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Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette

February 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Avalon Emerson

Song of the Day: Beautiful, clever, smoothly orchestrated dream pop by the New York artist in a song about, time, perspective and scale. “Scales of time and how something that seemed so important and defining a long time ago, might not really matter that much now”

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Song of the Day: Clark - Town Crank

February 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clark

Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label

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Song of the Day: Villager - Lemons

January 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new Villager EP, Blind Eye

Song of the Day: Juicily enthralling, shapeshifting electronica by the artist Alex Young from the recent EP, Blind Eye, with a special twist on techno with soundscapes that strip down into syncopated rhythms and shuffling garage hi-hats. Out on Pretty Weird

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Song of the Day: Alison Goldfrapp and Claptone - Digging Deeper

January 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone’s collaborative single

Song of the Day: Building gradually into an irresistibly dancey, breathy, sensual rave disco by the legendary singer joined here by the German DJ and producer duo

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Song of the Day: Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are (featuring Kae Tempest)

January 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia

Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith

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Song of the Day: Frankie Rose - Anything

January 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Frankie Rose’s new album Love As Projection is out in March

Song of the Day: Shimmering, lush new synth-pop by the longstanding New York indie artist, taken from her forthcoming new album Love As Projection out March on Night School and Slumberland Records

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Song of the Day: James Holden - Contains Multitudes

January 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

James Holden’s new album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

Song of the Day: A colourful, mesmeric, intricate collage of looped electronica, tabla, piano and violin come together in this epic lead single by the London artist’s forthcoming album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, out via Border Community

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Burn Me Out

January 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali

Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries

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Song of the Day: Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian - Grains (wee Paulownia Wood)

January 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ryuichi Sakamoto reworkings tribute album featuring a variety of guests including David Sylvian and Thundercat

Song of the Day: Beautiful, strange, atmospheric, tender, rattling and evocative, a reworking of an older track by the legendary Japanese musician and composer by old friend and collaborator Sylvian, from a Sakamoto tribute album, To The Moon And Back

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Song of the Day: Everything But The Girl - Nothing Left To Lose

January 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt

Song of the Day: Heralding the forthcoming Fuse, their first album for 24 years, since 1999’s Temperamental, the veteran duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt return with a beguiling, melancholy electro-pop single of club beats and soulful yearning

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Song of the Day: Heith - [] () () , 21, wheel of fortune

January 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heith’s latest album: X, wheel

Song of the Day: A mesmeric and strikingly original track by Italy’s Daniele Guerrini, artist and electronic musician based in Milan, here with beautiful additional guitar and brass, from his recent album, X, wheel, out on PAN Records

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Song of the Day: Lowly - Seasons

January 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lowly

Song of the Day: Delicate, lush, textured, beautifully building electro-pop by the Danish alternative indie quintet from their forthcoming next album Keep Up The Good Work out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Decisive Pink - Haffmilch Holiday

December 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Decisive Pink: Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

Song of the Day: Filled with wonderful modular synth whistles, squeaks, squiggles, plonks and industrial noises, fabulously dreamy old-school-style electro-pop by the New York duo of Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

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Song of the Day: La Dame - Watcha Gonna Do (feat. Goldie B)

December 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

La Dame’s Furtives EP

Song of the Day: Rhythmic, eclectic, witchy, and an altogether mysterious brew, this striking and wonderful single by the artist Erica Lippert, with guest vocals by Goldie B aka Bonnie Mbala, from La Dame’s fourth EP, Furtives

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Song of the Day: Holly Waxwing - Sister Species

December 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Single cover for Holly Waxwing’s Sister Species

Song of the Day: Wonderfully intricate, fidgety, twinkly and beautiful electronica by the artist Garrett Crosby from Providence, Rhode Island, in this latest single, out on PC Music

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Song of the Day: abracadabra - talk talk (shapes & colors album)

December 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Chris Niles and Hannah Skelton of abracadabra

Song of the Day: Clever, quirky, mischievous 80s-style new wave post-punk electro-pop with a dash of Talking Heads by the Oakland California duo of Hannah Skelton and Chris Niles from their forthcoming album, Shapes & Colors, out on Melodic Records

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Song of the Day: Jadu Heart - I Shimmer

December 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jadu Heart’s new EP, Freedom

Song of the Day: From the new four-track EP Freedom, a dreamy experimental shoegaze number reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine by the electro-pop Bristol-formed British duo of Diva-Sachy Jeffrey and Alex Headford

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Song of the Day: Miss Grit - Follow The Cyborg

November 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Totally wired: Miss Grit’s Follow The Cyborg

Song of the Day: The title track from New York musician Margaret Sohn’s debut album, an experimental fusion of electronica and fuzz guitar with sensual vocals, with a video in which she portrays her body in the cyber world

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Song of the Day: Röyksopp - Feel It (featuring Maurissa Rose)

November 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Röyksopp’s Profound Mysteries III features another selection of guest vocalists

Song of the Day: From the third collection of numbers and animated in in this year’s Profound Mysteries series by the Norwegian duo Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. a clever, catchy fusion of electronica, dance, soul and rave, here with the American guest singer

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Song of the Day: Uh - Hit

November 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus

Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH

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New Albums …

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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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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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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