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Song of the Day: The Psychotic Monks - Crash

February 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Psychotic Monks from Paris

Song of the Day: A striking, menacing, dark, hypnotic fusion of electronica, techno, post-punk and industrial noise, with reversed sounds and shades of Underworld by French band in a song about exhaustion on tour and mental health within the music industry

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Song of the Day: Band Spectra and Olugbenga - Walai

February 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Band Spectra featuring Olugbenga - Walai

Song of the Day: Swaggering, twisted, grandiose and catchy electro-pop from musicians Robert Manning and lyrics and vocals by Olugbenga Adelekan (also Metronomy’s bass player)

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Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette

February 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Avalon Emerson

Song of the Day: Beautiful, clever, smoothly orchestrated dream pop by the New York artist in a song about, time, perspective and scale. “Scales of time and how something that seemed so important and defining a long time ago, might not really matter that much now”

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Song of the Day: Clark - Town Crank

February 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clark

Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, experimental, pop, indie Tags Clark, songs, song of the day, Thom Yorke, Warp Records
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Song of the Day: Unloved - I Did It

January 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Unloved’s I Did It

Song of the Day: Further wonderfully quirky, stylish, groovy, neo-noir electro-pop by the trio of Jade Vincent, Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes who did much of the Killing Eve soundtrack, with a song for their forthcoming next album, Polychrome

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Song of the Day: London Brew - Miles Chases New Voodoo In The Church

January 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The forthcoming London Brew album

Song of the Day: A fabulous swirling concoction of jazz and psychedelia by a top-class group of London musicians reinterpreting Miles Davis’ album Bitches Brew and his ode to Jimi Hendrix (Miles Runs the Voodoo Down)

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Song of the Day: Helen Ganya - Afterparty

January 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Helen Ganya

Song of the Day: Ethereal, soaringly aria-like, building with strong synths, strings and galloping drums, a beautiful, Kate Bush-reminiscent track taken from the Brighton-based songwriter’s recent album, Polish The Machine, out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Villager - Lemons

January 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new Villager EP, Blind Eye

Song of the Day: Juicily enthralling, shapeshifting electronica by the artist Alex Young from the recent EP, Blind Eye, with a special twist on techno with soundscapes that strip down into syncopated rhythms and shuffling garage hi-hats. Out on Pretty Weird

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Song of the Day: Alison Goldfrapp and Claptone - Digging Deeper

January 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone’s collaborative single

Song of the Day: Building gradually into an irresistibly dancey, breathy, sensual rave disco by the legendary singer joined here by the German DJ and producer duo

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Song of the Day: Andy Shauf - Telephone

January 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Andy Shauf

Song of the Day: Deliciously beautiful, delicate, high-voiced new number with woodwind, keyboards and bass by the 35-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the forthcoming album, Norm, out on ANTI-Records

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Song of the Day: Billie Marten - This Is How We Move

January 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Billie Marten

Song of the Day: An exquisite new folk number about a relationship out of sync, by the singer-songwriter Isabella Sophie Tweddle from Ripon in North Yorkshire, taken from her forthcoming next album, Drop Cherries' out on 7 April on Fiction Records/ Universal

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Song of the Day: Heartworms - Retributions Of An Awful Life

January 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heartworms: Jojo Orme

Song of the Day: Dark, disturbing, but arrestingly brilliant and original, a new electro post-punk track by the south London’s Jojo Orme and co from the debut EP, A Comforting Notion, out 24 March on Speedy Wunderground, produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Memes - Monday, I Looked Like Death

January 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lost in the bagging area …

Song of the Day: For anyone with that heavy post-weekend feeling, a brilliantly catchy, punchy, darkly humorous post-punk single with shades of The Fall, Sleaford Mods and LCD Soundsystem by the cousin duo from Glasgow

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Song of the Day: Antony Szmierek - Rock and a Calm Place

January 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From Antony Szmierek’s video for Rock and a Calm Place

Song of the Day: Wonderfully wry, witty, catchy and uplifting fusion of disco and hop hop by the Manchester poet in this upbeat interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus, in which pushing that eternal metaphorical rock up the hill can have benefits

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Song of the Day: JW Francis - Going Home to a Party

January 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Enter JW Francis with a new single

Song of the Day: Quirky, catchy, charming pop by the New York artist in this love song about the fluid nature of home from his forthcoming next album, Dream House, out later this month on Sunday Best Music / Domino

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Song of the Day: Frankie Rose - Anything

January 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Frankie Rose’s new album Love As Projection is out in March

Song of the Day: Shimmering, lush new synth-pop by the longstanding New York indie artist, taken from her forthcoming new album Love As Projection out March on Night School and Slumberland Records

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Song of the Day: James Holden - Contains Multitudes

January 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

James Holden’s new album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

Song of the Day: A colourful, mesmeric, intricate collage of looped electronica, tabla, piano and violin come together in this epic lead single by the London artist’s forthcoming album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, out via Border Community

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Burn Me Out

January 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali

Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries

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Song of the Day: Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian - Grains (wee Paulownia Wood)

January 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ryuichi Sakamoto reworkings tribute album featuring a variety of guests including David Sylvian and Thundercat

Song of the Day: Beautiful, strange, atmospheric, tender, rattling and evocative, a reworking of an older track by the legendary Japanese musician and composer by old friend and collaborator Sylvian, from a Sakamoto tribute album, To The Moon And Back

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Song of the Day: Everything But The Girl - Nothing Left To Lose

January 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt

Song of the Day: Heralding the forthcoming Fuse, their first album for 24 years, since 1999’s Temperamental, the veteran duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt return with a beguiling, melancholy electro-pop single of club beats and soulful yearning

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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026

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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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