Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming next solo album, Rooting For Love, out in early 2024, an instantly recognisable sound of slick, smooth, effortlessly beautiful pop by the singer and co-founder of Stereolab
Read moreSong of the Day: English Teacher - Nearly Daffodils
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
Read moreSong of the Day: Heartworms - May I Comply
Song of the Day: Caustically sharp lyrics, darkly thrumming and brilliantly shard-like shimmering sounds come in this new single by the London goth-postpunk band fronted by Jojo Orme, another cutting-edge single produced by Dan Carey via his label Speedy Wunderground
Read moreSong of the Day: Sleater-Kinney - Hell
Song of the Day: A brilliant, powerful, hair-tingling new single by the Washington indie rock band of 30 years, still with remaining founder members Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, and the opener from their forthcoming 11th studio album, Little Rope, out on Loma Vista Recordings
Read moreSong of the Day: Becca Mancari - Homesick Honeybee
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Grandaddy - Watercooler
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Souleance featuring Kit Sebastian - Out of Touch
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Nadine Shah - Topless Mother
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Gruff Rhys - Celestial Candyfloss
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”
Read moreSong of the Day: Brimheim - Literally Everything
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
Read moreSong of the Day: John J Presley - Silhouettes
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Conchúr White - I Did Good Today
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
Read moreSong of the Day: The Murder Capital - Heart In The Hole
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Lola Young - Conceited
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Mock Media - Modern Visions
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)
Read moreSong of the Day: Big Special - Desperate Breakfast
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
Read moreSong of the Day: La Battue: Five To Nine
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Divorce - Scratch The 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
Read moreSong of the Day: Marika Hackman - 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”
Read moreSong of the Day: Haiku Hands - Feels So Good
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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