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Playlists: songs about chickens and other poultry

August 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Beautiful Golden Sebright

Start from scratch? No, there's a lot more fun in the farmyard and beyond with a brilliantly entertaining fluffy bird songs chosen by guest of the week Nicko from last week's topic. Now for the pecking order ...

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, easy listening, electronica, exotica, folk, experimental, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, lounge, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional, trip hop Tags songs, playlists, chickens, poultry, birds, turkeys, farmyards, Mississippi John Hurt, Jake Thackray, Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs, Little Feat, Hasil Adkins, Buckethead, The Magnetic Fields, DeZurick Sisters (AKA The Cackle Sisters), The Triffids, The Bees, Billy Ward & The Dominoes, Slim Gaillard, Tomita, Tenor Saw, Rosalía, Gorillaz, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Oliver Cobb and His Rhythm Kings, Thee More Shallows, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hall Negro Quartette, Leroy And The Drivers, Cab Calloway, Witch, Cyril Diaz, Lord Christo, Cibo Matto, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Milford Perkins, João Bosco, Lucho Better y Su Sonora, Charlie Poole, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Dave Edmunds, John Cale, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dead Kennedys, Pixies, Golden Earring, Chad Morgan, Georgia Pot Lickers, Cousin Joe, Frankie Lee Sims, Hoodoo Gurus, Wynonie Harris, Amos Milburn, The Soul Seven, Silim Harpo, Lee Scratch Perry, Esbee Family, Nicko
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Playlist: songs about blessings and curses

February 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Blessed or cursed? How how will it play out…?

Mysterious places, songs and secrets. This week’s wonderfully vivid playlist, inspired by last week’s topic, sets an intriguing narrative in a mysterious establishment run by a shady figure. But will it take a dark or a light path? Guest writer Maki sets the scene …

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In African, avant-garde, blues, country, drone, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, music, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, soul, songs, ska, traditional Tags The Mountain Goats, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, The Grateful Dead, Lee Scratch Perry, Agnes Obel, Camarón de La Isla, The Pogues, Celina y Reutilio, Mischief Brew, The Only Ones, Tunng, Kevin Ayers, Charlotte Day Wilson, boygenius, Aira Yuuki, Ornette Coleman, The Stranglers, Maki, playlists, songs, blessings, curses
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Playlists: songs about fabrics

December 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Let the needle drop … it’s darned good

The needle might normally drop on to spinning vinyl, but it’s also embroidered a wonderful tapestry of songs in playlists – superbly knitted together by guest of the week Tatanka Yotanka, who picked up the threads from last week’s topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, music, musicals, musical hall, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, songs, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, fabrics, Donovan, Jeanne Pruett, The Mighty Two, Pulp, Turbonegro, Prince, James Cotton, Liz Phair, Stephen Ameohi and His Empire Rhythms Skies, Rosetta, Rosetta Howard, Cathal Coughlan, Carole King, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Wanda Jackson, Lee Scratch Perry, The Pogues, Felt, Pearl Jam, Seals & Crofts, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, Estrella Morente, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Ultra Cindy, Joni Mitchell, Philip Jeays, Michael Nesmith, Lorraine Bowen, TatankaYotanka
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Playlists: no words, just dance instrumentals

December 29, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Get down, Soul Train style, to the likes of TSOP and a whole lot more, and dance the 2020 blues away …

Get down, Soul Train style, to the likes of TSOP and a whole lot more, and dance the 2020 blues away …

Let the music do the talking! This lyric-free set of lists, inspired by nominations from last week and picked by our dance maestro magicman, steps niftily across genres, leaves no muscle untouched, and will help dance those 2020 blues away

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In African, avant-garde, classical, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, funk, folk, gospel, instrumentals, jazz, music, playlists, pop, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, instrumentals, Lee Scratch Perry, Wamdue Project, La Bottine Souriante, MFSB, The Three Degrees, Glen Miller, Giorgio Moroder, Winifred Atwell, Mitchie M, Ray Charles, Perez Prado, 808 State, Treacherous Orchestra, David Bowie, The Detroit Experiment, Duke Ellington, Young-Holt Unlimited, Alfredo Linares, King Sunny Ade, Bob Holroyd, Four Tet, Rhythm Makers, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Percy Faith Orchestra, Conjunto Sarau, Fatman Riddim Section, King Oliver, Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz, Aswad, Benga & Coki, West Nkosi, Makgona Tsohie Band, Willard McDaniel, Scientist, Maceo & The Macks, Todd Terje, David Shire, East of Eden, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, magicman
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Playlists: songs from supergroup albums

November 27, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Super continent group: Les Amazones d’Afrique

Super continent group: Les Amazones d’Afrique

When have giants of African music, jazz, indie, rock and pop and more left their egos at the door and formed a great, new integrated unit? This week’s guest Nilpferd gathers together groups of examples into superlative playlists

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In avant-garde, blues, calypso, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, musicals, playlists, pop, prog, postpunk, punk, rock, songs, soul, traditional, African Tags songs, playlists, supergroups, Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Buena Vista Social Club, UHF (Ultra High Flamenco), The Highwomen, Les Amazones d'Afrique, Ali Farka Touré, Toumane Diabaté, Toumani Diabaté, Kooper-Bloomfield Super Session, Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner, Electronic, Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner, Lucy Pearl, Black Grape, Audioslave, Chris Cornell, Fania All Stars, Free Creek, The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale, Hooker 'N Heat, Madvillain, MF Doom, The Breeders, Bocca Juniors, Mad Professor, Lee Scratch Perry, Howie B, Sly and Robbie, The Good The Bad and the Queen, Damon Albarn, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, V.S.O.P., Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Nilpferd
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Let them all in: songs about oddballs, outcasts and outsiders

August 23, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Heading your way .. Julian Cope as Mr Squbbsy in London, 1990.

Heading your way .. Julian Cope as Mr Squbbsy in London, 1990.

Eccentric historical figures to those who are currently out there, black sheep to persons offbeat, songs that express the outsider/insider paradox, this week let’s open our doors to songs about difference

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In blues, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, folk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, metal, music, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul Tags songs, playlists, oddballs, eccentricity, outsiders, outcasts, Julian Cope, Captain Beefheart, Vivian Stanshall, Colin Wilson, Quentin Crisp, William Blake, Lady Gaga, Dame Edith Sitwell, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Lee Scratch Perry, Frank Zappa, Aphex Twin, David Lynch, books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, HG Wells, TS Eliot, Vincent Van Gogh, George Bernard Shaw, Vaslav Nijinsky, TE Lawrence, Michael Jackson, Kevin Rowland, Tiny Tim, Gerald Tyrwhitt / Baron Berners, Francis Henry Egerton, William Buckland, Howard Hughes, Keith Moon, Oliver Reed, John Waters, Grace Jones, Meat Loaf, Janet Fitch, Joseph Conrad
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Playlists: 12-inch singles and remixes up to 1979

August 15, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah! It's Chic extending the dance, dance, dance …

Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah! It's Chic extending the dance, dance, dance …

Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah! This week your feet, 12 inches long or otherwise, will not be able to stop moving as guest playlister DiscoMonster extends an invitation to enjoy his pick of last week’s many great nominations

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In dance, electronica, playlists, pop, postpunk, reggae, rocksteady, songs, soul, dub, disco, punk, music, indie Tags Songs, playlists, 12-inch vinyl, disco, funk, dub, electronica, dance, The Jays, Ranking Trevor, Chic, Nile Rodgers, The Rolling Stones, Dennis Brown, Prince Mohammed, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, Third World, Parliament, Sylvester, Elias Rahbani, Manu Dibango, Dinosaur, Israel Vibration, Suicide, Lipps Inc., Japan, The Motors, The Whispers, Black Harmony, Chicago, The Jacksons, Joe Simon, North End, Dr. Alimantado, Kiss, Jolly Brothers, Hamilton Bohannon, Loleatta Holloway, Yabby You & Trinity, Patti Labelle, Dillinger, Junior Murvin, Lee Scratch Perry, Television, DiscoMonster
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Playlists: songs about rooms

August 30, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Room for imagination. House shown in picture may differ from that which is advertised …

Room for imagination. House shown in picture may differ from that which is advertised …

Leaving plenty of room for the imagination from a palace of nominations from last week's topic, guest agent EnglishOutlaw presents a musical property currently on the market that's a must-see and listen

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In music, playlists, songs Tags songs, rooms, property, The Pretenders, Cream, Half Man Half Biscuit, Frazier Chorus, Bill Fay, The Ramones, The Cure, The Strokes, Elvis Costello, The Bangles, Tom Petty, Everything But The Girl, Bessie Smith, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Kate Bush, Phish, Lee Scratch Perry, Klymaax, John Cooper Clarke, Fugazi, Dropkick Murphys, Kings of Leon, Eminem, Cadaver Club, EnglishOutlaw
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Playlists: songs about pirates and piracy

July 5, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Lotte Lenya as Pirate Jenny in Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera (1928) 

Lotte Lenya as Pirate Jenny in Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera (1928) 

German cabaret opera to New York hip-hop, French chansons to Caribbean reggae, sailing in the full breeze of last week's topic, guest pirate commander ParaMhor steers us to open many a musical treasure chest

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In playlists, songs, music Tags songs, playlists, pirates, financial industry, financial crisis, banking industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lawrence Lessig, Kurt Weill, piracy, Lotte Lenya, Beastie Boys, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Flogging Molly, Joaquin Sabina, Nina Simone, Home T. Cocoa Tea, Shabba Ranks, The Viceroys, John Cale, Jacques Loussier, Neil Innes, Horrible Histories, Adam and the Ants, Lee Scratch Perry, Mad Professor, Louie Culture, Anthony Selassie, Chrome, Cadaver Club, Procol Harum, Joan Baez, They Might Be Giants, The Pogues, Tom Waits, New Model Army, Abney Park, Gilbert & Sullivan, books, ParaMhor, Monty Python
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Playlists: songs with screams, howls, grunts and shrieks

June 22, 2016 Peter Kimpton
John Lennon

John Lennon

This week's guest writer Hoshino Sakura takes us on a fantastical, loud, emotional and joyously entertaining trip through experience of choosing nominations from last week's topic 

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In playlists, songs Tags Songs, screams, grunts, howls, Judas Priest, The Jesus Lizard, Flower Travellin' Band, Soundgarden, Johnny Jones & The King Casuals, Sly & The Family Stone, Ms Betty Davis, Charles Wright, Sam Cooke, 3rd Line Butterfly, Max Roach, John Lennon, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, T-Rex, Marc Bolan, Jarboe, The Cult, Misfits, Harold Alexander, Joe Cocker, Bundhu Boys, Pharoah Sanders, Lee Scratch Perry, Bob Cobbing, Hoshino Sakura
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Playlists: songs about curves and spheres

May 18, 2016 Peter Kimpton
Whose song sees the curves of Earth through Yuri Gargarin's eyes?

Whose song sees the curves of Earth through Yuri Gargarin's eyes?

Space, time, the sun; smacking sports balls to curvy bodily fun; this week's well rounded playlists by this week's guest guru Marco den Ouden arch across the far reaches of the universe from the intimate to the infinite

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In playlists, songs Tags songs, Marconius, curves, spheres, geometry, Loquat, Al Stewart, Esborn Svensson Trio, Ray Charles, The Dickies, Natalie Cole, DIre Straits, The Little Willies, Smoke City, Sinead O'Connor, Queen, Jukebox, Oi Polloi, Jan and Dean, Inspiral Carpets, The Beatles, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, The Go-Go's, Robert Calvert, Cheryl Crow, The Night Crawlers, The Rolling Stones, Tomita, Ella Fitzgerald, William Orbit, Kenna, Sugababes, AC/DC, Beastie Boys, Steve Miller Band, The Orb, Lee Scratch Perry, Gustav Holst, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Vangelis, Michael Nesmith, The Walker Brothers, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Waterboys, Jackie Leven, Dee Dee Warwick, The Three Suns, Yuri Gagarin, space, Marco den Ouden
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New Albums …

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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

new songs …

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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 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Big Storm
Apr 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky experimental indie folk-pop by the innovative Manchester-based California artist, featuring a clever video that old footage and Hoop in various vintage guises, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home, out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic of Music

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Gia Margaret - Alive Inside
Apr 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicate, dream-like, reflective experimental folk-pop by the American singer-songwriter and producer from Chicago, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Singing, out on Jagjaguwar

Apr 19, 2026

Word of the week

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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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