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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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Beyoncé returns with a bold new look and claims another genre …
Song of the Day: Woo! While we make a rare move to the mainstream on SOTD, the American megastar also surprises by going catchily country with banjo and pedal steel and all, with a song from the second part of her new project, perhaps reclaiming American roots music
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Briston Maroney
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, tender, emotive, car-drive themed folk-country by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Knoxville, Tennessee, with a voice reminiscent of Elliott Smith
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Grandaddy’s forthcoming new album, Blu Wav
Song of the Day: Filled with perfectly pace and pathos, and beautifully sensitive, empathetic but also droll new number about a stifled office romance by the California indie alt-country band fronted by Jason Lytle, heralding their seventh LP in almost 30 years – Blu Wav
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The boygenius trio’s follow-up EP, The Rest
Song of the Day: After their acclaimed LP, The Record early this year, the Americana supergroup trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus return with a four-track EP, including this first track, a beautiful folk number that builds into a gorgeous crescendo
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Divorce’s new EP, Heady Metal
Song of the Day: Heralding their new EP, Heady Metal, a beguiling, beautifully melodic alternative synth-pop love song by the alt-country/indie Nottingham quartet with a metaphor about revealing your less attractive side
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Whitney’s new single, Kansas
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful, poetic fusion of Americana, country and 70s-style folk with lovely vocal harmonies by the Chicago band of Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and co, following last year’s fourth album, Spark. Out on Secretly Canadian
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From the animated video for Angelo De Augustine’s The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
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Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: A powerful, sensual, smoky slow-burn new single by the American singer-songwriter with smouldering piano, organ, jazz sax and drums, taken from the forthcoming EP Forever Means out on Jagjaguwar
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So Much Wine covered by Phoebe Bridgers
Songs of the Day: It’s the season where music market is flooded with Christmas songs seeking to cash in with the cheesy, sentimental and traditional. Here, there’s still no shortage of sleigh bells, but from covers to originals this small selection might be worth a listen at any time …
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Meg Baird
Song of the Day: Also followed up with another single, Star Hill Song, a beautiful track of thrumming bass and ethereal vocals from the San Francisco folk singer’s forthcoming album Furling, out on Drag City Records
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Divorce: check out the playful Nottingham band with their own take on country music
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s angry Jemma Freeman track, more defiance, this time not in fast, post-punk mode, but in a slower, though as emotive, a strong melody alt-country narrative by the Nottingham indie four-piece about about a wronged woman who decides it’s time for the worm to turn
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Saya Gray’s latest album is titled 19 Masters
Song of the Day: An outstanding and unusual fusion of folk, pop, country and psychedelia by the Japanese-Canadian singer-songwriter interlacing strong acoustic guitar chords and arpeggios, explosive drums, interwoven voices and birdsong
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Kevin Morby’s forthcoming album This Is A Photograph
Song of the Day: This melodically strong and moving new number by the American singer-songwriter is the title track of his forthcoming album and vividly captures time passing and other pressures of family life through the prism of an old camera image
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - aka Will Oldham
Song of the Day: Nobody quite does upbeat or downbeat depressing like the Louisville singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, who has also gone under the Palace or Palace Brothers moniker, so let's do both with two versions of this song
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David Berman from Silver Jews
Song of the Day: Moving from yesterday's Smog/Bill Callahan songs, today let's sample another brilliant lyricist who specialises in dark and droll delivery, taken from the lo-fi 1998 album American Water
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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: The past week has featured a selection of wonderful Scottish artists, several of whom admire and have been influenced by this American singer-songwriter whose voice and simplicity of style has power and profundity
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Into the woods … from the cover of Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther
Song of the Day: To kick off the new year proper, two beautifully wintry and otherworldly album openers from the Texan folk rock band, both of which take a broad, historic perspective
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Deer Tick
Song of the Day: Following on from our hooves, animal, and body parts band theme, we turn to two very contrasting tracks, from the versatile Rhode Island band who have variously been described as anything between alt-country and punk
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