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Multi-layered: Ben Zaidi’s Blues
Song of the Day: The Seattle singer-songwriter’s new single is infused with a crisp rhythm, gentle acoustic riffs and intelligent lyrics about a family bereavement launching into heap of detail about life problems, and a sensitive voice reminiscent of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
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Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love
Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula
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Song of the Day: With an extraordinary video directed by FKA twigs, this equally unclassifiable, soaring song mixing harpsichord, electronica and a quasi-medieval madrigal-style vocal comes from the London band’s debut album Agar
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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