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Emily Breeze
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s narrated number about the passing of time from Francis Lung, a wistful yet optimistic, melancholy but upbeat, talking-singing catchy pop single by the charismatic Bristol artist with a nostalgic celebration of life in the absence of conventional success
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Technology + Teamwork: Sarah Jones and Anthony Silvester. Photo: Luke Atkinson
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy new disco electro-pop by the duo of Sarah Jones and drummer Anthony Silvester in a number about an imagined conversation between two people who have drifted apart
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The Orielles
Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming new album, Tableau, some mesmeric, shapeshifting 8-minute, gradual-build celestial dream pop by the Yorkshire trio from Halifax, with an ever wider innovative range
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Cover image for Weyes Blood’s forthcoming new album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Song of the Day: ‘Living in the wake of overwhelming changes’. The individual and universal join in this sublimely beautiful, simple but profound new number by the American artist Natalie Mering, with piano, her distinct voice, orchestral strings and harp from Mary Lattimore
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The Big Moon’s forthcoming album Here Is Everything is delivered in October
Song of the Day: The London indie quartet’s new single, from their forthcoming third album, Here Is Everything. as an easy, carefree feel, but has a more emotive theme about memories of walking over a railway bridge to the hospital to give birth and how the memory deals with pain
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Wooze’s Theo Spark and Jamie She
Song of the Day: Channelling deep-voiced 80s pop, funk, rock and new wave from Heaven 17 to Bowie to the Human League, this anarchically fun new single by the colourful core vocal Korean/British duo of Theo Spark (guitars) and Jamie She (drums) comes from rom their latest EP The Magnificent Eleven
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Elemental fusion of opposites: who else, but Björk?
Song of the Day: The iconic Icelandic artist returns, literally with a bang – mixing mighty opposites in a song about how such things may combine – clattering, hammering beats, involving Indonesian experimental duo Gabber Modus Operandi – and clarinets, joining from disharmony into into an eventual frenetic unison
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Caitlin Rose’s forthcoming album CAZIMI
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, emotive, vivid and a mix of country, pop and rock, the latest single reflecting on a dark relationship by the Nashville singer-songwriter comes from her forthcoming latest album CAZIMI, out in November on Pearl Tower Records
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Fujiya & Miyagi
Song of the Day: The title track of the forthcoming ninth studio album by the UK Brighton-formed band is a finely formed, catchy piece of electro-funk-disco-pop that touches both on the theme of tiny differences in human genetics as well as perceived subtle musical variations
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Playfully pleasing to the eye and ear: Peel Dream Magazine
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s dreamy number by Alice Boman to another dreamy sound of marrying the visual and aural with gentle drums and keyboards, in this gently catchy, and softly sung number by the LA-based artist Joseph Stevens for the forthcoming third album, Pad, out 7 October on Tough Love Recordings/Slumberland Records
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Alice Boman
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s song by Daniela Lalita, another beautifully fragile, sensual number, a melancholy dream-pop love song reminiscent of a mix of Kate Bush and Sufjan Stevens, here by the Swedish singer-songwriter, with guest vocals by the American artist Michael Hadreas
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The classy trio of Coco
Song of the Day: Brimming with swagger and panache, warmth and vitality, and a mix of The Go-Go’s and glam rock, this new single by the New York trio of Maia Friedman (of Dirty Projectors) , Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider) follows last year’s acclaimed self-titled debut album
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Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght
Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion
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Nick Hakim returns with his smoothly refined sound
Song of the Day: A deliciously mellow, honey-smooth and beautifully refined funk number by the Brooklyn-based musician, taken from his from the forthcoming album COMETA out on 21 October 21 on ATO Records
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Beth Orton
Song of the Day: To ‘bleed or rust in the rain’. Another beautiful, delicate new love song by the British singer-songwriter balancing passion and surrender, and taken from the forthcoming new album Weather Alive
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The Beths
Song of the Day: A fantastically catchy, upbeat, but also very poignant and intelligently written number by the New Zealand indie quartet that’s also the title track from their forthcoming new album out on Carpark Records and Ivy League
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The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
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A biting new single by DEADLETTER
Song of the Day: The latest in a run of excellent indie post-punk single releases by the sharp, witty Yorkshire and London band such as Fit For Work and Pop Culture Connoisseur sees frontman Zac and co highlighting an excessive trait inherent within human behaviour
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LUNGE: Viva Seifert and Mark ‘Arp’ Cleveland
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky synth-pop with a retro 80s feel, shades of OMD and high vocals somewhere between Associates and Kate Bush, this new single about severance and letting go is by the duo of Viva Seifert and Mark “Arp” Cleveland
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