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Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby
Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry
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Melt’s forthcoming debut album Maelstrum
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming debut album Maelstrom, a scintillating storm of a song mixing psychedelia, space rock, krautrock, Hammond organ and driving guitar and vocals by the band from Dublin
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Mogwai’s latest single Boltfor
Song of the Day: A majestic standalone single by the Glasgow alternative rock band known for their powerful, epic instrumentals, this one a prime example, accompanied by a beautiful video
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Viagra Boys’ upcoming new album Cave World
Song of the Day: After Black Midi and Straw Man Army, more powerful new post-punk with rippling guitar work and a moral outrage against violence, here by the Swedish band from their forthcoming album Cave World
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Straw Man Army’s second LP
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s blistering musical military assault by Black Midi, more excellent guitar-based alternative post-punk by the New York duo Owen and Sean with a death-defying number about information overload from their second LP SOS
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The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
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Some of Kendrick Lamar’s morphed appearances of well-known figures in the video for The Heart Part 5
Song of the Day: The vibrant fifth track in the acclaimed rapper’s ‘Heart’ series that began in 2010, and while also released this week, separate to his latest album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, it powerfully focuses on the problematic portrayal of black so-called culture and violence, and also includes a reworking of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You.
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A visual taste of Pan Amsterdam’s Rigatoni
Song of the Day: Produced by Damu The Fudgemunk (Earl Davis), another food-titled piece of highly original hip hop by the American rapper Leron Thomas, here with a chess-move theme, and doing a jazz trumpet solo at the end
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This single is taken from the forthcoming album Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse and Black Thought
Song of the Day: Another dynamic hip-hop-producer pairing with slick wordplay by The Roots rapper and classic soul and jazz grooves from Brian Burton in this first track taken from their forthcoming album Cheat Codes
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The debut QUINQUIS album SEIM
Song of the Day: Translated from the Breton language as Nothing Anymore, and from the solo artist Émilie Tiersen’s forthcoming debut album SEIM, a mesmeric, mysterious electronica number with beautiful vocals and a rasping background element
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Stealing Sheep’s new project, Wow Machine
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Wow Machine, a specially commissioned project taking inspiration from the female pioneers of electronic music, this catchy electro-pop single by the Liverpool trio draws on the acid-era sound of the Roland TB-303
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In shapes: Personal Trainer
Song of the Day: The latest in witty, catchy post-punk-pop by the Amsterdam-based seven-piece with a song loosely about dance and unity, and partly reminiscent of the style of LCD Soundsystem and Brooklyn’s Bodega
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Stars Planets Dust Me album by A Mountain of One
Song of the Day: Taken from the recently released album Stars Planets Dust Me, a clever piece of piano-based experimental pop, disco and funk with a skipping rhythm and semi-talking delivery reminiscent of Ian Dury, by the trio of Mo Morris, Leo Elstob and vocalist/pianist Zeb Jameson
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Joe Unknown’s second single, Silent
Song of the Day: Sharp, fast, wildly inventive, alternative hip hop by the British rapper with unusual phrasing, mesmeric beats, breathing sounds and a rising, searing siren-like sound, all in this second single after last year’s debut Ride
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Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall combine in this fabulously sharp, fast, witty, post-punk electro-pop number that cries out on escaping the confines of technology and other distractions
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Cover of the new LP When The Lights Go
Song of the Day: A decade after his first LP, Trouble, Los Angeles artist Orlando Higginbottom returns with the opening track from his forthcoming new 17-track LP, When The Lights Go, and his own brand of polished, heartbreak, retro electro-pop
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Hot Chip return with the first single from their forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy electro-disco-funk return by the London synth-pop band featuring singer Alexis Taylor, with the first single taken from forthcoming eighth album Freakout/Release out on Domino Records
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Gwenno
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Tresor released on 1 July 2022, a mesmeric single of psych-folk-pop by the Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Mererid Saunders as usual in her native tongue, meaning The New Room
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Lau.ra aka Laura Bettinger
Song of the Day: Brimful with brilliantly boinging, wonky bass, beats and synth riffs topped with sassy vocals by Eliza that explode frustrations, this great dancefloor single by the British producer, singer and DJ Laura Bettinson is from her just released EP Vol. 1 The Mixtape, out on her label Needwant Records
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What has Lizzo have in common with Stephen Hawking? They’re both about damn time
Song of the Day: It’s Friday, and about damn time some brand new disco funk - and who better to supply it than the colourful, charismatic American singer with a number that heralds her forthcoming new album, three years in the making
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