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Song of the Day: Pem - to earth will you tell me when we land

November 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pem aka Emily Perry

Song of the Day: Delicate, otherworldly beauty by the British singer-songwriter and gardener Emily Pem Perry with an expressive jittery voice, piano and strings, following another recent single, M4 windy, out on Fascination Street Records

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Song of the Day: Party Dozen - Mad Rooter

November 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Party Dozen - Mad Rooter/Ghost Rider single

Song of the Day: A stomping rock, raucously catchy new single by the Sydney Australia duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, available as 7-inch double A-side with the song Ghost Rider, single out 5 December via City Slang/GRUPO

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Song of the Day: COBRAH - Torn

November 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

COBRAH - Torn

Song of the Day: Striking, high-octane and intense electronica and dance music with a stylish video by the experimental Swedish artist Clara Sofie Blom Christensen, whose previous EP Succubus won a Swedish Grammi in 2024

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Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI (featuring GUTS)

November 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI

Song of the Day: A tasty groove and food theme by the New York rapper and trumpeter aka Leron Thomas, joined by the French DJ and producer in this this droll, witty, slick and stylish new single, following May’s album, Confines, released on Heavenly

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Song of the Day: Genesis Owusu - Death Cult Zombie

October 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Genesis Owusu

Song of the Day: A sharp Halloween-themed catchy post-punk number with a caustic bite at the monsters of far-right politics and an entertaining video by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper and singer, out on OURNESS

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Song of the Day: ROSALÍA - Berghain (featuring Björk & Yves Tumor)

October 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

ROSALÍA returns with a dramatic single heralding upcoming album LUX

Song of the Day: A flamboyant, baroque-pop multi-lingual extravaganza of a heartbreak love song by the Spanish pop superstar, the title named after techno club in Berlin, and joined by the acclaimed Icelandic and American artists, choir and orchestra, and a curtain raiser to Rosalía’s upcoming album LUX, out on 7 November on Columbia/Sony

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Song of the Day: Tunng - Anoraks

October 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tunng - Anoraks

Song of the Day: Following their acclaimed, 20th anniversary celebratory latest album, Love You All Over Again, the British folktronica band return with a gorgeous, gentle, psychedelic story-song, featuring the voice of co-writer Sam Genders, and released on Full Time Hobby

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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi returns with a powerful interpretation of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy song

Song of the Day: A powerful, smoky, stylish, passionate cover version of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy number by the acclaimed British singer and guitarist, returning with a haunting duet with the US artist, their vocals intertwining in a song about intimacy beyond romance - the quiet, profound love found in friendship

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Song of the Day: Sleaford Mods ft. Gwendoline Christie and Big Special - The Good Life

October 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sleaford Mods’ new album The Demise Of Planet X, is out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records

Song of the Day: The Notts duo of Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson and return with a fabulously furious, colourful, sweary and darkly acerbic number, with explosive, passionate rage by the Game of Thrones actress, spooky vocals by the indie/postpunk Black Country duo, and a video by brilliant British horror director Ben Wheatley, heralding the new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records

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Song of the Day: Hatchie - Only One Laughing

October 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hatchie aka Harriette Pilbeam

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Cocteau Twins, experimental soaring shoegaze and dream pop by the Australian singer-songwriter and musician Harriette Pilbeam, heralding her new album, Liquorice, out on 7 November via Secretly Canadian, and the follow-up to single first single, Lose It Again

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Songs of the Day: Momoko Gill - No Others / When Palestine Is Free

October 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Momoko Gill

Songs of the Day: A beautiful free-flowing fusion of jazz and groove soul by the Japan- and US-raised, London-based drummer, producer, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with two songs heralding her forthcoming debut album Momoko, out on 11 January 2026 via Strut Records / K7 Music

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Song of the Day: BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native

October 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native

Song of the Day: Following their second album, National Average over the summer, the witty, punchy, Walsall, Black Country post-punk duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, return with a striking number frontman “about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy”

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Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - One Hand Free

October 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Furman - One Hand Free

Song of the Day: A warm, beautiful, gently witty, if melancholy, species-themed standalone single by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter taken from the same sessions as her 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, out on Bella Union. It is accompanied by a video shot by JJ Gonson featuring Ezra accompanied by an assortment of birds, lizards and myriad other species

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Song of the Day: Austra - Siren Song

October 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Video still from Austra’s Siren Song

Song of the Day: Effervescent, soaring electro-pop inspired variously by ABBA, Ray of Light, The X-Files and Greek mythology in a dreamy plea for connection by the Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, heralding her fifth album Chin Up Buttercup, out on 14 November via Domino

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Song of the Day: Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Let Us Dance (Movement One)

October 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Song of the Day: A beautiful, moving, gently old-fashioned new version of an older song by the veteran US-born Canadian trans singer with that distinctive, charming voice, heralding the forthcoming album, Laughter In Summer, out on 6 February 2026 via Transgressive Records. Let Us Dance was previously released as a synth-based version on the 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies

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Song of the Day: The New Eves - Red Brick

October 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The New Eves - Red Brick / Whale Station

Song of the Day: Following their excellent debut LP in August, The New Eve Is Rising, the Brighton experimental quartet return with with an arresting mix of spoken word and lo-fi folk-rock, developed from a jam and a poem about a trip to New York, and out on Transgressive Records

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Song of the Day: Chanel Beads - The Coward Forgets His Nightmare

October 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers with Maya McGrory

Song of the Day: New York-based musician Shane Lavers’ latest single is a mesmeric, textured piece of dreamy digital and analogue experimentalism about memory, accompanied by Zachary Paul on violin and vocals by Maya McGrory, and out on Jagjaguwar

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Song of the Day: Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars

October 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Unclouded, the upcoming album by Melody's Echo Chamber

Song of the Day: Ethereal, luxuriant dream pop full of escapism and optimism by the French musician Melody Prochet, heralding her upcoming new album Unclouded out 5 December via Domino Records co-produced by Sweden’s Sven Wunder

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Song of the Day: Stereolab - Fed Up With Your Job

October 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stereolab’s new AA side: Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown

Song of the Day: A sprightly, defiant, catchy, classic AA-side release by the Anglo-French avant-pop band, alongside the song Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown, written by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, and out on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records

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Song of the Day: The Fiery Furnaces - Far Away

October 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Fiery Furnaces anniversary edition of Blueberry Boat

Song of the Day: Brooklyn’s brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger and co return with a quirky indie-rock experimental echoing piano and vocal number, an additional track to 20th anniversary edition of their seminal 2004 album Blueberry Boat

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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 2026

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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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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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