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Song of the Day: Thundercat - She Knows Too Much

February 25, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Thundercat’s upcoming album, Distracted

Song of the Day: Catchy groove funk and hip-hop with a Stevie Wonder vibe, with added jazz trumpet and keyboards by the acclaimed American LA multi-genre bassist, featuring the late rapper Mac Miller in a track fantasising about a woman out of his league, and the latest heralding his upcoming album Distracted, out on 3 April via Brainfeeder

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Song of the Day: L.Y.R. - Dark Sky Reservation

February 24, 2026 Peter Kimpton

L.Y.R. - Dark Sky Reservation - the album is out on April via Real World Records

Song of the Day: Delicate, beautiful profound new work by the trio of British poet laureate Simon Armitage, multi-instrumentalist Patrick J. Pearson and singer-songwriter Richard Walters, about areas where light pollution is outlawed with this title track of their upcoming third album, out on 3 April via Real World Records

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Song of the Day: Molina - Golden Brown Sugar

February 22, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Molina

Song of the Day: Dreamy, blurry and strangely beautiful, woozy shoegaze with washes of textured sound and some echoes of gentler My Bloody Valentine by the Copenhagen-based Chilean-Danish artist Rebecca Molina, out now on Escho Records

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Song of the Day: Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter

February 21, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter

Song of the Day: A mysterious, semi-whispered, darkly enchanting and intimate experimental country ballad in reference to her husband Jeremy Dufrene by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, and the latest to herald her upcoming tenth studio album Stove, out on Interscope/ Universal

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In 2026, Americana, alternative, alt-country, country, pop Tags Lana Del Rey, Jack Antonoff, songs, song of the day, Universal, Interscope, Interscope Records
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Song of the Day: U2 - American Obituary

February 20, 2026 Peter Kimpton

U2’s EP Days of Ash, their first new release since 2017

Song of the Day: Bono, The Edge and co return with their first new music since 1017 by the Irish rock giants, a return to form with a powerful protest song about current American politics, part of their new six-song EP, Days of Ash, out on Island Records

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Song of the Day: Fan Girl - Easy Now

February 19, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Fan Girl’s upcoming EP, 8HRS

Song of the Day: An intricate, glimmering fusion of guitars, synths, pacy rhythm and emotive delivery with stylistic echoes of Radiohead by the Melbourne indie band of Noah Harris and co, heralding the upcoming EP, 8HRS, out on 24 April via Community Music

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Song of the Day: Kloyd - New Love

February 18, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Kloyd - New Love

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, repetitive, jangling ambience over gentle, infectious beats with a looping vocal by the London electronica artist Kate Lloyd with number about embarking on a journey into love with excitement, yet with an undertone of uncertainty and apprehension, then giving into surrender and euphoria

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Song of the Day: La Sécurité - Bingo

February 17, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Montreal’s La Sécurité

Song of the the Day: A quirky, sharp, clever, jerky, catchy nod to disco punk of the early-2000s by the Montreal art-punk collective with a a mix of hooky riffs, pacy drums and crunchy bass, themed across the chance numbers game and a spin on creativity, and also now the title track heralding their upcoming album out on 12 June via Mothland and Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Bleachers - You and Forever

February 16, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Bleachers’ upcoming new album Everyone For Ten Minutes

Song of the Day: A beautiful, passionate, stirring and serene love song from the New Jersey rock band fronted by producer and singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff, heralding the upcoming sixth album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Evelyn Gray - Clotheslines

February 15, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Evelyn Gray

Song of the Day: Beautiful, evocative indie-folk with a Celtic flavour by trio of Evelyn Gray (previously of Tapir!) on guitar/vocals, Suzie Nicholls on bass, and Sophia Bartlett on violin, heralding the forthcoming project I Am Building a House (out on My Life is Big) which also includes a novel

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Song of the Day: Kevin Morby - Javelin

February 14, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Kevin Morby’s upcoming album, LIttle Wide Open

Song of the Day: A breezy, catchy, uplifting travel-themed love song by the Texas born, Kansas raised singer-songwriter, heralding his eighth album, Little Wide Open, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, and out on 15 May via Dead Oceans

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Song of the Day: Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten and Kae Tempest – Flags (from War Child album HELP2)

February 13, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest

Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful, vivid, emotional collaboration between the Blur/Gorillaz frontman, the Fontaines D.C. singer and the London rapper and writer, from the upcoming WarChild charity album HELP(2), raising money for children affected by conflict out on 6 March

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Song of the Day: Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (featuring Feist)

February 12, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Charotte Cornfield’s upcoming album Hurts Like Hell

Song of the Day: Beautiful, fragile, vulnerable indie-folk by the Canadian singer-songwriter with a fellow famous guest, heralding her upcoming sixth album, Hurts Like Hell, out 27 March on Merge Records / Next Door Records

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Song of the Day: Friko - Seven Degrees

February 11, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Friko’s upcoming album Something Worth Waiting For

Song of the Day: Classic acoustic indie-pop with wistful, witty songwriting with a wonderful melody, bridge key change and entertaining video, heralding the Chicago band’s sophomore album Something Worth Waiting For, produced by the Grammy-winning John Congleton, and out on 24 April via ATO Records

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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - God’s Lonely Man (featuring Iggy Pop)

February 10, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi and Iggy Pop, from the video for God’s Lonely Man

Song of the Day: A pulsating duet between two outstanding artists, in which the acclaimed singer-guitarist turns to Iggy as perfect character to embody the voice of her passionate, destructive internal monologue, heralding the new EP Is This All There Is? out on 20 March on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Hungry - Cambridge Is On Fire

February 9, 2026 Peter Kimpton

They are Hungry

Song of the Day: Catchy, caustic, satirical and fun post-punk by the Manchester-based band fronted by charismatic singer Jacob Peck and with the latest of so-called “fenland gothic” preoccupation, and stylistic echoes of Sports Team and Deadletter

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Song of the Day: Majke Voss (aka Broken Twin) - Coming Down

February 8, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Majke Voss (aka Broken Twin)

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sparsely crafted, mesmeric new single with gorgeous haunting violin and vocals by the Danish, Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter who previously performed and recorded as Broken Twin, returning after a decade, and now out on Broken Records

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Song of the Day: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sunburned in London

February 7, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Song of the Day: Shimmering, bright, insightful, double-edged indie by the five-piece band from indie, returning after 2022’s Endless Rooms LP, about the UK capital city and sensory overload, out on I OH YOU/Mushroom Music

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Song of the Day: Sunglaciers - Eye to Eye

February 6, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Sunglacier’s upcoming album Spiritual Content

Song of the Day: Stylish psychedelia and indie postpunk with a racing, krautrock momentum and a mesmeric, old-footage video montage by the Canadian band from Calgary, heralding the upcoming album Spiritual Content out on 27 March via Mothland

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Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Designer Citizen

February 5, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Jesca Hoop

Song of the Day: A sharp, catchy, witty and socially satirical new number about current American politics and society by the innovative, experimental, Manchester-based Californian folk singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home due out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music

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May 18, 2026
Rostam: American Stories
May 18, 2026

New album: The Iranian-American singer-songwriter, star producer and Vampire Weekend co-founder Rostam Batmanglij’s third solo LP mixes Americana with Persian sounds in a mellow, beautiful reflection of love songs also inspired by challenging, changing times

May 18, 2026
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May 15, 2026
Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open
May 15, 2026

New album: The Kansas City-raised singer-songwriter’s eighth solo LP of folk, rock and country is inspired by Missouri’s vast space, and features guests including Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Katie Gavin, Lucinda Williams, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) with production by The National’s Aaron Dessner

May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Cola: Cost Of Living Adjustment
May 14, 2026

New album: A third album of clever, angular, abstract, oddly appealing and also retro indie postpunk by the Montreal trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass), along with Evan Cartwright (percussion) with a title reflecting their name as an acronym and a call to re-appraise the way the the world should work

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Ana Roxanne: Poem 1
May 13, 2026

New album: Ambient, minimalist, experimental synth-chamber pop by the American artist with a collection of resonantly beautiful, vulnerable and mournful ballads fuelled by heartbreak

May 13, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom
May 12, 2026

New album: An effervescent colourful, spring-like, flower-themed fusion of electronica, dance music, Chicago techno, cumbia, kuduro, dancehall, African and south American influences in this energetic release by the Stockholm-based Swedish artist and brother and sometime collaborator of Karin Dreijer (aka Fever Ray), in an LP of two different halves

May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Lykke Li: The Afterparty
May 12, 2026

New album: A brief, 24-minute burst of shimmering alternative pop by the Swedish singer-songwriter sees this sixth LP’s concept capturing the experience of fictional bad-boy pop star persona, moving from a messy night out into aftermath, variously mixing mood-shifting jubilation, loneliness and comedown

May 12, 2026
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May 11, 2026
The Lemon Twigs: Look For Your Mind!
May 11, 2026

New album: With a title for calling for sanity in crazy times, this latest LP by the multi-instrumental New York brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario is a pristine release of beautiful new songs inspired by a 60s rock and pop sound, echoing artists from the Hollies to Byrds, mid-career Beatles, Beach Boys and the Who

May 11, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Broken Social Scene: Remember The Humans
May 10, 2026

New album: Driven by a sense of reunion, renewal, collaboration, community and re-finding values lost, a superbly stirring, emotionally uplifting, profound and dynamic return by the Toronto indie rock collective with their first in almost a decade

May 10, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Aldous Harding: Train on the Island
May 10, 2026

New album: The enigmatic New Zealand artist returns with her fifth album, a blend of folk and experimental rock packed with gnomic lyrics and experimental musical blends, her beguiling presence as deliciously strange as ever in another release co-produced with long-time collaborator John Parish

May 10, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Chris Brain: Red Sun Rising
May 7, 2026

New album: Beautifully warm, quiet, tender and bucolic new folk LP by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, following a pastoral tradition of landscapes literal and emotional, very much influenced by and echoing the delivery of Nick Drake

May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Lip Critic: Theft World
May 7, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s acclaimed debut Hex Dealer, a newly challenging but also exciting experimental fusion of post-punk, noise rock, electronica and hip-hop by the New York band in this second LP, inspired by the anxiously oddball situation of frontman Bret Kaser’s identity being stolen by a real-life fan, and making hundreds of purchases in his name, including the band’s catalogue

May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons
May 6, 2026

New album: The acclaimed American singer-songwriter and pianist’s 18th album in a 35-year career is a grandiose, powerful 17-track album of odyssey and allegory around politics, power and feminist resistance, fuelled by the current state of her nation, set from the view of fictionalised marriage to a dangerous billionaire and an escape across the country with a narrative twist

May 6, 2026
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May 6, 2026
Kacey Musgraves: Middle of Nowhere
May 6, 2026

New album: Moving away from the pop-folk direction of 2021’s Star-Crossed and 2024’s Deeper Well, the Nashville singer-songwriter returns with this seventh LP back to her country roots with gently trotting, stripped-back finely crafted collection of witty, catchy, candid numbers covering a spectrum of moods

May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Pigeon: OUTTANATIONAL
May 5, 2026

New album: Hugely enjoyable, stylish, playfully eclectic debut LP of indie, electronica and Afro-disco and krautrock grooves by the Margate band fronted by the multi-lingual artist Falle Nioke from Guinea Conakry, West Africa, with songs about identity and ancestry, and a sound somewhere between New Order and William Onyeabor

May 5, 2026

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May 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Sofia Cordoba - Symptom of Love
May 18, 2026

Song of the Day: This beautiful acoustic single that then soars into stirring rock-pop ballad by the Colombian singer-songwriter is her first English language release, and heralds an upcoming EP

May 18, 2026
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May 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Lambchop - Weakened
May 17, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously stripped-back, poetic Americana with a woozy, dream-like ending by the Nashville band of Kurt Wagner, featuring Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) on banjo, taken from the upcoming album Punching The Clown, out on 21 August via Merge Records/City Slang

May 17, 2026
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May 16, 2026
Song of the Day: The Avalanches - Together (ft. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, Prentiss)
May 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A buzzy, bonkers, fizzy but infectious candy pop single about the nature of memory by the innovative Melbourne electronic group Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi and Andy Szekeres, with guest vocalists and their first since since 2020's We Will Always Love You, out on Modular Recordings

May 16, 2026
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May 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - What's Done Is Done
May 15, 2026

Song of the Day: Staccato strings, perky polyrhythmic percussion, atmospheric electronics, and a rich vocal performance and layering colour this stylish new clubby single about hurt and heartbreak, accepting the truth and self-possession by the British singer from Walsall, out on FAMM

May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Song of the Day: ear - Ne Plus Ultra
May 14, 2026

Song of the Day: An oddball, intriguingly inventive new single by US duo Yaelle Avtan and Jonah Paz, featuring buzzy bass, spaceship blips, icy vocals, cut-and-paste sound, kitten meows and 2000s electronica, out on A24 Music

May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Shearwater - Daydream Unbeliever/ More and More
May 13, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of gorgeous, meditative, cinematic tracks by the Austin, Texas experimental indie rock band fronted by Jonathan Meiburg, heralding their upcoming album, The New World out on 31 July via their own Polyborus label and Secretly Distribution

May 13, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Song of the Day: The Healing Power of Horses - i wait, i sink
May 12, 2026

Song of the Day: A dark, smoky, stylish, seductive, smoothly clattering, classy yet unclassifiably trip-hop adjacent debut single by the Cambridge duo, now newly signed to section1, the Los Angeles-based sister label to Partisan Records

May 12, 2026
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May 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Kelela - linknb
May 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish, striking fusion of electronica, indie and R&B by American artist Kelela Mizanekristos, heralding the forthcoming album New Avatar, out on 10 July via Warp Records

May 11, 2026
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May 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Boards Of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz
May 10, 2026

Song of the Day: A hypnotic new double-A side by the Scottish electronica brother duo, with a prelude of spectral, retro-futurist synths, followed by a mesmeric ambient slow build with mutated vocals, and named after the deep space frequency used in the search for extra-terrestrial life

May 10, 2026
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May 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Mike D - Switch Up
May 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A dynamic, eclectic, pacy, syncopated fusion of hip-hop, electronica and rock in this debut solo single one-third of the Beastie Boys in this new single, out on Capitol Records

May 9, 2026
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May 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Father John Misty - The Payoff
May 8, 2026

Song of the Day: The acclaimed American singer-songwriter aka Josh Tillman returns with a caustic, dark, menacing new track referencing an underbelly of dodgy deal-making, out now on Sub Pop. It’s the second Father John Misty single of 2026, following The Old Law, released in January

May 8, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Balming Tiger - Home
May 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylishly fun, funky, eccentric electronica, indie and hip-hop fusion by the South Korean collective known as “alternative K-pop”, heralding their new album, Gongbu, out on 19 May, via MOAH

May 7, 2026

Word of the week

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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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April 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
April 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

April 9, 2026
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March 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
March 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

March 27, 2026
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March 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
March 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

March 12, 2026

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