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Song of the Day: Meta Golova - Yellow Arrow

December 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Meta Golova’s album Seasonal Hallucination

Song of the Day: Eclectic, catchy, mesmeric electro-punk and darkwave in this single taken from the second album, Seasonal Hallucination, by the duo of Siberian Lena Kilina and Brazilian Carlos Issa, released on cassette on the Berlin-based label Coisas que Matam

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Song of the Day: KuleeAngee - Animated Love

November 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

KuleeAngee - Animated Love

Song of the Day: A fabulous toe-tapping, funk-disco, acid-house-influenced, talky-vocal indie-electronica groove debut by the Scottish duo of Duncan Grant and Keshav Kanabar, out on the Manchester indie label, Lab Records

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Song of the Day: Les Amazones d’Afrique - Wa Jo (featuring Jemiriye and Mamani Ke​ï​ta)

November 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Les Amazones d’Afrique

Song of the Day: A fabulous, feisty, Afro-electro dance track by the female collective, calling for women of all sizes to unite on the dancefloor ‘without fear or worry’ and featuring newest member Nigerian singer Jemiriye on lead vocals alongside founding member Mamani Keïta

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Song of the Day: Marie Davidson - Sexy Clown

November 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Marie Davdison

Song of the Day: The Canadian DJ-producer, electronic musician and vocalist returns with a sassy, talky, catchy, witty electro-pop dance number heralding her new album, City of Clowns, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau out 28 February 2025, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label

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Song of the Day: Decius - Birth Of A Smirk / Walking In The Heat

November 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Decius: Birth Of A Smirk

Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher

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Song of the Day: Nitefire - Love Won't Tear Me Away

November 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nitefire’s EP, Ameripop! out on Concord Records

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky, punchy post-punk by the young LA band with electo-pop ripples and echoes of New York’s LCD Soundsystem and the style of 90s Brit rockers Supergrass, taken from their new EP Ameripop!, now via Concord Records

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Song of the Day: LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes

November 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, stripped back, electro-synth-post-punk by the popular New York band fronted by James Murphy with a new single serving as teaser for an as yet unfinished new album, out on Columbia Records

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Song of the Day: Biig Piig- Decimal

October 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Biig Piig aka Jessica Smyth

Song of the Day: Sensual deep-bass funk and dance music in this latest single by the singer and rapper Jessica Smyth from Cork, Ireland, who also spent time growing up in Spain, and performs bilingually, out on Sony Records

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Song of the Day: Maribou State - Otherside (featuring Holly Walker)

October 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Maribou State’s next album, Hallucinating Love, out on Ninja Tune in early 2025

Song of the Day: The English electronic artists Chris Davids and Liam Ivory return with a sparkling, funky, electro-pop with the fabulous soaring voice of guest vocalist Holly Walker, heralding their forthcoming new album, Hallucinating Love, out on 31 January 2025 via Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Ela Minus - Broken

October 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ela Minus

Song of the Day: The Colombian experimental dance electro-pop artist returns with her alluring voice and presence, vibrant synthesizers and an infectious beat, but also themes of suffering and resilience, in this new track heralding her upcoming album, DIA, set for release on 17 January 2025, via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Benefits feat. Zera Tønin - Land of the Tyrants

September 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Benefits

Song of the Day: With a dark, sinister video by Teesside filmmaker John Kirkbride, the Middlesbrough band return with simmering rage-filled dance and spoken-word number around the corruption and frustrations of modern Britain, performed by Kingsley Hall

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Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Do Something

September 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Fresh delivery, Adult DVD’s new EP, Next Day Shipping

Song of the Day: Fresh delivery and punchy, energetic electro-postpunk by the Leeds band in the opening track from their new EP Next Day Shipping, following other singles Doomsday Prepper, Bill Murray and Yacht Money

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Song of the Day: Floating Points - Ocotillo

August 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Floating Points: Cascade album is out in September

Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric electronica that grows in intensity and complexity from the British artist Sam Shepherd, heralding hiis forthcoming next LP, Cascade, released on 13 September via Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Mura Masa - We Are Making Out (featuring yeule)

August 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Mura Masa and yeule

Song of the Day: A stylish, innovative, clubby, sensual electronica-into-acoustic new number by the producer of yesterday’s SOTD by Gretel, aka the Guernsey-born electronic music artist Alex Crossan featuring yeule, aka Singaporean singer Nat Ćmiel

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Song of the Day: Kit Sebastian - Metropolis

August 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kit Sebasian’s new album New Internationale is out in September via Brain Feeder Records

Song of the Day: Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth

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Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - High

July 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jorja Smith - High

Song of the Day: The silky-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall in the West Midlands latest single strong, self-healing, soulful, rhythmical dance track, one she describes as “about finding a friend within myself, even through the lows, you have to find the highs”

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Song of the Day: Primal Scream - Love Insurrection

July 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Primal Scream’s upcoming new album, Come Ahead

Song of the Day: A funky fusion of syncopated indie, psych, krautrock and flute-filled acid jazz with Utopian-themed lyrics in this new single by Bobby Gillespie and co, with a different sound heralding the band’s first album for 8 years – Come Ahead – out on 8 November on BMG

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Song of the Day: Ginger Root - All Night

July 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ginger Root’s new album, SHINBANGUMI, out in September

Song of the Day: Infectiously funk-infused experimental DIY dance music with a particularly groovy bassline by the Californian multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Cameron Lew, heralding his forthcoming fourth studio album, SHINBANGUMI, out on 13 September via Ghostly International

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Song of the Day: Anish Kumar - Everything Blooms Around Her

July 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Anish Kumar - Everything Blooms Around Her

Song of the Day: Infectious, interweaving dance music with a south Asian flavour (sourcing India singer Aruna Lama’s beautiful folk song Hera na Hera and sampled vocals from a cover by Bakemono Gurung) put together by the DJ electronic musician who has simultaneously studying veterinary medicine at Cambridge University

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Song of the Day: Stereocalypse (with Irvine Welsh) - How No

June 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A stylish new Italian electro-pop dance track by the duo of Enrico De Vecchi and Marco Capelli featuring the voice of their friend, the acclaimed Scottish author best known for Trainspotting, and out on Stolen Goods Records

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Apr 29, 2026
Sam Grassie: Where Two Hawks Fly
Apr 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful debut LP by the London-based Glaswegian fingerstyle folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, with added saxophone, double bass, flute, clairsach and clarinet in a release of mostly the traditional, covers, sung or instrumental, and supported by the Bert Jansch Foundation

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Irmin Schmidt: Requiem
Apr 29, 2026

New album: A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Gia Margaret: Singing
Apr 28, 2026

New album: Gently profound, and full of wondrous, mesmeric, slow, delicate experimental songs, this simple title has a powerful resonance – it is the Chicago artist’s first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer (there have been two instrumental LPs since), having suffered and recovered from a severe vocal injury, she returns with a delicate, candid, whispery but hauntingly beautiful delivery

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Angelo De Augustine: Angel in Plainclothes
Apr 28, 2026

New album: A beautiful, delicate fifth LP from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, friend and collaborator with Sufjan Stevens with whom he shares a stylistic resemblance, here with themes on life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Carla dal Forno: Confession
Apr 28, 2026

New album: This lo-fi, darkly minimalist but also oddly candid fourth LP by the Australian, Castlemaine-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist centres on the conflicted, obsessive feelings about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way”, and “an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire.”

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Friko: Something Worth Waiting For
Apr 26, 2026

New album: Passionate, powerful, dynamic indie rock in this sophomore LP by the Chicago-based quartet that gallops forwards with a driving momentum, some elements of early PJ Harvey and Radiohead, and is produced by John Congleton

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
White Denim: 13
Apr 26, 2026

New album: This 13th LP in two decades by the Austin, Texas rock band fronted by James Petralli has a particularly mischievous experimentalism, spreading styles far beyond breathlessly paced prog rock, with wrily humorous, surreal, personal and passionate numbers across heavy funk, dub, soul, psyche, country, dirty blues and more, joined by host of outstanding extra musicians

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Hukwe Zawose Foundation: Asili ya Mama
Apr 24, 2026

New album: Wonderfully evocative field recordings release of Wagogo, Waluguru and Wasambaa Tanzanian women singing traditional songs in their villages, rarely heard outside of their own circles, the title is translated as The Origin of Mother, rich in stories and capturing the place where song is first learned, first felt, first shared

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig
Apr 23, 2026

New album: Four decades since their self-titled debut, Brooklyn alternative rockers John Flansburgh and John Linnell return with their 24th LP, packed with of punchy, pacy, wistful, whimsical, clever wordplay and indie rock-pop, buoyantly satirical and also a little world weary at times, they remain oddball, lively commentators on the ongoing absurdity of life

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Eaves Wilder: Little Miss Sunshine
Apr 22, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Honey Dijon: The Nightlife
Apr 22, 2026

New album: The irrepressible, prolific and charismatic London-based Chicago DJ, musician, producer and vinyl lover returns with a flamboyantly fun celebration of club and queer culture through the prism of dance music from disco to house, with a wide variety of guest vocalists

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Tiga: HOTLIFE
Apr 21, 2026

New album: Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
TOMORA: Come Closer
Apr 20, 2026

New album: A striking, dynamic collaboration between Norwegian experimental pop sensation Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one of half of Chemical Brothers, with a sensual, otherworldly energetic fusion of mystical, sensual ambience, and block-rocking dance beats

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Jessie Ware: Superbloom
Apr 20, 2026

New album: Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor

Apr 20, 2026

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May 2, 2026
Song of the Day: The Puppini Sisters - Total Eclipse of the Heart
May 2, 2026

Song of the Day: A fabulous new version of the Jim Steinman-penned 1983 Bonnie Tyler power pop hit, arranged by Marcello Puppini in an entirely different style for her swing-jazz trio and band, part of their 20th anniversary celebrations and album, The Birthday Party, out now on Millionaire Records

May 2, 2026
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May 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Bleachers - I'm Not Joking
May 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Featuring harpsichord, Hammond organ, Dobro and more, producer Jack Antonoff and his New Jersey rock band return with a heartfelt love song single heralding the upcoming album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit

May 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Metric - Crush Forever
Apr 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Uplifting, effervescent electro-disco-pop by the Toronto indie rock band, with a song vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines describes as “my love letter to strong girls in this world”, taken from their recently released 10th album, Romanticize the Dive, out on Metric Music via Thirty Tigers

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim Ghedi - The Hungry Child
Apr 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, gripping, visceral folk by the Sheffield singer-songwriter, with a striking number based on an early 19th-century German poem about the fatal story of a child pleading for food, and, following last year’s acclaimed album, Wasteland, also out on Basin Rock, it heralds his upcoming soundtrack for the Hugh Jackman film, The Death of Robin Hood.

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 27, 2026
Song of the Day: holybones (with Baxter Dury) - SLUGBOY
Apr 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, unsettling, sleazy and strange, this is arrestingly vivid new collaborative single between the clandestine London electronic collective and the downbeat, deep-voiced poetic Londoner, out on Promised Land Recordings

Apr 27, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Good Person
Apr 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gentle, droll, humorously self-deprecatingly, and also delicately beautiful, this new experimental folk single by the moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy addresses the love-hate relationship with making music, out on Fat Possum

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Pigeon - Miami
Apr 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, sunny, upbeawt indie synth-pop with an African twist by the Margate band fronted by Falle Nioke, with flavours of William Onyeabor, Hot Chip and New York 70s disco, heralding their upcoming album OUTTANATIONAL, out on 1 May via Memphis Industries

Apr 25, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Tricky - Out of Place (featuring Marta Złakowska)
Apr 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A pulsating fusion of beats, orchestral strings and the Bristol trip-hop pioneer’s distinctive, deep, croaky voice, with an emotional reference to his daughter Mina Topley-Bird (1995–2019), and heralding his first solo album for six years, Different When It’s Silent, out on 17 June via False Idols

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Apr 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, simmering, slow, melancholy and reflective, a surprise single and welcome return by the acclaimed US artist, evoking the haunting, sun-bleached landscapes and musical textures of his 2015 Grammy winning album Morning Phase, out now on Iliad Records/Capitol Records

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Song of the Day: Gelli Haha - Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep
Apr 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Described appropriately as somewhere between Studio 42 and Area 51, eccentric, effervescent, spacey, catchy and eclectic disco pop by the Los Angeles artist (aka Angel Abaya, co-written with Sean Guerin) out on Innovative Leisure

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Song of the Day: LEENALCHI 이날치 - Here Comes That Crow 떴다 저 가마귀
Apr 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, funky, psychedelic and quirky new work by the seven-piece Seoul-based Korean pansori band led by bassist Jang Young Gyu with the title track of their new EP, out on 12 June via Luaka Bop, and heralding a European and North American tour

Apr 21, 2026

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Apr 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
Apr 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

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
Apr 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

Apr 9, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
Mar 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

Mar 27, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026

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