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The Cure: Alone, taken from
Song of the Day: The first new song released by Robert Smith and the legendary British band for 16 years, this dark, melancholic majestic number heralds their forthcoming album, Songs of a Lost World, out on 1 November
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Benefits
Song of the Day: With a dark, sinister video by Teesside filmmaker John Kirkbride, the Middlesbrough band return with simmering rage-filled dance and spoken-word number around the corruption and frustrations of modern Britain, performed by Kingsley Hall
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Elias Rønnenfelt
Song of the Day: Dylan-esque in narrative style and delivery, with a simple backbeat and guitars, an arresting new single by the charismatic Copenhagen musician and poet, better known as the lead singer and lyricist of Danish band Iceage, heralding his debut solo album Heavy Glory, out on 25th October via Escho
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Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
Song of the Day: A stirring indie pop ode to blissful solitude, of standing in the desert feeling at one with the landscape, by the Seattle band fronted by singer-songwriter Jessica Dobson, inspired by Tom Petty and Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas
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Bon Iver
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming SABLE EP, and with a first new song since 2020’s AUATC, Justin Vernon returns with beautifully stripped back, understated acoustic guitar number of wistful solitude and apology, crisply poetic rhymes and pointed lyrics, out on Jagjaguwar
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clipping.’s Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
Song of the Day: Slick, agile clever, innovative, cross-genre hip-hop/cyberpunk with shades of OutKast with added classic late-80s Roland TB-303 bass rave sounds, by the Los Angeles experimentalist trio fronted rapper by Daveed Diggs with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
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Lambrini Girls: Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira
Song of the Day: Blistering, brilliant, angry, articulate punk by the Brighton duo of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira addressing key, ongoing issues of inequality of gender and sexuality in the workplace. Familiar problem? Just finishing your working week? Let off some steam with this …
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Wussy
Song of the Day: Graveyard themed, but also referencing the euphonic phrase considered the most among the English language’s most beautiful, a catchy, spooky lo-fi krautrocky title track with a fabulous retro disco footage video, from the Cincinnati band’s latest EP, out on Shake It Records
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Mandrake Handshake - King Cnut
Song of the Day: A mesmeric spread of instruments stir this potent cauldron of a new single by the London band of “flowerkraut”, a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, here inspired by the 11th-century Norse ruler of Britain, released on the cult indie label Tip Top Recordings
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Michael Kiwanuka - Lowdown
Song of the Day: Peerlessly powerful and serene slow-build soul and psychedelia by much acclaimed British singer-songwriter, in this double-track heralding his forthcoming fourth album, Small Changes, out on 15 November, via Polydor/ Universal
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Franz Ferdinand's forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out in January
Song of the Day: The return of Alex Kapranos and the witty Glasgow indie-rockers comes with an uplifting number about defiance, heralding their new LP titled The Human Fear, out in January, via Domino Records
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Goat’s forthcoming album, simply titled Goat, is out in October via Rocket Recordings
Song of the Day: Tribal, earthy grooves with a catchy, thrumming riff, flutes and psychedelic fuzz/wah guitar mark out the instantly recognisable return of the wonderful, enigmatic Swedish collective, mixing the corporeal and the cosmic, and heralding their next album, simply titled Goat, out on Rocket Recordings out on 11 October
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FKA twigs - Eusexua
Song of the Day: The striking, stylish delicately voiced new trance-electronica single by the highly original British artist (aka Tahliah Debrett Barnett) is a sensual, heartbeat-throbbing number using her made-up word to describe the state of “momentary transcendence”, and is the title track heralding her forthcoming third album, out on Young Records
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Fresh delivery, Adult DVD’s new EP, Next Day Shipping
Song of the Day: Fresh delivery and punchy, energetic electro-postpunk by the Leeds band in the opening track from their new EP Next Day Shipping, following other singles Doomsday Prepper, Bill Murray and Yacht Money
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Corinne Bailey Rae - SilverCane
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent socio-cultural Black History-themed album Black Rainbows, the Leeds-born singer-songwriter returns with a bright. sparkling funk-pop track stemming from a dark subject – set before the Tulsa race massacre, a two-day racial massacre which resulted in the deaths of 150-200 Black Americans Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Our Girl
Song of the Day: Evocative, serenely beautiful and poetic, this new single by the Brighton band captures that Proustian-type moment of unleashed feelings, senses and memories, in this case hearing Ella Fitzgerald on the radio, and is the title track heralding their forthcoming album out on 8 November via Bella Union
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Aisha Badru
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate, ethereal number by the breathy-voiced Florida-based Nigerian-American artist about purpose, making time for yourself and making that time significant, taken from her upcoming second album The Sun Still Rises, out on 29 November via Nettwerk
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Tucker Zimmerman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously gentle,, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrienne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD
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Julie Dawson: Bottom of the Pool
Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual, dream pop and electronica in this side project by the singer from the Galway band, NewDad, with this title track her forthcoming debut album, out on 13 September via Fair Youth Records
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Manic Street Preachers: Sean Moore, Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield
Song of the Day: The popular Welsh rockers return with their signature triumphant sound and a stirring, piano-rippling number with massive chorus, a song about “realisation and understanding – of celebrating the tiny miracles that still exist whilst accepting and embracing managed decline”
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