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Cupid’s arrow? A different sort of hit from Katy J Pearson
Song of the Day: A deliciously summery, uplifting new number about personal independence by the Bristol singer-songwriter with a beautifully quaint archery video, heralding her forthcoming third album, Someday, Now, out on 20 September via Heavenly Recordings
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
Song of the Day: Simplicity and beauty encapsulate this gorgeous acoustic string-infused new single by the Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter, the first since her debut album I Need to Start a Garden (2018), out on her hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co
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Crows: Vision of Me
Song of the Day: Shades of both Joy Division and Killers come in this stridently powerful, high octane rock single about identity, with a Terry Gilliam’s Brazil-inspired dystopian video shot at the Barbican, and hails the London band’s forthcoming album Reason Enough, out on 27 September via Bad Vibrations
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OneDa - Let Me In
Song of the Day: The charismatic, pull-no-punches Manchester rapper Onyinyechuwku Ezeh returns with sharply delivered hip-hop with a punchy horn accompaniment, and heralds her forthcoming album Formula OneDa out on 4 October via Heavenly Recordings
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Peel Dream Magazine’s forthcoming album Rose Main Reading Room
Song of the Day: Dreamy, woozy, beautiful alternative pop by the Los Angeles named after the legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, taken from their forthcoming album Rose Main Reading Room, out on Topshelf Records
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The Dare’s forthcoming album What’s Wrong With New York?
Song of the Day: A punchy, cocky, talky, witty post-punk fusion with echoes of LCD Soundsystem and The Fall by the New York artist Harrison Patrick Smith, with a new single heralding his forthcoming debut album What’s Wrong With New York?, set for release on 6 September via Polydor/Republic Records
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Laurie Anderson’s forthcoming new album, Amelia
Song of the Day: The American veteran experimentalist’s gorgeously vivid and serene travelogue song featuring the British singer heralds her forthcoming album, Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records
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Public Service Broadcasting’s forthcoming album, The Last Flight, captures the final story of Amelia Earhart
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s electricity-themed SOTD, the latest bright-spark history-inspired release by the British band of Willgoose, Wrigglesworth and co comes from the plane name of pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart, and heralds their new album The Last Flight
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Lael Neale
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent third album Star Eaters Delight, the American singer-songwriter returns with a sizzlingly mesmeric, alternative psychedelic folk written during a power cut caused by an ice storm
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Mura Masa and yeule
Song of the Day: A stylish, innovative, clubby, sensual electronica-into-acoustic new number by the producer of yesterday’s SOTD by Gretel, aka the Guernsey-born electronic music artist Alex Crossan featuring yeule, aka Singaporean singer Nat Ćmiel
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Gretel aka Greta Hänlyn
Song of the Day: Quirky clever pop with a catchy repetitive sound and handclaps by the London singer-songwriter also known as Gretel Hänlyn in this new number using an aloof, sarcastic, rebellious persona, and a distinctive sound produced by Mura Masa
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Kit Sebasian’s new album New Internationale is out in September via Brain Feeder Records
Song of the Day: Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth
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Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Jorja Smith - High
Song of the Day: The silky-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall in the West Midlands latest single strong, self-healing, soulful, rhythmical dance track, one she describes as “about finding a friend within myself, even through the lows, you have to find the highs”
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Danger Mouse and Karen O
Song of the Day: A stylish new, restlessly lovestruck single by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer and the acclaimed producer aka Brian Burton, heralding a special reissue of duo’s 2019 LP, Lux Prima, which will be re-released on 19 September
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Fionn Regan
Song of the Day: A beautiful sun-dappled, Mallorca summer-inspired, immersive, and uplifting and new number by Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter heralding his forthcoming new album O Avalanche, released on 1 November
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Marysia Osu. Photo: Ella Pavlides
Song of the Day: Gorgeously evocative and mesmeric music from the harpist who combines her instrument with electronica and ocean sounds. It heralds her debut album, Harp, Beats & Dreams, out on 18 October via Brownswood Recordings
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Thandii’s forthcoming album, Come As You
Song of the Day: Quirky, clever, eclectic, percussive, alternative and inventively experimental electro-pop from the Margate partner duo and seasoned touring musicians Jessica Berry and Graham Godfrey, also heralding their forthcoming albums Come As You/ Dream With You out in September
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Primal Scream’s upcoming new album, Come Ahead
Song of the Day: A funky fusion of syncopated indie, psych, krautrock and flute-filled acid jazz with Utopian-themed lyrics in this new single by Bobby Gillespie and co, with a different sound heralding the band’s first album for 8 years – Come Ahead – out on 8 November on BMG
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