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Gwenno
Song of the Day: The Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Saunders returns with a sunny upbeat, Smiths-feel guitar jangling nostalgic number about dancefloors that no longer exist, heralding her fourth LP, Utopia
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Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains’ mos recent album, Âge Fleuve
Song of the Day: A beautiful, smoky, sensual, dreamy new version of a recent song, now with rewritten lyrics from the French-British pop band’s most recent album, Âge Fleuve sung in French by the American singer-songwriter, and out on InFiné Records
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Fighting talk: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
Song of the Day: A pugnaciously fun, indie-post-punk new single by the Isle of Wight band formed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with a catchy, scratchy, angular guitar riff and their trademark, mischievous, talky asides. It heralds their upcoming new album, Moisturizer, out on 11 July on Domino
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Amy Millan’s forthcoming album, I Went To Find You
Song of the Day: Gentle, soothing, flickering, swirling electronica and dream pop by the Canadian indie guitarist and singer-songwriter from Montreal, heralding her first solo album in 15 years, I Went To Find You, out on 30 May via Last Gang Records
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Lucius
Song of the Day: Striking, stylish, with rich vocals, intricate alternative indie-pop by the LA quartet fronted by vocalists and co-songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a number about false identity, featuring guest Madison Cunningham, the latest single from their upcoming fourth and self-titled album, out on 2 May via Fantasy Records
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Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real
Song of the Day: Leaping unexpectedly between sweet, gentle indie and raucous, explosive noise rock, this striking, otherworldly post-punk release by the Pittsburgh quaret is a weird and wonderful challenge to the senses
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Matt Berninger’s forthcoming second solo album, Get Sunk
Song of the Day: The frontman of The National’s new solo single has his distinctive rich vocal tones, a warm, swelling indie sound and here some gently caustic, vivid lyrics about a tricky reunion. It heralds his second solo album Get Sunk out 30 May, on Concord Records
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Billy Nomates - The Test
Song of the Day: Dealing with a turbulent 18 months including the death of her father, the innovative British artist Tor Maries returns with a powerful new track heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out on 16 May via Invada Records
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Léa Sen’s forthcoming album, Levels, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Deliciously fluid, smooth, relaxed, gentle, melancholy indie-pop by the Paris-born, French-Martiniquan London-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, heralding her forthcoming debut album, Levels, out on 30 May via Partisan Records
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Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars
Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records
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Andy Bell’s latest album is Pinball Wanderer
Song of the Day: Taken from the Ride frontman’s recent solo album, Pinball Wanderer, an infectious, extended syncopated, psychedelic groove reminiscent of The Stone Roses with a dash of krautrock
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The Voidz - Blue Demon
Song of the Day: The experimental rock band featuring Strokes’ Julian Casablancas on distorted, sci-fi style vocals return with a synth-laden, syncopated, oddball but catchy release, also filled with caustic, indirect references to Israel’s destruction and occupation of Palestine and the US foreign policy hand in it
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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Model/Actriz
Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records
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Hamilton Leithauser
Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music
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Preoccupations
Song of the Day: A pulsating, sharp new number on history’s repeating patterns with a gripping video showing footage of various cults, this heralds the Calgary, Canadian post-punk/ new wave quartet’s forthcoming album Ill At Lease, ou on Born Losers Records on 9 May
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The Waeve: Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records
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Japanese Breakfast
Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans
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Ezra Furman
Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union
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