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Song of the Day: IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly (featuring Abyss X)

April 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly album cover

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Butterflies by Wunderhorse, another flutter now with this striking electronica and guitar title track from a new album by Portuguese artist and Terrain Ahead label founder Ivo Pacheco, here with singer Abyss X aka Evangelia Lachianina

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Song of the Day: Wunderhorse - Butterflies

April 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jacob Slater aka Wunderhorse

Song of the Day: After a series of blue and other colour-themed SOTDs, time to take flight with blue butterflies and an intensely emotional new track suffused with rich guitars and a Pink Floyd feel by the London artist also known as Jacob Slater

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In 2022, pop, rock Tags Wunderhorse, Communion Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Léa Sen - I Feel Like I'm Blue

April 26, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Karma chameleon: from the video for Léa Sen - I Feel Like I'm Blue

Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-run of blue- and other colour-themed Songs of the Day, and following her previous single Hyasynth, a slow, sensual new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter from her forthcoming EP You Of Now Pt. 1, out 20 May 2022 on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Eda Eren - Red and Green (Blue Lab Beats Remix)

April 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Eda Eren’s new release remix

Song of the Day: Continuing on from a trio of blue-themed songs, a new mix by the jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats (NK-OK and Mr DM) of a catchy fusion of disco, jazz and hip-hop about mood and songwriting by the London artist

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In 2022, jazz, pop, hip hop Tags Eda Eren, Blue Lab Beats, songs, song of the day, Fabyl
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Song of the Day: Iraina Mancini - Undo The Blue

April 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Iraina Mancini

Song of the Day: After BATTS and Billy Nomates, a blue-themed trilogy is completed the London singer-songwriter and DJ in a sparklingly optimistic song co-written with Jagz Kooner inspired by 70s psychedelic soul and decorated with brass, strings and Iraina’s soaring vocals

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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - Blue Bones

April 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health

Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records

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In 2022, indie, pop, experimental Tags Billy Nomates, Tor Maries, Geoff Barrow, Invada Records
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Song of the Day: BATTS - Blue (featuring Sharon Van Etten)

April 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

BATTS aka Tanya Batt

Song of the Day: A beautiful slow-burning new number suffused grief but also hope, from Melbourne singer-songwriter Tanya Batt, duetting here with Sharon Van Etten, whom she supported in Australia, both voices sublimely complementary

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Song of the Day: Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na (featuring Anoushka Shankar)

April 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Arooj Aftab

Song of the Day: An exquisite new song about sudden memory of an absent friend, by the Grammy Award-winning US-base sublime Pakistani singer and composer, best known for the song Mohabbat, joined here by the famous British-Indian-American Indian sitar player

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Song of the Day: Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water

April 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jockstrap

Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye

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In 2022, electronica, experimental, pop Tags Jockstrap, songs, song of the day, Rough Trade Records
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Song of the Day: Monophonics - Warpaint

April 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The cover of Monophonics’ forthcoming album Sage Hotel

Song of the Day: Superior new psychedelic soul by the San Francisco band with emotional vocals and punchy horns, taken from the forthcoming album Sage Hotel with a song and video that captures a place where all the highs and lows of life can be found

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Song of the Day: Color Green - High and Low

April 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Color Green’s new single covers the full spectrum

Song of the Day: Bluesy, slightly Rolling Stones-y, but above all a timelessly classy though new piece of Americana meets New Orleans-style soul that builds with a soaring voice, by the California pair of Noah Kohll and Corey Madden

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Song of the Day: Panic Shack - The Ick

April 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …

Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records

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Song of the Day: Yves Jarvis - Bootstrap Jubilee

April 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sunny disposition: Yves Jarvis

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming fourth album The Zug out on 13 May, a delightful sunny acoustic number about self-development as a musician by the Canadian experimental pop artist Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet, previously known as Un Blonde

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In 2022, experimental, pop Tags Yves Jarvis, songs, song of the day, Anti Records
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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - Ain't No Grave (from Peaky Blinders)

April 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi’s new single, from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack, is among other covers on a new EP

Song of the Day: Taken from the soundtrack to the final series of the Peaky Blinders TV drama, a powerful new cover version by the British singer and guitarist of the traditional gospel and blues number attributed to Claude Ely (1922–1978) from Virginia

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Song of the Day: Sun's Signature: Golden Air

April 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece

Song of the Day: A supremely beautiful new track featuring the unmistakable voice of former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser working here with her partner Damon Reece, with rippling synths, guitar and drums, and taken from the forthcoming EP Sun's Signature, out 18 June on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Nina Nastasia - Just Stay In Bed

April 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nina Nastasia

Song of the Day: A lazy Sunday song? There’s so more going on here in this new single from American folk singer-songwriter, taken from her forthcoming seventh album, Riderless Horse, and first for 12 years since 2010’s Outlaster

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Song of the Day: Peeping Drexels - SKuNK

April 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Peeping Drexels

Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."

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Song of the Day: Flossing - Men On The Menu

April 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Heather Elle of Flossing

Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty

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Song of the Day: Good Morning - Misery / Out To Pasture

April 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend

Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating

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Song of the Day: Son Lux and Moses Sumney - Fence

April 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once

Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals

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New Albums …

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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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Apr 22, 2026
Eaves Wilder: Little Miss Sunshine
Apr 22, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Honey Dijon: The Nightlife
Apr 22, 2026

New album: The irrepressible, prolific and charismatic London-based Chicago DJ, musician, producer and vinyl lover returns with a flamboyantly fun celebration of club and queer culture through the prism of dance music from disco to house, with a wide variety of guest vocalists

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Tiga: HOTLIFE
Apr 21, 2026

New album: Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
TOMORA: Come Closer
Apr 20, 2026

New album: A striking, dynamic collaboration between Norwegian experimental pop sensation Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one of half of Chemical Brothers, with a sensual, otherworldly energetic fusion of mystical, sensual ambience, and block-rocking dance beats

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Jessie Ware: Superbloom
Apr 20, 2026

New album: Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor

Apr 20, 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
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Apr 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Tricky - Out of Place (featuring Marta Złakowska)
Apr 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A pulsating fusion of beats, orchestral strings and the Bristol trip-hop pioneer’s distinctive, deep, croaky voice, with an emotional reference to his daughter Mina Topley-Bird (1995–2019), and heralding his first solo album for six years, Different When It’s Silent, out on 17 June via False Idols

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Apr 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, simmering, slow, melancholy and reflective, a surprise single and welcome return by the acclaimed US artist, evoking the haunting, sun-bleached landscapes and musical textures of his 2015 Grammy winning album Morning Phase, out now on Iliad Records/Capitol Records

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Song of the Day: Gelli Haha - Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep
Apr 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Described appropriately as somewhere between Studio 42 and Area 51, eccentric, effervescent, spacey, catchy and eclectic disco pop by the Los Angeles artist (aka Angel Abaya, co-written with Sean Guerin) out on Innovative Leisure

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Song of the Day: LEENALCHI 이날치 - Here Comes That Crow 떴다 저 가마귀
Apr 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, funky, psychedelic and quirky new work by the seven-piece Seoul-based Korean pansori band led by bassist Jang Young Gyu with the title track of their new EP, out on 12 June via Luaka Bop, and heralding a European and North American tour

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Big Storm
Apr 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky experimental indie folk-pop by the innovative Manchester-based California artist, featuring a clever video that old footage and Hoop in various vintage guises, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home, out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic of Music

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Gia Margaret - Alive Inside
Apr 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicate, dream-like, reflective experimental folk-pop by the American singer-songwriter and producer from Chicago, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Singing, out on Jagjaguwar

Apr 19, 2026
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Apr 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - Crumb
Apr 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, playful, gently humorous, self-deprecating experimental indie pop by the inventive transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, with a number about having a fragile crush on someone, and their first new music of 2026, out on Submarine Cat Records

Apr 18, 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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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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