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C’est le pop magnifique …
Song of the Day: Glorying in all things Gallic, the new solo EP project by Dan Synge of Daniel Takes a Train is an joyfully unrestrained embrace of 60s and 70s French pop styles from Gainsbourg to Dutronc, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday
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Gloria
Song of the Day: Who doesn’t love Paris in springtime? So let’s go there for an upbeat fusion of 60s-style French psychedelic pop and Motown by the bandf Gloria from their LP Sabbat Matters, out on Howlin Banana Records
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The Lazy Eyes
Song of the Day: Wonderfully eccentric prog-rock-pop with classic guitar solos, a dash of King Gizzard, Deerhoof, and a fabulous dramatic pause, this number by the Sydney psych rock quartet is a joyful musical brain scramble
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On the button: Earth Scum by FYI Chris
Song of the Day: The final track on the album Earth Scum by the Yorkshire and Macclesfield duo of Chris Coupe and Chris Watson features viscerally acerbic, self-deprecating gallows humorous delivery by Mancunian poet and performer Thick Richard
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TEKE::TEKE
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s piano piece by Naoko Sakata, the Japanese artists abroad connection continues with the frenzy and energy of the psych rock band based in Montreal who combine traditional instruments with rock in with rapid changes of pace
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It’s always time for a new Dean Parrish record
Song of the Day: Driving rhythm, funky guitar, powerful horns and unmistakeable voice? The northern soul legend from Brooklyn, and regularly at the Wigan Casino, returns with a majestic new anti-war single, the first for 10 years
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Venus Furs - debut LP
Song of the Day: From his eponymous debut album, this powerful piece of psych-indie-rock by the Montreal multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Kasner has a ghostly, dark, tragic quality, and a sinister undercurrent
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The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess
Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person
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Tactics, the EP by Soccer96
Song of the Day: This synth-krautrock fusion of wonderfully droll apathetic humour comes via the synth-drums duo Danalogue and Betamax from The Comet Is Coming, with the dry delivery vocals of jazz experimentalist Alabaster dePlume
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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Millennium Culkin and Hazy James aka Birds Of Pandaemonium
Song of the Day: Seeking the positive in the face of the inevitable, this thuddingly ethereal, transcendent psychedelic debut by Brooklyn’s Millennium Culkin and Hazy James has hints of Echo & The Bunnymen and Mark Lanegan
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D. McCabe’s The Final Curtain single
Song of the Day: A fantastic blend of indie, psychedelia and electronica written, performed and produced by the Dublin multi-instrumentalist includes rolling drums, building to a crescendo of piano, exotic chants and remorseless, mysterious dread
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Khruangbin – unforgettable
Song of the Day: A delicious sounding, smoothly delivered new track fusing funk, soul dub, African, and psychedelia by the American musical trio from Houston, Texas, comprising Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr on drums
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Expanded cover of Lightning Orchestra’s forthcoming album Source and Deliver
Song of the Day: A profound and glorious piece of cosmic, psychedelic, afro-jazz-funk by the collective based in Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by the sounds of Fela Kuti, Sun Ra, Tony Allen, Talking Heads and Jimi Hendrix
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Alternative visions: Jack Cheshire
Song of the Day: Alluringly atmospheric with a driving rhythm, this new indie psych number by the London-based multi-instrumentalist is all about balancing a positive view and keeping focus within dark times, inspired by a quote from Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci
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The Sticks by The Cool Greenhouse
Song of the Day: The city or the sticks? A rock or a hard place? This first single from the forthcoming debut album and an older number marry driving krautrock, oddball psychedelia and echoes of The Fall with fabulous ironic humour and idiosyncratic, killer phrases
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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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