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Song of the Day: Bonobo - Dark Will Fall (featuring Jacob Lusk) (Lazarus soundtrack)

March 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Bonobo - Dark Will Fall (featuring Jacob Lusk)

Song of the Day: Stirring, moody, beautiful new work by the Brighton musician Simon Green, joined by the exquisite voice of the Gabriels singer in this song from the soundtrack to the new series Lazarus by Japanese anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe, out via Adult Swim

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In 2025, electronica, experimental, film soundtrack Tags Bonobo, Simon Green, Jacob Lusk, Gabriels, Adult Swim, Shinichirō Watanabe, songs, song of the day, soundtracks
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Song of the Day: Celeste - This is Who I Am

November 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Celeste - This is Who I Am

Song of the Day: The welcome return of the golden-voiced British soul singer from Brighton feels like another timeless classic – slow falling bassline, soaring coda, powerfully emotive, with piano and orchestra, it comes from the new TV drama version of The Day of The Jackal

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In 2024, film soundtrack, pop, soul Tags Celeste, songs, song of the day, Universal, Polydor
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Song of the Day: Storefront Church - Coal

June 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Storefront Chuch’s forthcoming new album, Ink & Oil

Song of the Day: Dark, cinematic, orchestral, vividly disturbing but highly evocative new work by the LA-based composer, singer and musician Lukas Frank taken from his forthcoming album Ink & Oil

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Song of the Day: Oneohtrix Point Never - A Barely Lit Path

September 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records

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In 2023, alternative, classical, electronica, experimental, film soundtrack Tags Oneohtrix Point Never, Warp Records, Daniel Lopatin, Ridge Valley Digital, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise

August 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise

Song of the Day: The London band who specialise in songs sampling archive footage return with a stirring, nostalgic number about the early days of radio broadcasting, in a version played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and the title track of their forthcoming new live album

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In 2023, alternative, experimental, film soundtrack, classical, pop Tags Public Service Broadcasting, songs, song of the day, Test Card Recordings
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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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In 2022, 2023, alternative, ambient, electronica, experimental, film soundtrack Tags Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Milan Records, songs, song of the day, Thundercat
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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - Ain't No Grave (from Peaky Blinders)

April 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi’s new single, from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack, is among other covers on a new EP

Song of the Day: Taken from the soundtrack to the final series of the Peaky Blinders TV drama, a powerful new cover version by the British singer and guitarist of the traditional gospel and blues number attributed to Claude Ely (1922–1978) from Virginia

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In 2022, blues, film soundtrack, gospel, rock Tags Anna Calvi, Claude Ely, Johnny Cash, Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy, soundtracks, Domino Records
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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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In 2022, ambient, experimental, film soundtrack, soul Tags Son Lux, Ryan Lott, Moses Sumney, Mitski, David Byrne, film, film soundtrack
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Song of the Day: Ty Segall - Lawrence Welk III (from Whirlybird soundtrack)

March 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Whirlybird soundtrack, written by Ty Segall

Song of the Day: Fabulously inventive and evocative instrumental track with staccato guitar and percussion by the Californian musician, taken from the soundtrack the 2021 documentary film Whirlybird, now released on Drag City Records

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In 2021, 2022, film soundtrack, psychedelia, rock Tags Ty Segall, songs, song of the day, instrumentals, film, soundtracks, documentary, Los Angeles, Zoey Tur, Marika Gerrard, journalism
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Song of the Day: Tindersticks - Both Sides of the Blade

February 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Tindersticks

Song of the Day: Welcome return of unmistakably haunting voice of Stuart Staples and band with this song specially written for Claire Denis' new film Avec Amour et Acharnament starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon

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Song of the Day: Marko Nyberg - Drift

December 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Measured compositions: Drift by Marco Nyberg

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s entropy-themed song by Big Thief, a cinematic recent single by the Helsinki-based Finnish electronic composer with a rippling, driving, dynamic number capturing a sense of things drifting apart then coming back together again

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Song of the Day: Hilotrons - Theme from Lonely Cinema

June 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema

Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema

Song of the Day: Following yesterdays’ Cinétique, inspired by films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, horror, science fiction, and westerns, Canadian Mike Dubue’s exciting, evocative instrumental is about disconnection from reality while watching the world through a screen, and comes from trilogy of records titled Lonely Cinema

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In 2021, film soundtrack, experimental, classical Tags songs, song of the day, Hilotrons, instrumentals, cinema, Mike Dubue
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Akira Ifukube - Japanese Rhapsody / Symphonic Fantasia No 1 (Godzilla)

December 2, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and Godzilla

Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and Godzilla

Song of the Day: Following on from Hikaru Hayashi, we dip into the next Japanese composer, a prolific writer of film scores best for the famous Godzilla monster movies, as well hundreds of other classical pieces

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In 1935, 1983, film soundtrack, classical Tags songs, song of the day, instrumentals, film, film soundtrack, Akira Ifukube, Godzilla, Igor Stravinsky
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Hikaru Hayashi – La Mort De L'Enfant (Theme from The Naked Island)

December 1, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)

Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)

Song of the Day: Following Joe Hisaichi, another distinguished Japanese composer who among his many works wrote the beautiful theme from a 1960 film without dialogue directed by Kaneto Shindo

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In 1960, classical, traditional, film soundtrack Tags songs, song of the day, Hikaru Hayashi, film, film soundtrack, Japan, Kaneto Shindo
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Forbidden Colours) / The Last Emperor / Andata

November 28, 2018 Peter Kimpton
David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Song of the Day: Linking our last entry with not only the recently deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci and also David Bowie, some exquisite music by the great Japanese composer, pianist and actor

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In 1983, 1987, classical, electronica, film soundtrack Tags songs, theme music, film soundtrack, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Bowie, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Andrei Tarkovsky
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Stomu Yamash'ta – Wind Words /Memory of Hiroshima from The Man Who Fell to Earth - Nicolas Roeg / David Bowie

November 26, 2018 Peter Kimpton
David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, music by Stomu Yamashta

David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, music by Stomu Yamashta

Song of the Day: With the passing of two great directors, Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci, a beautiful piece of music from a film by the former, starring David Bowie but with music by the Japanese composer

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The Kinks – Some Mother's Son

November 13, 2018 Peter Kimpton
One version of the cover The Kinks’ album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

One version of the cover The Kinks’ album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Song of the Day: Next in a week of songs dedicated to the First World War Armistice centenary, a deeply sad and vivid song by Ray Davies about the fleeting life of a young soldier killed in 1916 from the 1969 album, Arthur

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Burt Bacharach – South American Getaway (from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid)

November 7, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Robert Redford and Paul Newman making their last stand in the 1969 film

Robert Redford and Paul Newman making their last stand in the 1969 film

Song of the Day: Today’s date, 7 November, is significant in all sorts of ways - elections, revolutions, births, deaths, but it’s the day in 1908 when two of America’s most famous outlaws were reportedly killed on the run in Bolivia

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New Albums …

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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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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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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 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

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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