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Oracle Sisters: Hydranism

April 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Oracle Sisters: Hydranism

Debut album: Classy, and timelessly classic piano pop and more debut by the Paris-based trio of Lewis Lazar, Christopher Willatt and Finnish musician Julia Johansen filled with melting, moving ballads, intimate folk songs, catchy bangers and generally vision of the world suspended in a timeless place

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In albums, alternative, pop, folk Tags Oracle Sisters, 22TWENTY, albums, new releases
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Fire-Toolz: I am upset because I see something that is not there

April 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fire-Toolz: I am upset because I see something that is not there

New album: Like a bizarre recipe filled with flavours that should not mix, but by some strange alchemy really work, an extraordinary fusion of electronica, ambient, drum’n’bass, jazz, prog, pop, and blasts of dark metal by the Chicago producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid, a heady fusion that must been heard to be believed

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In albums, ambient, alternative, avant garde, dance, electronica, experimental, jazz, metal, psychedelia, punk, rock Tags Fire-Toolz, Angel Marcloid, albums, new releases, Hausu Mountain
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Spencer Cullum: Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 2

April 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Spencer Cullum returns with further treasures

New album: Following 2021’s beautiful first coin collection, another delicious release of gentle 70s-style folk with light touches of country, jazz and pop by the Romford artist who has made his home in Nashville, Tennessee

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In albums, alternative, country, folk, jazz, pop Tags Spencer Cullum, Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection, Full Time Hobby, albums, new releases
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Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith: Nuc

April 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith: Nuc

New album: A dynamic, mesmeric collaboration as acclaimed modern classical string ensemble play career works by the Scottish experimental composer in multi-textured, polyrhythmic, interpretations, using arrangements by viola player Richard Jones

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In albums, alternative, experimental, classical Tags Ligeti Quartet, Anna Meredith, Mercury KX
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Fenne Lily: Big Picture

April 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Small scenes, Big Picture. Fenne Lily’s perfectly formed bittersweet new album

New album: Crisp, stripped back, gentle, intricate and sensitive singer-songwriter folk by the Bristol artist with third album about the last two years of her life, capturing “worry and doubt and letting go”, treading a beautifully bittersweet line between the melancholic and uplifting

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In albums, alternative, folk, pop Tags Fenne Lily, Dead Oceans, albums, new releases
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Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations: I Came From Love

April 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations: I Came From Love

New album: A rich, complex and brilliant release about black history, identity, and channelling the idea of ancestry by British singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist joined by a stellar cast of fellow artists, including Wesley Joseph, Tom Skinner, ESKA and Grace Jones

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In albums, African, experimental, funk, hip hop, jazz, poetry, reggae, soul, traditional, gospel Tags Dave Okumu, Grace Jones, Wesley Joseph, Anthony Joseph, Tom Skinner, ESKA, Kwebs, slavery, black history, Transgressive, albums, new releases, Transgressive Records
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Feist: Multitudes

April 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Feist’s sixth album, Multitudes

New album: A beautifully intricate, delicate, intelligent and innovative new LP by the Canadian singer-songwriter with among others, a theme the many selves we possess and present, now, in the past and future

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In albums, experimental, folk, pop Tags Feist, Polydor, Universal Music
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Deerhoof: Miracle-Level

April 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Deerhoof: Miracle-Level

New album: A 19th studio album by San Francisco the prog-punk-jazz experimentalists drummer Greg Saunier, guitarists Ed Rodriguez and John Dieterich, and bassist/singer Satomi Matsuzaki is another blast of brilliant musicianship, but also the first entirely sung in Matsuzaki’s native Japanese

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In albums, alternative, experimental, indie, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, prog-rock Tags albums, new releases, Deerhoof, Joyful Noise Recordings
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HMLTD: The Worm

April 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

HMLTD …

New album: Apocalypse: The Musical? This highly entertaining second LP by the British art-rockers could be thus described, but the concept is “an anachronistic version of medieval England” and features a 16-piece string orchestra and gospel choir

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In albums, alternative, experimental, jazz, psychedelia, prog-rock, rock, spoken word, gospel, musical theatre Tags HMLTD, Lucky Number, albums, new releases
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Blondshell: Blondshell

April 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Blondshell aka Sabrina Teitelbaum

New album: Strong, confident indie rock debut by Los Angeles’ Sabrina Teitelbaum, with a set of powerfully candid numbers of full-on guitar, tender, emotional vocals, wrestling delusion and self-destructive relationships

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In albums, indie, rock Tags Blondshell, Partisan Records, Sabrina Teitelbaum, albums, new releases
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Daughter: Stereo Mind Game

April 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Daughter’s third album, Stereo Mind Game

New album: The London-formed trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli, and Remi Aguilella return with their third album in a decade with a selection of powerful, breathy, indie-folk-shoegaze, their first since 2016’s Not To Disappear

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In albums, indie, folk, rock, pop, shoegaze Tags Daughter, 4AD, albums, new releases, Glassnote Records
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Billie Marten: Drop Cherries

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Billie Marten’s fourth LP, Drop Cherries

New album: A sublime fourth album by the singer-songwriter Isabella Sophie Tweddle from Ripon in Yorkshire, building on 2021’s excellent Flora Fauna with folk love songs blooming with exquisite beauty and intimacy

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In albums, Americana, folk Tags Billie Marten, Fiction Records, songs, new releases, albums
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London Brew: London Brew

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

London Brew

New album: A wonderfully rich, collaborative release of new music by a 12-piece group of leading UK jazz musicians including Shabaka Hutchings, recorded in 2020 in Paul Epworth’s Church Studios, inspired by and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s landmark LP Bitches Brew

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In albums, alternative, jazz Tags London Brew, Shabaka Hutchings, Miles Davis, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Tom Skinner, Benji B, Raven Bush, Dave Okumu, Concord Jazz, Concord Records, Downtown Music, albums, new releases
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Desire Marea: On The Romance of Being

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Desire Marea: On The Romance of Being

New album: An extraordinary, beautiful, passionate, spiritual and erotic new solo LP by the South African multidisciplinary artist, sangoma (Nguni spiritual healer), and previously part of queer gqom group FAKA, now with a 13-piece orchestral ensemble mixing soul, jazz, rock and Zulu chants

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In albums, alternative, African, jazz, prog-rock, rock, traditional, experimental Tags Desire Marea, Mute Records, albums, new releases
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Altin Gün: Aşk

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Altin Gün’s fifth album, Aşk

New album: The Amsterdam psychedelic and electro-pop-funk rockers make a fabulous fifth LP with their special interpretations of traditional Turkish and Anatolian folk, echoing the heavier sound of their earlier albums On and Gece

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In albums, alternative, experimental, folk, pop, psychedelia, funk, rock, traditional Tags Altin Gün, Glitterbeat Records, songs, albums, new releases
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Jen Cloher: I Am The River, The River Is Me

April 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fully immersive: Jen Cloher’s fifth album - I Am The River, The River Is Me

New album: Brilliantly passionate and powerful, this fifth LP by the Melbourne indie singer-songwriter celebrates their matrilineal line of wāhine Māori heritage in songs of heartbreak, defiance and joy

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In albums, alternative, indie, pop, rock Tags Jen Cloher, Milk! Records, Marathon Artists, albums, new releases
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Mo'Ju: Oro, Plata, Mata

April 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Mo’Ju: sincerely soulful

New album: Passionate, theatrical soul with a serious concept by the Filipino Wiradjuri artist Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga with an LP named after a 1982 film by his late uncle, the director Peque Gallaga, translated as Gold, Silver, Death

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In albums, alternative, soul, pop Tags albums, new releases, Mo'Ju, Virgin
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Sissoko - Segal - Parisien - Peirani: Les Égarés

April 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Four masters making a perfect blend: (from left) Vincent Peirani, Ballaké Sissoko, Émile Parisien and Vincent Segal

New album: A gorgeous genre-spanning jazz-folk-Anatolian LP featuring Malian kora maestro Ballaké Sissoko, specialist improv cellist Vincent Segal, accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani and French soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien

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In albums, alternative, folk, jazz, traditional Tags albums, No Format, Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Vincent Peirani, Émile Parisien, new releases
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James Holden: Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of all Possibilities

April 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sky’s the limit: James Holden’s fourth album, Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of all Possibilities

New album: As exemplified in a January Song of the Day, Contains Multitudes, with loops, tabla and violin, the British producer’s fourth LP is a wondrously inventive landscape of imaginative electronica, bells, birdsongs, bleeps and heartbeats

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In avant garde, albums, alternative, dance music, electronica, experimental Tags James Holden, Border Community, albums, new releases
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A Certain Ratio: 1982

April 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

A Certain Ratio: 1982

New album: The Manchester post-punk veterans Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, return with a sparklingly eclectic record of electronica, dance, jazz, funk, Afrobeat and more with a retrospective feel on their history

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In albums, alternative, dance music, dance, electronica, experimental, funk, jazz, post-punk, pop Tags A Certain Ratio, albums, new releases, Mute Records, Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop, Donald Johnson
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June 23, 2026
Jim Ghedi: The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)
June 23, 2026

New album: Beautiful, evocative, darkly visceral and elegiac, thi folk-based soundtrack by the Sheffield singer-singer and composer captures the deeply unromantic and violent new feature film depicting Hood as a criminal non-hero from writer/director Michael Sarnoski and starring Hugh Jackman, very much stands on its own as album

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Graham Coxon: Castle Park
June 22, 2026

New album: With delightful echoes of the The Jam, The Kinks, The Bees, Small Faces and other classic 60s pop and mod influences, the Blur guitarist’s resurfaced and unreleased solo LP was actually recorded in 2011 at the time of his 2012 album A+E, and made with producer Ben Hillie

June 22, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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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 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Holter - Fantasy
June 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sensual, dream-like, ethereal new track by the acclaimed Los Angeles composer and songwriter, heralding her upcoming new album Materia, out on 21 August, a seven-track companion album to her superb 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves, also out on Domino Records

June 24, 2026
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June 23, 2026
Song of the Day: BODEGA - All Inside Aquarium
June 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Moving away from of their post-punk sound into more of a meaty, guitar-driven melodic rock, the New York band return with a catchy, witty, singalong title track, , an existential anthem influenced by Jane’s Addiction, from their upcoming album, out on 9 October via Chrysalis Records

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Song of the Day: EELS - Cap In Hand
June 22, 2026

Song of the Day: A pointed, subtle but also catchy number about making mistakes, regret and social division, US artist Mark Oliver Everett and band return with the lead single from the upcoming album out on 16 October via E Works / Play It Again Sam

June 22, 2026
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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 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

Word of the week

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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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