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Brògeal: Tuesday Paper Club

October 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Brògeal: Tuesday Paper Club

New album: Raw yet refined, raucous yet emotional, following two EPs, a stirring, boisterous melodic debut LP by the Falkirk band, who bring a strong, Scottish flavour to the folk-punk style and energy reminiscent of the Pogues, but also sounds reminiscent of the indie jangled guitars of Teenage Fanclub, Stone Roses and The Smiths

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In albums, indie, Celtic, traditional, rock, punk, folk Tags Brògeal, Play It Again Sam, albums, new albums, new releases
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Home Counties: Humdrum

October 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Home Counties: Humdrum

New album: The east London band fronted by dual vocalists Will Harrison and Lois Kelly return with a sophomore album of striking, catchy, witty, synth-heavy postpunk-indie-pop, themed about the messiness of communication other modern absurdities, produced by Al Doyle of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem

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In albums, alternative, electronica, indie, dance, pop Tags Home Counties, Al Doyle, Submarine Cat Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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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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Apr 29, 2026
Sam Grassie: Where Two Hawks Fly
Apr 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful debut LP by the London-based Glaswegian fingerstyle folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, with added saxophone, double bass, flute, clairsach and clarinet in a release of mostly the traditional, covers, sung or instrumental, and supported by the Bert Jansch Foundation

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Irmin Schmidt: Requiem
Apr 29, 2026

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

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Gia Margaret: Singing
Apr 28, 2026

New album: Gently profound, and full of wondrous, mesmeric, slow, delicate experimental songs, this simple title has a powerful resonance – it is the Chicago artist’s first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer (there have been two instrumental LPs since), having suffered and recovered from a severe vocal injury, she returns with a delicate, candid, whispery but hauntingly beautiful delivery

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Angelo De Augustine: Angel in Plainclothes
Apr 28, 2026

New album: A beautiful, delicate fifth LP from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, friend and collaborator with Sufjan Stevens with whom he shares a stylistic resemblance, here with themes on life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Carla dal Forno: Confession
Apr 28, 2026

New album: This lo-fi, darkly minimalist but also oddly candid fourth LP by the Australian, Castlemaine-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist centres on the conflicted, obsessive feelings about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way”, and “an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire.”

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Friko: Something Worth Waiting For
Apr 26, 2026

New album: Passionate, powerful, dynamic indie rock in this sophomore LP by the Chicago-based quartet that gallops forwards with a driving momentum, some elements of early PJ Harvey and Radiohead, and is produced by John Congleton

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
White Denim: 13
Apr 26, 2026

New album: This 13th LP in two decades by the Austin, Texas rock band fronted by James Petralli has a particularly mischievous experimentalism, spreading styles far beyond breathlessly paced prog rock, with wrily humorous, surreal, personal and passionate numbers across heavy funk, dub, soul, psyche, country, dirty blues and more, joined by host of outstanding extra musicians

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Hukwe Zawose Foundation: Asili ya Mama
Apr 24, 2026

New album: Wonderfully evocative field recordings release of Wagogo, Waluguru and Wasambaa Tanzanian women singing traditional songs in their villages, rarely heard outside of their own circles, the title is translated as The Origin of Mother, rich in stories and capturing the place where song is first learned, first felt, first shared

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig
Apr 23, 2026

New album: Four decades since their self-titled debut, Brooklyn alternative rockers John Flansburgh and John Linnell return with their 24th LP, packed with of punchy, pacy, wistful, whimsical, clever wordplay and indie rock-pop, buoyantly satirical and also a little world weary at times, they remain oddball, lively commentators on the ongoing absurdity of life

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Eaves Wilder: Little Miss Sunshine
Apr 22, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Honey Dijon: The Nightlife
Apr 22, 2026

New album: The irrepressible, prolific and charismatic London-based Chicago DJ, musician, producer and vinyl lover returns with a flamboyantly fun celebration of club and queer culture through the prism of dance music from disco to house, with a wide variety of guest vocalists

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Tiga: HOTLIFE
Apr 21, 2026

New album: Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
TOMORA: Come Closer
Apr 20, 2026

New album: A striking, dynamic collaboration between Norwegian experimental pop sensation Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one of half of Chemical Brothers, with a sensual, otherworldly energetic fusion of mystical, sensual ambience, and block-rocking dance beats

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Jessie Ware: Superbloom
Apr 20, 2026

New album: Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor

Apr 20, 2026

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May 2, 2026
Song of the Day: The Puppini Sisters - Total Eclipse of the Heart
May 2, 2026

Song of the Day: A fabulous new version of the Jim Steinman-penned 1983 Bonnie Tyler power pop hit, arranged by Marcello Puppini in an entirely different style for her swing-jazz trio and band, part of their 20th anniversary celebrations and album, The Birthday Party, out now on Millionaire Records

May 2, 2026
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May 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Bleachers - I'm Not Joking
May 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Featuring harpsichord, Hammond organ, Dobro and more, producer Jack Antonoff and his New Jersey rock band return with a heartfelt love song single heralding the upcoming album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit

May 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Metric - Crush Forever
Apr 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Uplifting, effervescent electro-disco-pop by the Toronto indie rock band, with a song vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines describes as “my love letter to strong girls in this world”, taken from their recently released 10th album, Romanticize the Dive, out on Metric Music via Thirty Tigers

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim Ghedi - The Hungry Child
Apr 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, gripping, visceral folk by the Sheffield singer-songwriter, with a striking number based on an early 19th-century German poem about the fatal story of a child pleading for food, and, following last year’s acclaimed album, Wasteland, also out on Basin Rock, it heralds his upcoming soundtrack for the Hugh Jackman film, The Death of Robin Hood.

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 27, 2026
Song of the Day: holybones (with Baxter Dury) - SLUGBOY
Apr 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, unsettling, sleazy and strange, this is arrestingly vivid new collaborative single between the clandestine London electronic collective and the downbeat, deep-voiced poetic Londoner, out on Promised Land Recordings

Apr 27, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Good Person
Apr 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gentle, droll, humorously self-deprecatingly, and also delicately beautiful, this new experimental folk single by the moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy addresses the love-hate relationship with making music, out on Fat Possum

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Pigeon - Miami
Apr 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, sunny, upbeawt indie synth-pop with an African twist by the Margate band fronted by Falle Nioke, with flavours of William Onyeabor, Hot Chip and New York 70s disco, heralding their upcoming album OUTTANATIONAL, out on 1 May via Memphis Industries

Apr 25, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Tricky - Out of Place (featuring Marta Złakowska)
Apr 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A pulsating fusion of beats, orchestral strings and the Bristol trip-hop pioneer’s distinctive, deep, croaky voice, with an emotional reference to his daughter Mina Topley-Bird (1995–2019), and heralding his first solo album for six years, Different When It’s Silent, out on 17 June via False Idols

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Apr 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, simmering, slow, melancholy and reflective, a surprise single and welcome return by the acclaimed US artist, evoking the haunting, sun-bleached landscapes and musical textures of his 2015 Grammy winning album Morning Phase, out now on Iliad Records/Capitol Records

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Song of the Day: Gelli Haha - Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep
Apr 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Described appropriately as somewhere between Studio 42 and Area 51, eccentric, effervescent, spacey, catchy and eclectic disco pop by the Los Angeles artist (aka Angel Abaya, co-written with Sean Guerin) out on Innovative Leisure

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Song of the Day: LEENALCHI 이날치 - Here Comes That Crow 떴다 저 가마귀
Apr 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, funky, psychedelic and quirky new work by the seven-piece Seoul-based Korean pansori band led by bassist Jang Young Gyu with the title track of their new EP, out on 12 June via Luaka Bop, and heralding a European and North American tour

Apr 21, 2026

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Apr 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
Apr 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

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
Apr 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

Apr 9, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
Mar 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

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

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026

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