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Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services
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MEMORIALS - In The Weeds
Song of the Day: Canterbury’s innovative experimental pop duo Verity Susman and Matthew Simms return with a striking, quirky, restless folk/dub/krautrock/pop/electronica fusion about finding yourself bogged down and tangled in knots, out on Fire Records
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Home Counties’ upcoming album, Humdrum
Song of the Day: Bristling with anxiety and dry wit, social misfires, self-sabotage and success-envy, a striking, sardonic, synth-heavy, distinctive new single the London six-piece band in the title track from their next album, produced by Al Doyle of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, and out on 24 October via Submarine Cat Records
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Modern Nature
Song of the Day: A gentle, clean sounding, krautrock-ish Can-like new single by the Cambridge, UK band with a double-edged theme “about the men we're conditioned to respect and follow and the people who inspire us to think differently”. It heralds their forthcoming new album, The Heat Warps, out on 29 August via Bella Union
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Stereolab’s upcoming album Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Song of the Day: An instantly catchy new number with abstract, philosophical lyrics by the veteran Anglo-French kraurocky synth-pop band of Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier and co heralding their first studio album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, out 23 May on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records
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Mandrake Handshake - King Cnut
Song of the Day: A mesmeric spread of instruments stir this potent cauldron of a new single by the London band of “flowerkraut”, a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, here inspired by the 11th-century Norse ruler of Britain, released on the cult indie label Tip Top Recordings
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La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
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Melts’ upcoming new album, Field Theory
Song of the Day: A storming new single of frenetic, krautrock-electronic-psych-rock by the Dublin band, with scintillating synth lines and the charismatic, cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny, heralding their upcoming second album, Field Theory, out on 12 April on Fuzz Club
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Borough Council - Prescribed
Song of the Day: With a mesmeric, rhythmic, riffing krautrock momentum and some echoes of the Cure, a dark but fresh, eclectic debut the Hastings trio of Haydn Ackerley, Joe Ackerley and Tom Healey
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En Attendant Ana’s new album, Principia
Song of the Day: From the recently released album, Principia, an infectious and beautiful fusion of folk-pop and momentum-building krautrock and echoes of Stereolab and Nico by the Parisian indie quintet fronted by singer-songwriter Margaux Bouchaudon
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Kali Horse
Song of the Day: Sensual, mesmerising, liquid, echoey, ethereal, psychedelic krautrock-pop with oscillating drum rhythm, beautiful rumblings, rippling harp and vocals by the Toronto duo Desiree Das Gupta and Sam Maloney
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Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
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The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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Stereolab’s forthcoming new compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks
Song of the Day: Newly released for a forthcoming rarities compilation, but originally written in 1995, this classic krautrock-influenced number by the avant-pop band of Laetitia Sadier and co was originally written for to complement a sculpture made by the band’s artist collaborator, Charles Long, on 1995’s Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
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Melt’s forthcoming debut album Maelstrum
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming debut album Maelstrom, a scintillating storm of a song mixing psychedelia, space rock, krautrock, Hammond organ and driving guitar and vocals by the band from Dublin
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FredAtlast aka Fredrik Wallin
Song of the Day: Catchy krautrock-inspired indie pop by Little Dragon Swedish bassist Fredrik Wallin with an infectious beat, drone note, and lyrics that are “a meditation on impermanence and our way of dealing with loss. A plea to our nearest to be: nearer, dearer and more daring.”
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Song of the Day: This blistering new meta-song that also lampoons building developers comes from the London band’s forthcoming album Forest Of Your Problems. It’s a frenzy of krautrock-electronic-pop with echoes of The Fall and Suicide
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Anna Friedberg on the cover of her latest EP
Song of the Day: A couple of tracks from the latest EP by the London and Berlin band who mix electronica with a rhythmically frenzied krautrock style, one with copious cowbell, the other a catchy pop song about freeing yourself to let go of everything and anything
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
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The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess
Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person
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