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Song of the Day: The Priscillas - Plastic

November 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Priscillas - Plastic

Song of the Day: Panache-filled, punchy panic by the glamorous London power-punk quartet in this new single about how one of the planet’s biggest polluting problems goes down to cellular level, with menacing guitars and bass lines, driving drums, and sharp, dynamic vocal harmonies

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In 2024, rock, post-punk, punk Tags The Priscillas, songs, song of the day, pollution, plastic, climate change
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Song of the Day: Ursa Major Moving Group - Welcome To The Noosphere

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track

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In 2023, folk, experimental, indie, pop, post-punk, alternative Tags Ursa Major Moving Group, Ursula Russell, songs, song of the day, Faith & Industry Records, climate change, José Argüelles, time
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Song of the Day: Brian Eno – There Were Bells

August 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency

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In 2021, 2022, ambient, experimental Tags Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Universal, Opal Music Ltd, climate change
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Song of the Day: EERA - Falling Between The Ice (from album Speak)

December 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton

EERA’s new album - Speak

Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins

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In 2021, alternative, electronica, experimental, indie Tags EERA, songs, song of the day, climate change, Just Dust Recordings, Big Dada, Ninja Tune
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Song of the Day: Hurray for the Riff Raff – Rhododendron

December 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton

On ferlile ground: Alynda Lee Segarra aka Hurray for the Riff Raff

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra

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In 2021, indie Tags songs, song of the day, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Lee Segarra, climate change, Nonesuch Records
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Song of the Day: Riton, Gucci Soundsystem and Jarvis Cocker - Let's Stick Around

December 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Jarvis Cocker - sticking around in the video

Song of the Day: Released to highlight issues around Cop26, a catchy, dancey new club anthem combined with the poignant, profound, whispering delivery of the Pulp frontman seeking a path to a unified way to address climate change

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In 2021, dance, pop, spoken word Tags songs, song of the day, Riton, Gucci Soundsystem, Jarvis Cocker, climate change, Extinction Rebellion
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Song of the Day: David Holmes - Hope Is The Last Thing To Die (with Raven Violet)

October 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton
David Holmes new single is a cri de coeur to governments about Covid and climate change

David Holmes new single is a cri de coeur to governments about Covid and climate change

Song of the Day: This stirring dance track by the Belfast producer composer and DJ with the French singer calls out the world governments on corruption and incompetence during the pandemic and, ahead of COP26, over inaction in the face of the climate crisis

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Song of the Day: English Teacher - Wallace

July 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton
All down together … English Teacher from Leeds

All down together … English Teacher from Leeds

Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship

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In 2021, pop, indie Tags English Teacher, songs, song of the day, Brexit, politics, climate change, Nice Swan Records
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Song of the Day: Jordan Rakei - Family

July 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Jordan Rakei’s forthcoming album What We Call Life

Jordan Rakei’s forthcoming album What We Call Life

Sublime, sunny sounding new soul pop that also profoundly addresses climate change by the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album What We Call Life, released 17 September on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Noname - Rainforest

May 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Noname’s latest single, Rainforest, from the

Noname’s latest single, Rainforest, from the

Song of the Day: A supremely smooth and slick eco-themed and political new hip hop/soul number with a Latin beat by the Chicago rapper aka Fatimah Nyeema Warner whose new self-released album in 2021 is titled Factory Baby

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Stevie Wonder: Can't Put It In The Hands Of Fate / Where Is Our Love Song

October 14, 2020 Peter Kimpton
2020 sees the very welcome return of Stevie Wonder

2020 sees the very welcome return of Stevie Wonder

Song of the Day: While both began as love songs, these first new numbers in four years by the soul great have a strong multi-layered political element, calling for solidarity in times of rising racism, an election and an epidemic

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Jacknife Lee – I'm Getting Tired (featuring Beth Ditto and Earl St. Clair)

May 18, 2020 Peter Kimpton
From the video for I’m Getting Tired

From the video for I’m Getting Tired

Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit

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Robert Forster – Inferno (Brisbane In Summer)

July 12, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Robert Forster - from the cover of his 2019 album, Inferno

Robert Forster - from the cover of his 2019 album, Inferno

Song of the Day: As summer simmers on, a hot weather cracker from the new album by the Australian singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Go-Betweens, about his native Brisbane, but one that also hints heavily at global warming

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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

August 30, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Bob Dylan in 1962

Bob Dylan in 1962

Song of the Day: A Dylan song was inevitably going to drop here at some point, and, from current flooding, climate change and US foreign policy wrangles, this apocalyptic early number recorded in 1962 the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis remains just as hard-hitting and relevant

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Kate Tempest – Europe is Lost

March 13, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest

Song of the Day: From PJ Harvey's war-torn English rose we move to a passionate post-Brexit poem-song with an industrial, urban edge that captures an isolated, confused, dystopian Britain and beyond

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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

Word of the week

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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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