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Song of the Day: Lankum - The Rocky Road To Dublin

May 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)

Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland

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Song of the Day: Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That

May 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Down in the dirt: Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That

Song of the Day: A very welcome return by the irrepressible Amy Taylor and Melbourne punk band with their first new music for three years, mixing anger and humour and poking fun at naysaying fans with this fabulous Detroit garage grit-style number, which, while indisputably Sniffers, also has some strutting echoes of The Rolling Stones

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Song of the Day: Lady Blackbird - Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)

May 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lady Blackbird

Song of the Day: The opening track of soaring, timeless, passionate gospel-infused soul music and more by the supreme American singer-songwriter, taken from her fabulous new five-track EP, Slang Spirituals, out now

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Song of the Day: Colin Stetson - The Love It Took To Leave You

May 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Colin Stetson

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”

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In 2024, alternative, avant garde, experimental, jazz Tags Colin Stetson, Invada Records, Envision Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: J.R.C.G - Dogear

May 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

J.R.C.G’s forthcoming debut LP Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra), on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: With a fantastically meaty, dark thrum, groove and infectious abstraction, a new post-punk single by the Tacoma, Washington-based artist Justin R. Cruz Gallego, from from his forthcoming debut album Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra) out on 2 August via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: Walt Disco - You Make Me Feel So Dumb

May 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Walt Disco

Song of the Day: Witty, catchy, camp, new wave-disco-pop with whispery echoes of Bowie, The Associates, Tindersticks and Electric 6 by the Glasgow band, heralding their forthcoming LP, The Warping, out in June on Lucky Number Records

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Song of the Day: She Drew the Gun - Howl

May 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

She Drew the Gun - Howl

Song of the Day: A dazzling new single by the indie-psychedelic band from the Wirral, Merseyside, fronted by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach about our ancestry, time, atoms and how elements of our bodies formed in the hearts of long dead stars over billions of years

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Song of the Day: Madlib - REEKYOD (featuring Black Thought and Your Old Droog)

May 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Madlib - REEKYOD

Song of the Day: Following his last Rock Konducta albums in two parts and Sound Ancestors, the prolific US hip-hop producer and songwriter returns with two stellar rappers with a sharp new single, including The Roots’ Black Thought

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Song of the Day: Laufey - Goddess

May 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laufey

Song of the Day: This mesmeric, haunting, piano-accompanied new single comes from the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir about her experience in a relationship with someone who is more in love with her image as an artist than her as a person

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Song of the Day: Quivers - Apparition

May 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Quivers’ new single – Apparition

Song of the Day: Classic catchy indie-rock with a glam- and Rolling Stones vibe, beautiful chord changes, a singalong chorus and an owl-inspired video by the Melbourne-based quaret, heralding their forthcoming new album, Oyster Cuts, out on 9 August via Merge Records

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Song of the Day: Wand - Smile

May 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

From the entertaining video from Wand’s new single.

Song of the Day: Mesmeric dynamic, shimmering, grinding but also delicate fuzz in a shower haze of shoegaze-psychedelia by the improvisation Los Angeles guitar band fronted by Cory Hanson, from their forthcoming new album Vertigo, out on Drag City Records on 26 July

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Song of the Day: Blossoms - What Can I Say After I'm Sorry?

May 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Blossoms

Song of the Day: The Stockport, Greater Manchester indie-rockers return with a catchy new song about an apology, but also one that muses on songwriting formulas with a funk beat, with a comedic video set in the Derbyshire hills, football manager Sean Dyke and a classic campervan

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Song of the Day: Orlando Weeks - Dig (featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg)

May 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Size matters: from the video for Orlando Weeks’s Dig featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg

Song of the Day: The now Lisbon-based British singer-songwriter returns with an engagingly original song about a “tit-for-tat, under-your-breath half-argument of the kind that happens in public” joined by half of Wet Leg on back vocals and a fabulous video directed by Matt Harris-Freeth

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Song of the Day: Uche Yara - ZUU (zoo)

May 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The incomparable and irrepressible Uche Yara

Song of the Day: With a unique delivery and distinctive cocktail of beats and interweaving vocal harmonies, the charismatic, eclectic Berlin-based, Austrian singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter returns with the opening from her new EP, Golden Days

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Song of the Day: Ezra Collective: Ajala

May 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Collective

Song of the Day: After 2022’s Mercury prize-winning album, Where I’m Meant To Be, the jazz and afrobeat quintet of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison return with a vibrant new single

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Song of the Day: upsammy - Embrytone

May 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

upsammy - Embrytone, from the Maloca Records release titled SIIIX, Vol.1

Song of the Day: Superbly intricate rhythms, chimes and other delicate sounds abound in this absorbingly original latest single by the electronic musician aka Thessa Torsing from Amsterdam

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Song of the Day: Jon Hopkins: RITUAL (evocation)

May 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album, RITUAL

Song of the Day: The innovative British electronic musician returns with a mesmeric lead single designed to capture the idea of “opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried” and heralds his forthcoming electronic symphony album, RITUAL, out on 30 August via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: 86TVs - Tambourine

May 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

86TVs’ new single, Tambourine

Song of the Day: A striking, short, sharp, shake-it-up indie-rock banger from this new project by ex-members of The Maccabees, Felix and Hugo White, and their brother Will – alongside Jamie Morrison, taken from their self-titled debut album out on 2 August via Parlophone Records

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Song of the Day: Deadletter - Mere Mortal

May 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Still from the video for Deadletter’s Mere Mortal

Song of the Day: A dark, powerful, punchy new postpunk single by the London-based Yorkshire band fronted by Zac Lawrence about powerlessness over mortality, and the brutal, gruelling hunt for acceptance and closure in the wake of a grievance

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Song of the Day: exmagician - Sharpen These

May 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The forthcoming debut album, Sit Tight by exmagician

Song of the Day: Striking, catchy alternative pop and psychedelia in this first single from the new album, Sit Tight, by the Belfast duo Danny Todd and James Smith, previously of Cashier No. 9, in their new incarnation

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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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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025

new songs …

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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
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 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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