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Holly Humberstone’s second album is Cruel World
Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.
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Heidi Curtis
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie-pop with echoes of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac and lyrics of lively, aspirational love by the singer-songwriter from North Shields, out on AWAL Recordings
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Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr
Song of the Day: After Rheinzand’s Elefantasi and Röksopp’s dream-like fantasy, further ethereal and sea cow creatural wonder in the form of the Chicago band’s beautiful new single, following their last year’s album -io, out on Matador Records
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Jordana
Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas
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The Facts of Life album artwork
Song of the Day: After James Carr's Dark Street and Van Morrison's Bright Road, let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life
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Rotary Connection, featuring Minnie Riperton and Charles Stepney (right).
Song of the Day: How to move from bluesy road tunes to this elaborate jazz-soul number at the peak of the psychedelic movement? Partly because this band also backed Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters
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Canned Heat
Song of the Day: Leaping back out of Springsteen's Pink Cadillac, we continue our road journey with two 1968 hits by the Los Angeles blues band – a cover of a cover a cover – and also go back down the dusty track to see where it all came from
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Kraftwerk in more recent performance of that timeless classic
Song of the Day: Our previous two selections have been big synth pop hits, but here is where that all really came from – down an unclogged motorway all the way to Düsseldorf, and the timelessly influential work of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
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The odd couple. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
Song of the Day: The 'love is' mini-theme today moves onto to a different genre – early 80s electronica pop, served up by the enigmatic Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart
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Roxy Music, 1975 vintage.
Song of the Day: Continuing, in between an celebrity death, our mini-theme of 'love is' songs, a hot-to-trot stomper from Bryan Ferry and co from the band's fifth album Sirens in 1975
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Janelle Monáe
Song of the Day: It's Saturday, time to get a little bit sexy, and bang up to date with a brand new number that might remind you of someone? Yes Prince did indeed help US singer and rapper Monáe with this before he left us.
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Maybe nine can win? Fabulous family band The Sylvers
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Ty Segall/Hot Chocolate cover comparison, more material playing on the topic of who or may not be the winner in a relationship from the brilliant hip hop and jazz producer and the 70s funk and soul family group
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Beth Jeans Houghton and her trusty Hooves
Song of the Day: Following our recent mini series of goat-related acts, we trot along now to the lovely sound of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne born singer-songwriter and her Hooves, and two splendid number from the 2012 album Your Truly, Cellophane Nose
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Foxygen
Song of the Day: Particularly known for their theatrical, extravagant performances, the Californian duo of Jonathan Rado and Sam France can sound, as on these tracks, like a throwback to early-70s hippy psychedelia or stage musicals, but these are some of many styles they can play with
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From the cover of Nicolette's album Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head
Song of the Day: Alongside Tricky, another collaborator who appeared on Massive Attack's 1994 album Protection, Scottish/Nigerian Londoner Nicolette Love Suwoton's slightly forgotten gem from her brilliant second LP Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head, is a sensual mix of electronica, pop, jazz and and trip-hop, yearning for an apolitical utopia
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He's Beck.
Song of the Day: A bittersweet, but upbeat return from the evergreen American singer-songwriter. From the upcoming album Colors, this first single comes across like a psychedelic pop cry for help – how can society retain its highs between lows?
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Song of the Day: From yesterday's simmering lust by Regina Spektor, we visit the same title by the New York band of 1966, to find that looking for love is hampered by heat and urban pollution
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Lee Hazlewood rides his luck in the 1970 documentary Cowboy in Sweden
Song of the Day: Few have the more perfect voice for a slow, hungover Sunday than the smooth baritone of Hazlewood. The boozy hellraiser expresses regret for his actions from 1970s Cowboy in Sweden
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Prince reigning purple in 2007
Songs of the Day: A special tribute selection of four songs to mark exactly a year since the Purple One suddenly passed away – variously sad, political, funky, and triumphantly emotional
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Katzenjammer
Song of the Day: Relevant lyrics continue our political confusion theme, with a quirky cover from 2012 by the Norwegian folk-pop band of a more commercial 1986 hit by Genesis
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