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Playlists: songs about wonders of the world

May 12, 2026 Peter Kimpton

All the big current seven on one postcard, but how many make it into view in songs, as well as many others?

Is it your lifetime ambition to visit them all? But what about those of the Ancient World, not longer around? Inspired by last week’s topic, guest playlister ShivSidecar takes us on a wonderful musical journey through time and geography …

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New Albums …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 2, 2026
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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

new songs …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 4, 2026
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May 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibibio Sound Machine - Return To Sender
May 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Fizzing with vibrant energy and intricate rhythms, a fabulous new single with a personal accidental backstory by the London electronic afro-funk band out of London fronted by vocalist Eno Williams, out Merge Record

May 3, 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

Word of the week

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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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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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