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Song of the Day: Panda Bear - Defense

October 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Panda Bear’s forthcoming new solo album, Sinister Grift (Domino Records)

Song of the Day: At a chilled walking pace, gently tender, mesmeric psychedelic rock by the American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalistand co-founding member of Animal Collective Noah Lennox, heralding his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift out in February 2025 via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Heartworms - Warplane

October 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Heartworms’ Jojo Orme, from the video for Warplane

Song of the Day: Inspired by the death of a young WW2 Spitfire pilot, a dark, yet evocative, exciting, pacy, dynamic, postpunk single with distorted guitars, propeller like drums, and the alluring, explosive presence of Jojo Orme, heralding a debut album Glutton for Punishment, and produced by Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground

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Song of the Day: Sorry - Waxwing

October 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sorry - Waxwing

Song of the Day: A wonderfully warped and weird new single by the London-based experimental indie band, with bursts of static, spectral synths, dark humour chopped vocals from lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz and catchy pop hooks on the themes of desire and catharsis, plus a cheeky reference to a 1982 Toni Basil hit

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Song of the Day: Vundabar - Life Is A Movie

October 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Vundabar

Song of the Day: “What were you doing in my song last night?” After yesterday’s serene love meta-song by C Duncan, another clever but different analogy with this punchy, witty indie-rock number of creative references by the Boston, Massachussetts band, out on Loma Vista

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Song of the Day: C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song

October 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song

Song of the Day: This beautiful, romantic, melodiously gliding orchestral pop meta-song, flush with swooning strings and yearning, is the title track heralding the Scottish multi-instrumentalist and singer’s forthcoming new album out on 24 January 2025 via Bella Union

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Song of the Day: MRCY - Angels

October 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

MRCY - Angels

Song of the Day: Timeless, uplifting new soul reminiscent of the golden period of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield by the duo of south London singer Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield producer Barney Lister with a number “trusting that the universe will be on your side, provided you go for what you want.”

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Song of the Day: Father John Misty - She Cleans Up

October 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Josh Tillman

Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - New Life

October 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius b - New Life

Song of the Day: Strikingly original and new experimental pop by the London-based singer-songwriter who hails from Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada, who born Frank Belcourt. Out on Zelig Records

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Song of the Day: Summer Pearl - The Creator

October 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Summer Pearl - The Creator

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Greentea Peng, another stylishly cool London singer-rapper brings spiritual and political lyrics and female power in hip-hop-jazz-soul number that reminds us that music is a healer and out on Kitto Records

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Song of the Day: Greentea Peng - TARDIS (hardest)

October 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Greentea Peng is back

Song of the Day: With a distinctive new fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, neo soul, dub, reggae,  jazz, and psychedelia, south London artist Aria Wells returns after two years with a stylish number with a dark bassline, tinkling piano, and something of a manifesto about pure expression

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Song of the Day: Tunng - Didn't Know Why

October 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tunng's forthcoming album, Love You All Over Again

Song of the Day: Gorgeous, delicate folktonica by the British band who pioneered this sound, heralding their forthcoming album Love You All Over Again, due out on 24 January 2025, and marking 20 years since the band’s first album, Mother’s Daugher and Other Songs, out on Full Time Hobby

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Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - My Beautiful Girl

October 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Youth Lagoon: My Beautiful Girl / Lucy Takes A Picture

Song of the Day: Delicate, vivid, tenderly sensitive, piano-accompanied new work by the moniker of experimental singer-songwriter Trevor Powers, with a new single out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Biig Piig- Decimal

October 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Biig Piig aka Jessica Smyth

Song of the Day: Sensual deep-bass funk and dance music in this latest single by the singer and rapper Jessica Smyth from Cork, Ireland, who also spent time growing up in Spain, and performs bilingually, out on Sony Records

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Song of the Day: Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)

October 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)

Song of the Day: A beautiful, agile, indie-folk-alt-country new single by the Canadian-Japanese artist, heralding, after previous EPs, her forthcoming debut album, SAYA, due out in February 2025 on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Yukimi - Break Me Down (featuring Lianne La Havas)

October 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Yukimi - Break Me Down

Song of the Day: After seven albums with her band, the Little Dragon singer launches a solo project with this beautiful serene but also defiant debut single, joined by the British singer on guitar and also a co-writer, and out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Maribou State - Otherside (featuring Holly Walker)

October 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Maribou State’s next album, Hallucinating Love, out on Ninja Tune in early 2025

Song of the Day: The English electronic artists Chris Davids and Liam Ivory return with a sparkling, funky, electro-pop with the fabulous soaring voice of guest vocalist Holly Walker, heralding their forthcoming new album, Hallucinating Love, out on 31 January 2025 via Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: A Place To Bury Strangers - Fear Of Transformation

October 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Furry logic: from the video for A Place To Bury Strangers’ Fear Of Transformation, from the new Synthesizer album

Song of the Day: Taken from the Brooklyn band’s recently released and seventh album, Synthesizer, a dark and alluring goth-electro-postpunk number reminiscent of 1980s Suicide, about a teenage boy sneaking our of his parent's house to go to his first Furry party, but with a deadly secret – he's a werewolf

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Song of the Day: Cheekface - Flies (featuring Jeff Rosenstock)

October 7, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky engaging indie-pop with clever lyrics and an infectiously buzzy baritone sax bassline by Jeff Rosenstock joining the Los Angeles trio Amanda Tannen, Gregory Katz and Mark Edwards

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Song of the Day: The Weather Station - Neon Signs

October 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Song of the Day: Sublime sounds, yet also perceptive, anxious lyrics come with new experimental folk-pop by the Toronto-based singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, with beautiful piano, percussion, flute and more, heralding her upcoming album Humanhood, out on Fat Possum, 17 January 2025

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Song of the Day: Ela Minus - Broken

October 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ela Minus

Song of the Day: The Colombian experimental dance electro-pop artist returns with her alluring voice and presence, vibrant synthesizers and an infectious beat, but also themes of suffering and resilience, in this new track heralding her upcoming album, DIA, set for release on 17 January 2025, via Domino Records

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New Albums …

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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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 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 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

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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