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Song of the Day: Adam Buxton - Dancing in the Middle

September 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Dancing In The Middle, from Adam Buxton’s album Buckle Up

Song of the Day: A perky, very catchy, humorous piece of whimsical comedy electro-pop about middle-men and mediocrity by the popular British podcaster, actor and comedian, taken from his recently released debut albumBuckle Up, out on Decca / Universal

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Song of the Day: Djo - Carry The Name

September 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Djo aka actor Joe Keery

Song of the Day: Poignant, catchy, classic rock-pop with some echoes of Mott the Hoople, Graham Nash and The Beatles, by the American actor and and singer-songwriter Joe Keery, taken from The Crux Deluxe, a newly released extended version of his third album, The Crux, which came out earlier this year on AWAL

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Song of the Day: The Orb - It's Coming Soon

September 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Orb - It's Coming Soon

Song of the Day: The veteran British ambient-electronica group of Alex Paterson and co, best known for Little Fluffy Clouds return with a gentle, arpeggiated number with Andy Caine on vocals, heralding the forthcoming album Buddhist Hipsters, out on 10 October via Cooking Vinyl

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Song of the Day: Gorillaz - The Happy Dictator (featuring Sparks)

September 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The upcoming ninth Gorillaz album - The Mountain, with artwork by Jamie Hewlett

Song of the Day: A perky, potent, and dream-experimental pop combination of Blur’s Damon Albarn and his cartoon band join joining with the beloved brothers Ron and Russell Mael with this catchy, satirical number, heralding the new Gorillaz album, The Mountain, out on 20 March 2026 via Kong

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Song of the Day: Steve Gunn - Nearly There

September 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Steve Gunn

Song of the Day: Following this year’s instrumental album Music for Writers, the prolific Brooklyn singer-songwriter returns with a new release, and a beautiful, serene, acoustic number with guitar, chamber strings and woodwind that opens Daylight Daylight, out on 7 November via No Quarter Records

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Song of the Day: Blue Bendy - Poke

September 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blue Bendy - Poke

Song of the Day: Innovative, enthralling, all-a-swirl, vividly passionate acoustic-experimental indie-folk-art-rock by the south-east London band, recently released on Practise Music and their first single since last year’s debut album So Medieval

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Song of the Day: Ladytron - I Believe In You

September 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ladytron - I Believe In You

Song of the Day: With a series of mesmeric lyrical similes with catchy, clubby, retro synth-pop, by the Liverpool-formed band of Helen Marnie, Daniel Hunt, and Mira Aroyo return with this single, out on Nettwork Records, following 2023’s LP Time’s Arrow

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Song of the Day: Gretel - Unbloom

September 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

A continually blooming talent: Gretel

Song of the Day: With her distinctive, deep, rich and also soaringly high wide-range vocals, the London singer-songwriter Gretel Hänlyn makes a passionate, welcome return with this powerful indie-grunge-rock number out on Breadcrumb Records/ AWAL

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Song of the Day: The Antlers - Something In The Air

September 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Antlers aka Peter Silberman

Song of the Day: A gorgeously sparse, intimate, number with quiet piano accompaniment before a powerful explosion of sound by the New York singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Peter Silberman from the upcoming new album Blight, out on 10 October via Transgressive Records

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Song of the Day: Robert Plant - Everybody's Song

September 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Robert Plant’s upcoming new album, Saving Grace

Song of the Day: A fabulously alluring cover by the Led Zeppelin frontman of the Low song written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk, joined here by Plant’s band Sacred Grace, featuring the sound of the cuatro, and heralding the forthcoming album Sacred Grace, out on 26 September via Nonesuch Records

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Song of the Day: Spoon - Guess I'm Fallin In Love

September 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Spoon

Song of the Day: Released alongside another catchy single, Chateau Blues, this krautrock-ish indie rock number is a twist on the standard love by the Austen, Texas band fronted by Britt Daniel, and out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Dijon - Another Baby!

September 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dijon’s new album, Baby

Song of the Day: Almost as Prince-like as the sadly departed Purple One himself, this striking, vibrant funk-pop number by the Baltimore singer, musician, producer and actor Dijon Duenas comes from his recently released second LP, Baby, out on R&R and Warner Records

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Song of the Day: Patrick Watson - House on Fire (with Martha Wainwright)

September 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Patrick Watson

Song of the Day: The Montreal singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist collaborates with the acclaimed fellow Canadian singer-songwriter on a beautifully moving duet, of intertwining harmonies and string arrangements, heralding Watson’s upcoming album Uh Oh, due out 26 Septembervia Secret City Records

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Song of the Day: Chalk - Pain

September 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Chalk - Pain

Song of the Day: A blistering, visceral, pulsating new single with strains of The Prodigy by the post-punk/ dance electronic Belfast trio fronted by Ross Cullen about while wanting to feel untouchable, how vulnerability can overtake you, out on after their recent signing with NYC-based label ALTER Music

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Song of the Day: Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right

August 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, poignant acoustic number of bittersweet optimism by the London indie/postpunk trio, here performed by Anouska Sokolow out on Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Maruja - Trenches

August 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Maruja’s single Trenches is the latest to herald their debut album Pain To Power

Song of the Day: Influenced by Rage Against The Machine, a seething, menacing new track by the Manchester jazz-punk band, one they describe as “a call for revolution in the face of the oppressive,” with searing, combative lyrics by vocalist Harry Wilkinson and interweaving sax by Joseph Carroll, heralding their debut album Pain to Power, out on 12 September via Music For Nations

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Song of the Day: Upchuck - Tired

August 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Upchuck (Photo: Michael Tyrone Delaney)

Song of the Day: Blistering, ferocious new punk, raging against hopelessness and confronting the spectacle of social injustice that has become daily drudgery for their generation by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, from their forthcoming new album I’m Nice Now, produced by Ty Segall, and out on 3 October via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Sorry - Echoes

August 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Unapologetically different: Sorry

Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming third album, COSPLAY, which includes some previous singles, the innovative and unapologetically experimental London indie band’s latest is an effervescently, sparkling, whimsical love song, and the album is out on 7 November via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Midlake - The Ghouls

August 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union

Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Sloan - No Damn Fears

August 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sloan’s upcoming album Based On The Best Seller

Song of the Day: The veteran and acclaimed Canadian indie rockers’ latest single thrums with rich influences from Simon & Garfunkel to Jellyfish Babies to The Fall and heralds their upcoming new album Based on the Best Seller, out on 29 September via Two Minutes for Music / Yep Roc

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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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