Song of the Day: An outstanding and unusual fusion of folk, pop, country and psychedelia by the Japanese-Canadian singer-songwriter interlacing strong acoustic guitar chords and arpeggios, explosive drums, interwoven voices and birdsong
Read moreSong of the Day: Elf Power - Artificial Countrysides
Song of the Day: After Erland Cooper’s flower-growing music yesterday, more beautiful work in this indie-pysch-folk-pop with a country twist and a dash of harpsichord, the title track from the newly released album by the American band from Athens, Georgi
Read moreSong of the Day: Rubber Oh - Hyperdrive Fantasy
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Space Craft, a psychedelic-pop-rock number of rich riffing and vocal harmonies, dark menace, electronic wobbles and space adventure by Newcastle’s Sam Grant – guitarist and producer from Pigs x 7. Out on Rocket Recordings
Read moreSong of the Day: Melts - Signal
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming debut album Maelstrom, a scintillating storm of a song mixing psychedelia, space rock, krautrock, Hammond organ and driving guitar and vocals by the band from Dublin
Read moreSong of the Day: black midi – Welcome To Hell
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
Read moreSong of the Day: Gwenno – An Stevel Nowydh (The New Room)
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Tresor released on 1 July 2022, a mesmeric single of psych-folk-pop by the Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Mererid Saunders as usual in her native tongue, meaning The New Room
Read moreSong of the Day: Iraina Mancini - Undo The Blue
Song of the Day: After BATTS and Billy Nomates, a blue-themed trilogy is completed the London singer-songwriter and DJ in a sparklingly optimistic song co-written with Jagz Kooner inspired by 70s psychedelic soul and decorated with brass, strings and Iraina’s soaring vocals
Read moreSong of the Day: Ty Segall - Lawrence Welk III (from Whirlybird soundtrack)
Song of the Day: Fabulously inventive and evocative instrumental track with staccato guitar and percussion by the Californian musician, taken from the soundtrack the 2021 documentary film Whirlybird, now released on Drag City Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Midlake - Bethel Woods
Song of the Day: The Texas folk rock band return with a haunting, melancholy but warmly energetic track named after the amphitheatre site from the Woodstock festival, and taken from their forthcoming album For the Sake of Bethel Woods, their first since 2013’s Antiphon
Read moreSong of the Day: Melody's Echo Chamber - Looking Backward
Song of the Day: Shimmering French psychedelic pop with a beautiful bassline and the sensual breathy vocals of French artist Melody Prochet in this latest single from the forthcoming new album, Emotional Eternal, out on April 29 via Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Noon Garden - Desiree
Song of the Day: Dynamic new synth-pop psychedelia from the solo project of Flamingods member Charles Prest, and taken from his forthcoming debut album Beulah Spa, due to be released on 25 February 2022 out on The Liquid Label
Read moreSong of the Day: The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam
Song of the Day: “I want it all to be OK”. Thumpingly fun, psych-rock-funk number, streaked with insanely catchy riffs and bassline and dreamy vocals by the Sydney, Australia band from their forthcoming debut LP, following two EPs
Read moreSong of the Day: Grouper - Pale Interior
Song of the Day: Taken from her new album Shade, an exquisitely delicate acoustic psychedelic folk number by the American musician, artist and producer Liz Harris, whose delivery has a delicious, dissolving quality, and has been releasing material since 2005
Read moreSong of the Day: The Lounge Society - Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
Read moreSong of the Day: The Pictish Trail - Natural Successor
Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original
Read moreSong of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love
Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula
Read moreSong of the Day: Dr. Joy - Midtown
Song of the Day: Taken from, and typifying their just released self-titled 8-track debut album, this wonderfully woozy, cosmic psychedelic number by the Toronto collective has a collage of influences including ‘cubism, dadaism, Baltic disco, Italian soundtracks, and babbling brooks’
Read moreSong of the Day: La Luz - Watching Cartoons
Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy psychedelia-folk harking back to the 1970s Scooby Doo era from the Seattle-formed California-based trio of Shana Cleveland, Alice Sandahl, and Lena Simon with Adrian Younge producing from their forthcoming self-titled new album
Read moreSong of the Day: Darkside - Lawmaker
Song of the Day: A menacing, strange narrative, possibly about Covid, a power-crazed doctor and popularism, and a North African vibe crossed with slow psych rock in a film noir soundtrack feel all comes in the mysterious work of New York duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington and their extraordinary new album Spiral, out on Matador Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Penelope Isles - Sailing Still
Song of the Day: Powerful, beautiful, slow psych-alt-rock with soaring strings, intimate lyrics, blistering guitars and sounds of the ocean by the Brighton band of siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, from the forthcoming second album, Which Way To Happy, out on 5 November on Bella Union
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