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Song of the Day: Mindchatter - Here I Go Again

September 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Mindchatter’s Here I Go Again

Mindchatter’s Here I Go Again

Song of the Day: Spookily catchy electronica with wonderfully dry, humorous lyrics about internal indecision, with rich, dark bass sounds under the pseudonym of New York producer Bryce Connolly

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Song of the Day: Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture - Leywole

August 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Falle Nioke

Falle Nioke

Song of the Day: An exhilarating crossover by the 33-year-old singer and percussionist from Guinea joining forces with the electronica duo from Margate in a number that means "whatever" in Coniagui, inspired by watching a strong woman reject the advances of a pushy man in the street

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Song of the Day: Darkside - Lawmaker

August 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Darkside’s recent new album, Spiral

Darkside’s recent new album, Spiral

Song of the Day: A menacing, strange narrative, possibly about Covid, a power-crazed doctor and popularism, and a North African vibe crossed with slow psych rock in a film noir soundtrack feel all comes in the mysterious work of New York duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington and their extraordinary new album Spiral, out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: binki: Revolve

August 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers

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Song of the Day: moa moa - Coltan Candy

August 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
moa moa

moa moa

Song of the Day: With a fabulous shuffle rhythm, bassline, synths and dark lyrics relating to the dubious trade in the African-mined metal mineral coltan, used in the manufacture of mobile phones, this alt-pop single comes via the great production of Dan Carey on the Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Red Telephone - Happy Man

August 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Red Telephone

Red Telephone

Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric

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Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Aquamarine

August 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House

The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House

Song of the Day: Dreamy electronica, guitar and voice by the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist Meg Duffy, favourably compared to Big Thief and Angel Olsen, and who has played with many other artists including Weyes Blood and The War on Drugs

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Songs of the Day: Alexis Taylor - Dying In Heaven / House of the Truth

August 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven

Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven

Song of the Day: The Hot Chip frontman’s new single releases are slow, beautiful but gently apocalyptic numbers that include references to the Covid epidemic and a look at religion through a distant lens. They also heralds his forthcoming solo album, Silence

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Song of the Day: Alice Hubble - My Dear Friend

August 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters

Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters

Song of the Day: This entrancing new song of interweaving melodies and shuffling rhythm by the London electronic artist was inspired by her discovering a collection of love letters that her mother wrote to her father around the time that they first got together

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Song of the Day: Asa Moto - Cacao

August 11, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’

Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’

Song of the Day: From the latest upcoming EP Martino, the Belgian duo from Ghent’s new single is a Kraftwerk-inspired piece of delightfully catchy, tactile, rich, tasty, rumbling stereo analogue synth

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Song of the Day: Orlando Weeks – Big Skies, Silly Faces

July 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off

Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off

Song of the Day: This gentle, rather beautiful number by the former Maccabees frontman is taken from his forthcoming second solo album after 2020’s A Quickening, and has echoes of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk

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Song of the Day: Meadow Meadow - DNO

July 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Meadow Meadow: Silouettes

Meadow Meadow: Silouettes

Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music

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Song of the Day: Amon Tobin presents Stone Giants – Best Be Sure (feat. Figueroa)

July 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants

The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants

Song of the Day: After Emma-Jean Thackray’s Spectre yesterday, a beautiful and whisperingly dreamy, ghostly sound in this unusual acoustic number by the Brazilian musician composer and producer under the his new Stone Giants alias from the album West Coast Love Stories

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Song of the Day: Park Hye Jin 박혜진 - Y Don't U (feat. Clams Casino & Take A Daytrip)

July 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Park Hye Jin

Park Hye Jin

Song of the Day: Posing one of the biggest questions in pop music, this catchy new electro hip-hop single by the South Korean-born, LA-based artist joined by the New Jersey producer songwriter and DJ Michael Volpe and the US duo of Denzel Baptiste and David Bira

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Song of the Day: Skeleton - Live In Another World

July 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon

Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon

Song of the Day: Music that sounds like an invitation - intelligent, catchy, engaging, mesmeric and escapist electro-pop dance music by the Australian DJ, producer and singer-songwriter from Sydney – Russell Fitzgibbon

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Song of the Day: Wanton Witch - The Beautiful Trauma of Being

July 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Wanton Witch

Wanton Witch

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s Witch Fever, a differently bewitching, electronic instrumental piece of shifting, restlessly clever multiple sections by the Borneo island-born Bangkok-based trans artist and DJ

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Song of the Day: Lucie Antunes - LNM

July 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Lucie Antunes

Lucie Antunes

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Myd, more French pop, this time in mesmerically alternative form of non-verbal vocalisations, throaty then moving into full harmonies laid over catchy beats and electronica by the Parisian classically contemporary-trained drummer and percussionist

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Song of the Day: Joviale - Blow!

July 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Joviale

Joviale

Song of the Day: Offbeat, alternative and with a mesmerising melody, this electro-pop-soul single from the London artist includes wonderful chord changes, saxophone and a strong, resonant vocal line

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Song of the Day: Jinjé - Cinétique

June 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Song of the Day: A fantasia of mesmerising electronica by Leeds musician Lee Malcolm, from the EP Open Unity, out on the Mesh label, with a kinetic-themed animated video by Lawrie Miller using the artwork of James Lacey

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - Emperor Machine

June 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Manchester’s legends ACR

Manchester’s legends ACR

Song of the Day: Dedicated to the late great Andrew Weatherall, this new single is perfect fusion of dance, postpunk and electronica, by the Manchester band and Andrew Meecham comes from the forthcoming new EP A Certain Ratio vs The Emperor Machine

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New Albums …

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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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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 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Big Storm
Apr 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky experimental indie folk-pop by the innovative Manchester-based California artist, featuring a clever video that old footage and Hoop in various vintage guises, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home, out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic of Music

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Gia Margaret - Alive Inside
Apr 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicate, dream-like, reflective experimental folk-pop by the American singer-songwriter and producer from Chicago, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Singing, out on Jagjaguwar

Apr 19, 2026
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Apr 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - Crumb
Apr 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, playful, gently humorous, self-deprecating experimental indie pop by the inventive transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, with a number about having a fragile crush on someone, and their first new music of 2026, out on Submarine Cat Records

Apr 18, 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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