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Laufey: A Matter of Time

August 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Laufey: A Matter of Time

New album: Witty, classy, and with oodles of charm, humour and her exquisitely pure delivery with sublime vocal control, the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Lín Bing Jónsdóttir turns back the clock with timeless, gorgeous brand new numbers that capture a bygone era of smooth sophisticated jazz, and sumptuously scored musicals all about matters of the heart

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In albums, alternative, jazz, pop, theatrical Tags Laufey, AWAL, albums, new albums, new releases
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Black Honey: Soak

August 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Black Honey: Soak

New album: Smoky, stylish, horror-dark, simmering, swaggering, searing goth-rock and indie-pop by the Brighton band in a fourth album vocalist Izzy B. Phillips describes as "picking at the layers of messy, romantic, confusing, woozy, beautiful and fucked up things"

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In albums, indie, pop, rock, goth, psychedelia Tags Black Honey, Foxfive Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine

August 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine

New album: The California-born, Nashville-based acclaimed bluegrass guitarist, banjoist and singer-songwriter brings her nimble-fingered skills, catchy tunes and humorous, clever narrative lyrics to this excellent fifth solo LP of ballads, breakups, and ball-breakers

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In albums, Americana, bluegrass, blues, country, folk Tags Molly Tuttle, Nonesuch Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak

August 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak

New album: Named after a tree species native to Northern California, the American singer-songwriter’s landmark 74-minute double LP, and his 11th solo studio release, is one of his finest, packed with tear-jerking, vivid ballads of gentle pace, profundity, beauty and catchy country-folk-rock grooves

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In albums, Americana, blues, folk, country, indie, rock Tags Cass McCombs, Domino Records, albums, new albums
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Marissa Nadler: New Radiations

August 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Marissa Nadler: New Radiations

New album: Exquisitely delicate, dark and beautiful as onyx or obsidian, a dream-like, haunting 10th studio LP by the Nashville singer-songwriter across gothic folk whispering soundscapes of meticulous guitar finger-picking, Hammond organ and synths, and lyrics variously inhabiting characters from an airborne Cessna, to a spaceship, a getaway car, and alternate dimensions

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In albums, alternative, Americana, country, folk, experimental Tags Marissa Nadler, Bella Union, albums, new albums, new releases
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The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers

New album: A 13th studio album in now 25 years by the Ohio/Nashville rock and soul duo of singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, here with a fuller, broader rock sound, keyboards and musical dimension in collaboration with fellow songwriter and producer Rick Nowels and others

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In albums, blues, Americana, rock, soul Tags The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Rick Nowels, Leon Michels, Daniel Tashian, Scott Storch, Easy Eye Sound
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Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

New album: With the sort of title you might expect to find on a Lana del Rey album, the new album by Tallahassee’s Hayden Silas Anhedönia, now 27, under the Ethel Cain moniker, is a lengthy, slow, moody, meandering, cinematic released of dark Americana, ambient and southern gothic, capturing a full spectrum of the lingering, sometimes overwhelming, flooding insecure emotions about being in love with the titular fictional character

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In Americana, alternative, ambient, albums, experimental Tags Ethel Cain, Hayden Silas Anhedönia, Daughters of Cain Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Ada Lea: When I Paint My Masterpiece

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ada Lea: When I Paint My Masterpiece

New album: Sharing its title with a Bob Dylan song, this third album of 16 tracks of experimental folk and Americana by the Montreal singer-songwriter aka Alexandra Levy comes with a free-flowing acoustic brush of the imagination, a rich seam of art and literary reference, and lyrics of the dream-like psychedelic with notes of optimism and plainspoken wisdom

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In alternative, albums, experimental, folk, indie, pop Tags Ada Lea, Alexandra Levy, Saddle Creek Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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For Those I Love: Carving The Stone

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

For Those I Love: Carving The Stone

New album: The Dublin poet, performer and producer David Balfe returns after his 2021 self-titled debut, less about specific grief, more powered with with rich, articulate anger and gnarly narratives highlighting injustice, poverty, high rents in his home city and dysfunctional modern life across an energised and emotional soundtrack

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In alternative, albums, electronica, experimental, hip hop, hip-hop, spoken word Tags For Those I Love, David Balfe, September Recordings, albums, new albums, new releases
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Deki Alem: Forget In Mass

August 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Deki Alem: Forget In Mass

New album: Stockholm’s Swedish-Ghanian twin duo Sammy and Johnny Boakye Bennett bring a superbly stylish blend of sharp hip-hop, punk, dark, seething industrial, electronica and dance music with just a dash of the Prodigy, Alabama 3 and 90s trip-hop

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In albums, alternative, dance, dance music, electronica, hip hop, hip-hop, industrial, experimental, trip-hop Tags Deki Alem, Sammy Boakye Bennett, Johnny Boakye Bennett, Richard Zastenker, Johannes Klahr, Amuseio AB, albums, new albums, new releases
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The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising

August 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising

New album: Experimental, eclectic psych-folk influenced in part by Cale-era Velvet Underground, Raincoats and Slits proto-feminist post-punk a dash of the village fete arts-and-crafts Midsommar look all conjure up in this exciting, passionate, theatrically entertaining debut by the Brighton quartet

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In albums, alternative, experimental, folk, post-punk, psychedelia, spoken word, theatrical Tags The New Eves, Transgressive, Transgressive Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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big long sun: whatever (whatever)

August 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

big long sun: whatever (whatever)

New album: A quirkily catchy, lo-fi, psychedelic-funk, dadaist-influenced, wonderfully oddball, original release by the Midlands-born, Brighton-based poet, painter, film-maker and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Broughton

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In albums, alternative, electronica, experimental, funk, indie, lo-fi, pop Tags big long sun, Jamie Broughton, MIOHMI Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Editrix: The Big E

August 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Editrix: The Big E

New album: A fabulous third LP of inventive, restlessly fast, angular, infectious experimental avant-rock by the dynamic Easthampton, Massachusetts trio of guitarist and singer Wendy Eisenberg, bassist Steve Cameron and drummer Josh Daniel

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In albums, alternative, experimental, rock Tags Editrix, Wendy Eisenberg, albums, new albums, new releases, Joyful Noise Recordings
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Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

July 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

New album: Wistful, vivid country-folk and Americana by the Los Angeles band fronted by Ben Schneider in this strong fifth LP, coloured by images of huge skies and stars, California deserts, love, loss, with catchy tunes, tender anguish, haunting melodies and memories

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In Americana, albums, country, folk, pop, rock Tags Lord Huron, Mercury Records, BMG, albums, new albums, new releases
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Yoshika Colwell: On The Wing

July 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yoshika Colwell: On The Wing

New album: Musically gentle and reflective, this is beautiful acoustic folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Kent in a debut that’s both candid and dream-like, fuelled by a sense of complete dislocation from a move to a new town, lockdown, solitude and a traumatic break-up

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In albums, alternative, folk, pop Tags Yoshika Colwell, Blue Flowers Music, albums, new albums, new releases
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Raekwon: The Emperor's New Clothes

July 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Raekwon: The Emperor's New Clothes

New album: Part of the Mass Appeal Records Legend Has It... series of 2025, the Wu-Tang Clan member aka Corey Woods releases his first solo album in seven years (since 2017’s The Wild), with punchy classic-feel old-school hip-hop, soul and film samples, joined here in by guests including old friends Nas, co-Wu Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Method Man

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In albums, alternative, hip hop, hip-hop Tags Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Mass Appeal Records, Ice H20 Records
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Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be A Good Thing

July 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be A Good Thing

New album: Sweetly beautiful three-part harmonies underpin darkly ironic humour and deliciously unfolding, oddly disturbing lyrics in this entertaining debut by the Melbourne former high school friends Heide Peverelle ((they/them), Jeanie Pilkington and Gracie Sinclair

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In albums, alternative, folk, pop Tags Folk Bitch Trio, albums, new albums, new releases, Jagjaguwar
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Fever Ray: The Year of The Radical Romantics

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Fever Ray: The Year of The Radical Romantics

New album: Disturbing, striking and brilliant, this is a mix of old kindled magically into new from the innovative Swedish artist Karin Dreijer, with live-to-tape studio highlights from her acclaimed third album, 2023’s Radical Romantics, plus new iterations from 2017’s Plunge and early classics, performed with her tour musicians

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In albums, alternative, electronica, experimental, folk, goth, pop, prog-rock, psychedelia Tags Fever Ray, Rabid Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Madeline Kenney: Kiss From The Balcony

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Madeline Kenney: Kiss From The Balcony

New album: In this follow-up to 2023’s excellent A New Reality Mind, the Oakland indie artist brings expansive, experimental electronic dynamism and particularly rich texture to her music, working with friends Ben Sloan and Stephen Patota, and exploring themes of broken relationships, solitude, idealised romance, resentment, and womanhood

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In alternative, albums, electronica, experimental, indie, pop, rock Tags Madeline Kenney, Carpark Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Billie Marten: Dog Eared

July 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Billie Marten: Dog Eared

New album: Beautiful, warm, intimate, gentle, experimental indie-folk by the singer-songwriter Isabella Tweddle from Ripon in North Yorkshire, in this delicious fifth LP, filled with love songs and nostalgic childhood memories, and following 2023’s Drop Cherries, an expansion of excellent musicians in the recording

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In albums, alternative, country, folk, indie, pop Tags Billie Marten, albums, new albums, new releases, Fiction Records
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May 14, 2026
Cola: Cost Of Living Adjustment
May 14, 2026

New album: A third album of clever, angular, abstract, oddly appealing and also retro indie postpunk by the Montreal trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass), along with Evan Cartwright (percussion) with a title reflecting their name as an acronym and a call to re-appraise the way the the world should work

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Ana Roxanne: Poem 1
May 13, 2026

New album: Ambient, minimalist, experimental synth-chamber pop by the American artist with a collection of resonantly beautiful, vulnerable and mournful ballads fuelled by heartbreak

May 13, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom
May 12, 2026

New album: An effervescent colourful, spring-like, flower-themed fusion of electronica, dance music, Chicago techno, cumbia, kuduro, dancehall, African and south American influences in this energetic release by the Stockholm-based Swedish artist and brother and sometime collaborator of Karin Dreijer (aka Fever Ray), in an LP of two different halves

May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Lykke Li: The Afterparty
May 12, 2026

New album: A brief, 24-minute burst of shimmering alternative pop by the Swedish singer-songwriter sees this sixth LP’s concept capturing the experience of fictional bad-boy pop star persona, moving from a messy night out into aftermath, variously mixing mood-shifting jubilation, loneliness and comedown

May 12, 2026
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May 11, 2026
The Lemon Twigs: Look For Your Mind!
May 11, 2026

New album: With a title for calling for sanity in crazy times, this latest LP by the multi-instrumental New York brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario is a pristine release of beautiful new songs inspired by a 60s rock and pop sound, echoing artists from the Hollies to Byrds, mid-career Beatles, Beach Boys and the Who

May 11, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Broken Social Scene: Remember The Humans
May 10, 2026

New album: Driven by a sense of reunion, renewal, collaboration, community and re-finding values lost, a superbly stirring, emotionally uplifting, profound and dynamic return by the Toronto indie rock collective with their first in almost a decade

May 10, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Aldous Harding: Train on the Island
May 10, 2026

New album: The enigmatic New Zealand artist returns with her fifth album, a blend of folk and experimental rock packed with gnomic lyrics and experimental musical blends, her beguiling presence as deliciously strange as ever in another release co-produced with long-time collaborator John Parish

May 10, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Chris Brain: Red Sun Rising
May 7, 2026

New album: Beautifully warm, quiet, tender and bucolic new folk LP by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, following a pastoral tradition of landscapes literal and emotional, very much influenced by and echoing the delivery of Nick Drake

May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Lip Critic: Theft World
May 7, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s acclaimed debut Hex Dealer, a newly challenging but also exciting experimental fusion of post-punk, noise rock, electronica and hip-hop by the New York band in this second LP, inspired by the anxiously oddball situation of frontman Bret Kaser’s identity being stolen by a real-life fan, and making hundreds of purchases in his name, including the band’s catalogue

May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons
May 6, 2026

New album: The acclaimed American singer-songwriter and pianist’s 18th album in a 35-year career is a grandiose, powerful 17-track album of odyssey and allegory around politics, power and feminist resistance, fuelled by the current state of her nation, set from the view of fictionalised marriage to a dangerous billionaire and an escape across the country with a narrative twist

May 6, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Kacey Musgraves: Middle of Nowhere
May 6, 2026

New album: Moving away from the pop-folk direction of 2021’s Star-Crossed and 2024’s Deeper Well, the Nashville singer-songwriter returns with this seventh LP back to her country roots with gently trotting, stripped-back finely crafted collection of witty, catchy, candid numbers covering a spectrum of moods

May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Pigeon: OUTTANATIONAL
May 5, 2026

New album: Hugely enjoyable, stylish, playfully eclectic debut LP of indie, electronica and Afro-disco and krautrock grooves by the Margate band fronted by the multi-lingual artist Falle Nioke from Guinea Conakry, West Africa, with songs about identity and ancestry, and a sound somewhere between New Order and William Onyeabor

May 5, 2026
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May 3, 2026
KNEECAP: FENIAN
May 3, 2026

New album: Still the scourge of the establishment after 2024’s debut LP Fine Art, a hugely entertaining second LP of punchy, slick, defiant Irish Gaelic rap by Belfast’s Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap, and beatmaker DJ Próvaí, with an expanded sound aided by innovative producer Dan Carey and an appearance by Kae Tempest

May 3, 2026
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May 2, 2026
Jesca Hoop: Long Wave Home
May 2, 2026

New album: Brilliantly inventive, eclectic, poetic, experimental folk and art-pop by the acclaimed Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist in her first self-produced album, variously about the end of relationships, life changes, technology’s social effects, Gaza victims and other contemporary issues with perhaps her finest yet

May 2, 2026

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May 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - What's Done Is Done
May 15, 2026

Song of the Day: Staccato strings, perky polyrhythmic percussion, atmospheric electronics, and a rich vocal performance and layering colour this stylish new clubby single about hurt and heartbreak, accepting the truth and self-possession by the British singer from Walsall, out on FAMM

May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Song of the Day: ear - Ne Plus Ultra
May 14, 2026

Song of the Day: An oddball, intriguingly inventive new single by US duo Yaelle Avtan and Jonah Paz, featuring buzzy bass, spaceship blips, icy vocals, cut-and-paste sound, kitten meows and 2000s electronica, out on A24 Music

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Shearwater - Daydream Unbeliever/ More and More
May 13, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of gorgeous, meditative, cinematic tracks by the Austin, Texas experimental indie rock band fronted by Jonathan Meiburg, heralding their upcoming album, The New World out on 31 July via their own Polyborus label and Secretly Distribution

May 13, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Song of the Day: The Healing Power of Horses - i wait, i sink
May 12, 2026

Song of the Day: A dark, smoky, stylish, seductive, smoothly clattering, classy yet unclassifiably trip-hop adjacent debut single by the Cambridge duo, now newly signed to section1, the Los Angeles-based sister label to Partisan Records

May 12, 2026
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May 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Kelela - linknb
May 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish, striking fusion of electronica, indie and R&B by American artist Kelela Mizanekristos, heralding the forthcoming album New Avatar, out on 10 July via Warp Records

May 11, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Boards Of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz
May 10, 2026

Song of the Day: A hypnotic new double-A side by the Scottish electronica brother duo, with a prelude of spectral, retro-futurist synths, followed by a mesmeric ambient slow build with mutated vocals, and named after the deep space frequency used in the search for extra-terrestrial life

May 10, 2026
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May 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Mike D - Switch Up
May 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A dynamic, eclectic, pacy, syncopated fusion of hip-hop, electronica and rock in this debut solo single one-third of the Beastie Boys in this new single, out on Capitol Records

May 9, 2026
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May 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Father John Misty - The Payoff
May 8, 2026

Song of the Day: The acclaimed American singer-songwriter aka Josh Tillman returns with a caustic, dark, menacing new track referencing an underbelly of dodgy deal-making, out now on Sub Pop. It’s the second Father John Misty single of 2026, following The Old Law, released in January

May 8, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Balming Tiger - Home
May 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylishly fun, funky, eccentric electronica, indie and hip-hop fusion by the South Korean collective known as “alternative K-pop”, heralding their new album, Gongbu, out on 19 May, via MOAH

May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Song of the Day: Zoh Amba - Eyes Full
May 6, 2026

Song of the Day: An impassioned, stirring, dark and driving country/indie-rock number about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why by the NY-based band with Kingsport, Tennessee roots, with this title track of the forthcoming debut LP Eyes Full, out on 5 June via Matador Records

May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Sofie Royer - Cowboy Mouth
May 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, cool, stylish fusion of indie and electro-pop by the classically trained, California-born, Vienna-based Iranian-Austrian artist, inspired by reading Patti Smith and Sam Shepard’s play of the same title, reimagining the play’s characters as Angel and Cowboy, and out now on Stones Throw Records

May 5, 2026
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May 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Hodge - Wiggler
May 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A hugely fun, energising, infectious, effervescent, repetitive electronic dance track by the Bristol-based DJ/producer (aka Jake Martin) featuring a 3D pipe bassline by Memotone, and released alongside another track,Trust, out on Local Action

May 4, 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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April 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
April 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

April 9, 2026
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March 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
March 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

March 27, 2026
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March 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
March 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

March 12, 2026

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