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Song of the Day: Doechii - Anxiety

March 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Doechii - Anxiety

Song of the Day: Re-released and re-recorded after her more recent success with last year’s album Alligator Bites Never Heal, a fabulous, sharp, inventive number from the Tampa, Florida rapper and singer, sampling Gotye’s 2011 hit Somebody That I Used To Know

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Song of the Day: Jordana – Reason

January 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Jordana

Jordana

Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas

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Amy Rigby: The President Can't Read

November 3, 2020 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: On US election day, in a song that came out last year, a pertinent reminder of what kind of sham incumbent is in the White House, and what problems must be addressed, by the veteran New York singer-songwriter

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Clémentine March – Le Continent

February 28, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Cover of Clémentine March’s new album

Cover of Clémentine March’s new album

Song of the Day: Both fresh and yet retro, this beautifully shuffling number by the London-based French singer-songwriter is ‘a personal account of a traveller who is trying to find her way everywhere in an uncertain world’

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Skye Wallace – Body Lights The Way

February 24, 2020 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: Is there gold in those hills? Perhaps not the precious metal kind, but the story of a dominant sex worker in the Dawson City, Yukon gold rush is the inspiration for this indie rock band fronted by the Toronto singer

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Freya Beer – Dear Sweet Rosie

February 21, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Freya Beer

Freya Beer

Song of the Day: The thunder of hoof, hot, heavy breath, and the swish of mane, today’s song by the London-born singer-songwriter is inspired by Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty and Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘An Asphodel’

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Jehnny Beth – I'm The Man / Anna Calvi – As A Man

February 17, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Anna Calvi and Jehnny Beth

Anna Calvi and Jehnny Beth

Song of the Day: Two songs for comparison, from the French and English female artists respectively, both with powerful voices and here commenting with different perspectives on gender and masculinity

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Islet – Good Grief

February 5, 2020 Peter Kimpton
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Islet

Song of the Day: From yesterday’s Cate Le Bon to another Welsh band, a new song by the Powys trio from their forthcoming LP Eyelet, a mesmerising experimental whirl of electro-pop psychedelia

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Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox – Secretary

February 4, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon

Bradford Cox and Cate Le Bon

Song of the Day: From their recent collaborative EP, Myths 004, a wonderfully offbeat piece by the unique Welsh singer-songwriter and frontman of the US Indie rock band Deerhunter, with a tale of fractured love and communication between secretary and boss

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Euros Childs – Screw It Up

January 31, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Euros Childs

Euros Childs

Song of the Day: On Brexit day, when UK officially leaves the European Union, a new, silly song from the ex-frontman of Gorky’s Zygotic Minzi that may have no connection at all, but the artist name and label – National Elf – has a certain irony

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Róisín Murphy – Narcissus

January 27, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Róisín Murphy makes some shapes

Róisín Murphy makes some shapes

Song of the Day: Old-school 70s disco with a fresh twist from the brilliant and eccentric Irish singer-songwriter, producer and art pop specialist, with a video inspired by Italian TV star Raffaella Carrà

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Hann – Checkout Girl

January 17, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Hann’s Hannah

Hann’s Hannah

Song of the Day: A chirpy, cheeky, brilliantly funny new number by the Manchester band, fronted by Hannah, about an annoying guy chatting up a girl at supermarket till, holding up all the other trolleys, is filled with snappy lines and catchy riffs

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Vanishing Twin – You Are Not An Island

December 18, 2019 Peter Kimpton
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Vanishing Twin

Song of the Day: After Agnes Obel’s Island of Doom, we take a different metaphorical direction with a song about not being alone, from the Vanishing Twin’s acclaimed 2019 album The Age Of Immunology – “we are side by side”

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Agnes Obel – Island Of Doom

December 16, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Agnes Obel

Agnes Obel

Song of the Day: This title might appear to be the perfect description of a depressed, post-election Britain, but this exquisite song by the Danish singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album Myopia, is about the death of someone close to her

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Tennis – Runner

November 25, 2019 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: Anyone for Tennis? No need to work up a sweat, it’s just the latest otherworldly single by the indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, the husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley

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Pregoblin – Anna (Flowers Won't Grow) / Combustion

November 22, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Pregoblin’s Alex, Jessica and friend

Pregoblin’s Alex, Jessica and friend

Song of the Day: The latest single, like the previous by the south London band, fizzes with pop-funk maturity, a piano-led soulful disco number from Jessica Winter and former White Fat Family member Alex Sebley

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Marry Waterson and Emily Barker – Little Hits of Dopamine

November 19, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Cover of Marry Waterson & Emily Barker’s 2019 album, A Window To Other Ways

Cover of Marry Waterson & Emily Barker’s 2019 album, A Window To Other Ways

Song of the Day: A quirky, beautiful reminder that endless scrolling is secondary to real love, in the form of folky, analogue, acoustic duet between from a member of the Waterson-Knight-Carthy clan and the the Australian singer

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Anna Meredith – Paramour / Inhale Exhale

November 12, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS

Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS

Song of the Day: Two numbers from the Scottish composer who has a beguiling ability to mix multiple genres, from classical to pop, and here from her new album FIBS, creates an extraordinary world of beats, electronica and melodies

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Warmduscher - Midnight Dipper / I Got Friends

November 8, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.

Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.

Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.

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Dana Gavanski – Catch / One By One

November 6, 2019 Peter Kimpton
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Dana Gavanski

Song of the Day: Two beautifully paced songs by the Toronto singer-songwriter who has a style that transcends styles and eras, reminiscent of Joan Baez and Cate Le Bon, but with her her own particular maturity and stillness

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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
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Apr 16, 2026
Juni Habel: Evergreen In Your Mind
Apr 16, 2026

New album: Exquisite, delicate, ethereal finger-picking folk by the Norwegian singer-songwriter in this third album, one that poetically and musically inhabits a mysterious half-dream state flitting between two worlds

Apr 16, 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
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Apr 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - Crumb
Apr 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, playful, gently humorous, self-deprecating experimental indie pop by the inventive transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, with a number about having a fragile crush on someone, and their first new music of 2026, out on Submarine Cat Records

Apr 18, 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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