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Song of the Day: Maria Somerville - Stonefly

March 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Maria Somerville

Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Lucius - Impressions (featuring Madison Cunningham)

March 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lucius

Song of the Day: Striking, stylish, with rich vocals, intricate alternative indie-pop by the LA quartet fronted by vocalists and co-songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a number about false identity, featuring guest Madison Cunningham, the latest single from their upcoming fourth and self-titled album, out on 2 May via Fantasy Records

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Song of the Day: Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real

March 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real

Song of the Day: Leaping unexpectedly between sweet, gentle indie and raucous, explosive noise rock, this striking, otherworldly post-punk release by the Pittsburgh quaret is a weird and wonderful challenge to the senses

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In 2025, alternative, experimental, post-punk, shoegaze, indie Tags feeble little horse, songs, song of the day, Saddle Creek Records
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Song of the Day: Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins

March 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Matt Berninger’s forthcoming second solo album, Get Sunk

Song of the Day: The frontman of The National’s new solo single has his distinctive rich vocal tones, a warm, swelling indie sound and here some gently caustic, vivid lyrics about a tricky reunion. It heralds his second solo album Get Sunk out 30 May, on Concord Records

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Song of the Day: Deradoorian - Any Other World

March 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Deradoorian’s forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records

Song of the Day: Enthralling, inspiring, imaginative electronica and analogue percussion by the New York singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, with this latest single heralding the forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records on 9 May

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Song of the Day: Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square

March 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest

Song of the Day: Striking and articulate as ever, this first single since 2022 by the south London rapper, lyricist, poet, playwright and author is a defiant, empowering shout-out to non-binary identity with an arresting video

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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - The Test

March 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates - The Test

Song of the Day: Dealing with a turbulent 18 months including the death of her father, the innovative British artist Tor Maries returns with a powerful new track heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out on 16 May via Invada Records

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Song of the Day: Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be

March 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be

Song of the Day: Following 2023’s popular and Mercury Prize-nominated LP When Will We Land?, Edinburgh DJ and producer Joshua Mainnie’s new single, co-written with Jamie Livingstone, is a dark, menacing, spoken-word number heralding his forthcoming second album Loner, out on 30 May on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Léa Sen - Video Games

March 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Léa Sen’s forthcoming album, Levels, out on Partisan Records

Song of the Day: Deliciously fluid, smooth, relaxed, gentle, melancholy indie-pop by the Paris-born, French-Martiniquan London-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, heralding her forthcoming debut album, Levels, out on 30 May via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Jacob Alon - Don't Fall Asleep

March 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jacob Alon

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI

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Song of the Day: Carmel Smickersgill - Build The Habit

March 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Carmel Smickersgill

Song of the Day: Weirdly and wonderfully inventive, oddball wonky work by the Manchester electronic artist with a number about habits and coping mechanisms through a repeating 5/4 rhythm and reverse saxophone sample, from her new EP Unsolicited Advice, out on 16 May on PRAH

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Song of the Day: Car Seat Headrest - Gethsemane

March 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars

Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Tune-Yards - Limelight

March 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner

Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD

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Song of the Day: Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday

March 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday

Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose

March 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose

Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD

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Song of the Day: Destroyer - Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World

March 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records

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Song of the Day: Model/Actriz - Cinderella

March 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Model/Actriz

Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Little Simz - Flood (featuring Obongjayar and Moonchild Sanelly)

February 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

LIttle Simz (centre), with Obongjayar (left) and Moonchild Sanelly (right)

Song of the Day: Three standout artists together in this extraordinary, thunderous, dark, exciting, menacing, mythological new single of hip-hop and African drumming by the London rapper, with the Nigerian and South African singers

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Song of the Day: Hamilton Leithauser - Knockin’ Heart

February 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hamilton Leithauser

Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music

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Song of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Canopy of Eden

February 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside

Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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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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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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