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Song of the Day: Ugly - Hands of Man

December 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ugly - Hands of Man

Song of the Day: Rich vocal harmonies, interweaving acoustic instruments and a dynamic structure building to a powerful crescendo come in this mesmeric new single from the Cambridge-formed band

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Song of the Day: Fat White Family - Religion For One

December 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fat White Family - Religion For One

Song of the Day: The mischievously erudite British post-punk experimentalists return with a gently caustic, darkly sinister Leonard Cohen-style take on cultural narcissism with a video parodying art and self-expression

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Song of the Day: Honeymoan - Pickup, Don't Pickup (from Sorry Like You Mean It album)

December 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Honeymoan’s debut album Sorry Like You Mean It

Song of the Day: The opening track to the Cape Town-formed, London-based indie pop band as a stomping, steamy, sharply rhythmic track dripping in caustic, erotic jealousy, and is the opening track to their recent debut album, Sorry Like You Mean It

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Song of the Day: Gossip - Crazy Again

December 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Crazy again: Beth Ditto and co are back …

Song of the Day: With a thrumming bass but also a notably tender and catchy love song, the Arkansas-formed indie trio fronted by the charismatic Beth Ditto return after more than a decade away to herald a new album, Real Power, produced by Rick Rubin

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Song of the Day: Lucinda Chua: Rose Garden

December 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lucinda Chua’s EP, Reclaiming The Rose

Song of the Day: A deliciously intimate new love song with close-mic vocals and delicate, shimmering orchestral backing by the British singer-singer from her new EP, Reclaiming The Rose, out on 4AD

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Song of the Day: Adrianne Lenker - Ruined

December 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Adrianne Lenker - Ruined

Song of the Day: The Big Thief singer-songwriter returns with gorgeously fragile, piano-based single about damaging dysfunctional, repetitive, romantic obsession with a melody that’s beautifully bittersweet

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Song of the Day: Annie Dressner: 18 Years

December 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Annie Dressner: 18 Years

Song of the Day: Bright, uplifting and elegantly shuffling in sound, but melancholy in lyrics – a classic combination – this new single by the New York folk-pop singer-songwriter is about self-recrimination:“You have nothing and no one but yourself to blame”

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Song of the Day: Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Compared to What

December 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (EHE) - Kahil El'Zabar (middle), Corey Wilkes (left) and Alex Harding (right)

Song of the Day: The veteran singer-percussionist and friends release a fabulous 8-minute, jazz-blues interpretation of the Eugene McDaniel protest song, taken from the forthcoming album Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, out on 8 March on Spiritmuse Records

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Song of the Day: O. - Slice

December 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Slice by O.

Song of the Day: The title track from the debut EP by the exciting, experimental, energetic King Tubby-influenced London duo of baritone saxophonist Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary, out on Speedy Wunderground and produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Dutch Uncles - At The Wheel

December 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Dutch Uncles - At The Wheel

Song of the Day: Taut, tight, restrained, this classy, gently funky indie pop number is new by the quartet from Marple, south of Manchester, and follows their album released earlier this year, True Entertainment, out on Memphis Industries

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Song of the Day: MGMT - Mother Nature / Bubblegum Dog

December 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

MGMT’s forthcoming album, Loss of Life

Song of the Day: Heralding their first album in six years and their fifth overall – Loss Of Life – out in February,2024, a couple of gentle, but poignant and powerful metaphorical animal numbers by the American neo-psychedelic rock and experimental pop band

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Song of the Day: Future Islands - The Tower

December 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cover of Future Islands’ forthcoming album People Who Aren't There Anymore

Song of the Day: A poignant, vivid, uplifting, gently tuneful new electro-pop single by the Baltimore band fronted by the inimitable Samuel T. Herring, taken from the forthcoming new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, out on 26 January via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Bolis Pupul - Completely Half

December 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Bolis Pupul’s debut solo album LETTER TO YU is out in March 2024

Song of the Day: Brilliantly clean sounding, evocative electro-pop with shades of Kraftwerk by the Belgian musician from Ghent, in a new song featuring Hong Kong field recordings and video to match, and heralding his forthcoming debut solo LP

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Song of the Day: Genesis Owusu - Survivor

December 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Genesis Owusu

Song of the Day: This striking new track by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper from Canberra, Australia (Kofi Owusu-Ansah) is a punchy potent mix of hip-hop, punk, funk, gospel and electro-pop, now an extension to this year’s August-released sophomore album, Struggler

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Song of the Day: UTO - Zombie

December 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

UTO - Zombie

Song of the Day: Clever, catchy, wittily droll electro-pop by the French band with a song about a cursed love story between a human and a monster, offering seductive, ominous allure

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Song of the Day: The Jesus And Mary Chain - jamcod

December 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Jesus And Mary Chain’s forthcoming new album, Glasgow Eyes

Song of the Day: The legendary East Kilbride alternative rock band returns with a spine-tingling, dark banger of a single heralding their forthcoming next album, Glasgow Eyes, out in March 2024 on Fuzz Club

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Song of the Day: Ed Harcourt - Strange Beauty

November 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ed Harcourt - Strange Beauty

Song of the Day: Heralding his next studio album, El Magnifico, the English singer-songwriter returns with classic, soaring, piano-based, romantic pop number “that uses visceral imagery to convey that classic old feeling of love and the immense power it has”

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Song of the Day: Björk with ROSALÍA - Oral

November 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Björk and Rosalía spar in the video

Song of the Day: The distinctively stylish Icelandic and Spanish stars combine on a soaring new track about uncertain romance, with all funds raised going to the non-profit organisation AEGIS to combat and raise awareness of the dangers of open pen fish farming in Iceland

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Song of the Day: Jacques - Absolve

November 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jacques - Absolve

Song of the Day: A beautifully original, gradually building, mesmerically experimental pop single by the Parisian artist, rich in strings and alternative sounds, with a fabulously odd video set in the Louvre gallery

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Song of the Day: da Googie - Slither (from Split LP with Too Many Things)

November 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Split LP by da Googie (aka Deb Googe) and Too Many Things

Song of the Day: Dark, scratchy, mysterious, and devilishly different, this is the mesmeric opening number on a brand new three-track solo project by Deb Googe, revered bass player with My Bloody Valentine, Thurston Moore Group and Brix Smith

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New Albums …

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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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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 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 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

Word of the week

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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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