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Song of the Day: She Drew the Gun - Howl

May 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

She Drew the Gun - Howl

Song of the Day: A dazzling new single by the indie-psychedelic band from the Wirral, Merseyside, fronted by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach about our ancestry, time, atoms and how elements of our bodies formed in the hearts of long dead stars over billions of years

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In 2024, electronica, indie, psychedelia, pop, rock Tags She Drew The Gun, Submarine Cat Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: upsammy - Embrytone

May 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

upsammy - Embrytone, from the Maloca Records release titled SIIIX, Vol.1

Song of the Day: Superbly intricate rhythms, chimes and other delicate sounds abound in this absorbingly original latest single by the electronic musician aka Thessa Torsing from Amsterdam

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Song of the Day: Jon Hopkins: RITUAL (evocation)

May 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album, RITUAL

Song of the Day: The innovative British electronic musician returns with a mesmeric lead single designed to capture the idea of “opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried” and heralds his forthcoming electronic symphony album, RITUAL, out on 30 August via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Heart Racer

May 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali - Heart Racer

Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, new wave, pop, rock Tags Baba Ali, Memphis Industries, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual

April 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual

Song of the Day: A sensual, funky and stylish new dance number by the London artist, written through the lens of a very personal early teenage story, a song about sexual liberation, but also a critique of the hyper-sexualised society we live in

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Song of the Day: Kaeto - Don't Ask

April 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kaeto’s striking new look in the video for Don't Ask

Song of the Day: Funky, groovy, smooth and stylish, but with candid, caustic feminist lyrics about body and self-image come in this brilliant new single and video by the innovative Scottish London-based artist

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In 2024, alternative, disco, dance, electronica, funk, experimental, indie, pop Tags Kaeto, Polydor, Republic Recordings, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Douglas Dare - Three Roads

April 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Douglas Dare’s forthcoming fourth album, Omni

Song of the Day: A new single from the British singer-songwriter and pianist’s forthcoming fourth album, Omni, brings tender melodies, but leaves aside chamber pop acoustic instruments for electronica and synths in the spirit and influence of other artists such as Arca and the late SOPHIE, and with echoes also of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yellow Magic Orchestra

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Song of the Day: Hifi Sean and David McAlmont - Sad Banger

April 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Hifi Sean and David McAlmont

Song of the Day: With a title that sums up that contradictory essence of great pop music, a fabulous new disco-flecked return from the Glaswegian musician and producer and the soulful, silkily, soaring voiced singer, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Daylight, out on 20 June on Rough Trade

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Song of the Day: John Grant - It's A Bitch

March 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

John Grant’s forthcoming album, The Art Of The Lie, out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: Catchy funk and 80s-inspired electro-pop get the full phat treatment from the witty Iceland-based American artist in this new single heralding his forthcoming next album, The Art Of The Lie, released 14 June 2024 via Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Solo Moderna - Planeta De Roca

March 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Solo Moderna

Song of the Day: A quirky, cheeky, catchy mix of Afro-Latin rhythms and old-school, 8-Bit 80s and 70s synth-pop with clever Kraftwerk-inspired sampling by the Dutch producer Bas Voorn, and guest vocals by Kristel “krage” Peijnenborg

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Song of the Day: Maria Chiara Argirò - Light

March 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Maria Chiara Argirò’s forthcoming album, Closer

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, infectious, sensual synth-pop with added trumpet by the London-based Italian artist originally from Rome, in this number about “establishing a lighter and balanced relationship with your inner self and consequently with others”

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Song of the Day: LYR - Folk Song / Blossom: A CV (Blossomise EP)

March 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

LYR’s Blossomise EP

Song of the Day: To mark a special project in conjunction with The National Trust, marking the first day of spring, and also World Poetry Day, two beautifully evocative tracks from a new EP by the trio of poet laureate Simon Armitage, with music from singer Richard Walters, and producer Patrick J Pearson

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Song of the Day: Nuha Ruby Ra - Fetish 2 Forget

March 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nuha Ruby Ra

Song of the Day: The stylishly creative East London singer-songwriter returns with an alluring, innovative fusion of sultry pop and dark, burbling, electronica in a warehouse dancefloor setting

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In 2024, alternative, dance, electronica, experimental, pop Tags Nuha Ruby Ra, songs, song of the day, Brace Yourself Records
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Song of the Day: Crystal Murray - STARMANIAK

March 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Crystal Murray

Song of the Day: From the London-based Parisian singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album Sad Lovers and Giants, scintillating, catchy, sexy electro-pop with a fabulous street-scene video. The album is out on 31 May via Because Music

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Song of the Day: Liz Lawrence - Big Machine

March 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Liz Lawrence returns with Big Machine from her new album, Peanuts, out on Chrysalis

Song of the Day: Classy, articulate, stirring and strident indie electro-pop by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist with this lead single from the upcoming brand new album Peanuts, out on Chrysalis Records

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Song of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Old Ocean

March 7, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cosmo Sheldrake’s upcoming new album, Eye To The Ear

Song of the Day: A fabulously oddball and inventive new aquatic-themed number by the experimental London vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who uses field recordings, human and non-human voices, with an upcoming new album Eye To The Ear

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Song of the Day: Melts - Altered

February 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Melts’ upcoming new album, Field Theory

Song of the Day: A storming new single of frenetic, krautrock-electronic-psych-rock by the Dublin band, with scintillating synth lines and the charismatic, cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny, heralding their upcoming second album, Field Theory, out on 12 April on Fuzz Club

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Song of the Day: Lip Critic - The Heart

February 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lip Critic - The Heart

Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption

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Song of the Day: Astrel K - R U A Literal Child?

February 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Astrel K’s forthcoming album, The Foreign Department, out on Tough Love Recordings

Song of the Day: This quirkily original, witty electro-indie-pop number by the Stockholm-based British ex-pat Rhys Edwards celebrates chaotic imagination over literalism, and heralds his forthcoming album, The Foreign Department, out on 8 March via Tough Love Recordings

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Song of the Day: Four Tet - Daydream Repeat

February 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Four Tet - Daydream Repeat

Song of the Day: The second single of 2024 from British electronic artist Kieran Hebden is a nimbly ecstatic mix of skip beats, harp-like chimes and crunchier sounds, and heralds his forthcoming new album, Three, out on 15 March on his label, Text Records

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New Albums …

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026

Word of the week

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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