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Cory Wong - Call Me Wild (featuring dodie)
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy funk pop the brilliant Minnesota guitarist and producer from Vulfpeck and other bands, here with witty lyrics about a night out delivered by guest vocalist Dodie, taken from Cory’s forthcoming solo album, The Lucky One
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One to remember: Jaakko Enio Kalevi’s forthcoming album, Chaos Magic
Song of the Day: Beautifully crisp, droll, gentle-paced deep-voiced electro-pop with echoes of early 80s and The Human League by the ingenious, mischievous Finnish artist, from the upcoming album Chaos Magic out on 17 November on Weird World / Domino
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eee gee - School Reunion
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll but resplendent soaring Abba-like pop by the Brooklyn-based Danish singer-songwriter Emma Grankvist who seamlessly merges humorous irony and fabulous melody. With a fabulously disturbing video to match, it’s another single from her forthcoming new album, She-Rex
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CHAI channel their philosophy of Neo Kawaii
Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, quirky, feminist post-punk-pop celebrating self-love, oddness and individuality by the Japanese quartet from Nagoya of twin sisters Mana and Kana, with rhythm section of Yuna and Yuuki
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The incomparable Bootsy
Song of the Day: Superbly infectious brassy, squelchy Prince and also Parliament-like like funk of the highest order by legendary bass master with Queens rapper Baby Triggy and Hamburg singer Fantaazma
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Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise
Song of the Day: The London band who specialise in songs sampling archive footage return with a stirring, nostalgic number about the early days of radio broadcasting, in a version played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and the title track of their forthcoming new live album
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Lol Tolhurst, Budgie and Jacknife Lee
Song of the Day: “LA eats its children.” Superbly punchy, rhythmic title track with caustic, striking lyrics about the US city from the forthcoming album a supergroup trio of the ex-Cure drummer, Siouxsie drummer, producer joined by the LCD Soundsystem frontman
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iskwē - Sure To Come
Song of the Day: A empowering, uplifting fresh, new electro-pop single of self-encouragement with a a beautiful video by the Canadian singer-songwriter and activist, whose name is short waseskwan iskwew, meaning Blue Sky Woman
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Queens of colour: Jessie Ware and Róisín Murphy
Song of the Day: A disco banger with an updated double dose of fun and funk and fabulous costumes from Jessie’s latest album, That! Feels Good!, now released in a new version with the Irish iconic singer
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Gemma Rogers
Song of the Day: A tasty fusion of summer pop and gentle reggae by the London artist in a languid, cheery sounding but seriously deadpan song responding to how government takes about civil liberties in an underhand but also blatant form of social control
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Enjoyably OTT: Mother Mother
Song of the Day: Indulgently over-the-top, shamelessly cliched, but hugely enjoyable pop-rock by the Vancouver band with a huge sound, oodles of teen angst, Muse-style operatic overdubbed vocals and guitar riffs and a horror movie-style video
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Viji’s album, So Vanilla is out on 27 October
Song of the Day: Addictively thrumming, punchy fuzz-guitar indie pop by the London-based Austrian-Brazilian artist Vanilla Jenner with another excellent single out on Speedy Wunderground produced by Dan Carey
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Sorry’s new single is from their album Anywhere But Here
Song of the Day: Taken from the London band’s latest LP, Anywhere But Here, an innovative, emotional latest single, arguably a perfect song for a rain-hit British summer, but one about feelings of isolation and confusion
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Alan Palomo’s forthcoming album World of Hassle
Song of the Day: Stylish, catchy Franco-Italo electro-pop banger by Texan band Neon Indian’s main man about a song taking place on a film set that explores the friction often felt between actors and their directors on a horror film set, joined here by L’Imperatrice’s singer Fleure Benguigui
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Maple Glider’s forthcoming second album, I Get Into Trouble
Song of the Day: The Melbourne singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch returns with a fusion of the cutting and beautiful with a song about religious shaming, inspired by the biblical story of Dinah, a woman sexually assaulted but victim-blamed
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Metric
Song of the Day: Described by the Canadian band as regret disco, and a song for when you need to dance yourself clean, ‘once’ is an ambiguous term in this catchy, clean indie-electro pop by the four-piece
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Wicketkeeper’ forthcoming new album, Zambroni
Song of the Day: “Modest, basic, robust design, with 24-hour army time. I feel safe in your red glow…” A beautiful, sleepy, clever groove with a love song extended metaphor in this first single from the Margate/London indie trio’s sophomore album, Zambroni, out on on 22 September via Umpire Records
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The buoyant debut EP, Woo Hoo, by congratulations
Songs of the Day: A pair of enthralling, energetic, clever, humorous fuzz-guitar, indie-rock / noise-pop numbers by the Brighton band, taken from their debut EP, Woo Hoo, out in September on Bella Union
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Playing your cards right? Housewife
Song of the Day: Thrumming, catchy, clever, caustic indie-pop by the band in this latest single by theToronto fronted by Brighid Fry in reference to Tarot card characters, intuition and relationships
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Trueman & The Indoor League - Boomers In The Area
Song of the Day: Wittily detailed, catchy, flamboyant summery indie being in a mid-twenties life crisis, especially when performing in front of and older audience, and a dash of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, in this single by the East Yorkshire band fronted by Sam Trueman
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