Peter Kimpton

Breezy, gently wistful and witty, warm and dreamy 70s-style pop about career ladder confusion with orchestral strings and flute by the London-based singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming second album, Kismet , out on 4 September. To explore and enjoy more Matilda Mann, including the entertaining Severance -inspired video for this song, see also the other embedded links below.

With their first new music in almost four years, the influential and innovative Dublin quartet unleash an arresting, visceral hybrid of post-punk and noise rock, a stream of consciousness in dynamic, evolving sections, and with some echoes of The Fall, out now on Rough Trade.

Smooth, effervescent funk-jazz synth-pop by the Japanese composer and singer-songwriter Keigo Oyamada, joined here by the younger son of John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), and heralding Cornelius's upcoming album Refractions, his first for the Eat Your Own Ears label. To explore and enjoy more Cornelius, see also the other embedded links below.

Song of the Day: Sumptuously slow, simmering, smoky, bittersweet new soulful single by the Leeds-based trio of Josh Crocker Tom Henryand Joe Harris, joined on vocals by the British-Canadian singer-songwriter, out on Play It Again Sam

New album: His voice now may be thinner and weaker, yet his genius for melody remains in this warm, tender LP, inspired by vivid childhood reminiscences in the Speke area of Liverpool and beyond, with references to friends, parents, girlfriends, his bandmates, and includes a duet with Ringo Starr

Song of the Day: The Los Angeles indie trio return with a pacy, catchy, funky, witty, playfully philosophical and political new single with video based in a grocery store, and heralding their upcoming album Podium , out on 28 July

New album: Scotland's hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow's Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

New album: A selection of fond love-letter songs to the city where he was raised and has remained by the 46-year-ld American singer-songwriter, in this deliciously laid back 10th LP of songs of interweaving guitars, folk, rock, country and psychedelia, all with his inimitably relaxed vocal delivery

Sharply identifying sources of much of the world's problems with this catchy, punchy new track, the Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist Gregg Deal and his indie-punk Denver, Colorado band are joined here by the Sleaford Mods' rapper, heralding the upcoming new album Wagon Burner , out on 26 June via Hassle Records. To explore and enjoy more by Dead Pioneers, including other singles from the album, see also the other embedded links below.

By ParaMhor A quiet early summer week in the Bar but I found out an awful lot about reedless instruments.