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Little Simz dons a new look for her Young video
Song of the Day: With a funky bass line and an eccentric character accent with feisty old-lady persona with highly entertaining video to match, the acclaimed London rapper and actress returns with a humorous new single heralding her upcoming album, Lotus, out on 6 June on AWAL Recordings
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Rung up: Gina Birch
Song of the Day: A catchy, energising, all-empowering, air-punching new post-punk single by the legendary Raincoats co-founder, artist, bass player and film-maker, inspired by, and name-checking heroines of art, politics and protest, heralding her forthcoming album Trouble, out on 11 July via Third Man Records
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Lucy Gooch
Song of the Day: A gorgeously soft, serene, floaty, pastoral, ethereal new single about self-renewal, inspired by rain, the simple act of drawing a bath and “particles forming”, using electronica, piano and textured, soaring vocals by the York artist, plus delicious guest sounds from cornetist Harry Furniss, heralding Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, out on 6 June via Fire Records
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Getdown Services: new EP Primordial Slot Machine
Song of the Day: A brilliantly droll, witty, catchy, eclectic new single mixing a glam-rock beat and a pub-piano accompaniment by the mischievous Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler, heralding their upcoming new EP, Primordial Slot Machine, out on 6 June via Breakfast Records
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Hayley Williams and Moses Sumney
Song of the Day: A soulful, stylish, sexy, slinkily smooth new single featuring both the two American singer-songwriters, both impressive intertwining, dynamic vocal performances and lavish, layered production, out on Tuntum Records
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Kaeto
Song of the Day: Stylish, shimmering, dark pop by the Scottish singer-songwriter with a co-written number with Mathias Wang about language and how perspective shapes meaning and inspired by Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood, out on Polydor/Republic Universal
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Avalon Emerson - On It Goes
Song of the Day: The inventive American DJ and producer returns in the latest single of her Perpetual Emotion Machine project with bouncy, quirky dance track, a sped-up reworking of the gospel soul of Storm Queen number, out on Dead Oceans
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Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: A magical, strikingly original staccato-and-smooth vocal blend of traditional West African, folk and electronica by the Guinea-born, now Margate-based, singer and multi-instrumentalist in a song about his teenage years of life-changing relocation, from his forthcoming debut album Love From The Sea on 26 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Baxter Dury’s upcoming new album, Allbarone
Song of the Day: Heralding his first album in five years, the brilliantly droll, witty, deep-voiced British artist returns with a catchy lead title track single, created with acclaimed producer Paul Epworth, the album out on 12 September on Heavenly Recordings
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Artwork from These New Puritans’ upcoming album Crooked Wing
Song of the Day: Following the single Industrial Love Song with (Caroline Polichek), the Southend-on-Sea twins return with a dark, ghostly, mesmeric, industrial big-beat, woozily, organ-swirling second experimental rock single heralding their first LP in six years, Crooked Wing, out on 23 May via Domino Records
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Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart
Song of the Day: After last year’s acclaimed LP My Method Actor, the London singer-songwriter returns with a sensual, gentle synths- and strings-laden, whispery vocal track overladen beats, co-written with her creative partner Wilma Archer, and out on Ninja Tune
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Snowapple
Song of the Day: Intimate, mysterious, energetic and strikingly different, this new single by the Amsterdam collective stamps, claps, breathily speaks, has soft touches on piano and buzzing, clicking synths, and a catchy chorus in this marriage human and electronic, heralding their forthcoming album Utopia, out on 13 June
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Loaded Honey: Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd from Jungle
Song of the Day: Jackson 5 seventies pop vibes ooze from this lush, summery retro sound by the duo of Jungle members Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd, heralding the debut album for this project, Love Made Trees, out on Vetra Records / AWAL on 6 June
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Natalie Bergman, from the video for Gunslinger
Song of the Day: Stylish, smoky, sexy, with a sound that that evokes classic western film scores and vintage soul, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s single heralds her upcoming new album, My Home Is Not In This World, out on 18 July via Third Man Records
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Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records
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Yugen Blakrok
Song of the Day: The South African sorceress of mystical hip-hop returns with a poetic, powerful new single, joined here by Sa-Roc, nad heralding her forthcoming album The Illusion of Being, co-written with and produced by Kanif The Jhatmaster, out on 21 May via I.O.T. Records
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Hotgirl’s recent EP, Blast Off
Song of the Day: With shades of Sonic Youth, a searing, pacy, razor-sharp new indie-grunge-post-punk single from by the Dublin band, fronted by the charismatic singer Ashley Abbedeen, and fabulous, edgy, energetic musicianship by guitarist Sophie Boxwell, drummer Nick Stanley and bassist Jake Hurley, from their recent EP Blast Off, out on Cartoon Records
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WITCH’s forthcoming album, SOGOLO, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Continuing their triumphant re-emergence after 2023’s album Zango which ended a near-40 hiatus, Zambia’s pioneering zamrockers return with their classic psychedelic groove, heralding the forthcoming new album SOGOLO, out 13 June on Partisan Records
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The Bug Club’s upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features
Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records
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