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Song of the Day: O-SHiN - Holy Night

January 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

O-SHiN aka Stefanie Martens

Song of the Day: Evocative, enchanting, eclectic electro-pop with non-verbal, looped and layered vocals and interweaving instrumentation by the artist Stefanie Martens whose moniker means “time for a good cry” in Japanese

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Song of the Day: Ill Peach - Dandelion

January 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ill Peach are Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey

Song of the Day: Quirky, alluring, and strangely haunting electro-pop with strong bass thrum about two lovers who are polar opposites, who at times want to kill each other but equally can’t live apart, by the duo Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey, who hail from Wyoming and Minnesota

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Song of the Day: EMMY - Stupid Big Teeth

January 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Emmy Hartman

Song of the Day: Fresh, infectiously melodic, and mostly made of a capella vocals, this recent single comes from 22-year-old Emmy Hartman from Cleveland, Ohio, who made her name placing her cover versions on TikTok, and is particularly inspired by Björk's album Medulla

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Song of the Day: EERA - Falling Between The Ice (from album Speak)

December 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton

EERA’s new album - Speak

Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins

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In 2021, alternative, electronica, experimental, indie Tags EERA, songs, song of the day, climate change, Just Dust Recordings, Big Dada, Ninja Tune
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Song of the Day: Hurray for the Riff Raff – Rhododendron

December 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton

On ferlile ground: Alynda Lee Segarra aka Hurray for the Riff Raff

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra

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Song of the Day: Tierra Whack: Body of Water

December 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Tierra Whack: fluid delivery

Song of the Day: Fluidly innovative, oddball and quick-witted, this new track mixing hip hop with electronica and dolphin noises by the ingeniously mischievous rapper, singer, and songwriter

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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - Christmas is for Lovers, Ghosts and Children

December 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates aka Tor Maries

Song of the Day: Christmas may be over, but it’s never to late to give to those who need it most, especially by this profoundly moving song by the fabulous artist Tor Maries, with this pay-what-you-like single raising funds for Feed The Homeless Bristol

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Song of the Day: Barrie - Frankie

December 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Barrie Lyndsay

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy electro-pop by the New York multi-instrumentalist and singer Barrie Lindsay in this wistful perspective of social justice movements, democratic socialism and the New Deal with reference to Glen Campbell’s classic song Wichita Lineman

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Song of the Day: C Duncan - Alluvium

December 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton

C Duncan

Song of the Day: More space now, with a song about change from microcosm to the macrocosm, this new single by the composer, singer and musician from Glasgow comes with a sublime melody and a dream-like, cinematic quality

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Song of the Day: Spiritualized - Always Together With You

December 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Jason Pierce aka J Spaceman of Spiritualized

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, the new single by Jason Pierce and co is a love song with an expansive, Christmassy sound and a space theme, but was inspired by the solitude of lockdown

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Song of the Day: Grace Cummings - Heaven / Up In Flames

December 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Grace Cummings

Song of the Day: From Grace Carter yesterday to another Grace today, also addressing and questioning the religious idea, with the Melbourne singer-songwriter'’s powerful, gritty, distinctive voice and acoustic guitar, taken from her forthcoming album Storm Queen

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Song of the Day: Grace Carter - Dark Matter

December 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Grace Carter

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerful, but gently still, minimal soul number by the London-born R&B soul singer in a thank you letter addressing an absent father, and in turn, religious faith, with lyrical twist

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Song of the Day: Keeley Forsyth - Bring Me Water

December 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Keeley Forsyth - Bring Me Water

Song of the Day: ‘There’s a place that only I have seen.’ Ghostly, beautiful, sensual and dark, this new single by the singer and actor from Oldham with a unique, rich, deep voice comes from her forthcoming album, Limbs, due in February

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Songs of the Day: LYR: Winter Solstice / Cascade Theory

December 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Cascade Theory by LYR

Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second

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Song of the Day: Jockstrap - 50/50

December 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton

50/50

Song of the Day: Newly signed to Rough Trade, the London duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye return with a pulsating new single and that pushes the boundaries of electronic and dance music with a fidgety beat, bleeps and stuttery vocal effects

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Song of the Day: Riton, Gucci Soundsystem and Jarvis Cocker - Let's Stick Around

December 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Jarvis Cocker - sticking around in the video

Song of the Day: Released to highlight issues around Cop26, a catchy, dancey new club anthem combined with the poignant, profound, whispering delivery of the Pulp frontman seeking a path to a unified way to address climate change

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Song of the Day: The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam

December 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton

The Lazy Eyes

Song of the Day: “I want it all to be OK”. Thumpingly fun, psych-rock-funk number, streaked with insanely catchy riffs and bassline and dreamy vocals by the Sydney, Australia band from their forthcoming debut LP, following two EPs

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Song of the Day: Foals - Wake Me Up

December 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton

And then there were three: Foals

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album

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Song of the Day: DITZ - Ded Würst

December 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Menacing sound: DITZ

Song of the Day: More angry postpunk, this time from the Brighton five-piece, who have a menacingly stormy, extreme loud-soft dynamic, stratchy guitars and driving rhythm in this cri de coeur against low-paid labour

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Song of the Day: Average Life Complaints - Precious Pressures

December 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: With an almost tongue-twisting title and sharp, caustic lyrics, a sample of London post-punk band’s angry, angular attack approach on modern life with guitar work to match, taken from their EP Fish & Chips

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New Albums …

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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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Apr 24, 2026
Hukwe Zawose Foundation: Asili ya Mama
Apr 24, 2026

New album: Wonderfully evocative field recordings release of Wagogo, Waluguru and Wasambaa Tanzanian women singing traditional songs in their villages, rarely heard outside of their own circles, the title is translated as The Origin of Mother, rich in stories and capturing the place where song is first learned, first felt, first shared

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig
Apr 23, 2026

New album: Four decades since their self-titled debut, Brooklyn alternative rockers John Flansburgh and John Linnell return with their 24th LP, packed with of punchy, pacy, wistful, whimsical, clever wordplay and indie rock-pop, buoyantly satirical and also a little world weary at times, they remain oddball, lively commentators on the ongoing absurdity of life

Apr 23, 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
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Apr 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Pigeon - Miami
Apr 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, sunny, upbeawt indie synth-pop with an African twist by the Margate band fronted by Falle Nioke, with flavours of William Onyeabor, Hot Chip and New York 70s disco, heralding their upcoming album OUTTANATIONAL, out on 1 May via Memphis Industries

Apr 25, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026

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