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Song of the Day: Albertine Sarges - Hold On

November 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Albertine Sarges

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming new EP Family of Things EP, a quirky, witty, personal, talk-singing original and candid number about nicotine addiction and other self-confession oddities and struggles by the Berlin-based artist. Out on Moshi Moshi

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Song of the Day: Steve Mason - No More (featuring Javed Bashir)

November 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Steve Mason’s new single, No More, addresses British imperialism and the huge Brexit mistake

Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters

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Song of the Day: Uh - Hit

November 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus

Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH

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Song of the Day: Pozi - Slightly Shaking Cells

November 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Pozi’s new single Slightly Shaking Cells

Song of the Day: Fabulously quirky, skittish, energetic new single by the indie pop postpunk trio of drummer/vocalist Burroughs, violinist/vocalist Rosa Brook and bassist/vocalist Tom Jones with this number about the strange beauty of the ageing process

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Song of the Day: David Brewis (Field Music) - The Last Day

November 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

David Brewis’s forthcoming solo album

Song of the Day: A catchy, candid, brass-infused story of the tricky final last day of school by one half of the brother duo of Field Music, heralding his forthcoming solo album, The Soft Struggles, out on Daylight Saving Record

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Song of the Day: Leland Whitty - Awake

November 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Leland Whitty’s forthcoming debut solo album, Anyhow

Song of the Day: A beautiful, evocative instrumental piece, by Toronto experimental jazz BadBadNotGood's saxophonist with shimmering, gliding sounds of strings, keyboards, bass and other playing from his bandmates, heralding Whitty’s debut solo LP, Anyhow, out on Innovative Leisure

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Song of the Day: Caroline Rose – Love / Lover / Friend

November 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Caroline Rose

Song of the Day: Delicate, intimate and whispery but slowly building, from gentle Spanish guitar and orchestral strings into an intense explosion of emotion and vocal harmonies, this is a powerfully intense new single comes from the New York singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: Hekla - The Whole

November 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hekla’s second album Xiuxiuejar

Song of the Day: Haunting, mesmeric, beautifully spooky sounds and voice by the Icelandic singer theremin player and cellist who with some upbringing in Barcelona and is also influenced by the Catalan language, this track the first from her latest album, Xiuxiuejar, out on Phantom Limb

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Song of the Day: Quasi - Queen of Ears

November 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Quasi: Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss

Catchy, clever, crunch-squelchy organ-fuelled new indie single of discombobulation by the Portland-based duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater-Kinney), heralding their first album for a decade, Breaking the Balls of History, out on Sub Pop

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Song of the Day: Spencer Cullum - Kingdom Weather

November 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Spencer Cullum’s forthcoming new album

Song of the Day: Beautiful new 70s-style folk rock/country number by the Nashville-based British artist, featuring extra guest vocals by Japanese singer Yuma Abe, plus evocative woodwind, taken from his forthcoming second Coin Collection album, out on Full Time Hobby

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Song of the Day: Say She She - Fortune Teller

November 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Say She She

Song of the Day: Beautiful disco with a delicate shimmering piano, and a nod to Nile Rodgers’ Chic, by the Brooklyn band fronted by Sabrina Cunningham, Nya Gazelle Brown & Piya Malik taken from their recent debut album, Prism, out Karma Chief / Colemine Records

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Song of the Day: Philip Selway - Check For Signs Of Life

November 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: John Cale - The Story of Blood (featuring Weyes Blood)

November 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale

Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering

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Song of the Day: Dora Jar - Spell

October 31, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Dora Jar

Song of the Day: A ghostly, breathy, ethereal and beautiful new number that marks Halloween, but is more about late October’s seasonal time of change by the California and New York alt-pop/folk singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski

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Song of the Day: Ásgeir - Borderland

October 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ásgeir’s fifth studio album, Time On My Hands

Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent

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Song of the Day: Nakhane - Do You Well (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nakhane Mahlakahlaka

Song of the Day: A raunchy disco banger by the Nakhane Mahlakahlaka, the South African singer, songwriter, actor, and novelist, and non-binary LBGTQ+ activist, here collaborating with the American musician

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Song of the Day: Hamish Hawk - Think Of Us Kissing

October 26, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hamish Hawk’s second album, Angel Numbers, is due on early 2023

Song of the Day: The Edinburgh artist returns with anthemic panache on this new, stylish, lyrically clever single, “a tragic, romantic song about the music industry, looking at the lengths an artist may or may not go in order to have glory showered upon them.”

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Song of the Day: Teleman - Short Life

October 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Teleman return with a new

Song of the Day: A punchy, anthemic, uplifting new indie-pop single, the first from the English band’s forthcoming fourth LP, Good Time/Hard Time, out next spring, is all about making the most of our time while we have it. Out on Moshi Moshi

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Song of the Day: Sister Wives - O Dŷ i Dŷ

October 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sister Wives: Donna Lee, Rose Love, Lisa O’Hara, and Liv Willars

Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records

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Song of the Day: Gretel Hänlyn - Drive

October 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Gretel Hänlyn

Song of the Day: Punchy, darkly sinister and rock-driven new indie single by the innovative London singer-songwriter with a distinctive deep voice and an ability to deliver songs in a variety of styles. Out on VLF Records

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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 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 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Dead Pioneers - The Worst Among Us​ (featuring Jason Williamson)
June 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Sharply identifying sources of much of the world’s problems with this catchy, punchy new track, the Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist Gregg Deal and his indie-punk Denver, Colorado band are joined here by the Sleaford Mods’ rapper, heralding the upcoming new album Wagon Burner, out on 26 June via Hassle Records

June 2, 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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