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Song of the Day: The Orb - It's Coming Soon

September 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Orb - It's Coming Soon

Song of the Day: The veteran British ambient-electronica group of Alex Paterson and co, best known for Little Fluffy Clouds return with a gentle, arpeggiated number with Andy Caine on vocals, heralding the forthcoming album Buddhist Hipsters, out on 10 October via Cooking Vinyl

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Song of the Day: Blood Orange - The Field (featuring feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar)

June 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blood Orange - The Field

Song of the Day: An eclectic collaboration fusing soulful, warm, soothing, summery chamber pop and clubby, click beats by the British singer-songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes (formerly Lightspeed Champion) with a variety of guests

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Song of the Day: Lucy Gooch - Clouds

May 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lucy Gooch

Song of the Day: A gorgeously soft, serene, floaty, pastoral, ethereal new single about self-renewal, inspired by rain, the simple act of drawing a bath and “particles forming”, using electronica, piano and textured, soaring vocals by the York artist, plus delicious guest sounds from cornetist Harry Furniss, heralding Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, out on 6 June via Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Maria Somerville - Stonefly

March 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Maria Somerville

Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Ethel Cain - Punish

November 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ethel Cain - Punish

Song of the Day: Haunting, ethereal, dark, spiritual, otherworldly, and influenced by Georgian chant and Southern Goth, the latest single by the artist Hayden Anhedönia from Tallahassee, Florida, heralds her forthcoming new project, Perverts, out on Daughters of Cain Records

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Song of the Day: Fie Eike - Fluid

August 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Fie Eike

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, emotive, evocative and cinematic new number about how boundaries become fluid in our existential pursuit of belonging. by the Copenhagen-based composer and singer Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, creating a soundscape from piano, electronica, field recordings from nature, and above all her soaring, beautiful voice

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Song of the Day: Marysia Osu - Seatime

July 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Marysia Osu. Photo: Ella Pavlides

Song of the Day: Gorgeously evocative and mesmeric music from the harpist who combines her instrument with electronica and ocean sounds. It heralds her debut album, Harp, Beats & Dreams, out on 18 October via Brownswood Recordings

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Song of the Day: Memory Of Jane - Loose Lines

January 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Memory of Jane - Loose Lines

Song of the Day: Rippling, intricate drums and bass, soothing synths and understated vocals come in this highly original recent single by the French/British multi-instrumentalist Maïlé Doremus-Cook, and is produced by Oli Bayston

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Song of the Day: Sahalé - Djiin

April 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony

Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best

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Song of the Day: Fire-Toolz - I Couldn't Have Been BoRn At ThE wRoNg TiMe Because I Was Never Even Born LOL!

March 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fire-Toolz’s forthcoming album I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There

Song of the Day: An entrancing, unwieldy energy ball of almost indescribable eclecticism comes with this experimental fusion of electronica, pop, dark metal, prog, jazz and ambience by the Chicago producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid

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Song of the Day: Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian - Grains (wee Paulownia Wood)

January 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ryuichi Sakamoto reworkings tribute album featuring a variety of guests including David Sylvian and Thundercat

Song of the Day: Beautiful, strange, atmospheric, tender, rattling and evocative, a reworking of an older track by the legendary Japanese musician and composer by old friend and collaborator Sylvian, from a Sakamoto tribute album, To The Moon And Back

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Song of the Day: John Cale - The Story of Blood (featuring Weyes Blood)

November 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale

Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering

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Song of the Day: Brian Eno – There Were Bells

August 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency

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Song of the Day: Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers

July 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers

A beautiful four-part piece by the Scottish musician and composer blending the sounds of piano, harp, cello, violin and vocals with electronics as part of the summer 2022 Superbloom project played at site of wildflowers grown around the moat of The Tower of London

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Song of the Day: Son Lux and Moses Sumney - Fence

April 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once

Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals

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Song of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love

September 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love

Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love

Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula

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Song of the Day: Llyr - Powergraze 3D (Binaural headphones version)

April 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Llyr’s EP: 3D Reworks 003

Llyr’s EP: 3D Reworks 003

Song of the Day: With surging voluminous dynamics and a huge range of sounds, an astonishing electronica experience that requires listening through headphones from the EP 3D Reworks 003 by Berlin-based artist Gareth Williams

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Dralms – Plants Behind Glass

April 17, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Cover art of Dralms’ new album, Love Writes Itself

Cover art of Dralms’ new album, Love Writes Itself

Song of the Day: Delicate, atmospheric, ghostly, rather beautiful pop with a melancholy, dark humour, this new single via solo project moniker of Canada's Christopher Smith comes from the new album Love Writes Itself

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Islet – Good Grief

February 5, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Islet

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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Vanishing Twin – You Are Not An Island

December 18, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Vanishing Twin

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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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

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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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