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Song of the Day: Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be

July 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The new Nine Inch Nails number is from the soundtrack for the upcoming Tron: Ares movie

Song of the Day: With their first new music as NIN in five years, the American rockers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross return with a pulsating, synth-heavy, retro-futuristic track that’s part of the new sci-fi Tron: Ares soundtrack, out on 19 September via Interscope Records, with the film released in October

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In 2025, alternative, electronica, industrial, rock Tags Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Interscope Records, film soundtrack, film, sci-fi
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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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In 2024, folk Tags Joanna Sternberg, songs, song of the day, Fat Possum, film, film soundtrack
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Song of the Day: Katy J Pearson (with Wet Leg, Drug Store Romeos, Sarah Meth) - Fire Leap

October 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Katy J Pearson’s Wicker Man EP

Song of the Day: Covering a folk tune both beautiful and oddly disturbing, the Bristol singer-songwriter is joined by collaborators with this fertility rite song from The Wicker Man (1973) from a new EP with other songs from the cult British horror film

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In 2023, folk, traditional Tags Katy J Pearson, The Wicker Man, film soundtrack, soundtracks, Paul Giovanni, Heavenly, Wet Leg, Drug Store Romeos, Sarah Meth, songs, song of the day, films
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Song of the Day: Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine (Minions soundtrack)

May 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine from the new Minions movie soundtrack

Song of the Day: A shamelessly upbeat summer disco-funk number as part of the soundtrack for the new animated 70s-themed Minions movie soundtrack featuring the veteran Motown singer, and the Australian band

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In 2022, dance, disco, funk, pop Tags Diana Ross, Tame Impala, Kevin Parker, Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew, Patrik Berger, Minions, film soundtrack
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Song of the Day: Son Lux and Moses Sumney - Fence

April 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once

Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals

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In 2022, ambient, experimental, film soundtrack, soul Tags Son Lux, Ryan Lott, Moses Sumney, Mitski, David Byrne, film, film soundtrack
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Song of the Day: Tindersticks - Both Sides of the Blade

February 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Tindersticks

Song of the Day: Welcome return of unmistakably haunting voice of Stuart Staples and band with this song specially written for Claire Denis' new film Avec Amour et Acharnament starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon

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In 2022, alternative, film soundtrack, indie Tags Tindersticks, Stuart Staples, Lucky Dog, Claire Denis, film soundtrack, Juliette Binoche
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Scott Walker – The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore) / My Death / Brando / The Childhood Of A Leader

March 25, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Scott Walker, 1943-2019

Scott Walker, 1943-2019

Song of the Day: A short musical tribute to the great and now sadly late American-born British singer and composer with that extraordinary baritone voice, from his Walker Brothers pop era to a solo career of great influence, innovation and experiment

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In 1966, 1967, 2014, 2015, cabaret, classical, pop, chanson, soul Tags songs, song of the day, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Jacques Brel, Sun O))), film soundtrack, death, Brady Corbet
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Akira Ifukube - Japanese Rhapsody / Symphonic Fantasia No 1 (Godzilla)

December 2, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and Godzilla

Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and Godzilla

Song of the Day: Following on from Hikaru Hayashi, we dip into the next Japanese composer, a prolific writer of film scores best for the famous Godzilla monster movies, as well hundreds of other classical pieces

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In 1935, 1983, film soundtrack, classical Tags songs, song of the day, instrumentals, film, film soundtrack, Akira Ifukube, Godzilla, Igor Stravinsky
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Hikaru Hayashi – La Mort De L'Enfant (Theme from The Naked Island)

December 1, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)

Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)

Song of the Day: Following Joe Hisaichi, another distinguished Japanese composer who among his many works wrote the beautiful theme from a 1960 film without dialogue directed by Kaneto Shindo

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In 1960, classical, traditional, film soundtrack Tags songs, song of the day, Hikaru Hayashi, film, film soundtrack, Japan, Kaneto Shindo
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Joe Hisaishi – One Summer's Day / The Day of Life (from Spirited Away)

November 30, 2018 Peter Kimpton
A scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, with music by Joe Hisaishi

A scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, with music by Joe Hisaishi

Song of the Day: Moving from Ryuichi Sakamoto to another great Japanese pianist and composer, the man behind the beautiful music to the animated Studio Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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In 2001, classical Tags songs, song of the day, films, film soundtrack, Joe Hisaishi, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Forbidden Colours) / The Last Emperor / Andata

November 28, 2018 Peter Kimpton
David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Song of the Day: Linking our last entry with not only the recently deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci and also David Bowie, some exquisite music by the great Japanese composer, pianist and actor

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In 1983, 1987, classical, electronica, film soundtrack Tags songs, theme music, film soundtrack, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Bowie, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Andrei Tarkovsky
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Burt Bacharach – South American Getaway (from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid)

November 7, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Robert Redford and Paul Newman making their last stand in the 1969 film

Robert Redford and Paul Newman making their last stand in the 1969 film

Song of the Day: Today’s date, 7 November, is significant in all sorts of ways - elections, revolutions, births, deaths, but it’s the day in 1908 when two of America’s most famous outlaws were reportedly killed on the run in Bolivia

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In 1969, folk, soul, film soundtrack Tags songs, song of the day, Burt Bacharach, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Russia, Bolshevik Revolution, women's suffrage, Franklin D Roosevelt, Richard NIxon, Watergate Scandal, film soundtrack, film, Robert Redford, Paul Newman
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Tom Waits – On The Other Side Of The World (from Night On Earth)

October 22, 2018 Peter Kimpton
A scene from the New York section of Night On Earth (1991)

A scene from the New York section of Night On Earth (1991)

Song of the Day: From Bernard Herrmann’s music from Taxi Driver, let’s catch a ride with another cab film, Jim Jarmusch’s 1991 five-vignettes plot, connected by a soundtrack by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

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In 1991, Americana, blues, indie, traditional Tags songs, song of the day, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Jim Jarmusch, film soundtrack, Winona Ryder, Roberto Benigni, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Helsinki, Rome
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Bernard Herrmann – Taxi Driver / Vertigo / Psycho

October 17, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

Song of the Day: It is hardly a stab in the dark to pick out the great American composer’s film work as the next entry in film score music, but here is an artist surely among the greatest for matching image and sound

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In 1958, 1960, 1976, classical Tags songs, song of the day, Bernard Herrmann, film, film soundtrack, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Robert De Niro
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Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown / Planet of the Apes

October 15, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)

Song of the Day: Moving on from Britain’s John Barry, two pieces of work from the highly versatile US composer and conductor here showing contrasting styles that equally express the dark and disturbing

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In 1968, 1974, classical, jazz Tags songs, song of the day, Jerry Goldsmith, film soundtrack, film, Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Uan Rasey, Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston
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Sonny Rollins – Theme from Alfie

October 13, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Original record sleeve from the Alfie soundtrack

Original record sleeve from the Alfie soundtrack

Song of the Day: From one jazz giant to another, this time led by tenor saxophone, with Sonny Rollins’s superb soundtrack composition to another Michael Caine film, 1966’s tale of that cheeky Cockney lothario

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In 1966, jazz Tags songs, song of the day, theme music, film soundtrack, film, Sonny Rolllins, Oliver Nelson, Michael Caine
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Miles Davis – Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

October 12, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Miles Davis in 1958

Miles Davis in 1958

Song of the Day: Returning to film scores but remaining on the jazz genre, a sublime example of Miles Davis in his early modal style, from his 1958 soundtrack to Louis Malle’s adaptation of a crime novel, starring Jeanne Moreau

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In 1958, jazz Tags songs, song of the day, Miles Davis, Louis Malle, film soundtrack, film, Jeanne Moreau
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John Schroeder and Sounds Orchestral – Money Runner / Blowin' Your Mind / Cast Your Fate to the Wind

October 9, 2018 Peter Kimpton
John Schroeder

John Schroeder

Song of the Day: After three belters from Quincy Jones, today let’s move on to full fat funk TV and movie orchestra sounds from the 60s and early 70s, with tracks rarely recognised, but whose still hits home instantly

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In 1971, 1965, funk, classical, jazz Tags song of the day, songs, instrumentals, funk, television, film, film soundtrack, John Schroeder, Sound Orchestral, Quincy Jones, Zack Laurence, Gordon Parks, Helen Shapiro, Johnny Pearson, Vince Guaraldi
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Quincy Jones - The Italian Job: It's Caper Time (The Self Preservation Society) / Ironside theme / In The Heat Of The Night

October 8, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Conductor in chief - Quincy Jones

Conductor in chief - Quincy Jones

Song of the Day: He’s best known the high-profile producer for Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, but continuing a mini-series, a small selection of key moments in the conductor and composer’s film and TV work

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In 1967, 1971, 1969 Tags songs, song of the day, Quincy Jones, film soundtrack, Michael Caine, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Billy Preston, Ray Brown, Ray Charles, The Raenettes, Glen Campbell, Gil Bernal, Quentin Tarantino, Roland Kirk
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Roy Budd – Get Carter theme

October 7, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Get Carter (1971) starring Michael Caine, with soundtrack by Roy Budd

Get Carter (1971) starring Michael Caine, with soundtrack by Roy Budd

Song of the Day: Resuming a thread of film soundtrack music that transcends their original source - this time the classic thriller starring Michael Caine and directed by Mike Hodges from 1971

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In 1971, funk, jazz Tags songs, song of the day, Roy Budd, film, film soundtrack, Michael Caine, Mike Hodges, jazz, Jeff Clyne, Chris Karan
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 17, 2025
Picture Parlour: The Parlour
Nov 17, 2025

New album: Following last year’s EP Face in the Picture, a fabulously stylish, smart, swaggering glam-rock-pop debut LP by the Manchester-formed, London-based band fronted by the impressively raspy, gritty, vibratro delivery of Liverpudlian vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and distinctive riffs from North Yorkshire-born guitar Ella Risi

Nov 17, 2025

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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025
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Nov 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Ellie O'Neill - Bohemia
Nov 30, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poetic finger-picking debut folk single with a mystical, distantly stormy twist by the Dublin-based Irish singer-songwriter from County Meath, out now on St Itch Records

Nov 30, 2025
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Nov 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Danalogue - Sonic Hypnosis
Nov 29, 2025

Song of the Day: A full flavour of future-past with mesmeric, euphoric retro acid house and electronica in this new single by Daniel Leavers, producer and the founding member of The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, out now on Castles In Space

Nov 29, 2025
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Nov 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Cardinals - Barbed Wire
Nov 28, 2025

Song of the Day: Another striking, passionate, punchy, catchy single by the Irish postpunk/indie-folk-rock band from Cork, heralding their upcoming debut album, Masquerade, out on 13 February via So Young Records

Nov 28, 2025
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Nov 27, 2025
Song of the Day: Frank Popp Ensemble (with Paul Weller) - Right Before My Eyes
Nov 27, 2025

Song of the Day: A strong, soaring, emotive, soulful release by the German artist co-written by British singer and former Jam frontman who here sings and plays guitar, the lyrics about witnessing the increasing injustices and demise of the world, out on Unique Records / Schubert Music Europe

Nov 27, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Song of the Day: Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Nov 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Using a musical metaphor, beautiful, crisply rhythmical, soaring piano and atmospheric indie-pop-folk about facing your fears by the Dutch/British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album The Lighthouse, out on 23 January 2026 on Tiny Tiger Records

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Melanie Baker - Sad Clown
Nov 25, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, candid, cathartic indie-grunge-pop by the British singer-songwriter from Cumbria in a melancholy but oddly uplifting emotional work-through of depression, love and exhaustion, out now on TAMBOURHINOCEROS

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - Die Happy
Nov 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Luxuriant, breathy, femme-fatale dream pop with a dark, southern gothic, Lana del Rey-inspired, live-fast-die-young theme, and stylish video by the 25-year-old British singer-songwriter from Grantham, out on Polydor/Universal

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 23, 2025
Song of the Day: These New Puritans - The Other Side
Nov 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A delicate, tender, and unusually minimalist single, their first since this year’s acclaimed album Crooked Wing, by the Southend-on-Sea-born Barnett twins, here with Jack on improvised piano and George on drums and a soprano register wordless vocal, out on Domino Records

Nov 23, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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