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Playlists: picture this - songs that caption six paintings of drinking scenes

July 1, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Absinthe friends. Detail from Edgar Degas' famous bar scene inspired a variety of musical ingredients (public domain)

Six famous paintings of revelry and contemplation from the 17th to 20th centuries with contrasting moods, scenes and actions all stimulated readers’ lyrical caption and musical accompaniment. Guest playlister Nicko curates the collection with artful endeavour. Drink it all in…

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New Albums …

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July 1, 2026
Muse: The Wow! Signal
July 1, 2026

New album: “If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing,” once half-joked Queen’s guitarist Brian May, and as one of Muse’s big muses, the British rock trio take that full galactic maxim to the max in this entertainingly over-the-top 10th LP inspired themes of space and alien life

July 1, 2026
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June 30, 2026
Various Artists: Candomblé - Sacred Rhythms In Brazil
June 30, 2026

New album: A mesmerically powerful collection of field recordings and remixes of the Brazilian religious and musical ritual tradition of candomblé, originating in the 19th century among enslaved west Africans who used polyrhythmic drumming and chanting circles to induce possession by spirits

June 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026
Alewya: Zero
June 29, 2026

New album: A dazzling debut of diversity and experimentation by the Saudi Arabia-born, Sudan- and London-raised raised Ethiopian–Egyptian artist, producer, and visual creative, who inventively channels her rich musical heritage, with English, Amharic and Arabic lyrics, blending the traditional and modern, and inspired by the diaspora experience

June 29, 2026
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June 28, 2026
Beth Orton: The Ground Above
June 28, 2026

New album: Exquisitely beautiful, vulnerable, raw and sensitively emotional, candid ninth LP in now over three decades by the British singer-songwriter, self-producing again after 2022’s Weather Alive, with a group of highly accomplished, complementary musicians, and lyrical themes of survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and deciding to stay - in love, in art, and in the world

June 28, 2026
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June 23, 2026
Jim Ghedi: The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)
June 23, 2026

New album: Extremely evocative, darkly visceral and elegiac, this folk-based soundtrack by the Sheffield singer-singer and composer captures the deeply unromantic and violent new feature film depicting Hood as a criminal non-hero from writer/director Michael Sarnoski and starring Hugh Jackman, very much stands on its own as album

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Graham Coxon: Castle Park
June 22, 2026

New album: With delightful echoes of the The Jam, The Kinks, The Bees, Small Faces and other classic 60s pop and mod influences, the Blur guitarist’s resurfaced and unreleased solo LP was actually recorded in 2011 at the time of his 2012 album A+E, and made with producer Ben Hillie

June 22, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026

new songs …

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July 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Yard Act - New Beginnings
July 1, 2026

Song of the Day: An updated indie-rock style as well as optimistic theme by the post-punk band from York fronted by the articulate presence of James Smith, heralding their new album, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, out on 17 Jul via Island/Universal

July 1, 2026
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June 30, 2026
Song of the Day: This Is Lorelei - Billy Came Back
June 30, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, wistful, propulsive take on the classic acoustic American road song with a heartfelt singalong chorus from the project of Brooklyn’s Nate Amos (also one half of Water From Your Eyes), heralding his upcoming new album The Singer In My Band, out on 11 September via Matador Records

June 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026
Song of the Day: PJ Harvey - Voyager
June 29, 2026

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British artist returns with an ethereal, pensive, soaring, orchestral-backed number with swelling string arrangements and pulsing synthesiser signals stretching out into the cosmos: icy, ethereal, and pensive, inspired by NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 space probes that launched in 1977, now still transmitting on the move in interstellar space, the single now out on Partisan Records

June 29, 2026
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June 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Swapmeet - Halfway
June 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicately tuneful indie about approaching confrontation, by the Adelaide, Australian four-piece fronted by Venus O’Broin, are heralding their debut album, Mount Zero, on 17 July via Winspear Records

June 28, 2026
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June 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim James - Come Again
June 27, 2026

Song of the Day: A strident, stirring, shuffle-rhythm, kaleidoscopic indie-rock meditation on resilience in the face of chaotic instability by the three-times Grammy nominated Kentucky-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and founding member of My Morning Jacket, heralding his new solo album, Wowed Out, due out 28 August via ATO Records

June 27, 2026
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June 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys
June 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gloriously uplifting indie-folk dream-pop the the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, joined on backing by her Boygenius friends Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and a charming medieval fantasy video also starring actor Skyler Gisondo, from the upcoming third LP Lost Weekend, out on 14 August via Dead Oceans

June 26, 2026
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June 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Cinder Well - Beyond The Pale
June 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, poetic, vivid folk and Americana about uncertainty and guilt by the LA–based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, heralding her upcoming album A Blooming Body, out on 17 July via Hen House Studios

June 25, 2026
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June 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Holter - Fantasy
June 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sensual, dream-like, ethereal new track by the acclaimed Los Angeles composer and songwriter, heralding her upcoming new album Materia, out on 21 August, a seven-track companion album to her superb 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves, also out on Domino Records

June 24, 2026
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June 23, 2026
Song of the Day: BODEGA - All Inside Aquarium
June 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Moving away from of their post-punk sound into more of a meaty, guitar-driven melodic rock, the New York band return with a catchy, witty, singalong title track, , an existential anthem influenced by Jane’s Addiction, from their upcoming album, out on 9 October via Chrysalis Records

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Song of the Day: EELS - Cap In Hand
June 22, 2026

Song of the Day: A pointed, subtle but also catchy number about making mistakes, regret and social division, US artist Mark Oliver Everett and band return with the lead single from the upcoming album out on 16 October via E Works / Play It Again Sam

June 22, 2026
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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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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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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026
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