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The Nightingales, fronted by Robert Lloyd
Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records
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Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey
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Dora Jar - Lucky
Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG
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Nadia Ahmed aka Nxdia
Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records
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Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress
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Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, Earthstar Mountains, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union
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Tunde Adebimpe’s upcoming album, Thee Black Boltz
Song of the Day: Following the single, Magnetic, late last year, the TV On The Radio frontman and actor returns with another striking number, heralding his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, out on 18 April via Sub Pop Records
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Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto’s upcoming album, Electric War
Song of the Day: Fizzing, fabulous, inventively rhythmic psych-blues-funk by the British rock combo of guitarist Barrie Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton joined by drummer Malcolm Catto, heralding their new album Electric War out on 19 April via Easy Eye Sound
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Yukimi’s upcoming debut solo album - For You
Song of the Day: A beguiling, gentle, vivid single of intertwining delicate vocals, accordion and strings by the singer and co-founder of acclaimed Swedish experimental band Little Dragon, heralding her debut solo LP, For You, out on 28 March on Ninja Tune
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Florist’s upcoming album, Jellywish
Song of the Day: Gentle, beautiful, reflective indie-folk by the Catskill Mountains / New York quartet of singer and songwriter Emily Sprague with Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro and Felix Walworth, heralding their forthcoming album, Jellywish, out on 4 April on Double Double Whammy
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Black Country, New Road - Besties
Song of the Day: An eccentric, eclectic, catchy new single about friendship by the Cambridge-formedm London-based British experimental band mixing folk and indie with dabbles of harpsichord, saxophone and more, heralding their upcoming third album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April on Ninja Tune
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Sparks’ Russell and Ron Mael - always doing things their own way
Song of the Day: Continuing an approach they’ve followed for more than five decades, the ever entertaining brothers Ron and Russel Mael return with further fun, groundbreaking pop, heralding their 28th studio album, MAD!, out this year on Transgressive Records
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Snapped Ankles
Song of the Day: The mysterious, masked London electro-postpunk band returns with a catchy, driving, dark, dystopian-flavoured new single, heralding their fourth LP Hard Times Furious Dancing, out on 28 March on The Leaf Label
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Self Esteem’s upcoming third album, A Complicated Woman
Song of the Day: Full vocal force with rich gospel-style harmonies and an affirmingly defiant message from the charismatic Rotherham singer-songwriter Rebecca Taylor, heralding her upcoming third LP as Self Esteem, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April on Polydor Records
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Prima Queen’s Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden
Song of the Day: After a series of strong singles and EPs, new serene, poignant, post-breakup, uplifting indie dream pop from charismatic transatlantic pair of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden with this title track from their forthcoming debut album, out on 25 April, via Submarine Cat Records
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Youth Lagoon ‘s upcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream
Song of the Day: A mesmeric new banger with the whispering voice of Trevor Powers, the shapeshifting, innovative Idaho-based songwriter and producer, taken from his forthcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream, out Fat Possum Records on 21 February
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Skunk Anansie - An Artist Is An Artist
Song of the Day: A welcome and excellent return from the London rockers fronted by the inimitable Deborah "Skin" Dyer with a punchy, uncompromising number about creative life, its disciplines, sacrifices and identity, out on Frontiers Records
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Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly / Brutes
Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings
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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Richard Russell’s forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album - Temporary
Song of the Day: A beautifully odd, ghostly, eclectic track by the producer and XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, joined by the south London experimental rock trio, and heralding his forthcoming album Temporary, out on released 28 February via XL Recordings
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