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A capital idea: songs about London and Greater London

May 21, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Reflections on the Thames, Westminster - by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1880)

From inner London’s famous sites to the suburbs, its a melting pot of people, culture and music, of fame and fortune, fires, pioneers and history’s rebuilding. It’s time to go metropolitan and capture this great city in song

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New Albums …

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May 20, 2026
Balming Tiger: Gongbu
May 20, 2026

New album: A stylishly fun, funky, eccentric electronica, indie and hip-hop creative concoction by the South Korean collective known as “alternative K-pop”, who perform partly in English with a madcap second LP, this time a concept around “the narrative of ‘Gongbu Korea,’ a fictional research institute where experimental technologies are used to observe and document human dreams and the unconscious

May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Tamikrest: Assikel
May 20, 2026

New album: An evocative, stirring, atmospheric and moving sixth album of desert blues and rock by the Malian Kel Tamasheq (Touareg) band whose name means ‘connection’ or ‘union’ in Tamasheq and this title pointing to ‘voyage’ to chart their two-decade journey

May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Dua Saleh: Of Earth & Wires
May 20, 2026

New album: This eclectic, experimental second LP by the Minneapolis-based Sudanese-American non-binary singer and actor features Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon) on three tracks, and plays with deconstructions of indie, R&B, electronic pop dance, baile funk and Sudanese folk, themed around home, identity and difficult relationship in the shadow of climate change and AI’s advancement

May 20, 2026
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May 19, 2026
Genesis Owusu: Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge
May 19, 2026

New album: Superbly striking and stylish, eclectic third album by the Australian-Ghanaian artist Kofi Owusu-Ansah with punchy, political and social critique surge of hip-hop, punk, synth-pop, funk and dance music, he takes no prisoners with articulate anger at many ongoing subjects from billionaires to ignorance and racism

May 19, 2026
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May 18, 2026
Rostam: American Stories
May 18, 2026

New album: The Iranian-American singer-songwriter, star producer and Vampire Weekend co-founder Rostam Batmanglij’s third solo LP mixes Americana with Persian sounds in a mellow, beautiful reflection of love songs also inspired by challenging, changing times

May 18, 2026
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May 15, 2026
Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open
May 15, 2026

New album: The Kansas City-raised singer-songwriter’s eighth solo LP of folk, rock and country is inspired by Missouri’s vast space, and features guests including Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Katie Gavin, Lucinda Williams, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) with production by The National’s Aaron Dessner

May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Cola: Cost Of Living Adjustment
May 14, 2026

New album: A third album of clever, angular, abstract, oddly appealing and also retro indie postpunk by the Montreal trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass), along with Evan Cartwright (percussion) with a title reflecting their name as an acronym and a call to re-appraise the way the the world should work

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Ana Roxanne: Poem 1
May 13, 2026

New album: Ambient, minimalist, experimental synth-chamber pop by the American artist with a collection of resonantly beautiful, vulnerable and mournful ballads fuelled by heartbreak

May 13, 2026
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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 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Arab Strap: You You You
May 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Darkly witty, humorous and catchy, and described as “a sort of disco-metal incantation” and themed around mental and physical health struggles but also love, this welcome return from Scotland’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat, heralds their upcoming new album, Half-Told Tales, out on September 4, via Rock Action Records

May 21, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Laura Veirs - Flying Into Darkness
May 20, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, fragile, quietly defiant new lo-fi folk number about vulnerability in an uneasy world by the revered Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter heralding her upcoming new albumTemple Songs, out on 14 August via her label Raven Marching Band Records

May 20, 2026
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May 19, 2026
Song of the Day: RIP Magic - Screwdark
May 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, voluminous, experimental hip-hop and electropunk by the London band led by Marco Pini and Felix Bayley-Higgins who, with just a few singles out, have supported influences LCD Soundsystem and Fcukers

May 19, 2026
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May 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Sofia Cordoba - Symptom of Love
May 18, 2026

Song of the Day: This beautiful acoustic single that then soars into stirring rock-pop ballad by the Colombian singer-songwriter is her first English language release, and heralds an upcoming EP

May 18, 2026
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May 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Lambchop - Weakened
May 17, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously stripped-back, poetic Americana with a woozy, dream-like ending by the Nashville band of Kurt Wagner, featuring Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) on banjo, taken from the upcoming album Punching The Clown, out on 21 August via Merge Records/City Slang

May 17, 2026
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May 16, 2026
Song of the Day: The Avalanches - Together (ft. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, Prentiss)
May 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A buzzy, bonkers, fizzy but infectious candy pop single about the nature of memory by the innovative Melbourne electronic group Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi and Andy Szekeres, with guest vocalists and their first since since 2020's We Will Always Love You, out on Modular Recordings

May 16, 2026
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May 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - What's Done Is Done
May 15, 2026

Song of the Day: Staccato strings, perky polyrhythmic percussion, atmospheric electronics, and a rich vocal performance and layering colour this stylish new clubby single about hurt and heartbreak, accepting the truth and self-possession by the British singer from Walsall, out on FAMM

May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Song of the Day: ear - Ne Plus Ultra
May 14, 2026

Song of the Day: An oddball, intriguingly inventive new single by US duo Yaelle Avtan and Jonah Paz, featuring buzzy bass, spaceship blips, icy vocals, cut-and-paste sound, kitten meows and 2000s electronica, out on A24 Music

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Shearwater - Daydream Unbeliever/ More and More
May 13, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of gorgeous, meditative, cinematic tracks by the Austin, Texas experimental indie rock band fronted by Jonathan Meiburg, heralding their upcoming album, The New World out on 31 July via their own Polyborus label and Secretly Distribution

May 13, 2026
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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

Word of the week

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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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April 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
April 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

April 9, 2026
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March 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
March 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

March 27, 2026
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