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Gia Ford
Song of the Day: The new single by the darkly angelic Sheffield artist brings a fabulous meaty funk and bite with catchy hook and chorus, as well as airing that soaring, beautifully serene voice of previous releases, and is out now on Chrysalis Records
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Cosmorat
Song of the Day: This opening track from the London indie-alt-pop trio’s new EP, Evil Adjacent, is a beautiful ghostly. dark, powerful creation showing the breadth of their dynamic, experimental and original range
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Magdalena Bay: Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin
Song of the Day: A striking, swirling, spacey, huge production number by the Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – “Imagine rain pouring, streetlights glowing. You sit at home and wait for your alien boyfriend to pick you up in his UFO…but this time, he’s not coming.”
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beabadoobee aka Beatrice Laus
Song of the Day: Melodious, smoothly gliding indie pop by the Filipino-born English singer singer-songwriter Beatrice Laus, with a single co-produced by Rick Rubin, and heralding her forthcoming third LP, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, out on 16 August via Dirty Hit Records
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Girl Scout
Song of the Day: A blistering new sharp riff, guitar-thrumming, fast-and-furious single by the Swedish indie band fronted vocalist/guitarist Emma Jansson with an attack on those who use the vacuous, laissez-faire, indifferent phrase “it is what it is”
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Chinese American Beaz: Bryce Barsten and Anne Tong
Song of the Day: Infectiously fun pop with tight guitar riffs and high vocals by the Brooklyn-based married duo of Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten, with a number about Tong’s Chinese childhood of trying to have fun under strict rules in her immigrant household
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Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Phoebe Green track, another witty, punchy, ironic pop number from the co-writer on that song – the Kent artist who fuses funk, electronic and indie with caustic lyrics in this queer pop song about body image and others’ expectations
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Number one fan: Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: Caustic, pointed, witty, self-aware talky and stylish synth-pop with a rock guitar sheen from the Manchester-based artist taken from her new EP Ask Me Now, out on The Green Dream Machine
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Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love
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Lava La Rue
Song of the Day: After fabulous singles and EPs, a sparkling psychedelic pop number about mixing platonic and romantic love to herald the west London artist’s forthcoming debut album Starface, sci-fi-themed about alien visitor, and all about what makes us human
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Walt Disco
Song of the Day: Witty, catchy, camp, new wave-disco-pop with whispery echoes of Bowie, The Associates, Tindersticks and Electric 6 by the Glasgow band, heralding their forthcoming LP, The Warping, out in June on Lucky Number Records
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She Drew the Gun - Howl
Song of the Day: A dazzling new single by the indie-psychedelic band from the Wirral, Merseyside, fronted by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach about our ancestry, time, atoms and how elements of our bodies formed in the hearts of long dead stars over billions of years
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Laufey
Song of the Day: This mesmeric, haunting, piano-accompanied new single comes from the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir about her experience in a relationship with someone who is more in love with her image as an artist than her as a person
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From the video for Quivers’ new single – Apparition
Song of the Day: Classic catchy indie-rock with a glam- and Rolling Stones vibe, beautiful chord changes, a singalong chorus and an owl-inspired video by the Melbourne-based quaret, heralding their forthcoming new album, Oyster Cuts, out on 9 August via Merge Records
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Blossoms
Song of the Day: The Stockport, Greater Manchester indie-rockers return with a catchy new song about an apology, but also one that muses on songwriting formulas with a funk beat, with a comedic video set in the Derbyshire hills, football manager Sean Dyke and a classic campervan
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Size matters: from the video for Orlando Weeks’s Dig featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg
Song of the Day: The now Lisbon-based British singer-songwriter returns with an engagingly original song about a “tit-for-tat, under-your-breath half-argument of the kind that happens in public” joined by half of Wet Leg on back vocals and a fabulous video directed by Matt Harris-Freeth
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The incomparable and irrepressible Uche Yara
Song of the Day: With a unique delivery and distinctive cocktail of beats and interweaving vocal harmonies, the charismatic, eclectic Berlin-based, Austrian singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter returns with the opening from her new EP, Golden Days
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The forthcoming debut album, Sit Tight by exmagician
Song of the Day: Striking, catchy alternative pop and psychedelia in this first single from the new album, Sit Tight, by the Belfast duo Danny Todd and James Smith, previously of Cashier No. 9, in their new incarnation
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Baba Ali - Heart Racer
Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger
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Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the highly original London singer-songwriter with a rich crunchy guitar soundscape, ticking beats and echoes of 90s alternative radio with lyrics on the theme of realising the preciousness of time
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