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Song of the Day: Aircooled - Supermotodisco

September 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The debut LP by Aircooled

Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards

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Song of the Day: Fujiya & Miyagi: Slight Variations

September 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Fujiya & Miyagi

Song of the Day: The title track of the forthcoming ninth studio album by the UK Brighton-formed band is a finely formed, catchy piece of electro-funk-disco-pop that touches both on the theme of tiny differences in human genetics as well as perceived subtle musical variations

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Song of the Day: Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary

September 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Playfully pleasing to the eye and ear: Peel Dream Magazine

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s dreamy number by Alice Boman to another dreamy sound of marrying the visual and aural with gentle drums and keyboards, in this gently catchy, and softly sung number by the LA-based artist Joseph Stevens for the forthcoming third album, Pad, out 7 October on Tough Love Recordings/Slumberland Records

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Song of the Day: Daniela Lalita - No Para

September 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Daniela Lalita

Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush

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Song of the Day: Louis Cole – I'm Tight

August 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght

Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion

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Song of the Day: The Umlauts – Another Fact

August 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact

Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German

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Song of the Day: LUNGE: Off With Their Heads

August 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

LUNGE: Viva Seifert and Mark ‘Arp’ Cleveland

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky synth-pop with a retro 80s feel, shades of OMD and high vocals somewhere between Associates and Kate Bush, this new single about severance and letting go is by the duo of Viva Seifert and Mark “Arp” Cleveland

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Song of the Day: Leftfield – Pulse

August 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Leftfield’s forthcoming fourth studio album

Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British electronic duo of Neil Barnes and Adam Wren in this mesmeric clever dancefloor number that has a wobbly echo of the classic 1990s single Phat Planet, and comes from the forthcoming album This is What We Do

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Song of the Day: U.S. Girls – So Typically Now

August 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Lip-sync construction worker from the video for So Typically Now

Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy, but also scathing electro-pop by New York’s Meg Remy about the cultural vacuum left by the mass exodus from wealthy Brooklyn residents to Kingston in upstate New York, leading to a real estate boom

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Song of the Day: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom - Edge Of The Edge

August 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Panda Bear aka Noah Benjamin Lennox

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Reset, this wonderfully ironic look at the life of staring at screens and mobile technology uses a retro vocal harmony style reminiscent of Beach Boys, with added electronic beeps and a dash of They Might Be Giants

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Song of the Day: Stereolab - Robot Riot

July 31, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Stereolab’s forthcoming new compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks

Song of the Day: Newly released for a forthcoming rarities compilation, but originally written in 1995, this classic krautrock-influenced number by the avant-pop band of Laetitia Sadier and co was originally written for to complement a sculpture made by the band’s artist collaborator, Charles Long, on 1995’s Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center

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Song of the Day: Kode9 – Torus

July 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Taken from his new album Escapology, the first since 2019’s Nothing, an extraordinary, incomparable piece of electronica with oddball rhythmic chords, beats and and scratchy trickling sounds by the alias of Hyperdub record label Steve Goodman

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Song of the Day: Gabe Gurnsey - Push

July 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Gabe Gurnsey with Tilly Morris

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album Diablo, and a follow-up to his debut, Physical, the Manchester artist and founder of duo Factory Floor, releases a catchy, passionate blend of old-school electronica and 808-inspired dance music

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Song of the Day: Four Tet - Scythe Master

July 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Eat Your Own Ears’ new compilation EP1

Song of the Day: A joyously intricate new number mixing keyboards, beats and more acoustics from a thumb piano to hammered dulcimer quality, by the British electronic artist Kieran Hebden, taken from a new limited edition release from the label Eat Your Own Ears Recordings, EP1

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Song of the Day: Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers

July 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers

A beautiful four-part piece by the Scottish musician and composer blending the sounds of piano, harp, cello, violin and vocals with electronics as part of the summer 2022 Superbloom project played at site of wildflowers grown around the moat of The Tower of London

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Song of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Is it Me or is it You?

July 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Is it Me or is it You?

Song of the Day: With interweaving vocals and beats, fantastically shapeshifting experimental electronica from the forthcoming album Let's Turn It Into Sound by the LA-based composer, performer and producer from Orcas Island, Washington State

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Song of the Day: Stromae - Fils de Joie

June 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Stromae’s third album, Multitude

Song of the Day: An extraordinary song of harpsichord, chanson, and hip hop, as well as its video, from the recent third album, Multitude, by the innovative Belgian artist of Rwandan Tutsi descent, Paul Van Haver, about a fictional tribute to a sex worker and maternal heroic figure who has passed away, here playing the part of a leader delivering a speech from a podium

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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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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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