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SPRINTS - Trickle Down
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
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Father John Misty - The Old Law
Song of the Day: A rich, warm, stirring, psychedelic Beatles-like sound reverberates with this fabulous, satirical new single by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, first debuted as part of his live set of late 2024 and known as “God’s Trash”, out now on Sub Pop.
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Lala Lala’s upcoming album, Heaven 2, out on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: Reflective, gentle, flowing experimental semi-spoken indie rock by the London-born and Chicago-raised musician Lillie West in a song about about learning to slow down and stop stop and smell the flowers, heralding the upcoming album Heaven 2, out on February 27 via Sub Pop Records
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Iron & Wine aka Sam Beam
Song of the Day: A gloriously warm, beautiful folk-rock sound and one several songs from the American multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam’s upcoming solo project’s eighth album, Hen’s Teeth, in which lovers are so entwined they physically merge, out on Sub Pop Records
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Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Song of the Day: Following her latest album, Altogether Stranger, out earlier this year, the bright-voiced American indie DIY folk-pop singer’s new single, out on Sub Pop, is a fabulously uplifting bluesy number with vintage drum machine, her signature Omnichord, driving rhythm guitar stylish backwards soloing of her producer and accompanist, Guy Blakeslee
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Nation of Language’s Ian Richard, Devaney Aidan Noell, and Alex MacKay
Song of the Day: Simple, pleasing, crisp, four-chord synthpop with brass sounds and shades of OMD by the Brooklyn band in this new single heralding their upcoming album, Dance Called Memory, out on 19 September via Sub Pop Records
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Flock of Dimes aka Jenn Wasner
Song of the Day: Beautiful gentle bittersweet acoustic single by the Baltimore indie musician and singer-songwriter aka Jenn Wasner heralding her upcoming new album, The Life You Save out on 10 October, via Sub Pop Records
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Clipping. – Night of Heaven (featuring Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala)
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, eclectic, experimental mix of hip-hop, neo-classical and electronica by the LA-based trio fronted by rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, joined by the Nigerian-American and Canadian artists, taken from the expanded edition of their latest album, Dead Channel Sky, out on Sub Pop Records. Dead Channel Sky Plus is released on 19 September
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Alan Sparhawk
Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022
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The Bug Club’s upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features
Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records
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Tunde Adebimpe’s upcoming album, Thee Black Boltz
Song of the Day: Following the single, Magnetic, late last year, the TV On The Radio frontman and actor returns with another striking number, heralding his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, out on 18 April via Sub Pop Records
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Josh Tillman
Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world
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Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
Song of the Day: A stirring indie pop ode to blissful solitude, of standing in the desert feeling at one with the landscape, by the Seattle band fronted by singer-songwriter Jessica Dobson, inspired by Tom Petty and Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas
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clipping.’s Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
Song of the Day: Slick, agile clever, innovative, cross-genre hip-hop/cyberpunk with shades of OutKast with added classic late-80s Roland TB-303 bass rave sounds, by the Los Angeles experimentalist trio fronted rapper by Daveed Diggs with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
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The Bug Club's new album On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy and witty fuzz guitar number about self-comparative delusions of grandeur by the humorous Welsh rock indie trio who have a dash of Modern Lovers and AC/DC, heralding their third LP, On The Intricate Inner Workings of The System, out on 30 August via Sub Pop Records
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Lael Neale
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent third album Star Eaters Delight, the American singer-songwriter returns with a sizzlingly mesmeric, alternative psychedelic folk written during a power cut caused by an ice storm
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Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Naima Bock
Song of the Day: A beautiful, simmering, melancholy sax-infused folk number by the south London former Goat Girl member, written on a visit to Tucan and described as about betrayal and the subsequent lack of direction that follows, and heralding her second album Below a Massive Dark Land
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Loma’s forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: A beautiful, ghostly new track by the Anglo-American trio of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski (from Cross Record) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), heralding their forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out 28 June on Sub Pop Records
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J.R.C.G’s forthcoming debut LP Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra), on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: With a fantastically meaty, dark thrum, groove and infectious abstraction, a new post-punk single by the Tacoma, Washington-based artist Justin R. Cruz Gallego, from from his forthcoming debut album Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra) out on 2 August via Sub Pop Records
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