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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Sasha Assad’s new EP, Casablanker
Song of the Day: After her previous EP Tearstick, a new catchy, clever, tenderly romantic indie track with a Kinks reference, by the Nottingham artist with Egyptian heritage from the next EP, Casablanker, out on Fierce Panda Records
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Thee Sacred Souls
Song of the Day: Wonderfully weighted and delicious slow in pace, a beautiful and timeless new track by the Southern California soul band from San Diego, heralding their upcoming second album, Got A Story To Tell, out 4 October via Daptone Records
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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She Drew The Gun, aka Louisa Roach
Song of the Day: Liverpool’s brilliant Louisa Roach returns with a powerful new number described as “like a therapy session with your shadow self. It’s a looking in the mirror song, a song to my subconscious, my shadow,” and following the title track single, heralds her forthcoming album, Howl, out on 15 November via Submarine Cat Records
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Fie Eike
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, emotive, evocative and cinematic new number about how boundaries become fluid in our existential pursuit of belonging. by the Copenhagen-based composer and singer Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, creating a soundscape from piano, electronica, field recordings from nature, and above all her soaring, beautiful voice
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The Bug Club's new album On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy and witty fuzz guitar number about self-comparative delusions of grandeur by the humorous Welsh rock indie trio who have a dash of Modern Lovers and AC/DC, heralding their third LP, On The Intricate Inner Workings of The System, out on 30 August via Sub Pop Records
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Cupid’s arrow? A different sort of hit from Katy J Pearson
Song of the Day: A deliciously summery, uplifting new number about personal independence by the Bristol singer-songwriter with a beautifully quaint archery video, heralding her forthcoming third album, Someday, Now, out on 20 September via Heavenly Recordings
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
Song of the Day: Simplicity and beauty encapsulate this gorgeous acoustic string-infused new single by the Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter, the first since her debut album I Need to Start a Garden (2018), out on her hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co
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Crows: Vision of Me
Song of the Day: Shades of both Joy Division and Killers come in this stridently powerful, high octane rock single about identity, with a Terry Gilliam’s Brazil-inspired dystopian video shot at the Barbican, and hails the London band’s forthcoming album Reason Enough, out on 27 September via Bad Vibrations
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OneDa - Let Me In
Song of the Day: The charismatic, pull-no-punches Manchester rapper Onyinyechuwku Ezeh returns with sharply delivered hip-hop with a punchy horn accompaniment, and heralds her forthcoming album Formula OneDa out on 4 October via Heavenly Recordings
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Peel Dream Magazine’s forthcoming album Rose Main Reading Room
Song of the Day: Dreamy, woozy, beautiful alternative pop by the Los Angeles named after the legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, taken from their forthcoming album Rose Main Reading Room, out on Topshelf Records
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The Dare’s forthcoming album What’s Wrong With New York?
Song of the Day: A punchy, cocky, talky, witty post-punk fusion with echoes of LCD Soundsystem and The Fall by the New York artist Harrison Patrick Smith, with a new single heralding his forthcoming debut album What’s Wrong With New York?, set for release on 6 September via Polydor/Republic Records
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Laurie Anderson’s forthcoming new album, Amelia
Song of the Day: The American veteran experimentalist’s gorgeously vivid and serene travelogue song featuring the British singer heralds her forthcoming album, Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records
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Public Service Broadcasting’s forthcoming album, The Last Flight, captures the final story of Amelia Earhart
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s electricity-themed SOTD, the latest bright-spark history-inspired release by the British band of Willgoose, Wrigglesworth and co comes from the plane name of pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart, and heralds their new album The Last Flight
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Lael Neale
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent third album Star Eaters Delight, the American singer-songwriter returns with a sizzlingly mesmeric, alternative psychedelic folk written during a power cut caused by an ice storm
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Mura Masa and yeule
Song of the Day: A stylish, innovative, clubby, sensual electronica-into-acoustic new number by the producer of yesterday’s SOTD by Gretel, aka the Guernsey-born electronic music artist Alex Crossan featuring yeule, aka Singaporean singer Nat Ćmiel
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Gretel aka Greta Hänlyn
Song of the Day: Quirky clever pop with a catchy repetitive sound and handclaps by the London singer-songwriter also known as Gretel Hänlyn in this new number using an aloof, sarcastic, rebellious persona, and a distinctive sound produced by Mura Masa
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Kit Sebasian’s new album New Internationale is out in September via Brain Feeder Records
Song of the Day: Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth
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