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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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In 2021, electronica, pop Tags O-SHiN, Galaxy Cat Records, songs, song of the day, Stefanie Martens
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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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In 2021, electronica, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Ill Peach, Pop Can Records
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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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In 2021, indie Tags songs, song of the day, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Lee Segarra, climate change, Nonesuch Records
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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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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026

Word of the week

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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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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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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