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Irmin Schmidt: Requiem

April 29, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Irmin Schmidt

New album: A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores

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In albums, alternative, ambient, classical, experimental, instrumental, avant garde Tags Irmin Schmidt, Can, Future Days Music, Mute Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Squarepusher: Kammerkonzert

April 15, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Squarepusher: Kammerkonzert

New album: An eclectic, dramatic, polyrhythmic mix of jazz, modern classical and drum’n’bass by the experimental British musician and producer Tom Jenkinson, in this dramatic, abstract, cerebral and cinematic release featuring a host of instruments from bass to chamber strings and harpischord

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In albums, alternative, avant garde, classical, drum n bass, instrumental, jazz, soundtracks Tags Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson, Warp Records, albums, new albums, new releases, instrumentals
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RAYE: This Music May Contain Hope

April 1, 2026 Peter Kimpton

RAYE: This Music May Contain Hope

New album: A highly entertaining, exuberantly stylish, cross-genre 17-track, 73-minute odyssey by the London popstar, with a huge musical show of a second LP, spanning swing-era jazz to soul, R&B, house music, pop, dance, gospel, classical and the full kitchen sink, with orchestral band, family members, Hans Zimmer, and even Al Green

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In albums, alternative, baroque pop, classical, dance, disco, funk, gospel, hip hop, hip-hop, jazz, easy listening, theatrical, spoken word, soundtracks, soul, R&B, pop, musical theatre Tags RAYE, Human Re Sources, Hans Zimmer, Al Green, albums, new albums, new releases
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Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables

March 11, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables

New album: The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer returns with a new selection of soothing, meditative mix of experimental classical and jazz, but this time joined with six different singers represented by the birds on the album artwork

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In alternative, albums, classical, jazz, spoken word Tags Andrew Wasylyk, Stuart Murdoch, Gruff Rhys, Kathryn Joseph, Saya Ueno, Peter Brewis, Field Music, Molly Linen, Cloth, Clay Pipe Music, albums, new albums, new releases
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Hedera: Hedera

February 25, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Hedera: Hedera

New album: A beautiful, delicate, minimalist debut of finely crafted chamber folk by the Bristol quintet of Lulu Austin, Maisie Brett, Tamsin Elliott, Beth Roberts and Isis Wolf-Light mixing originals and the traditional with flavours and influences from England to Egypt, Bulgaria to Bali, Afrikaans to Arabic, Ireland to Georgia

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In albums, alternative, Arabic, folk, classical, traditional Tags Hedera, Cuculi Records, albums, new albums, new releases, Tamsin Elliott, Beth Roberts
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Apparat: A Hum of Maybe

February 23, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Apparat: A Hum of Maybe

New album: The sixth LP and the first for six years by the German experimental electronic artist Sascha Ring (Grammy nominated for 2019’s LP5), on the theme of flux and uncertainty, balancing family and work life, and built on the back of stressful three years of writer’s block but filled with unusual sonic textures, sonic and acoustic and vulnerable emotions

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In alternative, albums, ambient, electronica, experimental, classical Tags Apparat, Sascha Ring, Philipp Johann Thimm, KÁRYYN, albums, new albums, new releases, Mute Records
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Toni Geitani: Wahj

February 3, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Toni Geitani: Wahj

New album: A truly magical, highly original, otherworldly landscape of experimental Arabic, electronica, avant-pop, dark ambient and industrial forms by the Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based musician, sound designer, producer, film-maker singer and composer

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In albums, alternative, ambient, avant garde, classical, electronica, experimental, Arabic Tags Toni Geitani, albums, new albums, new releases
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Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic

January 18, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

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In alternative, albums, baroque pop, chamber pop, classical, experimental, folk Tags Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, InFiné, albums, new albums, new releases, Vangelis, Roger Eno
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Favourite albums of 2025 - Part Two

December 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Part Two favourite albums of 2025 collage

Welcome to the second part of Song Bar favourite albums of 2025. There is also a first part and a third part this week. There is no countdown nor describing these necessarily as “best” albums of the year, but they are chosen by their quality, originality and reader popularity

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In albums, alternative, afrobeat, African, ambient, Americana, art-rock, avant garde, baroque pop, bluegrass, blues, Celtic, chamber pop, classical, country, dance, dance music, disco, drum n bass, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, French, funk, fusion, garage, glam, gospel, goth, grime, grunge, hip hop, hip-hop, indie, industrial, instrumental, jazz, krautrock, lo-fi, lounge, metal, Mexican, musical theatre, new wave, poetry, pop, post-punk, post-rock, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, R&B, reggae, rock, shoegaze, ska, soul, soundtracks, traditional, theatrical, trip-hop, spoken word Tags albums, new albums, favourites of the year, Jacob Alon, These New Puritans, Pulp, Divorce, BC Camplight, Tropical Fuck Storm, The Bug Club, McKinley Dixon, Little Simz, Kathryn Joseph, Richard Dawson, Sparks, Stereolab, Ezra Furman, Deradoorian, Model/Actriz, Emma-Jean Thackray, The Moonlandingz, Self Esteem, Rebekka Karijord, Viagra Boys, Sam Fender, The Nightingales, Hannah Cohen, Yukimi, Island Records, Domino Records, Rough Trade, Gravity Records, Capitol Records, Universal Music, Bella Union, Fire Records, Sub Pop, City Slang, AWAL, Rock Action Records, Transgressive, Transgressive Records, Warp Records, True Panther Sounds, Dirty Hit, Brownswood Recordings, Parlophone, Polydor, Universal Island, Shrimptech Enterprises, Ninja Tune
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ROSALÍA: LUX

November 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

ROSALÍA: LUX

New album: Grandiose, dramatic, passionate, with extraordinary soaring vocals, melodies and string arrangements, multi-lingual lyrics, the London Symphony Orchestra and with guests including Björk, the Catalan superstar’s fourth LP is a fabulous extravaganza, broadly themed around female saints through history, religion, sex and violence

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In albums, alternative, baroque pop, chamber pop, classical, Latin, Spanish, experimental, electronica Tags Rosalía, Björk, Yves Tumor, Columbia Records, Sony Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts

November 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts

New album: Perfectly timed for an autumnal Halloween, the Swedish experimental composer’s sixth LP is devilishly haunting, complex, dark and beautiful, featuring a range of dynamic, glittering and drone sounds with woodwind, strings, her soaring voice, as well as guest appearances by Ethel Cain and Iggy Pop

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In alternative, albums, ambient, chamber pop, electronica, experimental, classical, pop, goth Tags Anna von Hausswolff, YEAR0001, albums, new albums, new releases, Ethel Cain, Iggy Pop
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David Byrne: Who Is The Sky?

September 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

David Byrne: Who Is The Sky?

New album: With his first since 2018’s acclaimed American Utopia and its performance film, the ex-Talking Heads frontman’s new LP is an antidote to dark times - brilliantly joyous, optimistic, catchy, variously eccentric and profound, accompanied by Brooklyn’s Ghost Train Orchestra and guests including St Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and The Smile drummer Tom Skinner

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In albums, alternative, classical, experimental, pop Tags David Byrne, Ghost Train Orchestra, St Vincent, Hayley Williams, Tom Skinner, Matador Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Patrick Wolf: Crying The Neck

June 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Patrick Wolf: Crying The Neck

New album: Dramatic, flamboyant, emotionally charged, melancholy, powerful chamber pop by the English singer-songwriter blessed with a powerful high tenor voice, returning after a career lull, and inspired and recharged by his new home on the Kent coastline

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In albums, alternative, folk, experimental, pop, classical Tags Patrick Wolf, Apport Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island

June 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Endless musicianship: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island

New album: An impressive 27th album already by the unstoppably prolific Australian band, and this is one of their most experimental and theatrical releases yet, less prog- and riff-based, more harking back to the days of dramatic, full-on, 1970s rock operas and musicals with dynamic orchestral pop, funk and jazz

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In albums, alternative, classical, experimental, funk, fusion, jazz, psychedelia, rock Tags King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, p(doom) Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Lucy Gooch: Desert Window

June 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lucy Gooch: Desert Window

New album: Hovering and evolving in its own delicious, delicate, ghostly hinterland between folk, classical, jazz and ambient electronica, this exquisite debut by the British singer and composer from York is an ethereal, mesmeric tapestry of layered voices and acoustic instruments

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In albums, alternative, ambient, electronica, experimental, folk, classical, jazz Tags Lucy Gooch, Fire Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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These New Puritans: Crooked Wing

May 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

These New Puritans: Crooked Wing

New album: Southend-on-Sea twin brothers George and Jack Barnett return with their fifth album and first in six years - with a striking, otherworldly experimental fusion of rock, classical and electronica, with guests including Caroline Polachek and veteran jazz bassist Chris Laurence

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In albums, alternative, classical, experimental, electronica, post-rock Tags These New Puritans, Domino Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Rebekka Karijord: The Bell Tower

April 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Rebekka Karijord: The Bell Tower, out on Bella Union

New album: This extraordinary work, a fusion of experimental folk and classical, is a one of rare and exquisite beauty by the Stockholm-based acclaimed Norwegian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, creating sounds from the human voice alone into a powerful, delicate, poetic melancholy, mother-perspective ode to the peril of our planet in the age of the Anthropocene

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In albums, alternative, classical, folk, experimental Tags Rebekka Karijord, Bella Union, albums, new albums, new releases
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Beirut: A Study of Losses

April 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Beirut: A Study of Losses

New album: Gentle, ambient, acoustic, meditative, often very beautiful and filled with inventive surprises, this unusual 18-track album by the American experimental band fronted by Zach Condon was commissioned by and comes in conjunction with a tour by idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe

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In albums, alternative, ambient, electronica, experimental, folk, pop, classical Tags Beirut, Zach Condon, Kompani Giraffe, Pompeii Records, albums, new releases, new albums
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Alice Hebborn: Saisons

January 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Alice Hebborn: Saisons

New album: Released last month, a vivid, stirring, experimental debut LP of piano and electronica by the Belgian composer in seven movements, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world

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In albums, alternative, classical, electronica, experimental Tags Alice Hebborn, albums, new albums, new releases, Nao Momitani, Western Vinyl
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Tristan Perich and Ensemble 0: Open Symmetry

December 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tristan Perich and Ensemble 0: Open Symmetry

Album review: Released on the wonderfully innovative, independent London label Erased Tapes, the New York-based composer joins with the French group on a mesmeric, 50-minute work of seven instrumental tracks for three vibraphones and 1-bit electronics

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In albums, alternative, electronica, experimental, classical Tags Tristan Perch, Ensemble 0, Erased Tapes, albums, new albums, new releases
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

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

June 2, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Kurt Vile: Philadelphia's Been Good To Me
June 2, 2026

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

June 2, 2026
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June 1, 2026
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane
June 1, 2026

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

June 1, 2026

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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Seasick Steve - The Last Season of America
June 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerfully gentle folk-blues-Americana protest number by the veteran Calfornian singer-songwriter with an extended metaphor about the state of his country in this title track heralding his upcoming album out on 18 September via Steve’s new label Eastcote Recordings

June 4, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco
June 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Following 2023’s Clear Pond Road, the Rhode Island-raised former Throwing Muses artist returns with a powerful, dark, resonant number about her and her brother’s childhood, heralding a 12th solo LP, Sugar On Blackstone, out on 18 August via Fire Records

June 3, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

April 23, 2026

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