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Lambchop’s upcoming album, Punching The Clown
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
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Beck is back … with Ride Lonesome
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
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Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter
Song of the Day: A mysterious, semi-whispered, darkly enchanting and intimate experimental country ballad in reference to her husband Jeremy Dufrene by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, and the latest to herald her upcoming tenth studio album Stove, out on Interscope/ Universal
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Buck Meek’s upcoming album, The Mirror
Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD
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King Hannah’s latest double-A single
Song of the Day: Deliciously slow, rich, warm, bittersweet folk-country-Americana by the Liverpool duo of Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle in this double A-side paired with a gorgeous number by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, out on City Slang
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Forever, I've Been Being Born, the latest album by Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter
Song of the Day: A beautiful, shimmering sound and reflective, poignant lyrics and by the Seattle-based alt-country singer-songwriter, joined on this track by Nashville’s Marissa Nadler, and taken from the recently released album Forever, I've Been Being Born, out on Ideologic Organ
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The Paper Kites’ upcoming album
Song of the Day: A beautiful, reflective number by the alternative folk-rock band from Melbourne fronted by Sam Bentley, heralding their seventh studio album If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, out on 23 January via Nettwerk Music Group
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Mavis Staples
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow, moving, country-style cover by the legendary American soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist of the 1995 song by Sparklehorse written by Mark Linkous (who passed away in 2010), and the title track heralding Mavis’s upcoming album out on 7 November via ANTI Records
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Robert Plant’s upcoming new album, Saving Grace
Song of the Day: A fabulously alluring cover by the Led Zeppelin frontman of the Low song written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk, joined here by Plant’s band Sacred Grace, featuring the sound of the cuatro, and heralding the forthcoming album Sacred Grace, out on 26 September via Nonesuch Records
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Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union
Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union
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Ethel Cain’s upcoming album, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Song of the Day: Liltingly gentle, and textured by guitars, pedal steel, fiddle and banjo, this achingly beautiful love song by the Tallahassee, Florida singer-songwriter Hayden Anhedonia, is the first single from the sophomore album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, out on 8 August via Daughters of Cain
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Wednesday - Elderberry Wine
Song of the Day: A Wednesday for a Wednesday. Beautiful, bittersweet country and creek rock by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, their first new music since their breakthrough 2023 album Rat Saw God, out on Dead Oceans
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Lana Del Rey - Henry, Come On
Song of the Day: The enigmatic American singer-songwriter returns after a two-year absence with a beautiful country-inflected new single, heralding her forthcoming next album, The Right Person Will Stay, out on Polydor/Interscope/Universal
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Getting the job done: Chappell Roan
Song of the Day: After the huge success of 2023’s debut LP The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, the Missouri singer-songwriter and queen of catchy pop and the candid principled scourge of online trolls channels a different genre with a mischievously lesbian country number, with added ironic multi-role video
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TORRES and Julien Baker
Song of the Day: A witty, droll but also beautiful, bittersweet country number with TORRES, aka MacKenzie Scott, on the lead vocal, with lyrics about a girl she had a crush on in her youth and the resulting conflict with her mother, and heralding the LP Send A Prayer My Way, out 18 April on Matador Records
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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, agile, indie-folk-alt-country new single by the Canadian-Japanese artist, heralding, after previous EPs, her forthcoming debut album, SAYA, due out in February 2025 on Dirty Hit Records
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Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Ace combination: Orville Peck and Beck
Song of the Day: An irresistibly catchy horn-infused bluesy-funk-country Vegas/Elvis-style ace combination featuring the masked South African US and Canada-based country star and the acclaimed Californian alt-rocker in a high-rolling tribute to Presley’s ‘68 Comeback Special
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Alex Izenberg. Photo: Giraffe Studios
Song of the Day: Delicious, swooning, beautifully gentle melodies and subtle elements of country and psychedelia distinguish this pair of singles by the Los Angeles artist, heralding his forthcoming fourth LP, Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, out on 26th July via Weird World / Domino Records
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