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Song of the Day: The Weather Station – Atlantic

January 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station

Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station

Song of the Day: With echoes of Talk Talk, a powerful buildup bass, drums, piano and flute flourishes and the voice of Tamara Lindeman, aka Toronto’s The Weather Station, are hallmarks of huge maturity in her music

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In 2021, 2017 Tags The Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman, Fat Possum
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Christian Fitness – National Insurance

November 24, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Christian Fitness aka Andrew Falkous

Christian Fitness aka Andrew Falkous

Song of the Day: “Hard work is a trap.” Continuing the employment theme, an explosion of hilarious, caustic wit and rapier guitar riffs of angry moral decency from Cardiff-based Andrew "Falco" Falkous

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In 2017, pop, indie, post-punk, rock, punk Tags songs, song of the day, Christian Fitness, employment, work, Andrew 'Falco' Falkous, Future of the Left, Mclusky
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Son House … to House of the Rising Sun – various

September 17, 2018 Peter Kimpton
The Animals may have done the best-known cover version, but there are arguably others than better it

The Animals may have done the best-known cover version, but there are arguably others than better it

To some it’s a masterpiece, to others a dirge, but from 17th century England to 20th century New Orleans, with artists that include Woody Guthrie, Nina Simone, The Animals and alt-J it’s a song that keeps evolving

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In 1933, 1931, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1981, 2017, 1991, 1946, traditional, swing, soul, rock, jazz, indie, gospel, folk, country, blues, avant garde, Americana Tags songs, song of the day, traditional, The Animals, Eric Burdon, Alan Lomax, folk, New Orleans, Tom Clarence Ashley, Gwen Foster, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Libby Holman, Josh White, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Nina Simone, Johnny Halliday, Frijig Pink, Dolly Parton, Doc Watson, Five Finger Death Punch, alt-J
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Randy Newman – Putin

July 16, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Putin takes Trump for a ride 

Putin takes Trump for a ride 

Song of the Day: After Rocky Mountain Mike's humour take on Donald Trump and the far right, another great satirist focuses on the Russian leader's ego through the prism of musical hall and ragtime

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In 2017, musical theatre, showtunes Tags songs, song of the day, Randy Newman, Rocky Mountain Mike, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, politics, musical theatre, ragtime
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Mattiel – Count Your Blessings / Whites Of Their Eyes

May 29, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Mattiel

Mattiel

Song of the Day: Today's entry comes from the the singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, who is a designer by day and a performer by night, and here her rock-pop-soul songs reflect this, making multiple reference to colours

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In soul, rock, pop, 2017 Tags songs, song of the day, Mattiel, Randy Michael, Jonah Swilley, Burger Records, Heavenly, Jack White
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IDLES – Stendhal Syndrome / Mother

May 8, 2018 Peter Kimpton
From the cover of IDLES' 2017 album Brutalism

From the cover of IDLES' 2017 album Brutalism

Song of the Day: Continuing a  threshold-crossing theme, let's go over into a different edginess, moving from LCD Soundsystem's ironic music lists to amusing art anger and disturbing grief from the Bristol punk band

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In 2017, punk Tags songs, song of the day, IDLES, art, education, austerity, Conservative party, Joe Talbot, Adam Devonshire
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Flat Worms – Pearl

April 25, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Flat Worms: playing fast as greyhound

Flat Worms: playing fast as greyhound

Song of the Day: After the exuberant joy of The Damned's New Rose, we move four decades forward to an equally blistering sound from the LA post-punk trio with a song that has a similar theme

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In 2017, post-punk, rock, indie Tags songs, song of the day, Flat Worms, Castle Face Records, Will Ivy, Justin Sullivan, Tim Helman, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall
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Ezra Furman – Love You So Bad

February 8, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Ezra Furman never fails to be entertaining on stage

Ezra Furman never fails to be entertaining on stage

A beautifully upbeat, mischievous, wistful, passionate number from the new album, Transangelic Exodus by the Chicago indie rock singer-songwriter, in which "the past is the past, but the present's nothing without it"

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In rock, pop, indie, 2017, 2018 Tags songs, song of the day, Ezra Furman
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Aldous Harding – Elation / Imagining My Man

January 17, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Aldous Harding

Aldous Harding

Song of the Day: Another sublime voice, and here two songs from the New Zealander, whose voice coils out in a still, acoustic guitar and piano, and reveals raw, intimate emotions awash with melancholic black humour

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In 2017, folk, indie Tags songs, song of the day, Aldous Harding, acoustic guitar, folk, Nico, Joanna Newsom, 4AD
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Baxter Dury - Miami / Prince of Tears

January 11, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Baxter Dury … a different chip of the old blockhead

Baxter Dury … a different chip of the old blockhead

Song of the Day: Sounding uncannily like his dad Ian in the speaking department, but producing entirely different music and his own, more relaxed style, the opening and title tracks from his 2017 album are deeply personal and still laced with aggression, irony, self-loathing and dark humour

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Weaves – Slicked

January 9, 2018 Peter Kimpton
The mischievous Weaves

The mischievous Weaves

Song of the Day: How do you create music that's brilliantly clever but also accessible, deeply meaningful but tongue-in-cheek shallow? The indefinably wonderful Canadian band seem to have the recipe

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In 2017, indie Tags song of the day, songs, Weaves, Jasmyn Burke, Morgan Walters
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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Must Be The Moon / Dancing Is The Best Revenge

December 20, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Unstoppable … !!! work up a sweat on stage

Unstoppable … !!! work up a sweat on stage

Song of the Day: It is hard to find any material more energising than the music of the New York dance-postpunk band originally from Sacramento, California, who have been delivering blistering live performances for more than 20 years

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In 2007, 2017, dance, funk, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, disco Tags songs, song of the day, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), dance, postpunk
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Human Pyramids – Louise

December 18, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Human Pyramids: Paul Russell and friends

Human Pyramids: Paul Russell and friends

Song of the Day: Surviving the hectic regime that runs up to Xmas? For those struggling to get through that to-do list, keep up with socialising and stave off illness, after a short break, this week on SOTD we're embarking on a series of songs to invigorate the body, mind and spirit

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In classical, pop, prog rock, 2017 Tags songs, song of the day, instrumentals, Human Pyramids, Paul Russell
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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal / Third of May / Ōdaigahara

December 14, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold

Song of the Day: Moving into new fox territory, let's enjoy two powerful and emotionally charged tracks spanning the career so far of the Seattle indie folk band that exemplify their distinctive vocal harmony style

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In indie, folk, 2008, 2017 Tags song of the day, songs, Fleet Foxes, Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset, Josh Tillman, Father John Misty, art, painting, Goya, Pieter Bruegel The Elder, friendship
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Bdy_Prts – Cold Shoulder / Take It To The Top

December 6, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Bdy_Prts's Jenny and Jill take it to the top, and beyond …

Bdy_Prts's Jenny and Jill take it to the top, and beyond …

Song of the Day: From our recent hoof-themed trot on SOTD, it's time to take a related sidestep to similar body parts in the from of the indie pop Glasgow band fronted by the twinkle-toed Jenny Reeve and Jill O'Sullivan

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In 2017, indie, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Bdy_Prts, Glasgow, The Reindeer Section, Sparrow and the Workshop, Arab Strap, Strike The Colours
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Deerhoof – Come Down Here & Say That / The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue

December 5, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Deerhoof

Deerhoof

Song of the Day: Our continuing theme certainly behooves a song or two from this wonderfully quirky band hailing from San Francisco

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In indie, prog rock, psychedelia, 2016, 2017 Tags songs, song of the day, Deerhoof, Greg Saunier, Satomi Matsuzaki, Stereolab, indie, Lætitia Sadier
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The Hare and Hoofe - White Blindness

December 3, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Look out, it's the Hare and Hoofe …

Look out, it's the Hare and Hoofe …

Song of the Day: Scampering on from yesterday's Beth Jean Houghton and her Hooves, let's indulge in a bit of Sunday silliness in the beautiful shape of more fast moving animal feet, this Folkestone-formed  five-piece

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The Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho

November 27, 2017 Peter Kimpton
The Mountain Goats, fronted by John Darnielle

The Mountain Goats, fronted by John Darnielle

Song of the Day: With 16 studio albums since 1994, so many interesting, varied and clever songs to choose from the California indie-folk band fronted by John Darnielle, but how about this goth parody from 2017?

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In 2017, alt-country, folk, goth, indie Tags songs, song of the day, The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle, goth, indie, folk, apocalypse, Batman, Nashville Symphony Chorus
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Tall Poppies – Now

November 24, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Tall Poppies. Today's pick.

Tall Poppies. Today's pick.

Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing standing theme, a different take by these pop indie Australian identical twin sisters about being stood up by a date – on a weekday evening – and not wanting to wait until Friday …

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Nicole Atkins – A Little Crazy / Listen Up

November 12, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins

Song of the Day: Two beautiful songs for a Sunday from a new album, Goodnight Rhonda Lee, by the New Jersey-born singer who possesses one of the most tender, powerful and soulful voices around today

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In 2017, soul, alt-country Tags songs, song of the day, Nicole Atkins, Roy Orbison, Brill Building era, Chris Isaak
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 17, 2025
Picture Parlour: The Parlour
Nov 17, 2025

New album: Following last year’s EP Face in the Picture, a fabulously stylish, smart, swaggering glam-rock-pop debut LP by the Manchester-formed, London-based band fronted by the impressively raspy, gritty, vibratro delivery of Liverpudlian vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and distinctive riffs from North Yorkshire-born guitar Ella Risi

Nov 17, 2025
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Nov 16, 2025
FKA twigs: EUSEXUA Afterglow
Nov 16, 2025

New album: Springing from her much lauded third LP Eusexua, out in January this year, and following a hugely successful and spectacular tour, the innovative British experimental pop artist, dancer and producer extends her palette of ethereal, otherworldly and sensual creations in this new, more carnal, harder, beat-filled parallel release

Nov 16, 2025
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Nov 15, 2025
Celeste: Woman of Faces
Nov 15, 2025

New album: The outstanding British singer returns, a long four years after her acclaimed debut Not Your Muse, with a classy, passionate set of nine, simmering, smoky, rippling dramatic, timeless numbers in which her vocal prowess is magnificently on show on songs playing on the theme of self and identity

Nov 15, 2025

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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025
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Nov 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Ellie O'Neill - Bohemia
Nov 30, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poetic finger-picking debut folk single with a mystical, distantly stormy twist by the Dublin-based Irish singer-songwriter from County Meath, out now on St Itch Records

Nov 30, 2025
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Nov 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Danalogue - Sonic Hypnosis
Nov 29, 2025

Song of the Day: A full flavour of future-past with mesmeric, euphoric retro acid house and electronica in this new single by Daniel Leavers, producer and the founding member of The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, out now on Castles In Space

Nov 29, 2025
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Nov 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Cardinals - Barbed Wire
Nov 28, 2025

Song of the Day: Another striking, passionate, punchy, catchy single by the Irish postpunk/indie-folk-rock band from Cork, heralding their upcoming debut album, Masquerade, out on 13 February via So Young Records

Nov 28, 2025
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Nov 27, 2025
Song of the Day: Frank Popp Ensemble (with Paul Weller) - Right Before My Eyes
Nov 27, 2025

Song of the Day: A strong, soaring, emotive, soulful release by the German artist co-written by British singer and former Jam frontman who here sings and plays guitar, the lyrics about witnessing the increasing injustices and demise of the world, out on Unique Records / Schubert Music Europe

Nov 27, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Song of the Day: Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Nov 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Using a musical metaphor, beautiful, crisply rhythmical, soaring piano and atmospheric indie-pop-folk about facing your fears by the Dutch/British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album The Lighthouse, out on 23 January 2026 on Tiny Tiger Records

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Melanie Baker - Sad Clown
Nov 25, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, candid, cathartic indie-grunge-pop by the British singer-songwriter from Cumbria in a melancholy but oddly uplifting emotional work-through of depression, love and exhaustion, out now on TAMBOURHINOCEROS

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - Die Happy
Nov 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Luxuriant, breathy, femme-fatale dream pop with a dark, southern gothic, Lana del Rey-inspired, live-fast-die-young theme, and stylish video by the 25-year-old British singer-songwriter from Grantham, out on Polydor/Universal

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 23, 2025
Song of the Day: These New Puritans - The Other Side
Nov 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A delicate, tender, and unusually minimalist single, their first since this year’s acclaimed album Crooked Wing, by the Southend-on-Sea-born Barnett twins, here with Jack on improvised piano and George on drums and a soprano register wordless vocal, out on Domino Records

Nov 23, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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