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Things are looking up: Ben Howard
Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?
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Sylvan Weekends - debut EP Outliers
Song of the Day: Perky, jaunty indie folk-pop with fast, slick, clever lyrics presented like a stream of consciousness conversation by the London trio of Matthew, Freya and Daniel in this opening track from their debut EP, Outliers, out on Blythe Hill Records
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Lawn Chair’s new EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s new Blur track, more indie, here with with a theme of exhuberent restlessness and a witty, punchy postpunk edge in this excellent second single by the band from Cologne, German, from their EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!
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Blur’s next album, The Ballad of Darren
Song of the Day: A simple two-chord riff, call-and-response, melancholy reflective lyrics by Damon Albarn, and lovely melody and a rousing chorus? The classic Britpop quartet return with a first single from their forthcoming ninth album, The Ballad of Darren
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Genevieve Dawson
Song of the Day: Taken from her new five-track EP, What's Mine Is Yours, out on 26 May, a beautiful new number by the London-based singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh
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Remi Wolf
Song of the Day: Turn it up to 11. Soaring vocals, huge horn sounds, classic piano pop with a massive rousing climax? It’s all in this new single from the flamboyant California singer-songwriter, their first new music since 2021’s Juno album
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Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity
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Clever licks: Anna Erhard
Song of the Day: The title track of the the Berlin artist’s latest album is beautifully crisp, oddball German electro-pop with clever licked, jagged guitars, quirky lyrics and ironic, nostalgic detail about a summer camping trip
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Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Surusinghe number, a Saturday offering of dynamic and mesmeric electro-house dance music comes from the charismatic Vietnam-born, Cannes-based DJ and producer, who is also the great grandson of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso
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Surusinghe
Song of the Day: A lively snap track for Friday packed with clever, innovative, intricately woven stop-start electronica, breaks, beats, sharp bass lines, textures and percussion in this latest single by the Naarm/Melbourne-born, London-based artist from her forthcoming new EP
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“While Julie plays piano in C” - Achtung by Modern Woman
Song of the Day: Brilliantly punchy post-punk with sharp, vivid, killer spoken lyrics by Sophie Harris, thrumming bass line and explosive guitar effects by the London-based band with a song about a childhood crush on a boy with German parents, and a particularly a scary dad
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From the video for Celebrate Me by Baxter Dury
Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character
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Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album, RPG
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s marine life-inspired music by Cosmo Sheldrake, further stimulus about the natural world comes from the string and drone style of Newcastle-upon-Tyne experimental folk artist Jayne Dent from the forthcoming album RPG
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World
Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds
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Lava La Rue
Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish sci-fi-themed psychedelic glam-rock-pop by the west London singer and rapper accompanied by a highly entertaining space and robot-themed video, out on Dirty Hit Records
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Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten’s forthcoming debut solo album
Song of the Day: Catchy, beautifully poetic, upbeat acoustic folk-rock by the frontman of Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. with a new single using Irish mythology, trailing his debut solo album, Chaos for the Fly, out on 30 June via Partisan Records
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Ash Walker
Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals
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Fran Lobo
Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship
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The cover of Yussef Dayes’ forthcoming album, Black Classical Music
Song of the Day: A whirlwind of brilliant dynamism, energy and invention by the British jazz drummer with the title track of his forthcoming debut solo album, out on Brownswood Recordings, Warners and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings
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The Clientele are back …
Song of the Day: With their first new music for six years, beautifully shiny, polished, twinkling indie pop by the London-based band from the forthcoming ninth album, I Am Not There Anymore, out on 28 July via Merge Records
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