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Song of the Day: George Riley - Elixir

September 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

George Riley’s upcoming EP Un/limited Love, out on Ninja Tune

Song of the Day: Classy eclectic soul, R&B and electronica by the London singer-songwriter taken from her forthcoming EP Un/limited Love due out on Ninja Tune in November

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Song of the Day: Oneohtrix Point Never - A Barely Lit Path

September 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Haiku Hands - Feels So Good

September 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Haiku Hands

Song of the Day: Punch-the-air, life-affirming electro-pop by the band from Sydney, Australia, taken the taken from the forthcoming new album, Pleasure Beast, out 1 December on Spinning Top Records

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Song of the Day: Teleman - String Theory

August 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Teleman’s String Theory appears on a deluxe version of their album Good Time / Hard Time

Song of the Day: Beautiful, wistful, stripped-back electro-pop with a space and time theme and a Georgio Moroder-inspired outro in this new single by the British band, heralding a deluxe version of their album Good Time/ Hard Time

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Song of the Day: Fat Dog - King of the Slugs

August 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fat Dog’s debut single - King of the Slugs

Song of the Day: Using that garden scourge invertebrate as humorous metaphor, a wonderfully energetic, flamboyant fusion of post-punk, psych-rock and electronica by the south London band led by frontman Joe Love with their debut single, out on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - HHB

August 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius B’s latest EP - DIN

Song of the Day: Taken from the latest EP, DIN, the London-based artist Frank Belcourt’s track is beautiful experimental pop with fabulous drums and a tuneful homage to trans beauty

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Song of the Day: Jessica Winter and Jonathan Snipes - All I Need

August 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes - All I Need / Finish Line

Song of the Day: “Food. Shelter. Find a mate. Danger.” Brilliantly snappy, dynamic dance-electronica with a dash of Goldfrapp in this superb collaboration between the soaring-voiced south London singer and the Los Angeles composer and producer

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Song of the Day: Anna Erhard - 170

August 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Anna Erhard measures hits a new high of 170cm

Song of the Day: Following last year’s wonderfully quirky and innovative album, Campsite, the Berlin artist returns with new and also fabulously eccentric, indie-electro-pop number about claims and estimates of height

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Song of the Day: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - I Forget

August 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

One to remember: Jaakko Enio Kalevi’s forthcoming album, Chaos Magic

Song of the Day: Beautifully crisp, droll, gentle-paced deep-voiced electro-pop with echoes of early 80s and The Human League by the ingenious, mischievous Finnish artist, from the upcoming album Chaos Magic out on 17 November on Weird World / Domino

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Song of the Day: TENGGER - Panaptu

August 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Seoul music: family group TENGGER

Song of the Day: A truly alternative sound from the South Korean-based family band with their beautiful, mesmeric brand of New Age psychedelia of electronica, synths, harmonium and ghostly vocals, taken from their forthcoming self-titled album

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Song of the Day: iskwē - Sure To Come

July 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

iskwē - Sure To Come

Song of the Day: A empowering, uplifting fresh, new electro-pop single of self-encouragement with a a beautiful video by the Canadian singer-songwriter and activist, whose name is short waseskwan iskwew, meaning Blue Sky Woman

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Song of the Day: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs & Moullinex - So Alive

July 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Uplifting, surging, dynamic electronica and dance in this collaboration between the British producer, DJ and artist Orlando Higginbottom and his Lisbon-based contemporary Luis Clara Gomes

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Song of the Day: Alan Palomo - Meutrière (Feat. Flore Benguigui)

July 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alan Palomo’s forthcoming album World of Hassle

Song of the Day: Stylish, catchy Franco-Italo electro-pop banger by Texan band Neon Indian’s main man about a song taking place on a film set that explores the friction often felt between actors and their directors on a horror film set, joined here by L’Imperatrice’s singer Fleure Benguigui

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Song of the Day: N'Deko - Exile

July 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

N'Deko: Falle Nioke and Joe Goddard. Photo by Louise Mason

Song of the Day: A mightily catchy and soulful fusion of West Africa folk and London electronica as Guinea singer Falle Nioke joins up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard in their debut single, one about Falle’s melancholy in missing his homeland

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Song of the Day: Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

June 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Jessica Winter - Choreograph (Limerence EP)

June 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessica Winter

Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, genre-spanning, passionate pop by the soaring voiced singer-songwriter from south London from her latest EP, Limerence, wrestling various perspectives on the difficulties of love. Out on Lucky Number Music

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney – I Drew A Line

June 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Madeline Kenney forthcoming new LP A New Reality Mind

Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever

June 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever

Song of the Day: With array of twinkly electronics and dance beats by the British production duo of Aaron Miller and Robert Wheatley, an uplifting, reflective number featuring the Mancunian poet about making the most of your time when life is short

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Song of the Day: Magia Bruta - Biking (Algo mejor)

June 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Magia Bruta’s latest album, Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

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Song of the Day: Snowapple - I, CYBORG

June 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Snowapple’s I, CYBORG

Song of the Day: Innovative, strange, dark and mesmeric, this new single by the Netherlands-based international art collective focuses gender and politics through a cyborg prism with beguiling, gradually building alt pop, art rock, cyberpunk and sonic synth landscapes

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New Albums …

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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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