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Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee

January 24, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Adult DVD

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

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Songs of the Day: The Weather Station - Airport / Only The Truth

November 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Weather Station - Airport / Only The Truth

Songs of the Day: Recorded during the sessions for, but not included on the last album, Humanhood, two sublimely beautiful and poignant tracks with piano, woodwind and more, now released together by the Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, out on Fat Possum Records

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In 2025, alternative, experimental, folk, indie Tags The Weather Station, Fat Possum, songs, song of the day, Tamara Lindeman
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Song of the Day: Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right

August 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, poignant acoustic number of bittersweet optimism by the London indie/postpunk trio, here performed by Anouska Sokolow out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Wheel of Change

June 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hand Habits - Wheel of Change heralds the upcoming album, Blue Reminder

Song of the Day: A tender, wistful, cautious, beautiful new number full of yearning, and walking an emotional tightrope, by the Los Angeles indie-folk-rock artist Meg Duffy, from the upcoming new album, Blue Reminder, out on 22 August via Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - Speed Freak

January 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Youth Lagoon ‘s upcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream

Song of the Day: A mesmeric new banger with the whispering voice of Trevor Powers, the shapeshifting, innovative Idaho-based songwriter and producer, taken from his forthcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream, out Fat Possum Records on 21 February

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Song of the Day: Dutch Interior - Sandcastle Molds

December 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dutch Interior - Sandcastle Molds

Song of the Day: Sprightly drumming and innovative guitar work come apace with striking lyrics in this alluring new indie-folk-country single by the Los Angeles quintet fronted by Jack Nugent, and out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - My Beautiful Girl

October 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Youth Lagoon: My Beautiful Girl / Lucy Takes A Picture

Song of the Day: Delicate, vivid, tenderly sensitive, piano-accompanied new work by the moniker of experimental singer-songwriter Trevor Powers, with a new single out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: The Weather Station - Neon Signs

October 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Song of the Day: Sublime sounds, yet also perceptive, anxious lyrics come with new experimental folk-pop by the Toronto-based singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, with beautiful piano, percussion, flute and more, heralding her upcoming album Humanhood, out on Fat Possum, 17 January 2025

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Song of the Day: Joanna Sternberg - A Country Dance

August 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Joanna Sternberg - A Country Dance

Song of the Day: Reminiscient of Dory Previn or Peggy Seeger in vocal delivery, style and charm, this beautiful, romantic, acoustic new single by the New York singer-songwriter also appears in the film Between The Temples, and is released on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio

August 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio

Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum

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Song of the Day: Honeyglaze - Don't

June 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Honeyglaze

Song of the Day: Dark, defiant, angry talky, experimental indie post-punk with a visceral riposte to a bad relationship by the London trio featuring the emotional voice of Anouska Sokolow, heralding their forthcoming sophomore album, Real Deal, out on September on Fat Possum

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Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture

May 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture

Song of the Day: Following his fourth album Heaven Is a Junkyard (2023), a delicate, beautiful new single about angels by Idaho artist Trevor Powers, inspired by finding a piece of paper tucked into the bars of a bus-stop metal bench

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Song of the Day: Hand Habits - The Bust of Nefertiti

June 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hand Habits’ new EP Sugar The Bruise

Song of the Day: Low-key, vivid, alluring, intelligent, sensual, intimate indie by the Los Angeles artist Meg Duffy in a number about an Egyptian museum piece trapped in time with a profound effect, and the final song from the new EP Sugar The Bruise. Out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: The Weather Station - Endless Time

February 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Song of the Day: A beautifully understated, melancholy piano-and-voice-only new song from Canadian Tamara Lindeman, taken from the forthcoming album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars out on 4 March on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Sam Evian - Knock Knock

September 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt

Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt

Song of the Day: The crisp, laid back, stylish, gentle funk of this single by the Brooklyn artist comes in a clever contrast to the seriousness of subject – a divided America facing a Capitol skirmish scandal and difficult schisms to deal with and heal

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Song of the Day: The Weather Station – Atlantic

January 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station

Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station

Song of the Day: With echoes of Talk Talk, a powerful buildup bass, drums, piano and flute flourishes and the voice of Tamara Lindeman, aka Toronto’s The Weather Station, are hallmarks of huge maturity in her music

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New Albums …

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Mar 13, 2026
Kim Gordon: Play Me
Mar 13, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s The Collective, the former Sonic Youth frontwoman’s fourth solo LP continues her extraordinary experimental, innovative journey, moving to more melodic beats shorter tracks, and motorik krautrock-style driven coloured by strange sounds, intense emotions and sharply angled and abstract social commentary

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
ELIZA: The Darkening Green
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The London artist Eliza Caird (formerly under the mainstream pop moniker Eliza Doolittle) returns with more of the cool, slow, sensual, gentle, sophisticated experimental soul-funk style evolving from her 2022 album A Sky Without Stars, here with particularly polished, silky, stripped back grooves and vocals

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer returns with a new selection of soothing, meditative mix of experimental classical and jazz, but this time joined with six different singers represented by the birds on the album artwork

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
waterbaby: Memory Be A Blade
Mar 10, 2026

New album: A delicate, experimental, understated soulful chamber pop debut by the pure-voiced Stockholm-born singer-songwriter (aka Kendra Egerbladh) in 25-minute, eight-track release of lo-fi, lyrically semi-improvised numbers about heartbreak and self-renewal in a world of gorgeous musical sensations

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Joshua Idehen: I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try
Mar 10, 2026

New album: With a strikingly long title, a euphoric and honest full debut LP by the British-born Nigerian poet, spoken word artist and musician based in Sweden, working with his musical partner Ludvig Parment’s sonic layers, packed pacy dance and hip-hop grooves, clever sampling, slower reflections, and articulate expressions of positivity through the ups and downs of grief and hope

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Gnarls Barkley: Atlanta
Mar 10, 2026

New album: Finally, after an 18-year gap since their last collaboration in the heady days of the hit Crazy, with the St Elsewhere and The Odd Couple LPs a third and supposedly final album from fabulous singer CeeLo Green and producer and musician aka Brian Burton with a mix of soaring soul, hip-hop, pop and RnB with songs filled with vivid lyrical memories and strong, emotive melodies

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Various: HELP(2) - War Child Records
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Not only a timely and topical milestone charity record following the first in 1995 to help bring aid and wide variety of support to children in war zones around he world, but an impressive double-LP array of stellar British and international talent and powerful, poignant 23 songs from Arctic Monkeys to Young Fathers

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: We Are Together Again
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Just over a year after 2025’s The Purple Bird, but from parallel recording sessions and familiar co-musicians, the veteran Louisville-Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with another collection of exquisite, intimate, gently defiant lo-fi folk to troubled times, an ode to community with a beautiful array of acoustic instruments and his poignant, insightful lyrics and delivery

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
DEADLETTER: Existence Is Bliss
Mar 5, 2026

New album: This second LP by the South Yorkshire/London six-piece expands their post-punk sound palette with a collection of arresting, thrumming songs, often dark and challenging, with richly exploratory lyrics across dystopian and existential questions, yet despite a climate of difficult, shows how gasping for life’s oxygen is essential

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
Lala Lala: Heaven 2
Mar 5, 2026

New album: Moving from Chicago to New Mexico, Reykjavík, then London and now Los Angeles, the UK-born artist Lillie West’s experimental indie dream pop is a fascinating release about restless escapism while trying to stay where she is

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Iron & Wine: Hen's Teeth
Mar 3, 2026

New album: Timeless, poetic, gentle folk-rock in this eighth solo album by the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam, in warm, tender album with a title that suggests the idea of the impossible yet real, and an earthier, darker, more more tactile companion to his Grammy-nominated 2024 album Light Verse

Mar 3, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Buck Meek: The Mirror
Mar 3, 2026

New album: The Brooklyn-based Texan guitarist of Big Thief returns with his fourth solo LP filled with tender, thoughtful, beautiful folk-country-rock, a tiny splash of analogue synths, joined by bandmate James Krivchenia as producer, Adrianne Lenker on backing vocals, plus guitarist Adam Brisbin and harp player Mary Lattimore

Mar 3, 2026
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Mar 1, 2026
Mitski: Nothing’s About To Happen To Me
Mar 1, 2026

New album: Following 2023’s acclaimed The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, now an eighth LP of sublime beauty, wit and melancholy and silken vocal tones from the American singer-songwriter, mixing pop, rock, echoes of Laurel Canyon era, and stories and metaphors of love and loss, insecurity, independence and solitude all set at home – and no shortage of cats

Mar 1, 2026
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Mar 1, 2026
Gorillaz: The Mountain
Mar 1, 2026

New album: Released with an art book, new games, and extended videos, a multicultural, multifarious and multilingual return for the collective cartoon pop-hip-hop project led by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, with many intercontinental guest appearances, and a particular Indian musical and visual flavour centred on fictional Himalayan peak as metaphor for life’s journey and illusionary truths

Mar 1, 2026

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Mar 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Mei Semones - Tooth Fairy (featuring John Roseboro)
Mar 14, 2026

Song of the Day: A charming cross-genre fusion of bossa nova, jazz, folk and chamber pop sung in English and Japanese by the Brooklyn-based American musician with a tale of losing a tooth on the subway and friendship, from the upcoming album Kurage, out 10 April on Bayonet Records

Mar 14, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Robyn - Blow My Mind
Mar 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual electro-pop with a dash of Kraftwerk by the acclaimed Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Robin Miriam Carlsson, in this latest from the upcoming album Sexistential out on 27 March via Konichiwa / Young Records

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Scratches
Mar 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The latest single by the London singer-songwriter is punchy, powerful psychedelic rock number with tearing riffs and lyrics about damage from troubled relationship, abuse and self-harm, from the forthcoming EP Do You Know Everything?, out on BMG

Mar 12, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - City of Symbols (featuring eejebee)
Mar 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish fusion of electronica, soul, hip hop and Ethiopian rhythmic influences centring on themes of heritage, family by London singer, songwriter, producer and multidisciplinary artist, with drums from eejebee and guitar from Vraell, heralding from the forthcoming new debut Zero out 22 June via LDN Records / Because Music

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Huarinami - Carried Away
Mar 10, 2026

Song of the Day: Explosive, stylish, gritty, restless indie-psychedelic punk with angular, angry guitars, driving bass and wonderfully arresting vocals by Pauline Janier (aka Cody Pepper) fronting the French London-based four-piece in this single fuelled by the frustration of big-city life, and heralding their sophomore EP Nothing Happens, due for release on 6 June

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes
Mar 9, 2026

Song of the Day: Following the singles Eden and Jupiter and Mars, another stylish, experimental indie synth-pop release by the New York artist with the title track of upcoming second Charm moniker album, out on 20 March via Dead Oceans

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Aldous Harding - One Stop
Mar 8, 2026

Song of the Day: An enigmatic, oddly stylish, stripped back, piano-based new experimental folk single by the New Zealand singer-songwriter, namechecking John Cale, and from her upcoming album Train on the Island out May 8 via 4AD

Mar 8, 2026
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Mar 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Max Winter, Asha Lorenz & Rael - Candlelight
Mar 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A dark, stylish, striking fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, spoken word, and jazz by the London-based rapper and friends, and the the first single from the collaborative mixtape Like the season!, out on Secret Friend

Mar 7, 2026
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Mar 6, 2026
Song of the Day: SPRINTS - Trickle Down
Mar 6, 2026

Song of the Day: The feisty, ferociously fun Dublin post-punk band return with a punchy, on-point angry new number about the flawed economic term, watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and frustratingly being told to stay patient while everything burns

Mar 6, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Jordan Rakei & Tom McFarland - Easy to Love
Mar 5, 2026

Song of the Day: Elevating, soaring soul with the high vocals of the New Zealand-Australian singer and songwriter joined by one half the British band Jungle, heralding the collaborative EP Between Us, out on 24 April on Fontana Records / Universal Music

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 4, 2026
Song of the Day: José González - A Perfect Storm
Mar 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate, evocative and profound new single about impending Earth disaster by the Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist from Gothenburg, heralding his fifth album Against the Dying of the Light out on 27 March via Imperial Recordings / City Slang

Mar 4, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesus Cringe - Disastrology
Mar 3, 2026

Song of the Day: A striking collision and fusion of space rock, prog rock, jazz, and sci-fi cinema, with an orchestral, avant-garde, tumultuous interplay between violin and baritone saxophone by the Belgian artist Alexis Pfrimmer, expressing the characterisation of solitary figure witnessing Earth’s collapse before escaping into space, and out on Epictronic

Mar 3, 2026

Word of the week

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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026
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Feb 12, 2026
Word of the week: yanggeum
Feb 12, 2026

Word of the week: A form or hammered dulcimer, this traditional Korean instrument, with a flat and trapezoidal shape, has seven sets of four metal strings hit by thin bamboo stick

Feb 12, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026

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