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Deadletter: Fit for music
Song of the Day: A debut single from a new London-based band takes aim, with anarchic sax-infused postpunk and caustic delivery by vocalist Zac Woolley, at the cold-hearted policy of the Tory-led Department for Work and Pensions
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Manipulations … from the video for Proxima by The God in Hackney
Song of the Day: Eclectic, eccentric and ironic, British alt-rock with complex percussion, driving bass line, stirring horn section and powerful buildup is some of the latest ‘prehistoric future music’ from new album Small Country Eclipse
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From the cover of Fragile X’s new EP, Lifetime
Song of the Day: A change of pace into a new collaboration between producer Dylan Chase (Caffeine Worldwide) and vocalist Inga Schunn is a vibrant mix of deep house beats, keyboards and flute, out on Bouquet Records
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From the cover of Polly Scattergood’s 2020 album, In This Moment
Song of the Day: Detailed description, fevered imagination, driving momentum, narrative style and dark intensity by the alternative electro-pop artist from Wivenhoe, Essex mark this title track from her latest, third album out on Future Paradise
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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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Kama Vardi. Photograph: Goni Riskin
Song of the Day: Sunny but bittersweet, this new folk-pop song infused with French new-wave is by the Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, with a theme based on the idea that while you may find love and a home, it could also cause others suffering
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The ever practical Yard Act
Song of the Day: For all the Saturday DIYers, a jaunty, cheeky cocksure and catchy number by the band from Leeds about a fictional, but familiar character, Graeme, who tells us about a second property he’s currently doing up
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Widowspeak: Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas
Song of the Day: With a bass line to die for, and guitar riff and vocal that trips effortlessly around a beat, this number from Brooklyn pair Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas’s new album Plum, has a wry double edge and a dash of menace
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Djo aka Joe Keery
Song of the Day: A fabulous, fizzling, funky Friday number to lift sprits is today’s pick by the artist also known as Joe Keery, and is very much in the style of Parliament and early Prince, with oodles of high vocals, sizzling synth and brass
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The cover of Sufjan Stevens’ 12-minute single
Song of the Day: After Janelle Monáe’s democracy-themed Turntables, two extraordinary new songs by the American singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album The Ascension, the first described as "a protest song against the sickness of American culture”
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Janelle Monáe in the video for Turntables
Song of the Day: Is change coming? A punchy, funky, powerful new number by the American star that has a weighty political element, and part of the soundtrack to a new documentary out now before the US elections – All In: The Fight For Democracy
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The cover of Loma’s new album, Don’t Shy Away
Song of the Day: Characteristically slow but wonderfully paced, with eerie, dreamlike deep brass and twittering woodwind, this evocatively clever number is an example why this Dripping Springs, Texas-based band are admired by Brian Eno
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Greentea Peng aka Aria Wells
Song of the Day: A beautiful fusion of gentle Spanish, Erykah Badu-inspired soul, bossa nova and psychedelic R&B from the south London artist also known as Aria Wells, inspired by a Mexican-Mayan phrase related to identity
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Marie Davidson, Asaël R. Robitaille and Pierre Guerineau
Sumptuous, strutting, sexy synth funk-pop of talky-singing in the form of feminist, political defiance by the trio of old Montreal friends with 80s and 90s-style echoes of Handsome Boy Modelling School, Abba and Grace Jones
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Song of the Day: A double set of titular pairs from the Netherlands singer-songwriter, whose style is a beautifully eerie and ethereal, silky voiced indie pop. Her EP This Is Not.A Democracy, out on AT EASE, is due for release in September
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Working Men’s Club
Song of the Day: Following Mariana Trench by Bright Eyes, another kind of geological metaphor in the form of old-school northern electro-pop by the young band from West Yorkshire, inspired by the venue Hebdon Bridge Trades Club
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From the cover art of Bright Eyes’ new album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Song of the Day: Delving deep into natural disasters, mass surveillance and the extreme relief of humanity’s tiny place in a much bigger planetary history, this single comes from the first new Bright Eyes album for a decade, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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Marlowe’s second album, Marlow 2
Song of the Day: Supremely slick hip hop delivery, clever, humorous sampling, witty pace-changing, plus scratching by DJ Trackstar? It’s all here from Seattle producer L’Orange and North Carolina rapper Solemn Brigham from their second album, Marlow 2
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The two Bobby’s of Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Blisteringly brilliant, angry, scorching guitar punk hip-hop-grime number by the London duo focusing on the state of Britain, growing up mixed race in a racist, abrasive culture that is continually prevalent now for Black Lives Matter
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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: With beautifully wry and drily performed lyrics, and taken from the forthcoming mischievously titled album Gold Record, this new song from the Smog artist is about a limo driver advising newlyweds, and cheekily namechecks two other songwriting greats
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