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Elbow - Sober
Song of the Day: The Manchester/Bury band return with a catchy disco-funk groove track relating to Guy Garvey’s past relationship with alcohol, and taken from the upcoming EP Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP5), on 6 June, a follow-up to last year’s hit LP Audio Vertigo
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The Sophs
Song of the Day: Oddly mesmeric, viscerally candid yet also gently ironic, a catchy, crisp debut indie-pop single by the Los Angeles six-piece, newly signed to Rough Trade, with a song about overcompensation of grief and losing control of emotions, but also with a drily humorous performance video
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Black Honey
Song of the Day: The Brighton four-piece return with a stylish wash of dark grunge, shoegaze and dream-pop and a bio-chemical emotional metaphor, heralding their forthcoming fourth LP, Soak, out on 15 August on Foxfive
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Luvcat - Lipstick
Song of the Day: Sultry, stylish noir-rock-pop with oodles of panache and brass, a very entertaining video, and lyrics on the theme of power dynamics, yearning and surrender in a relationship by the Liverpool-born, London-based Sophie Morgan Howarth
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Alan Sparhawk
Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022
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Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?
Song of the Day: Powerful protest and dynamic, darkwave pop from the goth/post-punk duo of Johnathan Mooney (Los Angeles) and Christian Granquist (Stockholm) in this cinematic number about growing US schisms and emotional wreckage after the election return of Donald Trump
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Rung up: Gina Birch
Song of the Day: A catchy, energising, all-empowering, air-punching new post-punk single by the legendary Raincoats co-founder, artist, bass player and film-maker, inspired by, and name-checking heroines of art, politics and protest, heralding her forthcoming album Trouble, out on 11 July via Third Man Records
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Lucy Gooch
Song of the Day: A gorgeously soft, serene, floaty, pastoral, ethereal new single about self-renewal, inspired by rain, the simple act of drawing a bath and “particles forming”, using electronica, piano and textured, soaring vocals by the York artist, plus delicious guest sounds from cornetist Harry Furniss, heralding Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, out on 6 June via Fire Records
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Getdown Services: new EP Primordial Slot Machine
Song of the Day: A brilliantly droll, witty, catchy, eclectic new single mixing a glam-rock beat and a pub-piano accompaniment by the mischievous Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler, heralding their upcoming new EP, Primordial Slot Machine, out on 6 June via Breakfast Records
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Hayley Williams and Moses Sumney
Song of the Day: A soulful, stylish, sexy, slinkily smooth new single featuring both the two American singer-songwriters, both impressive intertwining, dynamic vocal performances and lavish, layered production, out on Tuntum Records
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Kaeto
Song of the Day: Stylish, shimmering, dark pop by the Scottish singer-songwriter with a co-written number with Mathias Wang about language and how perspective shapes meaning and inspired by Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood, out on Polydor/Republic Universal
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Baxter Dury’s upcoming new album, Allbarone
Song of the Day: Heralding his first album in five years, the brilliantly droll, witty, deep-voiced British artist returns with a catchy lead title track single, created with acclaimed producer Paul Epworth, the album out on 12 September on Heavenly Recordings
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Artwork from These New Puritans’ upcoming album Crooked Wing
Song of the Day: Following the single Industrial Love Song with (Caroline Polichek), the Southend-on-Sea twins return with a dark, ghostly, mesmeric, industrial big-beat, woozily, organ-swirling second experimental rock single heralding their first LP in six years, Crooked Wing, out on 23 May via Domino Records
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Snowapple
Song of the Day: Intimate, mysterious, energetic and strikingly different, this new single by the Amsterdam collective stamps, claps, breathily speaks, has soft touches on piano and buzzing, clicking synths, and a catchy chorus in this marriage human and electronic, heralding their forthcoming album Utopia, out on 13 June
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Natalie Bergman, from the video for Gunslinger
Song of the Day: Stylish, smoky, sexy, with a sound that that evokes classic western film scores and vintage soul, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s single heralds her upcoming new album, My Home Is Not In This World, out on 18 July via Third Man Records
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Yugen Blakrok
Song of the Day: The South African sorceress of mystical hip-hop returns with a poetic, powerful new single, joined here by Sa-Roc, nad heralding her forthcoming album The Illusion of Being, co-written with and produced by Kanif The Jhatmaster, out on 21 May via I.O.T. Records
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Folk Bitch Trio
Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar
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Tropical Fuck Storm’s upcoming album Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
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Deerhoof’s forthcoming album Noble And Godlike In Ruin
Song of the Day: Uniquely oddball, innovative post-punk, hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts by the San Francisco band joined by the US rapper and poet, heralding from the forthcoming Deerhoof album, Noble And Godlike In Ruin, out on Joyful Noise Recordings
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Billy Nomates - Plans - from her forthcoming album Metalhorse
Song of the Day: A punchy yet tender love song about the uncertain future by the Bristol-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out 16 May on Invada Records
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