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Song of the Day: Hilotrons - Theme from Lonely Cinema

June 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema

Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema

Song of the Day: Following yesterdays’ Cinétique, inspired by films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, horror, science fiction, and westerns, Canadian Mike Dubue’s exciting, evocative instrumental is about disconnection from reality while watching the world through a screen, and comes from trilogy of records titled Lonely Cinema

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Song of the Day: Jinjé - Cinétique

June 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Song of the Day: A fantasia of mesmerising electronica by Leeds musician Lee Malcolm, from the EP Open Unity, out on the Mesh label, with a kinetic-themed animated video by Lawrie Miller using the artwork of James Lacey

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - Emperor Machine

June 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Manchester’s legends ACR

Manchester’s legends ACR

Song of the Day: Dedicated to the late great Andrew Weatherall, this new single is perfect fusion of dance, postpunk and electronica, by the Manchester band and Andrew Meecham comes from the forthcoming new EP A Certain Ratio vs The Emperor Machine

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Song of the Day: audiobooks - The Doll

June 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Evangeline Ling and David Wrench

Evangeline Ling and David Wrench

Song of the Day: An alluringly dark-humoured, pathos-filled but catchy new dance new number about a small but tragic emergency by the electro-pop duo of producer David Wrench and singer/artist Evangeline Ling – from the LP Astro Tough out this coming autumn on Heavenly Records

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Song of the Day: Museum of Love - Marching Orders

June 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Museum of Love

Museum of Love

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life of Mammals, inspired by the Women’s March and a Don Cherry sound, a brilliantly percussive number by the New York duo of drummer and founding LCD Soundsystem member Pat Mahoney and musician Dennis McNany, aka Jee Day

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Songs of the Day: Deep Tan - Hollow Scene / Camelot

June 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Deep Tan

Deep Tan

Songs of the Day: Two fabulously strange, caustic, musically minimal postpunk / new wave tracks by the London band from their new EP Creeping Speedwells, one a play on the epochal word holocene, the other about an extreme drinking session

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Song of the Day: Rostam - From the Back of a Cab

June 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Rostam - From the Back of a Cab

Rostam - From the Back of a Cab

Song of the Day: From a bus yesterday to a taxi today, a new song of electronica alt-pop of dreamy, wistful melody and unusual rhythms by producer, musician, singer, songwriter and member of Vampire Weekend, from his new solo LP Changeophobia

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Song of the Day: BC Camplight - I'm Alright In The World

June 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Brian and best friend

Brian and best friend

Song of the Day: Another optimistic song from an unexpected source - the brilliantly droll and often darkly humorous American Manchester-based singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio references calm, meditative deep breathing and conversing with his dog

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Song of the Day: The Chemical Brothers - The Darkness That You Fear

June 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
A scene from the new Chemical Brothers’ single, The Darkness That You Fear

A scene from the new Chemical Brothers’ single, The Darkness That You Fear

Song of the Day: With clever sampling from two soulful tracks and a structure designed to bring optimism, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons return with new work, after their dark previous album, 2019 No Geography, with a sound that evokes optimism

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Song of the Day: Real Estate - D+ / Half A Human

June 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Real Estate’s latest EP, Half A Human

Real Estate’s latest EP, Half A Human

Song of the Day: Particularly beautiful guitar work with rich harmonies with Alex Bleeker warm vocals are a hallmark of these two numbers taken from the EP Half A Human by the band from New Jersey and Brooklyn band

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Song of the Day: Scotch Rolex - Omuzira (feat. MC Yallah)

June 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Scotch Rolex’s new album Tewari

Scotch Rolex’s new album Tewari

Song of the Day: Stunning electronica and hip hop from the legendary Nyege Nyege Studios and sub label Hakuna Kulala by acclaimed Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg) under the moniker Scotch Rolex joined by Kampala, Uganda’s fiercely wonderful rapper MC Yallah

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Songs of the Day: Penya - Elevation / False Prophets / Trail of Awó

June 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Penya’s core trio

Penya’s core trio

Songs of the Day: Dance beats, brass, electronica and voices, a trio of songs displaying the wonderful melting pot diversity of the the collective band of African and other influences with core members Magnust Mehta, Lilli Elina and Jimmy le Messurier

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Song of the Day: Mind Maintenance - Glow and Glimmer

June 12, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Mind Maintenance: Joshua Abrams and Chad Taylor

Mind Maintenance: Joshua Abrams and Chad Taylor

Song of the Day: A mesmeric track from the self-titled album by Chicago duo of bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor who take up the guimbri and mbira, instruments used the music of diverse African states

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Song of the Day: Buffet Lunch - Red Apple Happiness

June 11, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Fruitful experience: Red Apple Happiness

Fruitful experience: Red Apple Happiness

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s Apples by Pushpin, another core-related song of a fruitfully inventive and eccentric nature of experimental lo-fi odd-pop by the Scottish debut album The Power of Rocks, out on Upset The Rhythm

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Song of the Day: Pushpin - Apples

June 9, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Pushpin songs ….

Pushpin songs ….

Song of the Day: Brilliantly fresh, crisp, vibrant, clever, acoustic indie pop with fast vocals, dynamic rhythm changes, sharp guitar riffs, keyboards and a thumping bass sound by the south London quartet

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Song of the Day: Post Yoga - Bison

June 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Wild Thing inspiration …

Wild Thing inspiration …

Song of the Day: Moving from yesterday’s electronica complexity by Leon Vynehall to an admirable exercise in catchy minimalism by Bristol’s Chris Barrett, who on this project restricts all his music to his charity shop purchased Yamaha PSS-170 keyboard

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Songs of the Day: Leon Vynehall - An Exhale / Mothra

June 7, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Leon Vynehall’s second LP: Rare, Forever

Leon Vynehall’s second LP: Rare, Forever

Songs of the Day: Ambient yet restless, stop-start yet smooth, a couple of tracks of otherworldly, dynamic, ethereal electronica by the British producer and musician from his recent second album – Rare, Forever – out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: KUNZITE - FROSTY

June 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
KUNZITE aka Mike Stroud and and Agustin White

KUNZITE aka Mike Stroud and and Agustin White

Song of the Day: Quirky, vocally rich, thrumming new electro-psych-pop with a transcendent, cosmic theme from the project made by producers and multi-instrumentalists Mike Stroud (from Ratatat) and Agustin White (White Flight)

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Song of the Day: Alfie Templeman - Wait, I Lied

June 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Alfie Templeman

Alfie Templeman

Song of the Day: Supremely catchy funk-pop by the 18-year-old British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Carlton in Bedfordshire, taken from his debut mini-album Forever Isn't Long Enough, out on Chess Club Records

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Song of the Day: Yola - Stand For Myself

June 2, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Yola

Yola

Song of the Day: A fabulous new single of defiance and independence steeped in soaring soul and funk by the singer and songwriter from Bristol, and the title track her her forthcoming second LP, out on Easy Eye Sound

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New Albums …

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May 7, 2026
Chris Brain: Red Sun Rising
May 7, 2026

New album: Beautifully warm, quiet, tender and bucolic new folk LP by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, following a pastoral tradition of landscapes literal and emotional, very much influenced by and echoing the delivery of Nick Drake

May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Lip Critic: Theft World
May 7, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s acclaimed debut Hex Dealer, a newly challenging but also exciting experimental fusion of post-punk, noise rock, electronica and hip-hop by the New York band in this second LP, inspired by the anxiously oddball situation of frontman Bret Kaser’s identity being stolen by a real-life fan, and making hundreds of purchases in his name, including the band’s catalogue

May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons
May 6, 2026

New album: The acclaimed American singer-songwriter and pianist’s 18th album in a 35-year career is a grandiose, powerful 17-track album of odyssey and allegory around politics, power and feminist resistance, fuelled by the current state of her nation, set from the view of fictionalised marriage to a dangerous billionaire and an escape across the country with a narrative twist

May 6, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Kacey Musgraves: Middle of Nowhere
May 6, 2026

New album: Moving away from the pop-folk direction of 2021’s Star-Crossed and 2024’s Deeper Well, the Nashville singer-songwriter returns with this seventh LP back to her country roots with gently trotting, stripped-back finely crafted collection of witty, catchy, candid numbers covering a spectrum of moods

May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Pigeon: OUTTANATIONAL
May 5, 2026

New album: Hugely enjoyable, stylish, playfully eclectic debut LP of indie, electronica and Afro-disco and krautrock grooves by the Margate band fronted by the multi-lingual artist Falle Nioke from Guinea Conakry, West Africa, with songs about identity and ancestry, and a sound somewhere between New Order and William Onyeabor

May 5, 2026
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May 3, 2026
KNEECAP: FENIAN
May 3, 2026

New album: Still the scourge of the establishment after 2024’s debut LP Fine Art, a hugely entertaining second LP of punchy, slick, defiant Irish Gaelic rap by Belfast’s Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap, and beatmaker DJ Próvaí, with an expanded sound aided by innovative producer Dan Carey and an appearance by Kae Tempest

May 3, 2026
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May 2, 2026
Jesca Hoop: Long Wave Home
May 2, 2026

New album: Brilliantly inventive, eclectic, poetic, experimental folk and art-pop by the acclaimed Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist in her first self-produced album, variously about the end of relationships, life changes, technology’s social effects, Gaza victims and other contemporary issues with perhaps her finest yet

May 2, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Sam Grassie: Where Two Hawks Fly
Apr 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful debut LP by the London-based Glaswegian fingerstyle folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, with added saxophone, double bass, flute, clairsach and clarinet in a release of mostly the traditional, covers, sung or instrumental, and supported by the Bert Jansch Foundation

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Irmin Schmidt: Requiem
Apr 29, 2026

New album: A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Gia Margaret: Singing
Apr 28, 2026

New album: Gently profound, and full of wondrous, mesmeric, slow, delicate experimental songs, this simple title has a powerful resonance – it is the Chicago artist’s first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer (there have been two instrumental LPs since), having suffered and recovered from a severe vocal injury, she returns with a delicate, candid, whispery but hauntingly beautiful delivery

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Angelo De Augustine: Angel in Plainclothes
Apr 28, 2026

New album: A beautiful, delicate fifth LP from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, friend and collaborator with Sufjan Stevens with whom he shares a stylistic resemblance, here with themes on life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Carla dal Forno: Confession
Apr 28, 2026

New album: This lo-fi, darkly minimalist but also oddly candid fourth LP by the Australian, Castlemaine-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist centres on the conflicted, obsessive feelings about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way”, and “an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire.”

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Friko: Something Worth Waiting For
Apr 26, 2026

New album: Passionate, powerful, dynamic indie rock in this sophomore LP by the Chicago-based quartet that gallops forwards with a driving momentum, some elements of early PJ Harvey and Radiohead, and is produced by John Congleton

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
White Denim: 13
Apr 26, 2026

New album: This 13th LP in two decades by the Austin, Texas rock band fronted by James Petralli has a particularly mischievous experimentalism, spreading styles far beyond breathlessly paced prog rock, with wrily humorous, surreal, personal and passionate numbers across heavy funk, dub, soul, psyche, country, dirty blues and more, joined by host of outstanding extra musicians

Apr 26, 2026

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May 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Balming Tiger - Home
May 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylishly fun, funky, eccentric electronica, indie and hip-hop fusion by the South Korean collective known as “alternative K-pop”, heralding their new album, Gongbu, out on 19 May, via MOAH

May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Song of the Day: Zoh Amba - Eyes Full
May 6, 2026

Song of the Day: An impassioned, stirring, dark and driving country/indie-rock number about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why by the NY-based band with Kingsport, Tennessee roots, with this title track of the forthcoming debut LP Eyes Full, out on 5 June via Matador Records

May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Sofie Royer - Cowboy Mouth
May 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, cool, stylish fusion of indie and electro-pop by the classically trained, California-born, Vienna-based Iranian-Austrian artist, inspired by reading Patti Smith and Sam Shepard’s play of the same title, reimagining the play’s characters as Angel and Cowboy, and out now on Stones Throw Records

May 5, 2026
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May 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Hodge - Wiggler
May 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A hugely fun, energising, infectious, effervescent, repetitive electronic dance track by the Bristol-based DJ/producer (aka Jake Martin) featuring a 3D pipe bassline by Memotone, and released alongside another track,Trust, out on Local Action

May 4, 2026
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May 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibibio Sound Machine - Return To Sender
May 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Fizzing with vibrant energy and intricate rhythms, a fabulous new single with a personal accidental backstory by the London electronic afro-funk band out of London fronted by vocalist Eno Williams, out Merge Record

May 3, 2026
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May 2, 2026
Song of the Day: The Puppini Sisters - Total Eclipse of the Heart
May 2, 2026

Song of the Day: A fabulous new version of the Jim Steinman-penned 1983 Bonnie Tyler power pop hit, arranged by Marcello Puppini in an entirely different style for her swing-jazz trio and band, part of their 20th anniversary celebrations and album, The Birthday Party, out now on Millionaire Records

May 2, 2026
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May 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Bleachers - I'm Not Joking
May 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Featuring harpsichord, Hammond organ, Dobro and more, producer Jack Antonoff and his New Jersey rock band return with a heartfelt love song single heralding the upcoming album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit

May 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Metric - Crush Forever
Apr 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Uplifting, effervescent electro-disco-pop by the Toronto indie rock band, with a song vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines describes as “my love letter to strong girls in this world”, taken from their recently released 10th album, Romanticize the Dive, out on Metric Music via Thirty Tigers

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim Ghedi - The Hungry Child
Apr 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, gripping, visceral folk by the Sheffield singer-songwriter, with a striking number based on an early 19th-century German poem about the fatal story of a child pleading for food, and, following last year’s acclaimed album, Wasteland, also out on Basin Rock, it heralds his upcoming soundtrack for the Hugh Jackman film, The Death of Robin Hood.

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 27, 2026
Song of the Day: holybones (with Baxter Dury) - SLUGBOY
Apr 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, unsettling, sleazy and strange, this is arrestingly vivid new collaborative single between the clandestine London electronic collective and the downbeat, deep-voiced poetic Londoner, out on Promised Land Recordings

Apr 27, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Good Person
Apr 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gentle, droll, humorously self-deprecatingly, and also delicately beautiful, this new experimental folk single by the moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy addresses the love-hate relationship with making music, out on Fat Possum

Apr 26, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Apr 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
Apr 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

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
Apr 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

Apr 9, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
Mar 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

Mar 27, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026

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