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Maya Hawke’s forthcoming album, Chaos Angel
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, pointed folk with country inflections, about ambition and FOMO, by the singer, actress and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman heralding her forthcoming album, Chaos Angel, out on 31 May on Mom + Pop Records
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Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops
Song of the Day: “Each generation makes its own apology.” With a train-like rhythm, plinky piano, harp and more, one of two eccentric, inventive new singles, alongside Capricorn, to herald the lauded New York indie-art-pop band’s forthcoming new album, Only God Was Above Us, out on 5 April on Columbia Records
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YOVA - Addictions
Song of the Day: A tender, breathy, beautiful, nimble, catchy but lyrically dark indie-pop love song by the duo of Macedonian-born vocalist Jova Radevska and veteran multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Vernon
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Tabling ideas: Mike Lindsay’s forthcoming album, Supershapes Volume 1, out on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer
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Cool Sounds - BUG0BEAT - single and EP
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, eclectic, uplifting indie pop with a funk-disco flavour with delicious country acoustic guitar twangs by the appropriately named Melbourne artist (aka Danis Lacey) in this title track from his forthcoming new EP
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Where The Wild Roam EP by Tomasz Guiddo & Jimi Tenor
Song of the Day: A delicious fusion of jazz, electronica, dance music and classical, celebrating freedom, by the Warsaw-born DJ, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, joined by the acclaimed Finnish saxophonist Jimi Tenor on vocals, flute, piano and keyboards
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Dog Race featuring singer Katie Healy
Song of the Day: Distinctive, punchy indie by the London five-piece with a distinctive witty, staccato vocal style by Katie Healy, alluring melodies and a menacing, dark bass line on this single described as “a cold-sweat invocation of modern anxieties and personal suffocation”
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William Doyle’s upcoming new album, Springs Eternal
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, fuzz-guitar experimental pop from the British musician from Bournemouth, and a single with a ongoing watery theme from his forthcoming album Springs Eternal, out on Tough Love
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Elbow - Lovers' Leap
Song of the Day: The Manchester band return with one of their finest for years, a declamatory love song, but one decorated with intricate rhythms and brass and heralds their forthcoming album, Audio Vertigo on 22 March, via Polydor Records
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Royel Otis
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy indie-rock-pop rhythmic-piano banger by the Australian duo Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, here produced by the acclaimed Dan Carey, and the latest single heralding their forthcoming album Pratts & Pain, out on Ourness
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The Klittens
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, perky, perfect riff indie-art-pop by the five-piece from Amsterdam, highly uplifting, but ironically written like diary entries by guitarist Winnie Conradi during a period a extreme illness to deal with the dull passing of time
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A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down to This
Song of the Day: With an ever-evolving sound, a belter of a new single by the veteran Manchester post-punk trio brings electronic twists, sharp lyrics and the production magic of Speedy Wunderground label’s Dan Carey with the title track of their forthcoming new LP
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Good call: Real Estate’s upcoming new album, Daniel
Song of the Day: Beautiful, perfect simplicity of melody is deceptively hard to achieve, but it flows freely in this new track by the Brooklyn indie-folk band, heralding their forthcoming album, Daniel, out in February on Domino Records
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Melanie Baker - All My Plants Have Died (except this one is still alive …)
Song of the Day: A wonderfully droll, wistful and catchy new indie single by the British singer-songwriter from the Lake District with a characteristic number about the anxieties and absurdities of everyday life
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Sasha Assad - Still
Song of the Day: Alongside another recent single, Bad Nature, a compelling, passionate, swaggering indie rock number from the Nottingham artist with Egyptian heritage with a song about heartbreak
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Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney
Song of the Day: An infectiously funky stomp of new single with added brass sees the return of the Akron, Ohio duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with the distinctive guest vocals of Beck, heralding the forthcoming new album, Ohio Players
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C Turtle’s Shake It Down comes from the new album Expensive Thrills
Song of the Day: Heralding the forthcoming album Expensive Thrills, out in March on Blitzcat Records a snappy, clever, catchy, caustic rasping buzz-guitar post-punk single by the London lo-fi indie quartet
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Sam Akpro
Song of the Day: With a fabulously meaty bass thrum, a textured guitars, drums and synths, a forthright, engaging track about living in excess, released late last year by the singer, songwriter & producer from Peckham in south-east London
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Flamango Bay
Song of the Day: Catchy, emotive, powerful indie pop in this title track from the forthcoming EP by the LA-based, San Francisco Bay-formed band about the contradictory nature of the titular make-up as a way to hide from, but also play with gender identity
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On track for the album release: Solar Eyes’ Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis
Song of the Day: The Birmingham psych/pop duo launch into 2024 with a galloping pace mixing in a heady, eclectic mix of shoegaze, indie, sci-fi, spaghetti western and echoes of Ennio Morricone with a escape-themed track heralding their debut album and recorded in Texas
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