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Song of the Day: PVA – Untethered

June 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

PVA: Untethered

Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

June 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

Song of the Day: Given a wider audience by its inclusion on the Killing Eve TV series soundtrack, this fusion of glam rock and electro-pop by the trio of LA’s Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia and Belfast producer and DJ David Holmes is sexy and stylish, and now also comes with some brand new ear-catching remixes including by Horse Meat Disco

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Song of the Day: Donna Thompson – Be With You

June 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Donna Thompson

Song of the Day: With soulful voice reminiscent of Lianne La Havas and Minnie Riperton, this beautiful new number about yearning in a long-distance relationship (especially over lockdown) comes from the London singer and drummer from her upcoming debut EP Something True on PRAH Recordings

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Hi-Fidelity featuring Biig Piig

June 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity

Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP

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Song of the Day: Gemma Cullingford – Tongue Tied

June 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The title track to Gemma Cullingford’s next album out this September

Song of the Day: Ear-catching electronica and the first single and title track from her forthcoming sophomore album by one half of the electronic post-punk duo Sink Ya Teeth. Out on Outré Disque

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Clas Tuuth – Say You Did (featuring Kate Stables)

June 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Clas Tuuth – Say You Did EP cover

Song of the Day: Crisp, catchy, mesmeric electronica, this experimental new single by the London artist is co-written with and features Kate Stables from This Is The Kit. It’s also title track from the new EP, out on Need No Water Records

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Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has a Mother

June 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jesca Hoop

Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment

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Song of the Day: Maja Lena - No More Flowers / Antares

June 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Maja Lena

Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s Regina Spektor nectar collecting song, two beautiful but melancholy floral referencing folk pop numbers, the former brand new and from forthcoming album Pluto, the latter from 2021’s album The Keeper by the half-Swedish and Stroud-based musician Marianne Parrish

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Song of the Day: Regina Spektor – Up The Mountain

June 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Regina Spektor’s upcoming album: Home, Before and After

Song of the Day: Picked a few weeks ago for our playlists for songs about bees, and while not mentioning the insect, certainly within the interpretation, this inventively striking strings-and-brass new single about relentless collection by the Russian-American singer-songwriter is from her forthcoming album Home, Before and After

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Song of the Day: Florist – Sci-fi Silence

June 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Otherworldly and delicate: Florist

Song of the Day: An exquisitely otherworldly, delicate, shimmering folk-pop single with a space theme by the New York quartet featuring singer Emily Sprague, taken from their forthcoming 19-track self-titled album, out on Double Double Whammy

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Song of the Day: Rachel Sermanni – Soak Me

June 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Rachel Sermanni’s forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Seaside Haiku by Laura Veirs, another beautiful shoreline-themed number, by the Scottish signer-songwriter, the first with Courtney Harman, taken from her forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea, out on Jellygirl Records

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Song of the Day: Laura Veirs: Seaside Haiku

June 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Laura Veirs

Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming album, Found Light, a beautiful grungey folk-pop number by the singer-songwriter created from haiku poems written on a visit to the cold, windy beach of windy beach in Seaside, Oregon, and about coming to terms with being single

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Song of the Day: Cola - Fulton Park

June 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cola’s album Deep in View

Song of the Day: A thrumming, knotty, crafty, catchy post-punk single with a glam-rock beat by the trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums) from their debut album Deep in View out on Fire Talk

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Song of the Day: Special Interest – (Herman's) House

May 31, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Special Interest

Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years

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Song of the Day: Braxe + Falcon (with Sunni Colon) - Elevation

May 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

DIfferent category: Braxe + Falcon

Song of the Day: Smooth, sublime, electro-funk-pop by the French dance music production pair of Alain and Stéphane Quême, aka Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, joined here by Sunni Colon, taken from their forthcoming Step By Step EP that also features Panda Bear

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Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso: Sunburn

May 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn

Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings

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Song of the Day: Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine (Minions soundtrack)

May 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine from the new Minions movie soundtrack

Song of the Day: A shamelessly upbeat summer disco-funk number as part of the soundtrack for the new animated 70s-themed Minions movie soundtrack featuring the veteran Motown singer, and the Australian band

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Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Forever In Sunset

May 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Furman returns with a new album in August

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return

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Song of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

May 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon

Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"

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Song of the Day: Rubber Oh - Hyperdrive Fantasy

May 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the forthcoming Rubber Oh album Space Craft

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Space Craft, a psychedelic-pop-rock number of rich riffing and vocal harmonies, dark menace, electronic wobbles and space adventure by Newcastle’s Sam Grant – guitarist and producer from Pigs x 7. Out on Rocket Recordings

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New Albums …

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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 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Kurt Vile: Philadelphia's Been Good To Me
June 2, 2026

New album: A selection of fond love-letter songs to the city where he was raised and has remained by the 46-year-ld American singer-songwriter, in this deliciously laid back 10th LP of songs of interweaving guitars, folk, rock, country and psychedelia, all with his inimitably relaxed vocal delivery

June 2, 2026
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June 1, 2026
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane
June 1, 2026

New album: His voice now may be thinner and weaker, yet his genius for melody remains in this warm, tender LP, inspired by vivid childhood reminiscences in the Speke area of Liverpool and beyond, with references to friends, parents, girlfriends, his bandmates, and includes a duet with Ringo Starr

June 1, 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
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Seasick Steve - The Last Season of America
June 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerfully gentle folk-blues-Americana protest number by the veteran Calfornian singer-songwriter with an extended metaphor about the state of his country in this title track heralding his upcoming album out on 18 September via Steve’s new label Eastcote Recordings

June 4, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco
June 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Following 2023’s Clear Pond Road, the Rhode Island-raised former Throwing Muses artist returns with a powerful, dark, resonant number about her and her brother’s childhood, heralding a 12th solo LP, Sugar On Blackstone, out on 18 August via Fire Records

June 3, 2026

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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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