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Song of the Day: Following the release of their fifth album, Serene Demon, in February this year, further wonderfully warm, catchy, witty indie pop with a touch of glam in this cover of the Chris Spedding number, by the Canadian artist from Victoria, British Columbia, out on Paper Bag Records
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Mavis Staples
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow, moving, country-style cover by the legendary American soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist of the 1995 song by Sparklehorse written by Mark Linkous (who passed away in 2010), and the title track heralding Mavis’s upcoming album out on 7 November via ANTI Records
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A wobbly still from the video for Civilians by Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky, oddball, squelchy, strangely addictive electronica with flute-ish sounds, and an eccentric jelly-based seven-dancers video choregraphed by Melanie Lane x Corps Conspirators, heralding British experimental artist Christopher Clark’s upcoming album Steep Stims, out on 7 November via Throttle Records / Decca.
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Dry Cleaning
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll, different, downbeat, throwaway profundity and wit from the unmistakable delivery of vocalist Florence Shaw and Bowie-esque guitarist Tom Dowse, by the south London post-punk quartet, heralding their upcoming new album Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, and out on 9 January, via 4AD
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Juana Molina – Siestas Ahí
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Argentinian guitarist and pop experimentalist returns with her first single in eight years, making beautiful and extraordinary sounds with her instrument with angelic, otherworldly vocals in a song about dissolving in someone’s kisses, heralding her upcoming new album DOGA, out on 5 November via Sonamos
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Second Sleep
Song of the Day: Released alongside another track, Star Eyes, a stylish, dynamic, funk-pop single relating to the subconscious and dreams by the flamboyant Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, with a highly entertaining fantasy video directed by Amalia Irons
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Danny Brown - Starburst
Song of the Day: A frenetic swirl of arrhythmic, extraordinary, otherworldly, restless sounds and manic energy are all conjured this title track from the forthcoming seventh album (out 7 November via Warp Records) by the innovative American rapper, collaborating here with the Portuguese producer Holly, and Frost Children’s Angel Prost whose voice enters in the latter stages
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Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Song of the Day: Following her latest album, Altogether Stranger, out earlier this year, the bright-voiced American indie DIY folk-pop singer’s new single, out on Sub Pop, is a fabulously uplifting bluesy number with vintage drum machine, her signature Omnichord, driving rhythm guitar stylish backwards soloing of her producer and accompanist, Guy Blakeslee
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Ólöf Arnalds
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union
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Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days
Song of the Day: Following their debut album Tripla out earlier this year, Miki Berenyi on (originally from Lush), Kevin McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled) return with gently luxuriant, indie-dream-pop “about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen”, out on Bella Union
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sleepazoid - NEW AGE
Song of the Day: Powerful, punchy post-punk and grunge /shoegaze alt-rock with a voluminously guitar-rich number about change and self-renewal by the Melbourne quintet of Nette France, Josef Pabis, George Inglis, Jim Duong and Luca Soprano, and out on Surreal Sound
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Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go
Song of the Day: A late-summer splash of catchy, colourful indie pop by the London artist, but one that also critiques AI anxiety and online intimacy “like not being able to tell if your crush sent you a text ghostwritten by ChatGPT”, and, produced by Fraser T Smith and out on BMG, it follows last year’s acclaimed debut album, Starface
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feeo’s Theodora Laird
Song of the Day: A delicate, mysterious, magical, ethereal and experimental single by the London duo of the singer Theodora Laird and bassist Caius Williams, with layers of gentle droning synths, drum ripples and half-whispered vocals from the upcoming album Goodness, out on 10 October via AD 93
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From the video by Mikel Patrick Avery for Layered Presence by Tortoise
Song of the Day: Instilling a sense of simultaneous calm and yet unease, a mesmeric, cinematic-feel instrumental by the legendary Chicago experimental, eclectic, improvisational jazz-funk-pyschedelic-prog-electronica band, heralding their first album for nine years, TOUCH, out on 24 October via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records
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Tyler Ballgame’s debut album, For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: Some voices are once in a generation. The likes of Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley. And now here’s the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter, his truly tremendous tenor soaring supremely on this soulful indie-Americana rock number about how love makes glorious fools of us, and heralding his upcoming debut album For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade
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Gurriers. Erasure
Song of the Day: The Dublin post-punk band’s first single since last year’s blistering debut LP Come And See continues their fierce flammability with what frontman Dan Hoff describes as “an unwavering cry into the void in the face of imperialism and tyranny”, out now on No Filter
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Courting - The Twins (1969)
Song of the Day: A pulsating, passionate, dynamic, indie-postpunk single about missing something once you’ve lost it by the Liverpool quartet of Connor McCann, Josh Cope, Sean Murphy-O'Neill, and Sean Thomas, following their album out earlier this year, Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story. Out on Lower Third / PIAS
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lucky break is newly signed to Fire Records
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, tender melodic acoustic indie single about pressures over life plans by the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Emma Gerson, whose influences include Fiona Apple and Bedouine, and is newly signed to Fire Records
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Yukimi - Get It Over
Song of the Day: Following her debut solo album, For You, earlier this year, Sweden’s Little Dragon singer returns with a beautiful, walking pace soulful number about being lost in your own inner world, unable to find a way out into the real world, and co-written with Canadian singer-songwriter Saya Gray and LD drummer Erik Bodin, out on Ninja Tune
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Picture Parlour’s Katherine Parlour and Ella Risi
Song of the Day: Mixing a tone of bittersweet regret and defiance, a catchy new single by the Manchester-formed, London-based indie band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and guitarist Ella Risi, from their upcoming debut album The Parlour out on 14 November via EMI/Universa
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