, an arresting new single of personal, passionate address, powerful build with guitar and electronica by the British singer-songwriter
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Mock Media - Modern Visions (Artwork - Jake Monroe)
Song of the Day: Cleverly inventive, stop-start rhythmic, intricate guitar post-punk from this supergroup of Garnet Aronyk (Crack Cloud), Austin Boylan (Pottery), Bennett Smith (N0V3L) and Evan Aesen (Painted Fruits)
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Voracious sound: Big Special
Song of the Day: Punchy, witty, searing post-punk abounds in this brilliant new single by the mischievously named duo comprising singer and Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney from Walsall in the Midlands. Out on SO Recordings
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Image from La Battue’s latest album, Farrago
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful in vocals and synths, but filled with restless, protesting, lyrical anguish, a newly released electro-pop number by the French band from Rennes, taken from their latest album, Farrago, released earlier this year on Parapente
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Divorce’s new EP, Heady Metal
Song of the Day: Heralding their new EP, Heady Metal, a beguiling, beautifully melodic alternative synth-pop love song by the alt-country/indie Nottingham quartet with a metaphor about revealing your less attractive side
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Marika Hackman returns with a double-edged health kick: No Caffeine
Song of the Day: This engaging, sweet-sounding new indie single by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist feels initially like some upbeat health manual, but it is dark and edgy – “rattling off tactics to prevent a panic attack while likening her anxiety to an abusive partner”
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Haiku Hands
Song of the Day: Punch-the-air, life-affirming electro-pop by the band from Sydney, Australia, taken the taken from the forthcoming new album, Pleasure Beast, out 1 December on Spinning Top Records
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Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records
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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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Tiberius B’s latest EP - DIN
Song of the Day: Taken from the latest EP, DIN, the London-based artist Frank Belcourt’s track is beautiful experimental pop with fabulous drums and a tuneful homage to trans beauty
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Animal attraction: FIZZ
Song of the Day: Oozing energy and fun, and building from a quiet start to to ironic, grand crescendos, a stirring new indie-pop number filled with sparkling vocals and instrumentation by the effervescent quartet comprising Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland, dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown
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