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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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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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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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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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CMAT is back
Song of the Day: The latest single by Dublin singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson is a perky, catchy piece of piano-led pop with a dash of country and is about taking carefree risks for love
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Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, Dear Departed, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Sounding from another era, that of the 70s and Harry Nilsson, a wonderfully powerful and romantic voice and number from the contemporary Los Angeles singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album Dear Departed, out in July on Partisan Records
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Sirens of Lesbos
Song of the Day: “Let’s make this easy you need someone to love you when the leaves come down.” The latest single the Swiss quintet is a beautifully lilting, soulful, mellow love song with a subtle country flavour
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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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Spencer Cullum’s forthcoming new album
Song of the Day: Beautiful new 70s-style folk rock/country number by the Nashville-based British artist, featuring extra guest vocals by Japanese singer Yuma Abe, plus evocative woodwind, taken from his forthcoming second Coin Collection album, out on Full Time Hobby
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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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Caitlin Rose’s forthcoming album CAZIMI
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, emotive, vivid and a mix of country, pop and rock, the latest single reflecting on a dark relationship by the Nashville singer-songwriter comes from her forthcoming latest album CAZIMI, out in November on Pearl Tower Records
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Elf Power: Artificial Countrysides the latest album
Song of the Day: After Erland Cooper’s flower-growing music yesterday, more beautiful work in this indie-pysch-folk-pop with a country twist and a dash of harpsichord, the title track from the newly released album by the American band from Athens, Georgi
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FIrst Aid Kit: Johanna and Klara Söderberg
Song of the Day: The Swedish sisters' Johanna and Klara Söderberg return with their first new record for three years, with their signature close, warm vocal harmonies and uplifting pop-country, this song expressing a release from insecurity and anxiety and being about kinder to yourself
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Sylvie’s forthcoming album, out in October, but currently available to pre-order and partly download
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow track of mid-70s Laurel Canyon-style songwriting by South Carolina’s Ben Schwab, here featuring the vocals of Sam Burton from a forthcoming self-titled album, and inspired by the discovery by Schwab of a box of 1975 tape recordings by his father John’s band, Mad Anthony
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Dynamic duo: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
Song of the Day: Two of the most currently revered American singer-songwriters join forces in their first collaborative number, singing separately and together, mixing melancholy and hope, combining country with soaring, big production piano indie-pop
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What A Difference A Day Makes, by singer-songwriter and artist, Someone.
Song of the Day: “ … but I won’t let it get me down.” This beautifully serenely performed single with guitars, piano, and strings is by singer-songwriter and artist Tessa Rose Jackson, who is based in Amsterdam
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C’est le pop magnifique …
Song of the Day: Glorying in all things Gallic, the new solo EP project by Dan Synge of Daniel Takes a Train is an joyfully unrestrained embrace of 60s and 70s French pop styles from Gainsbourg to Dutronc, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday
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Valerie June’s forthcoming album
Songs of the Day: An uplifting triple Sunday special from the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee who mixes soul, gospel, country and blues in this three-track standalone digital release
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Jeannie Seely
Song of the Day: After powerful new songs by Julia Jacklin about the body and personal space, a classic number from the 1960s that sung first by the Titusville performer with versions by other stars
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