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Song of the Day: Emma Harner - Yes Man

July 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma Harner

Song of the Day: A classy, clever new folk-pop number about defying a toxic relationship, featuring with intricate arpeggiated guitar playing by the singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, taken from her recent debut EP Taking My Side

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Song of the Day: Mina Tindle - Heaven Thunder (featuring Sufjan Stevens)

July 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mina Tindle

Song of the Day: A delicate, passionate, defiant new single by the French pop and folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, aka Pauline de Lassus, joined by the American singer-songwriter on vocals and The National’s Bryce Dessner on guitars, out on S76

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In 2025, folk, pop Tags Mina Tindle, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, S76, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Indigo De Souza – Be Like the Water

July 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Indigo De Souza’s upcoming album, Precipice

Song of the Day: Candid, crisp, beautiful and sensitive new single by the singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Precipice, out on 25 July via Loma Vista

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Song of the Day: Geese - Taxes

July 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Geese - Taxes

Song of the Day: With the distinctive ghostly wail of Cameron Winter’s voice and tribal drumming, a truly alternative sound by the New York band, heralding the upcoming third album Getting Killed, out on 26 September via Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Danny L Harle - Starlight (featuring PinkPantheress)

July 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Danny L Harle - Starlight (featuring PinkPantheress)

Song of the Day: Bouncy, squeaky, quirky electro-pop by British music producer and composer, here joined by the English singer-songwriter aka Victoria Beverley Walker, out on XL Recordings

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Song of the Day: Home Counties - Humdrum

July 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Home Counties’ upcoming album, Humdrum

Song of the Day: Bristling with anxiety and dry wit, social misfires, self-sabotage and success-envy, a striking, sardonic, synth-heavy, distinctive new single the London six-piece band in the title track from their next album, produced by Al Doyle of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, and out on 24 October via Submarine Cat Records

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Song of the Day: Soulwax - Run Free

July 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Soulwax, aka Stephen and David Dewaele

Song of the Day: Heralding the innovative electronica and production Belgian brothers Stephen and David Dewaele’s forthcoming first studio album in seven years, All Systems Are Lying, a catchy celebration of their genre for their first studio album in seven years, released on 17 October on DEEWEE / Because Music

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Song of the Day: Marissa Nadler - Hatchet Man

July 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Marissa Nadler

Song of the Day: A beautiful but chilling single by the American singer-songwriter heralding her upcoming album New Radiations, out on 15 August via Bella Union and Sacred Bones Records

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Song of the Day: Hot Chip - Devotion

July 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Hot Chip’s new single, Devition, heralding their upcoming best-of compilation Joy In Repetition

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British electro-pop dance band’s new single is a nostalgic, tender, and gradually rousing, catchy love song heralding their upcoming greatest hits album, Joy In Repetition, out on 5 September on Domino Records, part of their 20-year celebrations, with tour dates

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Song of the Day: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

July 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

Song of the Day: The Icelandic indie-folk-rock band’s first single for five years is a dynamic, crescendo building number video capturing the strangeness of an Icelandic summer night and expressing a conversation moving between time and space, past and present, out on Skarkali Records / Virgin

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Song of the Day: Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse Of Everything

July 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse Of Everything

Song of the Day: The return of the dub maestro, producer, and On-U Sound label founder in this classy instrumental and a topical title track of his first solo album in 13 years, out on 22 August on via On-U Sound

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Song of the Day: Ganser - Discount Diamonds

July 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ganser

Song of the Day: The latest single from the Chicago band is a dance/ postpunk track with an infectious, edgy, menacing energy, and heralds their new album, Animal Hospital, out 29 August via Felte Records

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Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel

July 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nilüfer Yanya’s new EP Dancing Shoes

Song of the Day: Beautiful, textured, luxuriant experimental dream pop by the British artist, taken from her just released EP Dancing Shoes, out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: anaiis - Deus Deus

July 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Devotion & The Black Divine, the upcoming new album by anaiis

Song of the Day: A slow, sensual, sultry soulful new experimental number, perfect for a hot summer’s day by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album Devotion & The Black Divine, out on 25 September via 5dB Records

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Song of the Day: Tchotchke - Poor Girl

July 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tchotcheke’s Anastasia Sanchez, Eva Chambers, and Emily Tooraen

Song of the Day: Three-part interweaving vocal harmonies, three ironic, mini-sob stories, and a quirky, retro pop sound with shades of Brian Wilson come on the West Coast trio’s latest single, heralding their upcoming sophomore album, Playin’ Dumb, due out on 9 September

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney - Semitones

July 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the artwork for Madeline Kenney’s upcoming album Kiss From The Balcony

Song of the Day: Slow, simmering, mesmeric, intimate, gentle, experimental dream-pop by the Oakland, California artist, heralding her upcoming new album Kiss From The Balcony, out on 18 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Ada Lea - Something in the Wind

June 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ada Lea’s upcoming third album, when i paint my masterpiece

Song of the Day: An ethereally beautiful new single inspired by the non-remembrance of a dream by the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and artist Alexandra Levy, heralding her upcoming third album when i paint my masterpiece, due out on 8 August via Saddle Creek Records

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Song of the Day: Mac DeMarco - Home

June 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mac DeMarco’s upcoming new album, Guitar

Song of the Day: The LA-based Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer returns with a gentle, slow, beautiful Beatles-esque number heralding his upcoming new album, Guitar, self-released on his Mac’s Record Label

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Song of the Day: Slow Cooked - Vest Poets

June 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Slow Cooked - Vest Poets

Song of the Day: Bursting with breathy, restless, pulsating dance energy and then a calm, unexpected change of pace, the latest from experimental British cellist Slow Cooked aka Louie Barby from Huddersfield, is a strikingly odd and original single

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Song of the Day: Blood Orange - The Field (featuring feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar)

June 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blood Orange - The Field

Song of the Day: An eclectic collaboration fusing soulful, warm, soothing, summery chamber pop and clubby, click beats by the British singer-songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes (formerly Lightspeed Champion) with a variety of guests

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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 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 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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