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Song of the Day: Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains - Le Fil (featuring Cassandra Jenkins)

April 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains’ mos recent album, Âge Fleuve

Song of the Day: A beautiful, smoky, sensual, dreamy new version of a recent song, now with rewritten lyrics from the French-British pop band’s most recent album, Âge Fleuve sung in French by the American singer-songwriter, and out on InFiné Records

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Song of the Day: Obongjayar - Sweet Danger

April 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Obongjayar, from the video for Sweet Danger

Song of the Day: The eclectic London-based British-Nigerian artist aka Steven Umoh returns with a sensual, erotically charged number fusing electronica and afrobeat and his falsetto voice, heralding his new album, Paradise Now, out on 30 May via September Recordings

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Song of the Day: Orbital and Tilda Swinton - Deepest

April 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tilda Swinton with Orbital

Song of the Day: The veteran electronica dance music brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll return with mesmeric beats mixed with the soothing meditation voice of the acclaimed British actress

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Song of the Day: Wet Leg - Catch These Fists

April 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Fighting talk: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers

Song of the Day: A pugnaciously fun, indie-post-punk new single by the Isle of Wight band formed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with a catchy, scratchy, angular guitar riff and their trademark, mischievous, talky asides. It heralds their upcoming new album, Moisturizer, out on 11 July on Domino

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Song of the Day: Mount Palomar - L'Aliment (featuring Karla Chubb)

April 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mount Palomar aka Belfast’s Neil Kerr

Song of the Day: Pulsating, energising new dance music by the Belfast-based producer and live electronica DJ Neil Kerr, here partly inspired by early Janet Jackson, with a French title meaning food, and lyrics (“eats me inside”) sung by Ireland’s charismatic Sprints vocalist

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Song of the Day: Self Esteem - If Not Now, It’s Soon

April 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Song of the Day: A life-affirming, stridently positive new number about hope, perseverance and patience by Yorkshire’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor with grand, declamatory vocals and orchestral strings, heralding her forthcoming third album, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April via Polydor/Universal

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Song of the Day: Amy Millan - Make Way For Waves

March 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Amy Millan’s forthcoming album, I Went To Find You

Song of the Day: Gentle, soothing, flickering, swirling electronica and dream pop by the Canadian indie guitarist and singer-songwriter from Montreal, heralding her first solo album in 15 years, I Went To Find You, out on 30 May via Last Gang Records

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Song of the Day: Maria Somerville - Stonefly

March 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Maria Somerville

Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Bonobo - Dark Will Fall (featuring Jacob Lusk) (Lazarus soundtrack)

March 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Bonobo - Dark Will Fall (featuring Jacob Lusk)

Song of the Day: Stirring, moody, beautiful new work by the Brighton musician Simon Green, joined by the exquisite voice of the Gabriels singer in this song from the soundtrack to the new series Lazarus by Japanese anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe, out via Adult Swim

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Song of the Day: CMAT - Running/Planning

March 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

CMAT from her video for Running/Planning

Song of the Day: Fabulously stylish, passionate, humorous, fantasy-scenario country-pop pours out in this new single by the charismatic Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, heralding her upcoming third album, EURO-COUNTRY, out on 29 August via AWAL Recordings

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Song of the Day: TOKiMONSTA - Enjoy Your Life

March 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

TOKiMONSTA’s recent LP, Eternal Reverie

Song of the Day: Taken from the Los Angeles DJ and producer Jennifer Lee’s very recent album Eternal Reverie which explores a variety of pop and dance styles, this joyous 70s disco funk number rekindling a 1981 hit single by Nigeria’s Oby Onyioha brings a spring to any step, released on Young Art Records.

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Song of the Day: Lucius - Impressions (featuring Madison Cunningham)

March 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lucius

Song of the Day: Striking, stylish, with rich vocals, intricate alternative indie-pop by the LA quartet fronted by vocalists and co-songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a number about false identity, featuring guest Madison Cunningham, the latest single from their upcoming fourth and self-titled album, out on 2 May via Fantasy Records

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Song of the Day: Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real

March 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real

Song of the Day: Leaping unexpectedly between sweet, gentle indie and raucous, explosive noise rock, this striking, otherworldly post-punk release by the Pittsburgh quaret is a weird and wonderful challenge to the senses

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Song of the Day: Billie Marten - Feeling

March 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Billie Marten’s forthcoming album, Dog Eared

Song of the Day: A bright and sunny love song with a twist by the London-based British folk-pop singer-songwriter aka Isabella Sophie Tweddle, from Ripon North Yorkshire, heralding her forthcoming fifth studio album, Dog Eared, out on 18 July via Fiction Records

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Song of the Day: Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins

March 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Matt Berninger’s forthcoming second solo album, Get Sunk

Song of the Day: The frontman of The National’s new solo single has his distinctive rich vocal tones, a warm, swelling indie sound and here some gently caustic, vivid lyrics about a tricky reunion. It heralds his second solo album Get Sunk out 30 May, on Concord Records

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Song of the Day: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Glib Tongued (Feat: El-P)

March 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pigs x7 and El-P

Song of the Day: Turn it up to seven! The likeable Newcastle-upon-Tyne heavy rockers return with their elemental, meaty, thunderous sound fronted by raucous voice of Matthew Baty, also joined by one half of American hip-hop outfit Run The Jewels, aka rapper

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Song of the Day: Deradoorian - Any Other World

March 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Deradoorian’s forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records

Song of the Day: Enthralling, inspiring, imaginative electronica and analogue percussion by the New York singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, with this latest single heralding the forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records on 9 May

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Song of the Day: Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square

March 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest

Song of the Day: Striking and articulate as ever, this first single since 2022 by the south London rapper, lyricist, poet, playwright and author is a defiant, empowering shout-out to non-binary identity with an arresting video

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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - The Test

March 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates - The Test

Song of the Day: Dealing with a turbulent 18 months including the death of her father, the innovative British artist Tor Maries returns with a powerful new track heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out on 16 May via Invada Records

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Song of the Day: Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be

March 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be

Song of the Day: Following 2023’s popular and Mercury Prize-nominated LP When Will We Land?, Edinburgh DJ and producer Joshua Mainnie’s new single, co-written with Jamie Livingstone, is a dark, menacing, spoken-word number heralding his forthcoming second album Loner, out on 30 May on Ninja Tune

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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 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
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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 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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