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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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Hayley Williams: 17 new songs

August 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hayley Williams

Not an album but … Not actually released as an LP conventionally, but as a crop of individual solo tracks accessible via her website, the Paramore American singer’s mass drop singles, if coming in no particular order, still constitutes a coherent, collection of classy, clever indie-pop numbers

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In alternative, Americana, indie, pop, rock Tags Hayley Williams, Paramore, Post Atlantic, 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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Tyler, The Creator: Don't Tap The Glass

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tyler, The Creator: Don't Tap The Glass

New album: Following his acclaimed 2024 LP Chromakopia, the innovative eccentric American rapper Tyler Okonma returns with a somewhat less eclectic but still strane ninth LP – short, snappy, more cliched and braggadocio in lyric, and this time fuelled in sound by catchy, punchy, dancefloor beats and samples

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In alternative, dance, dance music, hip hop Tags Tyler The Creator, Columbia 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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Gina Birch: Trouble

July 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Gina Birch’s second solo album, Trouble

New album: The veteran Raincoats co-founder, bass player, songwriter, film-maker and feminist artist’s second solo album is a passionate, political and personal release, outspoken, but also eccentric and eclectically introspective, mixing post-punk, dub, pop and experimental rock

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In albums, alternative, dub, electronica, experimental, indie, new wave, pop, post-punk, punk, rock, ska Tags Gina Birch, Third Man Records, Youth, albums, new albums, new releases
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Alex G: Headlights

July 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Alex G: Headlights

New album: This 10th album by the Pennsylvania indie musician, producer, and singer-songwriter Alexander Giannascoli brings a mellower sound than some of his previous LPs, with often gentle, skilfully rendered guitars, dream-like, wistful and fantastical lyrics, and beautifully drawing on Americana as well as key influences Elliott Smith and Neil Young

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In Americana, albums, alternative, folk, country, indie Tags Alex G, RCA, albums, new albums, new releases
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NODEGA: Rot in Helvetica

July 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

NODEGA: Rot in Helvetica

New album: A thinly disguised iteration of the New York post-punk band Bodega fronted by songwriters Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio, the same quintet go full punk and hardcore on this articulately angry, pacy, attention-grabbing burst of eight, raucous yet catchy and also clever songs in just 18 minutes, satirically pulling no punches about society’s various ills

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In albums, punk, rock Tags NODEGA, Bodega, Ben Hozie, Nikki Belfiglio, Chrysalis, Chrysalis Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Panic Shack: Panic Shack

July 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Panic Shack

New album: A refreshing, fast, witty, perky, cheeky, and raw post-punk debut by the band from Cardiff, packed with energy, humour, filth and feisty fun, covering subjects from body shaming to partying, dodgy men, and a joyous celebration of good nights out and friendship

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In albums, indie, post-punk, punk, pop Tags Panic Shack, Brace Yourself Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Apr 1, 2026
MEMORIALS: All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Apr 1, 2026

New album: Innovative, eclectic fusion of psychedelia, folk, dub, krautrock, 60s soul, garage rock, prog, pop, electronica and 70s spiritual jazz by the Canterbury experimental duo of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms

Apr 1, 2026
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Apr 1, 2026
José González: Against The Dying Of The Light
Apr 1, 2026

New album: A gentle, reflective, meditative, but quietly defiant fifth LP by the Swedish-Argentine indie-folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, following his last, Local Valley, broadening his perspective in an urgent call to preserve the light of humanity as technology advances in ironically darkening world

Apr 1, 2026
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Apr 1, 2026
RAYE: This Music May Contain Hope
Apr 1, 2026

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

Apr 1, 2026
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Mar 30, 2026
Pitou: P2
Mar 30, 2026

New album: Brilliantly quirky, original second LP of experimental folk pop by the Amsterdam artist, who has the free spirited musical adventurousness reminiscent of Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus and Fiona Apple in this clever, playful, stop-start work with oodles of vocal loops and layering, electronica and unusual field recordings across themes of freedom and restlessness

Mar 30, 2026
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Mar 29, 2026
Robyn: Sexistential
Mar 29, 2026

New album: After a break of seven years, the hugely influential 46-year-old Swedish pop star returns with a new burst of alternative, electro-pop bangers, in this ninth LP, now subverting themes of romantic love in another context since having gone through having IVF and becoming a single parent

Mar 29, 2026
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Mar 29, 2026
The Twilight Sad: It's The Long Goodbye
Mar 29, 2026

New album: The Glasgow indie rockers fronted by vocalist James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane return with a tempestuous, highly emotional and moving sixth LP, their first for seven years, with musical input from The Cure’s Robert Smith, fuelled by the illness and passing of Graham’s mother and his subsequent mental health struggles

Mar 29, 2026
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Mar 28, 2026
Courtney Barnett: Creature of Habit
Mar 28, 2026

New album: The Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns after a five-year gap to bring more of her witty, indie-country-rock, but with a bittersweet flavour, and an emotionally resonant record that explores change and the central question: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life

Mar 28, 2026
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Mar 26, 2026
Ego Ella May: Good Intentions
Mar 26, 2026

New album: Beautifully crafted but effortlessly performed, a wonderful release of delicious, classy, smooth and smoky soul, jazz and RnB by the London singer-songwriter who has vocal and stylistic qualities reminiscent of Erykah Badu and Sade

Mar 26, 2026
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Mar 25, 2026
Ellie O'Neill: Time of Fallow
Mar 25, 2026

New album: A gorgeous, delicate debut folk LP by the Dublin-based singer-songwriter from County Meath with an exquisite voice, not unlike that of Joni Mitchell, that hovers and rises with expressive control, with themes of memory, grief, desire, and self-reckoning

Mar 25, 2026
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Mar 25, 2026
Ladytron: Paradises
Mar 25, 2026

New album: Following 2023’s Time’s Arrow, the Liverpool synth-pop band fronted by Helen Marnie, now a trio, return with substantial 16-track eighth LP that combines simplicity of chord progressions with rich textures, styles retro and futuristic with classic, catchy pop melodies

Mar 25, 2026
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Mar 25, 2026
Grace Ives: Girlfriend
Mar 25, 2026

New album: Best known as a bedroom pop artist on her DIY produced first two LPs, the New Yorker returns with an expanded sound of eclectic, striking synth-pop, fuelled by a sense of personal and musical rebirth, inspired by some Californian sunshine where she recorded, and referencing an escape from addictions

Mar 25, 2026
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Mar 23, 2026
Tinariwen: Hoggar
Mar 23, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Amatssou, the collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali return with a 10th LP iteration of their signature desert blues style sung in Tamasheq, and joined this time by younger younger musicians from the bands Imarhan and Terakaft, as well as guests José González and Sulafa Elyas

Mar 23, 2026
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Mar 23, 2026
Avalon Emerson & The Charm: Written Into Changes
Mar 23, 2026

New album: A fabulous, bright, catchy and expanded, more live sound by the innovative New York multi-instrumentalist of experimental indie and synth-pop, moving on from the more bedroom feel of her first self-titled & The Charm LP, and here with lyrical themes of personal and relationship evolution

Mar 23, 2026
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Mar 22, 2026
Anna Calvi: Is This All There Is?
Mar 22, 2026

New EP: A powerful, passionate, dynamic return by the extraordinary singer-songwiter and guitarist on a four-track EP, in which she duets with Iggy Pop, Perfume Genius, Laurie Anderson and The National’s Matt Berninger, and the first of a trilogy

Mar 22, 2026

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Apr 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Cumming - Please Let Me Remember This
Apr 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Lush, classic, piano-pop by the New York–born multi-instrumentalist and Sunflower Bean singer and bassist, influenced by Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and heralding her debut solo album, Julia, out on 24 April via Partisan Records

Apr 2, 2026
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Apr 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Jessie Ware - Automatic
Apr 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, funk-soul-disco pop by the charismatic singer-songwriter featuring a deep-voiced spoken intro by actor Colman Domingo, and the latest single heralding upcoming sixth album, Superbloom, out on 17 April via Interscope

Apr 1, 2026
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Mar 31, 2026
Song of the Day: Mount Palomar ft. Enola Gay - Feeding Frenzy
Mar 31, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating, dark, hard-hitting dance and hip-hop by the Northern Irish music producer, DJ and live electronic hardware artist Neil Kerr, joined by the Belfast indie-noise-punk quartet, on this title track of a new four-track EP, out on Ursa Minor

Mar 31, 2026
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Mar 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Jungle - Carry On
Mar 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Swoonful, beautiful, but also bittersweet and vulnerable, old-fashioned soul-pop by the British band featuring the vocals of Lydia Kitto in a number co-penned with producer Joshua Lloyd Watson, heralding the upcoming album, Sunshine, out on 14 August via Caiola Records / AWAL Recordings

Mar 30, 2026
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Mar 29, 2026
Song of the Day: The Ocelots - Motor Hotel
Mar 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective, uplifting alternative folk with banjo, guitar, flute and more by the Wexford Irish twin brothers Brandon and Ashley Watson, from their new five-track EP, Revisions, a mix of new and re-worked, re-recorded numbers

Mar 29, 2026
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Mar 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse On Mars - Rockcurry
Mar 28, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish, eclectic, cross-genre single from the late, great, legendary Jamaican producer and performer’s ongoing legacy, heralding his last official album - the project in Berlin with electronic pioneers Mouse on Mars (aka Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma) and the LP - Spatial, No Problem on on 5 June via Domino Records

Mar 28, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not
Mar 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Following last October’s album All Systems Are Lying, Belgium’s Dewaele brothers David and Stephen return with a vibrant electro-pop dance standalone single with droll lyrics, from their recent Abbey Road After Hours project which included a live event at the iconic London studio

Mar 27, 2026
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Mar 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lykke Li - Lucky Again
Mar 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Bright, uplifting, singalong, big sound pop in this welcome return from the enigmatic Swedish singer-songwriter and model, heralding her upcoming new album The Afterparty, out on 8 May via Futures Music Group

Mar 26, 2026
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Mar 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Model/Actriz - Glassman
Mar 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Violently sensual, truly alternative and viscerally arresting experimental noise/ industrial rock with guitar sounds unlike any other band, all conjured up by the Brooklyn quartet from their new EP Swan Songs out on Dirty Hit Records

Mar 25, 2026
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Mar 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Death Cab For Cutie - Riptides
Mar 24, 2026

Song of the Day: With a gradual, powerfully growing intensity, this new indie-rock single about personal and universal challenges by the Washington band fronted by Ben Gibbard, heralds the upcoming 11th album, I Built a Tower, produced by John Congleton, and out on 5 June via ANTI- Records

Mar 24, 2026
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Mar 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Ed O'Brien - Blue Morpho
Mar 23, 2026

Song of the Day: An orchestral, atmospheric, textured, gently serene new number with background birdsong by the Radiohead co-founder and guitarist with the title track heralding his second solo album, out on 22 May via Transgressive

Mar 23, 2026
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Mar 22, 2026
Song of the Day: MRCY - Better Days (featuring Yazmin Lacey)
Mar 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Fabulous, uplifting, classic soul by the British duo of producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft-Johnson, joined by the soaring voice of the London singer, out now on Dead Oceans

Mar 22, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Feb 12, 2026
Word of the week: yanggeum
Feb 12, 2026

Word of the week: A form or hammered dulcimer, this traditional Korean instrument, with a flat and trapezoidal shape, has seven sets of four metal strings hit by thin bamboo stick

Feb 12, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026

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