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Modern Nature: The Heat Warps

September 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Modern Nature: The Heat Warps

New album: Following 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, Jack Cooper and his Cambridge-based lo-fi indie-folk band return with another insightful, poetic album, here with glimmers of gentle, offbeat hope as well as melancholy, exploring themes of collectivism, our relationship with the natural world and the weight of consciousness - but with greater directness and purpose

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In albums, alternative, experimental, folk, indie Tags Modern Nature, Jack Cooper, Bella Union, albums, new albums, new releases
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The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

September 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Hives Forever Forever The Hives!

New album: Subtlety, for some, is overrated. With another shamelessly, if also ironically self-aggrandising hyperbolic title, the Swedish band return with their classic, full-on, full-fat-fun, witty, explosive, screamingly entertaining catchy, punk and garage rock packed with shouty bangers

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In albums, indie, post-punk, punk, rock Tags The Hives, albums, new albums, new releases, Play It Again Sam
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The Beths: Straight Line Was A Lie

September 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Beths: Straight Line Was A Lie

New album: The New Zealand quartet fronted by singer-songwriter Elizabeth Stokes return with a fourth LP of particularly strong, warm, cleverly nuanced, poignant indie numbers spanning contradictory pulls of emotion and expanded sounds and production

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In albums, indie, pop, rock Tags The Beths, ANTI Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Jehnny Beth: You Heartbreaker, You

September 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jehnny Beth: You Heartbreaker, You

New album: A superbly scorching, viscerally intense, emotionally arresting new release by the French actor and ex-Savages frontwoman Camille Berthomier, joined by longtime collaborator Johnny Hostile (Nicolas Congé) in a follow-up to her 2020 solo debut, To Love Is to Live

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In albums, alternative, post-punk, rock Tags Jehnny Beth, Johnny Hostile, albums, new albums, new releases
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Blood Orange: Essex Honey

September 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blood Orange: Essex Honey

New album: Eclectic, dream-like, transitional and reflective with a late-summer smooth ambience and an over-riding theme of looking back on his Ilford childhood days, the 39-year-old British NY-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Dev Hynes returns with a fifth LP as Blood Orange, joined by a variety of other artists including Caroline Polachek and Lorde

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In alternative, experimental, jazz, funk, pop, soul Tags Blood Orange, Dev Hynes, RCA, Domino Records, albums, new albums, new releases, Caroline Polachek, Lorde
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CMAT: EURO-COUNTRY

August 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

CMAT: EURO-COUNTRY

New album: “I waited for love with a cricket bat …” Packed with witty, offbeat and super-sharp, candidly personal lyrics, soaring, gorgeous vocals and melodies, all with an eccentric turns, the charismatic Dublin country-pop star and songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson brings home her third, and best LP yet

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In albums, country, pop Tags CMAT, CMATBaby, AWAL, albums, new albums, new releases
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Hand Habits: Blue Reminder

August 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hand Habits: Blue Reminder

New album: Passionate yet controlled, powerful yet quiet, introspective yet expressive, walking a tightrope between hope and a kind of quiet anxiety, New York-born, LA-based Meg Duffy returns with their distinctive, intimate experimental folk-rock-indie, with 12 circumspect, insecure yet intense love songs

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In albums, alternative, folk, indie, rock, experimental Tags Hand Habits, Meg Duffy, Fat Possum, albums, new albums, new releases
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Pino Palladino and Blake Mills: That Wasn't A Dream

August 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pino Palladino and Blake Mills: That Wasn't A Dream

New album: Following 2021’s Notes With Attachments, the acclaimed veteran Welsh session bass player and American producer-singer-songwriter again join forces to make with an intriguingly original, eclectic, experimental collection of offbeat jazz instrumentals

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In albums, alternative, experimental, lo-fi, funk, jazz Tags Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, Impulse Records, New Deal, Sam Gendel, albums, new albums, new releases
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Mac DeMarco: Guitar

August 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mac DeMarco: Guitar

New album: Relaxing, smooth, warm, and all at a uniform strolling pace, a soporific, less-is-more lo-fi approach of stripped back guitar, intimate vocals and minimal backing on this sixth LP, all recorded at home by the California-based Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer

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In albums, alternative, Americana, folk, indie, lo-fi Tags Mac Demarco, Mac's Record Label, albums, new albums, new releases
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Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse of Everything

August 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse of Everything

New album: A title with themes for our scary times, a refined dub-rich but also eclectic release by the legendary veteran producer and label founder on a collection of eclectic, cinematic, instrumental tracks with collaborators including Brian Eno and Doug Wimbish

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In alternative, albums, experimental, reggae, dub Tags Adrian Sherwood, Brian Eno, Doug Wimbush, On-U Sound Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Water From Your Eyes: It's A Beautiful Place

August 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: It's A Beautiful Place

New album: Indie Brooklyn-based duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown unleash a highly original fusion of experimental art-rock, pop, and shoegaze, mixing musical dynamism with the vocally deadpan abstract through thematic portal of otherworldly science fiction

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In alternative, experimental, indie, art-rock, rock, psychedelia, prog-rock, post-rock, post-punk, pop Tags Water From Your Eyes, Matador Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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Wolf Alice: The Clearing

August 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wolf Alice: The Clearing

New album: Still riding high on awards and big sales, the London rock band’s fourth LP, following 2021’s Blue Weekend, explores a wider breadth of styles into more piano-based pop and 70s rock, with songs broadly about self-acceptance, wellbeing, contemplating identity and some stylistic echoes of Fleetwood Mac and ELO

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In albums, pop, psychedelia, rock Tags Wolf Alice, Columbia Records, albums, new albums, new releases
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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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Tuxis Giant: You Won't Remember This

August 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tuxis Giant: You Won't Remember This

New album: Subtle, clever, sensitive, gently poetic, nuanced alt-country and indie-folk by the Boston/ Brooklyn band led by Matt O’Connor across themes of memory, identity, a gender journey, filled with hidden narratives, wry humour and the beautifully bittersweet

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In alternative, Americana, country, indie, folk Tags Tuxis Giant, Worry Bead Records, 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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Feb 4, 2026
Geologist: Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?
Feb 4, 2026

New album: The hurdy-gurdy never quite sounded like this before. Animal Collective multi-instrumentalist Brian Weitz is the final member of that experimental collective to release a solo album, and it’s a bizarre journey of oddball sounds and instruments looped through guitar pedal effects krautrock repetitive, meditational exploratory spirit, inhaled through the titular reference to his past as a smoker

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Delaney Bailey: Concave
Feb 4, 2026

New album: A highly absorbing, potent, intense yet understated, ethereally sound-sculptured debut by the Indiana-raised Chicago artist who crafts intimate noir-goth dream pop across themes of vulnerability and mental health

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Cast: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Liverpool’s John Power and co returns after 2024’s Love Is The Call with an eighth LP, packed with anthemic, catchy, voluminous indie rock bangers with P.P. Arnold adding classy backing vocals

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Toni Geitani: Wahj
Feb 3, 2026

New album: A truly magical, highly original, otherworldly landscape of experimental Arabic, electronica, avant-pop, dark ambient and industrial forms by the Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based musician, sound designer, producer, film-maker singer and composer

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Ye Vagabonds: All Tied Together
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Beautiful, evocative, poetic and profound original folk numbers with a traditional style by Irish brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn in their fourth LP, recorded live in a Galway house with acclaimed producer Philip Weinrobe (Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker), and vivid lyrical themes of home and memory

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Plantoid: FLARE
Feb 2, 2026

New album: The nimbly inventive, experimental prog trio from Brighton return following their debut LP Terrapath, with an evolved, often catchier style of oddball riffs, licks, clever tempo changes, unusual rhythms, and unconventional chord progressions with a stirring of jazz inflections, dream pop, psych rock and shoegaze

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost To Kindness
Feb 1, 2026

New album: A bolder, more strident, indie-rock urgency of style by the New Zealand quartet previously known more for dream pop, particularly front-loading this fifth LP with a pacier, spikier material in their decade-long career

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026

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Feb 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Broken Social Scene - Not Around Anymore
Feb 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A sparkling return by Toronto indie collective fronted by Kevin Drew with cleverly, catchy, upbeat rhythmic brass and sax-infused wistful track about disappearing possibilities, and heralding their first album in nearly a decade, Remember The Humans out 8 May via City Slang / Arts & Crafts

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Modern Woman - Dashboard Mary
Feb 3, 2026

Song of the Day: An intriguingly experimental, eclectic, slowing unfolding number with a gently spooky video by the London art-rock band fronted by singer-songwriter Sophie Harris, heralding their debut album Johnny’s Dreamworld on 1 May via One Little Independent Records

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Sego - Buy It Break It
Feb 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Punchy, sharp, witty super-catchy art-punk indie by the Los Angeles-based band from Utah, consisting of Spence (guitar/ lead vocals), Tom (drums), Derv (bass), and Kathleen (keyboards and guitar)

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Chris Brain - Red Sun Rising
Feb 1, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful Nick Drake-reminiscent new folk number with intricate finger-picking by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, and the title track heralding his new album Red Sun Rising, out 1 May via Big Sun Records

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 31, 2026
Song of the Day: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
Jan 31, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful brand new protest song by the Boss, tackling America’s controversial influx of ICE agents into Minneapolis and their recent murders of innocent bystanders Alex Pretti and Renée Good, released on Columbia

Jan 31, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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