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Song of the Day: Just Mustard - We Were Just Here

August 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Just Mustard

Song of the Day: Dreamy, mesmeric electro-indie-shoegaze-pop by the five-piece band from Dundalk, Ireland, with the title track heralding their forthcoming new album out on 24 October via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: IDLES - Rabbit Run

August 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

IDLES - Rabbit Run, from the soundtrack from Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing

Song of the Day: Powerfully, simmering, menacing and explosive … new from the Bristol punk band, taken from the original soundtrack from the upcoming Darren Aronofsky thriller movie, Caught Stealing, out on Protozoa / Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Geese - Taxes

July 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Geese - Taxes

Song of the Day: With the distinctive ghostly wail of Cameron Winter’s voice and tribal drumming, a truly alternative sound by the New York band, heralding the upcoming third album Getting Killed, out on 26 September via Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: WITCH - Queenless King

April 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

WITCH’s forthcoming album, SOGOLO, out on Partisan Records

Song of the Day: Continuing their triumphant re-emergence after 2023’s album Zango which ended a near-40 hiatus, Zambia’s pioneering zamrockers return with their classic psychedelic groove, heralding the forthcoming new album SOGOLO, out 13 June on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Léa Sen - Video Games

March 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Léa Sen’s forthcoming album, Levels, out on Partisan Records

Song of the Day: Deliciously fluid, smooth, relaxed, gentle, melancholy indie-pop by the Paris-born, French-Martiniquan London-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, heralding her forthcoming debut album, Levels, out on 30 May via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Cameron Winter - Vines

November 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cameron Winter

Song of the Day: “We live in dangerous times and this land is falling apart.” The lead singer of New York band Geese releases a beautifully tender, melancholy solo number that appears personal and prescient, out on Partisan Records/Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Laura Marling - Patterns

July 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laura Marling’s forthcoming new album Patterns In Repeat

Song of the Day: Delicate finger-picking folk in this sunlit, beautiful new single about experiencing the life cycles of motherhood, by the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming next album, Patterns In Repeat, out on Chrysalis Records/ Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Ezra Collective: Ajala

May 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Collective

Song of the Day: After 2022’s Mercury prize-winning album, Where I’m Meant To Be, the jazz and afrobeat quintet of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison return with a vibrant new single

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Song of the Day: Angélica Garcia - Color De Dolor

March 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Angélica Garcia

Song of the Day: Stylish, soaring, emotive Spanish-language pop (colour of pain) by the American singer-songwriter of Mexican and Salvadoran descent taken from her forthcoming third album, Gemelo out on 7 June via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Lip Critic - The Heart

February 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lip Critic - The Heart

Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption

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Song of the Day: IDLES - Dancer (with LCD Soundsystem)

October 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

IDLES return in strutting style

Song of the Day: The Bristol punks return with a strutting, punchy new number with the unmistakable delivery of frontman Joe Talbot, a thrumming bassline, and are also joined by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy as well as Nancy Whang

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Song of the Day: Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy

August 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy

Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Maple Glider - Dinah

July 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Maple Glider’s forthcoming second album, I Get Into Trouble

Song of the Day: The Melbourne singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch returns with a fusion of the cutting and beautiful with a song about religious shaming, inspired by the biblical story of Dinah, a woman sexually assaulted but victim-blamed

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Song of the Day: Grian Chatten - Fairlies

May 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten’s forthcoming debut solo album

Song of the Day: Catchy, beautifully poetic, upbeat acoustic folk-rock by the frontman of Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. with a new single using Irish mythology, trailing his debut solo album, Chaos for the Fly, out on 30 June via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: PJ Harvey – A Child's Question, August

April 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Polly Jean Harvey

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British indie artist returns with slow, intense, inventive bird-themed new single about solace and love, from her forthcoming album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, out in July Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Sam Burton - Long Way Around

April 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, Dear Departed, out on Partisan Records

Song of the Day: Sounding from another era, that of the 70s and Harry Nilsson, a wonderfully powerful and romantic voice and number from the contemporary Los Angeles singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album Dear Departed, out in July on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Fontaines D.C. – 'Cello Song (Nick Drake)

March 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fontaines D.C. – 'Cello Song

Song of the Day: A fabulous, spine-tingling cover by the acclaimed Dublin band, produced by Elbow’s Guy Garvey, and taken from a forthcoming album of songs by legendary folk singer – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake

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Song of the Day: Geese - Cowboy Nudes

February 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cowboy Nudes, the new single by Geese

Song of the Day: Slick, catchy, upbeat, fast, rhythmic, guitar indie by the Brooklyn band, their first since acclaimed 2021 debut album Projector, with a song “about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world” according frontman Cameron Winter

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Song of the Day: Skinny Pelembe - Like A Heart Won't Beat

November 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Skinny Pelembe’s Like A Heart Won't Beat

Song of the Day: From piano then morphing into rock guitar, a stirring crossover of soul, pop and gospel in this new single by the multi-talented Johannesburg-born, Doncaster-raised singer-songwriter and MC, out on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Beth Orton – Friday Night

August 26, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Beth Orton

Song of the Day: To ‘bleed or rust in the rain’. Another beautiful, delicate new love song by the British singer-songwriter balancing passion and surrender, and taken from the forthcoming new album Weather Alive

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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 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Hannah Lew - Sunday
Mar 15, 2026

Song of the Day: An appropriate day to highlight this classy latest single of shimmering 80s-style synth-pop with echoes of OMD, with themes about pain, love and grief from the upcoming debut album by the Richmond, California artist, out on 10 April via Night School Records

Mar 15, 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

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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