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Vocoder by Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd
Song of the Day: For a Friday night feel, the titular but often-cliched production tool is given a new otherworldly flavour in mesmeric dance electronica by the Manchester-raised artist Sam Shepherd, in this tripping, skipping track of morphing visual and musical shapes
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Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
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Pale Blue Eyes
Song of the Day: Catchy, dreamy electro-indie pop by the trio from Totnes, Devon, with crisp guitar, smooth synth lines and vocals in music variously influenced by Neu!, The Cure and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, and mixed by Dean Honer
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Steamy Sworn Virgins
Songs of the Day: A pair of stomping electro-pop tracks with a sexual twist and echoes of Suicide from the by side project featuring Clams Baker from Warmduscher taken from the EP Strangers Hands, out on Soulwax’s Deewee label
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Sharon Van Etten
Song of the Day: This powerful new standalone synth-pop single by the exceptionally voiced American singer-songwriter is a cathartic number about fighting depression, paranoia, self-doubt and a sense of dissociation, of feeling “not connected to my body”
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FredAtlast aka Fredrik Wallin
Song of the Day: Catchy krautrock-inspired indie pop by Little Dragon Swedish bassist Fredrik Wallin with an infectious beat, drone note, and lyrics that are “a meditation on impermanence and our way of dealing with loss. A plea to our nearest to be: nearer, dearer and more daring.”
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Dot Allison
Song of the Day: A nicely alternative, dark, spooky number for Valentine’s Day by the sensual voiced Scottish singer-songwriter and seasoned collaborator, here with a fabulous dub-reggae remix version that was the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s final project before his death last summer
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Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: It really it all anyone might want too. Excellent new electro-pop afro-funk by the London band fronted by Eno Williams from their forthcoming album Electricity, out on Merge Records and produced by Hot Chip
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Dreamscape: Röyksopp’s new album Profound Mysteries
Song of the Day: Taken from the Norwegian electronic duo’s forthcoming album Profound Mysteries, out on 29 April on Dog Triumph Records, this serene, dreamy new single features Goldfrapp’s soaring, high, breathy, sensual vocals
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Rheinzand’s forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis, and released originally in Danish, but with French, Italian, English, Spanish and Dutch versions, with images of fantasy pink elephants, pills, mushrooms an more, catchy disco electro-pop number is “about drugs and good times, but also about hangovers, loneliness, and a twist of identity crisis.” It is decorated with wonderful string flourishes and rising swells of sound.
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset by Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming EP We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset, strikingly original electronica by the young Manchester composer in a track that plays with identity through rhythmic, stop-start disassociated vocals, beats and French horn
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Arad’s EP Augmented Fantasy
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Augmented Fantasy, quirky, inventive electronica by the Irish artist Dara Smith joined by the voice of Stine Omar, one half of the Berlin-based pop outfit EASTER, and here released on Berlin label Voitex
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Gentle Party
Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming LP by the Vancouver band is wondrously original psychological creation about bad behaviour and whether you can separate the art from the artist, featuring vocals, harp, violin, and synth effects
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The cover of Noon Garden’s forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Dynamic new synth-pop psychedelia from the solo project of Flamingods member Charles Prest, and taken from his forthcoming debut album Beulah Spa, due to be released on 25 February 2022 out on The Liquid Label
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: This brand new, upbeat, synth-infused track and focus point of forthcoming album The Line Is A Curve by the poet, playwright and author is about channelling the energy of stress, with guest from LA hip-hop band Brockhampton, and long-time producer Dan Carey
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O-SHiN aka Stefanie Martens
Song of the Day: Evocative, enchanting, eclectic electro-pop with non-verbal, looped and layered vocals and interweaving instrumentation by the artist Stefanie Martens whose moniker means “time for a good cry” in Japanese
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Ill Peach are Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey
Song of the Day: Quirky, alluring, and strangely haunting electro-pop with strong bass thrum about two lovers who are polar opposites, who at times want to kill each other but equally can’t live apart, by the duo Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey, who hail from Wyoming and Minnesota
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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Tierra Whack: fluid delivery
Song of the Day: Fluidly innovative, oddball and quick-witted, this new track mixing hip hop with electronica and dolphin noises by the ingeniously mischievous rapper, singer, and songwriter
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