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Song of the Day: Father John Misty - I Guess Time Makes Fools Of Us All

August 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl

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Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - High

July 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jorja Smith - High

Song of the Day: The silky-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall in the West Midlands latest single strong, self-healing, soulful, rhythmical dance track, one she describes as “about finding a friend within myself, even through the lows, you have to find the highs”

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Song of the Day: Karen O and Danger Mouse - Super Breath

July 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Danger Mouse and Karen O

Song of the Day: A stylish new, restlessly lovestruck single by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer and the acclaimed producer aka Brian Burton, heralding a special reissue of duo’s 2019 LP, Lux Prima, which will be re-released on 19 September

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Song of the Day: Fionn Regan - Islands

July 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Fionn Regan

Song of the Day: A beautiful sun-dappled, Mallorca summer-inspired, immersive, and uplifting and new number by Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter heralding his forthcoming new album O Avalanche, released on 1 November

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Song of the Day: Marysia Osu - Seatime

July 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Marysia Osu. Photo: Ella Pavlides

Song of the Day: Gorgeously evocative and mesmeric music from the harpist who combines her instrument with electronica and ocean sounds. It heralds her debut album, Harp, Beats & Dreams, out on 18 October via Brownswood Recordings

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In 2024, alternative, ambient, electronica, experimental, indie Tags Marysia Osu, songs, song of the day, Brownswood Recordings
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Song of the Day: Thandii - Call It What You Like

July 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Thandii’s forthcoming album, Come As You

Song of the Day: Quirky, clever, eclectic, percussive, alternative and inventively experimental electro-pop from the Margate partner duo and seasoned touring musicians Jessica Berry and Graham Godfrey, also heralding their forthcoming albums Come As You/ Dream With You out in September

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Song of the Day: Primal Scream - Love Insurrection

July 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Primal Scream’s upcoming new album, Come Ahead

Song of the Day: A funky fusion of syncopated indie, psych, krautrock and flute-filled acid jazz with Utopian-themed lyrics in this new single by Bobby Gillespie and co, with a different sound heralding the band’s first album for 8 years – Come Ahead – out on 8 November on BMG

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Song of the Day: Joan As Police Woman - Long For Ruin / Back Again

July 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Joan As Police Woman aka Joan Wasser

Song of the Day: A wonderful and welcome return by the NY multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Joan Wasser, with a song that seeks reconciliation of a dissolved romantic relationship, inspired by the styles of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, mixes soul, funk, pop and prog, and is second single from her forthcoming album Lemons, Limes & Orchids

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Song of the Day: Glass Beams - Mahal

July 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Glass Beams

Song of the Day: The title track of the recent EP by the Melbourne-based trio formed around founding member Rajan Silva is a exotic, entrancing instrumental fusing eastern and western cultures, the sounds of Ravi Shankar and family, and psychedelia

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Song of the Day: Dafna - Love Bomb (from album The Paradox of Choice)

July 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dafna’s recent album, The Paradox of Choice

Song of the Day: Catchy 80s-inspired synth-pop with echoes of A-ha and Toni Basil by the Boulder-Colorado singer-songwriter Dafna Margalit of Israeli heritage, taken from her excellent latest album The Paradox of Choice, released in May

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Song of the Day: Los Bitchos - Kiki, You Complete Me

July 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The second Los Bitchos album, Talkie Talkie, is due out on 30 August

Song of the Day: A stylish, catchy and always irresistably fun fusion of pace-changing instrumental indie, cumbia, surf and psych by the international London-based quartet, taken from their forthcoming second album Talkie Talkie, out on City Slang on 30 August

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Song of the Day: Juniore - Méditerranée

July 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Juniore’s next album, Trois, Deux, Un – out on 13 September

Song of the Day: Perfect for a sweltering July summer weekend, sensual French pop with images of seashore, pebbles, naked flesh and the Mediterranean Sea by the sophisticated Parisian indie 60s-style band, heralding their forthcoming album TROIS, DEUX, UN, out on 13 September

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Song of the Day: Cornershop - Double Denim

July 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cornershop - Double Denim

Song of the Day: The British experimental indie rock band of Tjinder Singh, Ben Ayres and co return with a craftily catchy, perky, quirky summer single of patterns and shapes with a new version featuring the breezy vocals of Italian film star Rosanna alongside crisp, retro electronica, staccato guitar riffs and taut bass and percussion

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Song of the Day: Anish Kumar - Everything Blooms Around Her

July 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Anish Kumar - Everything Blooms Around Her

Song of the Day: Infectious, interweaving dance music with a south Asian flavour (sourcing India singer Aruna Lama’s beautiful folk song Hera na Hera and sampled vocals from a cover by Bakemono Gurung) put together by the DJ electronic musician who has simultaneously studying veterinary medicine at Cambridge University

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In 2024, Asian, dance, disco, electronica, traditional Tags Anish Kumar, songs, song of the day, AWAL Recordings
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Song of the Day: Laura Marling - Patterns

July 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laura Marling’s forthcoming new album Patterns In Repeat

Song of the Day: Delicate finger-picking folk in this sunlit, beautiful new single about experiencing the life cycles of motherhood, by the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming next album, Patterns In Repeat, out on Chrysalis Records/ Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Pom Pom Squad - Downhill

July 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The falling feeling: Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad

Song of the Day: Catchy, breezy, yet also anxious indie rock-pop from the Brooklyn-based band of singer Mia Berrin, in a song about the push-pull between those opposing sides her introvert-extrovert personality and the ambition can sometimes feel self-destructive

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Song of the Day: Nubya Garcia - Clarity

July 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nubya Garcia’s upcoming album, Odyssey

Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz

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Song of the Day: Orville Peck and Beck - Death Valley High

July 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ace combination: Orville Peck and Beck

Song of the Day: An irresistibly catchy horn-infused bluesy-funk-country Vegas/Elvis-style ace combination featuring the masked South African US and Canada-based country star and the acclaimed Californian alt-rocker in a high-rolling tribute to Presley’s ‘68 Comeback Special

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Song of the Day: Michael Kiwanuka - Floating Parade

July 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Produced by Danger Mouse and with backing vocals by Inflo, the British soul star and Mercury Prize-winner returns with a gorgeous, soaring, classy single, and his first new music for three years

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Song of the Day: Field Music - Six Weeks, Nine Wells

July 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Field Music’s forthcoming album, Limits of Language

Song of the Day: After various side projects, Sunderland’s innovative alt-pop makers, the Brewis brothers David and Peter return with their first new music as Field Music for over three years and a single of synths and an absolutely gorgeous, stirring chorus

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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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