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Song of the Day: PVA – Untethered

June 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

PVA: Untethered

Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

June 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

Song of the Day: Given a wider audience by its inclusion on the Killing Eve TV series soundtrack, this fusion of glam rock and electro-pop by the trio of LA’s Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia and Belfast producer and DJ David Holmes is sexy and stylish, and now also comes with some brand new ear-catching remixes including by Horse Meat Disco

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Hi-Fidelity featuring Biig Piig

June 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity

Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP

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Song of the Day: Gemma Cullingford – Tongue Tied

June 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The title track to Gemma Cullingford’s next album out this September

Song of the Day: Ear-catching electronica and the first single and title track from her forthcoming sophomore album by one half of the electronic post-punk duo Sink Ya Teeth. Out on Outré Disque

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Clas Tuuth – Say You Did (featuring Kate Stables)

June 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Clas Tuuth – Say You Did EP cover

Song of the Day: Crisp, catchy, mesmeric electronica, this experimental new single by the London artist is co-written with and features Kate Stables from This Is The Kit. It’s also title track from the new EP, out on Need No Water Records

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Song of the Day: Braxe + Falcon (with Sunni Colon) - Elevation

May 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

DIfferent category: Braxe + Falcon

Song of the Day: Smooth, sublime, electro-funk-pop by the French dance music production pair of Alain and Stéphane Quême, aka Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, joined here by Sunni Colon, taken from their forthcoming Step By Step EP that also features Panda Bear

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Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso: Sunburn

May 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn

Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings

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Song of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

May 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon

Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"

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Song of the Day: Crack Cloud - Please Yourself

May 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby

Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry

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Song of the Day: QUINQUIS - Netra Ken

May 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The debut QUINQUIS album SEIM

Song of the Day: Translated from the Breton language as Nothing Anymore, and from the solo artist Émilie Tiersen’s forthcoming debut album SEIM, a mesmeric, mysterious electronica number with beautiful vocals and a rasping background element

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Song of the Day: Stealing Sheep - Never Gonna Live Up

May 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Stealing Sheep’s new project, Wow Machine

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Wow Machine, a specially commissioned project taking inspiration from the female pioneers of electronic music, this catchy electro-pop single by the Liverpool trio draws on the acid-era sound of the Roland TB-303

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Song of the Day: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Crosswalk

May 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the new LP When The Lights Go

Song of the Day: A decade after his first LP, Trouble, Los Angeles artist Orlando Higginbottom returns with the opening track from his forthcoming new 17-track LP, When The Lights Go, and his own brand of polished, heartbreak, retro electro-pop

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Song of the Day: Hot Chip - Down

May 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hot Chip return with the first single from their forthcoming album

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy electro-disco-funk return by the London synth-pop band featuring singer Alexis Taylor, with the first single taken from forthcoming eighth album Freakout/Release out on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Lau.ra - Blow (feat. Eliza Legzdina)

April 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Lau.ra aka Laura Bettinger

Song of the Day: Brimful with brilliantly boinging, wonky bass, beats and synth riffs topped with sassy vocals by Eliza that explode frustrations, this great dancefloor single by the British producer, singer and DJ Laura Bettinson is from her just released EP Vol. 1 The Mixtape, out on her label Needwant Records

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Song of the Day: IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly (featuring Abyss X)

April 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly album cover

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Butterflies by Wunderhorse, another flutter now with this striking electronica and guitar title track from a new album by Portuguese artist and Terrain Ahead label founder Ivo Pacheco, here with singer Abyss X aka Evangelia Lachianina

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Song of the Day: Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water

April 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jockstrap

Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye

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Song of the Day: Stubborn Heart - Oh Stephanie

April 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Artwork for Oh Stephanie by Stubborn Heart

Song of the Day: From third in their Out of Our Hands series of releases, the London pair of Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald’s Electronic Soul Music number is a beguiling piece of melancholy synth pop

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Song of the Day: Dameeeela - The Shake Up (feat. Tjaka)

March 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Dameeeela’s The Shake Up

Song of the Day: A wonderful, infectiously catchy new dance track by the Brisbane First Nation artist with Yuggera language ancestry, here channelling Detroit techno and a moment of self-escape, featuring Tjaka’s electronic didgeridoo

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Song of the Day: P.E. - Contradiction of Wants

March 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

P.E.

Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters

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Song of the Day: DC Gore - Nietzsche On The Beach

March 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

DC Gore

Song of the Day: After Kittin and the The Hacker, more retro pop, partly echoing the smooth 80s synths and delivery of Pet Shop Boys, but also stepping back another way, in this catchy, darkly humorous, Brexit-themed number is a “satirical fever dream set in the wake of our current populist predicament” by the British songwriter

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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026
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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025

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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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