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Song of the Day: Alex G - Afterlife

June 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Alex G’s upcoming album Headlights, out on RCA

Song of the Day: With an easygoing beat, mandolin and light, catchy melody, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter and composer Alex Giannascoli’s new number out on RCA has a nostalgic, feelgood, escapist childhood theme but has other layers, such a referenced leap, into another dimension and hours of late night television

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Song of the Day: Cate Le Bon - Heaven Is No Feeling

June 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Cate Le Bon in the video for Heaven Is No Feeling, directed by H Hawkline

Song of the Day: The groundbreaking, endlessly innovative and influential Welsh artist returns with a gorgeously woozy, rich noir, melancholy track draped in heartache, heralding her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out on 26 September via Mexican Summer

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Song of the Day: GANS - It's Just Life

June 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

GANS - It's Just Life

Song of the Day: Anthemic, declamatory, philosophical post-punk and electro-pop by the duo of Euan Woodman and Thomas Rhodes from Birmingham, UK, heralding their debut album Good For the Soul, set for release on 19 September via the Pete Doherty label Strap Originals

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Song of the Day: Stealing Sheep - Found You

June 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stealing Sheep - Found You

Song of the Day: Fun, vibrant, fizzy, percussive, and witty new work by the quirky, original Liverpool experimental pop trio of Emily Lansley, Luciana Mercer, and Rebecca Hawley, GLO (Girl Life Online) produced by Joseph Wills, out on 19 September on their new independent label G-IRL (Girl in Real Life)

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Song of the Day: U.S. Girls - Like James Said

May 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,

Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Drugdealer - Real Thing (featuring Weyes Blood)

May 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Drugdealer - Real Thing (featuring Weyes Blood)

Song of the Day: Smooth, soft focus, luxuriantly classy 70s-Laurel Canyon-style love song pop by the Los Angeles band led by Michael Collins and the superbly pure, melodious voice of California’s Natalie Mering in this welcome reunion, out on Mexican Summer

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Song of the Day: Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith) - Give-upping (featuring Julianna Barwick)

May 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Disiniblud’s Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith

Song of the Day: A magically inventive creation of interwoven, ethereal vocals, strings, piano, electronica and more in this fabulous new collaboration between the Brooklyn composers and multi-instrumentalists, heralding their self-titled debut album on 18 July via Domino’s Smugglers Way

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Song of the Day: Wednesday - Elderberry Wine

May 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wednesday - Elderberry Wine

Song of the Day: A Wednesday for a Wednesday. Beautiful, bittersweet country and creek rock by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, their first new music since their breakthrough 2023 album Rat Saw God, out on Dead Oceans

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Song of the Day: Franc Moody - Waiting For The Punchline (Swallertrip)

May 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Franc Moody - Waiting For The Punchline (Swallertrip)

Song of the Day: Quirky and supremely catchy electro-pop disco the London duo of Ned Franc and Jon Moody with a song channelling the influences of Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and Fela Kuti, and released on Night Time Stories

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Song of the Day: Kety Fusco featuring Iggy Pop - SHE

May 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Kety Fusco featuring Iggy Pop - SHE

Song of the Day: “The harp is not heard as much.” That deep, unmistakable spoken voice of Iggy narrates this beautiful, intricate new instrumental by the Italian-Swiss harpist, heralding her new album BOHÈME out on 19 September via A Tree In A Field Records

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Song of the Day: Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - If I Had a Boat

May 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Kieran Hebden & William Tyler’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s

Song of the Day: The British Four Tet artist and American musician combine with a beautiful instrumental 11-minute cover of the Lyle Lovett song, fusing acoustic guitar and electronica, and heralding the pair’s upcoming album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, out on 19 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings

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Song of the Day: Elbow - Sober

May 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Elbow - Sober

Song of the Day: The Manchester/Bury band return with a catchy disco-funk groove track relating to Guy Garvey’s past relationship with alcohol, and taken from the upcoming EP Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP5), on 6 June, a follow-up to last year’s hit LP Audio Vertigo

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Song of the Day: Pulp - Got To Have Love

May 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pulp in the studio

Song of the Day: A simple, universal message in a hugely appealing, crowd-pleasing galloping indie-pop number by the Sheffield band fronted by Jarvis Cocker in this second single heralding their forthcoming album, More, out on Rough Trade on 6 June

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Song of the Day: Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom

May 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wolf Alice

Song of the Day: A strikingly percussive and piano-led, stylishly syncopated, full-on floral-and-dirt metaphorical new single by the Mercury-winning London indie rock band of singer Ellie Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie and co, heralding their forthcoming fourth album, The Clearing, out on 29 August via Columbia Records/ RCA

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Song of the Day: The Sophs - SWEAT

May 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Sophs

Song of the Day: Oddly mesmeric, viscerally candid yet also gently ironic, a catchy, crisp debut indie-pop single by the Los Angeles six-piece, newly signed to Rough Trade, with a song about overcompensation of grief and losing control of emotions, but also with a drily humorous performance video

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Song of the Day: Black Honey - Insulin

May 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Black Honey

Song of the Day: The Brighton four-piece return with a stylish wash of dark grunge, shoegaze and dream-pop and a bio-chemical emotional metaphor, heralding their forthcoming fourth LP, Soak, out on 15 August on Foxfive

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Song of the Day: Luvcat - Lipstick

May 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Luvcat - Lipstick

Song of the Day: Sultry, stylish noir-rock-pop with oodles of panache and brass, a very entertaining video, and lyrics on the theme of power dynamics, yearning and surrender in a relationship by the Liverpool-born, London-based Sophie Morgan Howarth

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Song of the Day: Alan Sparhawk - Not Broken

May 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Alan Sparhawk

Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022

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Song of the Day: Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?

May 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?

Song of the Day: Powerful protest and dynamic, darkwave pop from the goth/post-punk duo of Johnathan Mooney (Los Angeles) and Christian Granquist (Stockholm) in this cinematic number about growing US schisms and emotional wreckage after the election return of Donald Trump

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Song of the Day: Dog Race - Return The Day (Colours)

May 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dog Race - Return The Day (Colours)

Song of the Day: Dark, thrumming, energetic, stylish indie-noir-pop by the Joy Division- and krautrock-influenced London band of Dillon Willis, James Kelly, Jed Finklestein, Kathryn Healy and William Macnab, out on Fascination Street Records

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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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