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Chrysalid Homo’s new single
Song of the Day: Fabulously dark, dancey, catchy fuzzy synth-rich electro-pop by the Manchester artist describing an LGBTQ experience from beginnings on a council estate before their protagonist has a very physical queer awakening
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Figure of Speech’s debut album
Song of the Day: Taken from the recent, excellent debut eponymous album, the Bristol-based Mancunian poet joins forces with producer Boca 45 on a 70s-style funk track delivering sharp hip-hop lyrics that have an anti-racist theme inspired by the George Floyd murder
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Song of the Day: Dark, powerful post-punk with echoes of Siouxsie & the Banshees and the ‘77-’82 era by the Melbourne band fronted by singer Krystal Maynard in a song about anxiety, rumination and a character paralysed by fear and intrusive thoughts
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M(h)aol
Song of the Day: Dark, jagged post-punk rock with jagged guitars and tough, powerful, spoken, feminist edge by the Dublin band and the title track from their latest EP
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Jack White’s forthcoming album Fear of The Dawn
Song of the Day: Blistering new single from the multi-instrumentalist former White Stripes man, with Roland Juno-60 synth effects alongside his distinctive vocals and searing guitar with the power of a one-man Led Zeppelin
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Leif’s new album 9 Airs
Song of the Day: The opening track of recently released album 9 Airs brings mesmeric rhythmic, electronica mixing with more acoustic strings to produce a dream-like, meditative instrumental journey by the Welsh, Bristol-based artist Leif Knowles
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Proc Fiskal’s second album Siren Spine Sysex
Song of the Day: Taken from the album Siren Spine Sysex, a mesmerising collage of synth sounds and voices by Joe Power, the Edinburgh electronica artist, who incorporates local field recordings and distorts snippets Gaelic, Irish and English folk music via the prism of pop
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Sumptuous otherworldly dream pop: Beach House
Song of the Day: The title track to the forthcoming album by the Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, their first since 2018, is gorgeous dream-pop with glittering acoustic guitar, vocals and orchestration, and is previewed with further songs – Superstar, Pink Funeral and Through Me
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Song of the Day: This title track from the recently released album by the London-based producer and DJ with Japanese heritage builds cleverly into a wonderfully dark, hypnotic groove with ghostly vocals and a woozy dub element
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Switched on: Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: Electronic pop and afro-funk combine in this Hot Chip-produced new single by the vibrant London band exploring the connection between people and the power resource, and through all of life’s complexities, why it’s a simple answer
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Beige Banquet in action
Song of the Day: Taut, wirey, spiky, punchy post-punk with an existential theme by the London band who like to use deadened guitar strings for rhythm, the first track from their latest EP, S/T, out on Just Step Sideways Records
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George Fitzgerald - Ultraviolet
Song of the Day: Slowly building, then evoking a high-speed train passing through a vivid landscape, this vibrant new instrumental single by the English electronic artist is his first new music since the 2018 album All That Must Be
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Hembree’s latest single, Operators
Song of the Day: A vibrant dance track with rhythmic saxophone by the Kansas City-based indie band written during lockdown and inspired by street protests and duplicitous law enforcement agents
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Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto
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Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
Song of the Day: A clever, heavily ironic riposte to unwanted online communication, this talky-electronica pop number by the French-born Belgian-Caribbean singer and her Ghent-based collaborator is also also co-produced by Soulwax
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Coco’s debut album
Song of the Day: A beautiful, serene, dreamlike number with a gorgeous bassline and vocal harmonies, the final track from the self-titled debut album by the NY/LA trio of Maia Friedman (from Dirty Projectors and Uni Ika Ai), Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider)
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Gothic noir: Freya Beer
Song of the Day: With a menacing guitar intro, strong chord changes and a beguiling, dreamlike voice, this number about unleashing primal feelings by London singer-songwriter ideally girds up for a goth-noir Halloween, and is the title track from her debut album
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Field Music’s new EP - another shot follows their most recent album, Flat White Moon
Song of the Day: Taken from the Brewis brothers’ latest EP, Another Shot, a genre-spanning of clever rhythms and vivid lyrics with about change of circumstances and fear of change through the prisms of seemingly ordinary domestic details in a small town
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Rippin’ it up and getting it right: Pip Blom
Song of the Day: But then again you do. From their new second studio album, Welcome Break, Amsterdam’s Pip Blom, Tender Blom, Gini Cameron, Darek Mercks return with wistful, catchy, emotional and gently humorous indie
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