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Skullcrusher: And Your Song is Like a Circle

October 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Skullcrusher: And Your Song is Like a Circle

New album: Perhaps still winning the theoretical prize for the artist name least evocative of their musical style, New York’s Helen Ballentine returns with a second album, not of deafening death metal, but minimalist, slow, soft, ethereal, reflective, sensually breathy, ambient and gentle folk numbers in an LP that “does not capture experience – it gestures toward the imprint of an experience that is uncapturable”

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In ambient, alternative, indie, lo-fi, folk Tags Skullcrusher, Dirty Hit, albums, new albums, new releases
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bar italia: Some Like It Hot

October 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

New album: Named after Billy Wilder’s 1959 hit comedy film, which is also centred around three musicians and lead characters (two male, one female) the London indie-rock trio return, gig-hardened from extensive touring, with a stylish, dynamic release filled with tales of strange romance, lust, identity, self-destruction, emotional vulnerability and modern-life mayhem

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In albums, alternative, indie, post-punk, rock Tags bar italia, albums, new albums, new releases, Matador Records
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Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save

October 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save

New album: A third album in the solo project of Baltimore multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner brings together the beautiful and the bittersweet with a collection of intimate, sensitive songs about heartbreak and memory addiction, co-dependency, inherited and experienced trauma, and ways of finding peace

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In albums, alternative, folk, experimental, indie Tags Flock of Dimes, Jenn Wasner, Sub Pop, albums, new albums, new releases
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Other Lives: Volume V

October 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Other Lives: Volume V

New album: A fifth LP, but also the first in a decade by the band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, of multi-instrumentalists Jesse Tabish, Jonathon Mooney and Josh Onstott and co, with impressive, stirring, grandiose, cinematic, dynamic, orchestra-layered indie rock

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In alternative, albums, baroque pop, chamber pop, indie, rock Tags Other Lives, PIAS, Play It Again Sam, albums, new albums, new releases
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The Antlers: Blight

October 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Antlers: Blight

New album: New York singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Silberman, joined by drummer Michael Lerner, returns with a supremely stripped back, soothingly soft sounding, minimalist release of quietly sung numbers, but with a hard-hitting subject – contemplating our passively destructive tendencies of absent-minded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world

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In alternative, ambient, folk, indie, rock Tags The Antlers, Peter Silberman, Transgressive, Transgressive Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Jay Som: Belong

October 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jay Som: Belong

New album: Los Angeles artist Melina Duterte returns with a first LP for six years, an absorbing fusion of indie, electronica, shoegaze and multi-textured dream pop, all about self-healing and truth-facing, expanding from a past DIY methodology to collaboration with various with guests including Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins and Paramore’s Hayley Williams

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In alternative, indie, pop, rock, shoegaze Tags Jay Som, Lucky Number, albums, new albums, new releases
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Ash: Ad Astra

October 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ash: Ad Astra

New album: Punchy, hooky, catchy indie-power-pop and rock by the Northern Ireland veteran trio, following 2023’s Race The Night, returning for their ninth album with Blur’s Graham Coxon joining them on a couple of tracks in an album rich in rock guitar licks and big choruses

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In albums, indie, pop, rock Tags Ash, Graham Coxon, albums, new albums, new releases, Fierce Panda
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Snõõper: Worldwide

October 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Snõõper: Worldwide

New album: Following 2023’s debut Super Snõõper, the Nashville electro-punk band fronted by Blair Tramel and Connor Cummins bring a super-charged, pacy, energy boosting release of relentless, clever fun, produced by John Congleton

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In albums, alternative, indie, post-punk, punk Tags Snõõper, Third Man Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Idlewild: Idlewild

October 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Idlewild: Idlewild

New album: Thirty years in since their first, and this tenth LP with 10 tracks by the Edinburgh indie quintet of Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones and co feels like a classic Idlewild release, and, self-titled and full of strong, simple emotive melodies, a fitting milestone summary of their career, a fan-pleaser, an old-friend

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In albums, indie, rock Tags Idlewild, V2 Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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SPRINTS: All That Is Over

October 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

SPRINTS: All That Is Over

New album: Following last year’s blistering debut, Letter To Self, this follow-up by the Dublin post-punk quartet comes with title to to reflect dysfunctional, uncertain times, and an expanded musical dynamic, and fierce and reflective songs ranging from politics to philosopher to the personal

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In albums, indie, post-punk, punk, rock Tags Sprints, Daniel Fox, City Slang, albums, new albums, new releases
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Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green

October 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green

New album: Reflecting on whole lifetime, as well as a career spanning more than three decades, a vivid, poetic, uplifting and profound autobiographical release by the American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rockers the New Pornographers, this beautiful LP’s title is inspired by the slate-coloured clouds and conifer forests on the Pacific Northwest skyline

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In albums, alternative, baroque pop, chamber pop, country, experimental, indie, pop Tags Neko Case, ANTI Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying

September 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying

New album: The acclaimed Welsh artist returns with her distinctive vocal and highly influential, rich, warm, strange, otherworldly, experimental sound - woozy, dreamy, pedal-effect saxophones, guitars and more on bittersweet, superb album that evolved this way to to an all-consuming private heartbreak

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In alternative, albums, experimental, indie Tags Cate Le Bon, Mexican Summer, albums, new albums, new releases
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Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory

September 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory

New album: Harking back to the early 80s synth-pop and new wave era of the likes of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, the American trio return with their third album of smooth, wistful, simple three- and four-chord arpeggiated sounds and gliding, melancholy melodies and lyrics

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In albums, electronica, indie, pop Tags albums, Nation of Language, new albums, new releases, Sub Pop
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Jordan Patterson: The Hermit

September 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jordan Patterson: The Hermit

New album: A gorgeous, wonderfully warm, passionate, genuine, fresh, unusually voiced, tender and intimate debut of folk- and acoustic pop by the hugely talented 20-year-old North Carolina-born and LA-raised singer-songwriter

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In albums, alternative, folk, indie, pop, Americana Tags Jordan Patterson, Ozella’s Child, Many Hats, albums, new albums, new releases
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Wednesday: Bleeds

September 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wednesday: Bleeds

New album: Quintessential, classy southern creek rock and shoegaze sound by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, fronted by singer and lyricist Karly Hartzman, in this sixth and possibly best yet LP packed with rich, meaty grungy guitar tones, and sharp, highly detailed, emotionally potent, narrative lyrics

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In albums, Americana, grunge, indie, rock, shoegaze Tags Wednesday, Karly Hartzman, Dead Oceans, albums, new albums, new releases
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Stealing Sheep: GLO (Girl Life Online)

September 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stealing Sheep: GLO (GIrl Life Online)

New album: Always bringing effervescently quirky, original and experimental work, this is an especially vibrant, fizzing, percussive, witty and superb LP – and surely the very best yet by the excellent Liverpool electro-pop trio of Emily Lansley, Luciana Mercer, and Rebecca Hawley

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In albums, alternative, electronica, disco, dance, experimental, indie, pop Tags Stealing Sheep, G-IRL (Girl in Real Life), albums, new albums, new releases
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Shame: Cutthroat

September 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Shame: Cutthroat

New album: The south Londoners return with a particularly musically polished as well as usually rowdy, raw post-punk fourth LP, angry at all sorts of social and political evils, and experimenting with other musical styles at the skilful hand of acclaimed producer John Congleton

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In albums, post-punk, rock, indie Tags Shame, Dead Oceans, John Congleton, albums, new albums, new releases
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Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs

September 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs

New album: After last year’s acclaimed Sadness Sets Me Free, the ex-Super Furry Animals frontman’s ninth solo LP (meaning ‘no problem’) is a fully Welsh language release, his first since 2019’s Pang!, filled with charming, soothing, catchy folk-rock tunes, but with some darker subjects for current times, the title is an ironic twist

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In alternative, albums, experimental, indie, folk, psychedelia, rock Tags Gruff Rhys, Rock Action Records, Welsh language, albums, new albums, new releases, Cate Le Bon
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Sydney Minsky Sargeant - Lunga

September 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sydney Minsky Sargeant - Lunga

New album: The Working Men’s Club frontman from Todmorden in West Yorkshire makes his debut solo LP, a melancholy yet beautiful collection of acoustic and gently reflective pastoral, psychedelic songs, with echoes of Elliott Smith, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake

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In albums, alternative, folk, indie, pop, psychedelia, rock Tags Sydney Minsky Sargeant, Working Men's Club, Domino Records, albums, new releases
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Baxter Dury - Allbarone

September 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Baxter Dury - Allbarone

New album: Alongside his usual droll, witty wordsmithery and distinctive dark, deep-voiced spoken delivery, the Londoner and son of Ian also brings a slightly different, more boisterous style of satirical and nihilistic misery with a collection of supremely catchy, danceable numbers in this ninth LP, produced Paul Epworth

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In albums, alternative, dance, dance music, disco, electronica, experimental, spoken word, rock, pop, indie Tags Baxter Dury, Heavenly Recordings, albums, new albums, new releases, Paul Epworth
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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 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 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
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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 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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