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Song of the Day: Jacob Alon - Don't Fall Asleep

March 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jacob Alon

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI

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Song of the Day: Heartworms - Warplane

October 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Heartworms’ Jojo Orme, from the video for Warplane

Song of the Day: Inspired by the death of a young WW2 Spitfire pilot, a dark, yet evocative, exciting, pacy, dynamic, postpunk single with distorted guitars, propeller like drums, and the alluring, explosive presence of Jojo Orme, heralding a debut album Glutton for Punishment, and produced by Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground

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Song of the Day: Jacob Alon - Fairy In A Bottle

September 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jacob Alon: Fairy In A Bottle

Song of the Day: Gorgeous fragility and high-voiced, delicate control with a wonderful melody all come in this exquisite performed debut by the singer songwriter from Glasgow, here produced by Dan Carey, and out on Universal

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Song of the Day: Royel Otis - Velvet

January 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Royel Otis

Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy indie-rock-pop rhythmic-piano banger by the Australian duo Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, here produced by the acclaimed Dan Carey, and the latest single heralding their forthcoming album Pratts & Pain, out on Ourness

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down to This

January 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down to This

Song of the Day: With an ever-evolving sound, a belter of a new single by the veteran Manchester post-punk trio brings electronic twists, sharp lyrics and the production magic of Speedy Wunderground label’s Dan Carey with the title track of their forthcoming new LP

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Song of the Day: O. - Slice

December 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Slice by O.

Song of the Day: The title track from the debut EP by the exciting, experimental, energetic King Tubby-influenced London duo of baritone saxophonist Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary, out on Speedy Wunderground and produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Heartworms - May I Comply

November 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heartworms - May I Comply

Song of the Day: Caustically sharp lyrics, darkly thrumming and brilliantly shard-like shimmering sounds come in this new single by the London goth-postpunk band fronted by Jojo Orme, another cutting-edge single produced by Dan Carey via his label Speedy Wunderground

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Song of the Day: Viji - Sedative

July 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Viji’s album, So Vanilla is out on 27 October

Song of the Day: Addictively thrumming, punchy fuzz-guitar indie pop by the London-based Austrian-Brazilian artist Vanilla Jenner with another excellent single out on Speedy Wunderground produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Joyeria - Death

May 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Joyeria’s EP, FIM

Song of the Day: Killer lyrics on a timeless subject with deadpan delivery, a sprinkle of woodwind and an Elvis reference from brilliant London-based Canadian singer-songwriter, reminiscent of Smog/Bill Callahan and Silver Jews with another great song from his latest EP, FIM, out on Speedy Wunderground / PIAS

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Song of the Day: Hak Baker - Telephones 4 Eyes

March 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video …

Song of the Day: Brilliantly energetic, angry, sweary rapping and vocals by the dynamic east London artist in a vibrant new post-punk number about the detrimental effects of social media technology and surveillance culture

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Song of the Day: Miss Tiny - The Sound

February 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft and Dan Carey

Song of the Day: A dark, alluring, boldly bass, catchy debut indie single about the claustrophobia of inner city life by a band formed by Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft of the bands Childhood and Warmduscher, and Speedy Wunderground producer Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Moreish Idols - Nocturnal Creatures

February 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Moreish Idols: Nocturnal Creatures

Song of the Day: Bright, dynamic, beautiful and intricate indie with lovely, crisp guitars and twittery woodwind by the London band, in another cracking single coming out of the unique Speedy Wunderground label, produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Heartworms - Retributions Of An Awful Life

January 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heartworms: Jojo Orme

Song of the Day: Dark, disturbing, but arrestingly brilliant and original, a new electro post-punk track by the south London’s Jojo Orme and co from the debut EP, A Comforting Notion, out 24 March on Speedy Wunderground, produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: O. – OGO

January 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

O. the band: drummer Tash Keary and saxophonist Joe Henwood

Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, vibrant, energetic instrumental debut single by the sax and drumming south London duo of Joe Henwood and Tash Keary produced rapidly and skilfully by Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Joyeria – Wild Joy

June 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Joyeria

Song of the Day: Fabulously droll, the latest single by the London-based Canadian singer-songwriter has echoes of David Berman of Silver Jews, and focuses ironically on a character with memories of the good times, but wondering where they went as he battles depression

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Song of the Day: Honeyglaze - Shadows

January 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Honeyglaze

Song of the Day: Fresh indie single with a dreamy feel, lovely bending bassline and soaring, catchy melody line by the south London trio, newly signed to Speedy Wunderground and produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Kae Tempest - More Pressure (featuring Kevin Abstract)

January 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest

Song of the Day: This brand new, upbeat, synth-infused track and focus point of forthcoming album The Line Is A Curve by the poet, playwright and author is about channelling the energy of stress, with guest from LA hip-hop band Brockhampton, and long-time producer Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: The Lounge Society - Last Breath

November 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton

From the visualiser animation by Alex Evans of Comes With Fries for The Lounge Society’s Last Breath

Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Deep Tan - Tamu's Yiffing Refuge

October 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Out of the darkness come … Deep Tan

Out of the darkness come … Deep Tan

Song of the Day: Dirty, droll and furry, hairy and hedonistic, this beautifully offbeat, oddball, Slits-cum-Bette Davis, sharp, stark, post-punk number by the London trio is inspired by the act of sex in animal costumes, and was recorded and produced by Dan Carey for his Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Joyeria - Here Comes Trouble

October 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
From the visualizer for Joyeria’s Here Comes Trouble

From the visualizer for Joyeria’s Here Comes Trouble

Song of the Day: Addressing personal vices and perhaps larger issues, this debut single by the Canadian multi-instrumentalist comes two parts - witty, catchy indie, moving into a frenzied instrumental of electro-krautrock

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New Albums …

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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Kurt Vile: Philadelphia's Been Good To Me
June 2, 2026

New album: A selection of fond love-letter songs to the city where he was raised and has remained by the 46-year-ld American singer-songwriter, in this deliciously laid back 10th LP of songs of interweaving guitars, folk, rock, country and psychedelia, all with his inimitably relaxed vocal delivery

June 2, 2026
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June 1, 2026
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane
June 1, 2026

New album: His voice now may be thinner and weaker, yet his genius for melody remains in this warm, tender LP, inspired by vivid childhood reminiscences in the Speke area of Liverpool and beyond, with references to friends, parents, girlfriends, his bandmates, and includes a duet with Ringo Starr

June 1, 2026

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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Seasick Steve - The Last Season of America
June 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerfully gentle folk-blues-Americana protest number by the veteran Calfornian singer-songwriter with an extended metaphor about the state of his country in this title track heralding his upcoming album out on 18 September via Steve’s new label Eastcote Recordings

June 4, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco
June 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Following 2023’s Clear Pond Road, the Rhode Island-raised former Throwing Muses artist returns with a powerful, dark, resonant number about her and her brother’s childhood, heralding a 12th solo LP, Sugar On Blackstone, out on 18 August via Fire Records

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Dead Pioneers - The Worst Among Us​ (featuring Jason Williamson)
June 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Sharply identifying sources of much of the world’s problems with this catchy, punchy new track, the Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist Gregg Deal and his indie-punk Denver, Colorado band are joined here by the Sleaford Mods’ rapper, heralding the upcoming new album Wagon Burner, out on 26 June via Hassle Records

June 2, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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