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Attawalpa – seeking elsewhere in a psychedelic bubble bath
Song of the Day: Seeking some existential escape? Then immerse yourself in this new, wonderfully otherworldly song by the Peruvian London-based artist whose work has echoes of Syd Barrett, from “a psychedelic bubble bath” EP
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Keep scrubbing. Rudi Zygadlo
Song of the Day: What holds society together? “Everyone can see it, but we’re all afraid to say it, ‘cos it’s such a risky business that the whole damn place is silent.” Could be virally topical. A quirky, original song by mixing electronica and rock with a dash of Frank Zappa
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Cover of Clémentine March’s new album
Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’
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Freya Beer
Song of the Day: The thunder of hoof, hot, heavy breath, and the swish of mane, today’s song by the London-born singer-songwriter is inspired by Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty and Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘An Asphodel’
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Islet
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s Cate Le Bon to another Welsh band, a new song by the Powys trio from their forthcoming LP Eyelet, a mesmerising experimental whirl of electro-pop psychedelia
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Euros Childs
Song of the Day: On Brexit day, when UK officially leaves the European Union, a new, silly song from the ex-frontman of Gorky’s Zygotic Minzi that may have no connection at all, but the artist name and label – National Elf – has a certain irony
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Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.
Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.
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From the cover of We’re Your Friends, Man – the newest album by The Bevis Frond
Song of the Day: Following Kamikaze Palm Tree we turn a new leaf towards the psych rock band fronted by Nick Saloman from their latest, 23rd studio album, We’re Your Friends, Man
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Kamikaze Palm Tree
Song of the Day returns with a pair of extraordinary, experimental songs from the San Francisco psych band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley from their 2019 debut album Good Boy
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Blood moon
Song of the Day: On this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, and also on a full moon, an upbeat sounding rock-pop classic with a prescient, environmentally apocalyptic edge written by John Fogerty that was a hit half a century ago
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Dr John, the Night Tripper, aka Mac Rebennack, 1941-2019
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
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Sean Lennon and Les Claypool
Song of the Day: After worms and slugs, we turn to a toad, but this time this metaphor by Sean Lennon and Les Claypool’s band appears to lambast the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, from their 2019 album South of Reality
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Shana Cleveland
Song of the Day: After John Myrtle’s slug song, a different take on a slimy earth creature, and in a another style, an exquisite title track and first single, by the lead singer of Los Angeles psych band La Luz, from her 2019 solo album
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Coda for a stellar career? David Bowie’s Blackstar
Song of the Day: Exactly three years ago Bowie released his final album, on his birthday, and two days before he died. Was that opening track a coda for a stellar career, referencing a life’s work, his demons and impending death?
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The Zombies in 1968
Song of the Day: A positive start to 2019, with a simple and gorgeous piano-based melody and love song from the pioneering British psych rock and pop band formed in St Albans in 1961 from their classic album of 1968, Odessey and Oracle
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Once & Future Band
Song of the Day: After the frenzied blood in the brain by Pom Poko, a slower, but rather beautiful number on grey matter by the rock band from Oakland, California fronted by Joel Robinow
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David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, music by Stomu Yamashta
Song of the Day: With the passing of two great directors, Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci, a beautiful piece of music from a film by the former, starring David Bowie but with music by the Japanese composer
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From the album cover of The Soft Machine (1968), featuring Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Mike Ratledge
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Ray Davies soaring sleep song performed by Marion, a more psychedelic take on different levels of consciousness by those Canterbury pioneers from their first album of 1968
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Nico. Teutonic stony sadness.
Song of the Day: After Sibylle Baier yesterday, a better known, but in her own way, equally mysterious German singer, best recognised in the Velvet Underground, but here from her own 1967 solo album, Chelsea Girl
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Sixto Rodriquez in the early 70s
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Vashti Bunyan, another inspirational story of obscurity to long-sought recognition fro the mysterious Detroit-born Mexican immigrant singer-songwriter, made famous in the documentary Searching For Sugar Man
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