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Playlists: songs about quirky and unusual love

January 13, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Poison pen? Luvcat has a thing for Dr John Cooper Clarke

Love is strange. It can manifest in many forms - from individual physical and behavioural obsessions, even to non-human attraction - robots and animals. Guest playlister ShivSidecar expertly explores these Agony Aunt questions, inspired by last week’s topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, bossa nova, calypso, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, easy listening, electronica, exotica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, jazz, krautrock, lounge, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, RnB, rock, rocksteady, samba, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, relationships, oddballs, eccentricity, Mickey & Sylvia, Depeche Mode, Poison Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Luvcat, John Cooper Clarke, Helen Reddy, Dave Rawlings, The Cowsills, T Rex, Marc Bolan, Nanowar Of Steel, Sheila E, Lou Reed, Swell, Yapoos, Augie March, Lisa Germano, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, Joan Armatrading, Woody Guthrie, Los Chunguitos, Los Campesinos, Magazine, VRSex, Eels, The Eels, The Plimsouls, ZZ Top, Papa Levi, Evelyn Evelyn, Garfunkel And Oates, October Country, Jefferson Airplane, Spirit, The Three O'Clock, Super Furry Animals, Those Naughty Lumps, Hindu Love Gods, ShivSidecar, Sidecar Shiv
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Playlists: songs about paths, tracks, trails and roads

January 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Follow this musical trail ….

From tiny woodland byways to endless stretching highways, across history and continents, Devon to Scotland, America to Australia, guest playlister Shiv Sidecar takes us on a fabulous musical journey inspired by last week’s topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, country, dance, drone, dub, exotica, easy listening, electronica, experimental, folk, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, lounge, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, roads, paths, trails, Nick Drake, Archie Roach, Linkin Park, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Alasdair Roberts, The Aislers Set, Buddy Miles, Mazzy Star, Pavlov's Dog, Show Of Hands, The Move, The Triffids, Dengue Fever, Metric, Ivor Cutler, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Midnight Oil, Japanese Breakfast, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kevin Morby, Jackie Leven, Karine Polwart, Lal Waterson, Robb Johnson, JJ Cale, Bo Diddley, U-Roy, Billy Butler, Shocking Blue, The Factory, David Byrne, Nina Nastasia, Dan Fogelberg, Lightnin' Hopkins, PJ Harvey, Cult Maniax, Lhasa, Ralph MacDonald, Super Furry Animals, trees, The Battered Ornaments, The Gun Club, Plainsong, XTC, ShivSidecar, Sidecar Shiv, Gillian Welch
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Playlists: Gaelic songs

March 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Evergreen accompanists: The Chieftains

What’s the craic? Our recent St Patrick’s Day special was focused on songs in the Irish language, but with a generous distillation process, brought forth also some good cheer in other Gaelic identities, all served up with great taste by guest Marco den Ouden

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In classical, country, drone, experimental, folk, instrumentals, indie, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, punk, rock, songs, soundtracks, traditional, hip hop Tags songs, playlists, Gaelic, Ireland, Celtic language, Scotland, Wales, Breton, Damien Dempsey, Maurice Dickson, The Chieftains, Sting, The Corrs, The Rankin Family, The Fontaines, Sinead O'Connor, Lisa Hannigan, Róisín White, Julie Fowlis, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, Clannad, Kokia, Afro Celt Sound System, The Cranberries, Runrig, Bryn Terfel, Gwenno, Alan Stivell, The Pogues, The Saw Doctors, Paranoid Visions, Jackie Leven, Van Morrison, Mary Black, Kate Bush, Kneecap, The Bothy Band, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Connie Dover, Lankum, Brenda Wootton, Brenda Wooton, Robert Barton, Super Furry Animals, Julie Murphy, Dylan Fowler, Sound of Mull, Solas, Roaring Jack, Allison Russell, Mairi Morrison, Alasdair Roberts, Christine Primrose, The Gloaming, Michael Brecker, Lunasa, Emyryld Ryders, Sharon Shannon, Buddy Emmons, Planxty, Flook, Mary Bergin, Seán Ó Riada, Seán Ó Se, Ceoltóirí Chualann, Vinnie Kilduff, Liam O’Flynn, Dafydd Iwan, Marco den Ouden, Fontaines D.C.
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Playlists: songs featuring steelpan bands

October 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Trinidad Panorama

They make a beautiful sound, created in Trinidad & Tobago, one that has since spread around the world. Picking from the nominations from last week’s topic, guest Loud Atlas presents global, genre-spanning panoramic lists that are pan-tastic

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In avant-garde, African, calypso, blues, dance, disco, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, reggae, rock, ska, showtime, songs, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, pan steel, Lord Kitchener, Madness, Super Furry Animals, Ahmad Jamal, The Grateful Dead, John Williams, Jane's Addiction, The Beach Boys, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, The Invaders Steel Orchestra, Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean, Winston 'Spree' Simon, John Gibbs and US Steel Orchestra, Robert Palmer, Kikuo, Esso Trinidad Steel Band, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Sweet, Othello Molineaux, Steel Rhythm Band, David Rudder, Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe, Frankie Dante & Orchestra Flamboyan, M.I.A., Phase II Pan Groove, Loud Atlas
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Playlists: songs about eternity

January 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Round and round: a timeless track coming up from Signs of Life by Penguin Cafe Orchestra …

Space, time, the rhythms of life, expressions of the divine, love? Eternity in its many permutations is to be found in these captivating playlists picked by guest ajostu, inspired by the near-endless nominations from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs from or about Italy

December 9, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Benvenuti in La Taverna Cantata!

Benvenuti in La Taverna Cantata!

This week, it’s the full Italian job! And there’s far more to it than exploding cars – a whole queue of hooting horns, gesticulation and finest food and wine in musical form, all picked by excellente playlister philipphilip99 from a fleet of nominations

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In avant-garde, blues, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, electronica, dub, folk, funk, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, musicals, playlists, musical hall, pop, songs, showtime, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, Italy, Matt Monro, Don Black, Quincy Jones, film soundtrack, Film, The Italian Job, Gianfranco & Gian Piero Reverberi, Gianna Nannini, Lush, Tullio De Piscopo, Fred Buscaglione, Renato Carosone, Rosemary Clooney, Stephen Bishop, Billy Joel, Super Furry Animals, Jovanotti, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mark Knopfler, Klein & MBO, New Order, Domenico Modugno, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sufjan Stevens, Giuliano Sorgini, Jonathan Richman, Alice, PFM, Chris Rea, philipphilip99
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Playlists: songs about the colour white

October 30, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Chrysler Valiant Charger: but where does it drive a song?

Chrysler Valiant Charger: but where does it drive a song?

Birds to animals, clothing, trains or boats, this week’s playlists, picked by guest writer philipphilip99 from vast shades of song nominations, comes in many forms that capture all aspects of the colour, alabaster to brilliant

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In avant-garde, colours, blues, country, dance, disco, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, colours, white, Marty Robbins, Jacky, It's A Beautiful Day, Jane Siberry, The dB's, The Mutton Birds, Super Furry Animals, Chilly Gonzales, Public Service Broadcasting, Day One, The Big Bopper, Vampire Weekend, Cat Stevens, SIX60, The Tubes, Belly, Ken Nordine, The Cult, Laid Back, La Dusseldorf, Laurie Anderson, philipphilip99
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Playlists: songs with notable key changes

October 9, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Enter the key of … The Fifth Dimension

Enter the key of … The Fifth Dimension

Through twists and turns of love, from cleverly hidden changes to sudden stepped surprises, drawing from last week’s topic, guest philipphilip99 moves us through the emotional keys with two perfect playlists that illustrate this songwriting skill

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In avant-garde, blues, country, dance, disco, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, instrumentals, indie, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, rock, songs, soul Tags songs, playlists, key changes, songwriting, REM, Elton John, Mina, Beyonce, The Beatles, paul simon, Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Linda Lewis, The Fifth Dimension, Jimmy Webb, Tommy Roe, The Ventures, Talking Heads, Petula Clark, Berlin (band), Coldplay, Super Furry Animals, Portishead, Booker T and the MGs, Boston, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Belinda Carlisle, Bros, philipphilip99
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Playlists: striking songs that end albums

June 20, 2018 Peter Kimpton
How does Two Suns end up? Bat For Lashes is joined by Scott Walker

How does Two Suns end up? Bat For Lashes is joined by Scott Walker

Where will it all end? With medicine, moonlight, sleep or a starship? All of these and much more, as our guest playlist writer ParaMhor picks two superb sets of conclusions to hundreds of nominated songs

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In blues, classical, country, dance, electronica, folk, gospel, indie, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, punk, rock, songs, soul Tags Songs, playlists, endings, Julian Barnes, Neneh Cherry, Pink Floyd, Dexys Midnight Runners, Lorde, FKA Twigs, Lynden David Hall, Bat For Lashes, The Triffids, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Starship, Love, The Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, REM, The Stone Roses, The Zombies, Roxy Music, Jimi Tenor, Kool & The Gang, Super Furry Animals, Echo and the Bunnymen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, Funkadelic, David Bowie, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Scott Walker, ParaMhor
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Easter egg songs? Find those hidden or ghost album tracks …

April 13, 2017 Peter Kimpton
What Easter egg has Jarvis Cocker hidden?

What Easter egg has Jarvis Cocker hidden?

Hidden tracks between vinyl grooves to ghost tracks in pre-gaps or at the end of albums on CD, this week's Easter special is all about finding those secret treasures, jokey or serious, but always tasty

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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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