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Song of the Day: EERA - Falling Between The Ice (from album Speak)

December 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton

EERA’s new album - Speak

Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins

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Songs of the Day: LYR: Winter Solstice / Cascade Theory

December 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Cascade Theory by LYR

Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second

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Song of the Day: Jockstrap - 50/50

December 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton

50/50

Song of the Day: Newly signed to Rough Trade, the London duo of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye return with a pulsating new single and that pushes the boundaries of electronic and dance music with a fidgety beat, bleeps and stuttery vocal effects

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Song of the Day: Marko Nyberg - Drift

December 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Measured compositions: Drift by Marco Nyberg

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s entropy-themed song by Big Thief, a cinematic recent single by the Helsinki-based Finnish electronic composer with a rippling, driving, dynamic number capturing a sense of things drifting apart then coming back together again

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Song of the Day: Big Thief - Time Escaping

December 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme

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Song of the Day: Rozi Plain - Silent Fan

December 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Rozi Plain

Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme

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Song of the Day: Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy - Son

November 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Duval Timothy and Rosie Lowe

Song of the Day: Slow, beautiful, rich, multi-layered vocal harmonies with a resonant gospel style and part of a 9-track EP recorded by the two singers between London and Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Song of the Day: Leif - Seven Hour Flight to Nowhere

November 12, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Leif’s new album 9 Airs

Song of the Day: The opening track of recently released album 9 Airs brings mesmeric rhythmic, electronica mixing with more acoustic strings to produce a dream-like, meditative instrumental journey by the Welsh, Bristol-based artist Leif Knowles

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Song of the Day: Proc Fiskal - Humancargoe Esst

November 11, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Proc Fiskal’s second album Siren Spine Sysex

Song of the Day: Taken from the album Siren Spine Sysex, a mesmerising collage of synth sounds and voices by Joe Power, the Edinburgh electronica artist, who incorporates local field recordings and distorts snippets Gaelic, Irish and English folk music via the prism of pop

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Song of the Day: George Fitzgerald - Ultraviolet

November 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton

George Fitzgerald - Ultraviolet

Song of the Day: Slowly building, then evoking a high-speed train passing through a vivid landscape, this vibrant new instrumental single by the English electronic artist is his first new music since the 2018 album All That Must Be

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Song of the Day: Susobrino - El Camino Refleja

November 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto

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Song of the Day: The Pictish Trail - Natural Successor

October 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail

Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original

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Song of the Day: Tirzah: Tectonic

October 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tirzah’s recent new album, Colourgrade

Tirzah’s recent new album, Colourgrade

Song of the Day: Minimal, mysterious, intimate, experimental electronica by the singer-songwriter Tirzah Mastin from Essex about the capturing the invisible flux between people, and is taken from her new album Colourgrade, out on Domino

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Song of the Day: Helado Negro - Outside the Outside

October 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Far In - the new album by Helado Negro

Far In - the new album by Helado Negro

Song of the Day: A serenely catchy, friendship-themed electro-pop single by the Florida-born, Brooklyn based artist Roberto Carlos Lange, who experimentally mixes folk and Latin influences emanating from his Ecuadorian parents

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Song of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Dogma

October 3, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Circuit des Yeux

Circuit des Yeux

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album -io (22 October on Matador Records), this haunting, dark, experimental number by the Chicago band has a hallucinatory flavour to the topic of blindly believing everything you hear

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Song of the Day: Horsey - Lagoon

September 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Debonair: Horsey’s latest album

Debonair: Horsey’s latest album

Song of the Day: A flamboyant swirl of prog, jazz, post-punk, dynamic changes of pace and volume, and more than awash with visceral metaphor, this strangely transfixing love song by suave and showy south London quartet typifies their latest album, Debonair

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Song of the Day: Ben Zaidi - Ben Zaidi’s Blues

September 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Multi-layered: Ben Zaidi’s Blues

Multi-layered: Ben Zaidi’s Blues

Song of the Day: The Seattle singer-songwriter’s new single is infused with a crisp rhythm, gentle acoustic riffs and intelligent lyrics about a family bereavement launching into heap of detail about life problems, and a sensitive voice reminiscent of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

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Song of the Day: Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love

September 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love

Tycho’s cover design for new single Only Love

Song of the Day: Dreamy, ambient psychedelia by the San Francisco musician and designer Scott Hansen, here joined on vocals by the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie in this new number that reduces a solution to the world’s problems to a simple, timeless formula

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Song of the Day: Dr. Joy - Midtown

September 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Dr. Joy’s self-titled debut album

Dr. Joy’s self-titled debut album

Song of the Day: Taken from, and typifying their just released self-titled 8-track debut album, this wonderfully woozy, cosmic psychedelic number by the Toronto collective has a collage of influences including ‘cubism, dadaism, Baltic disco, Italian soundtracks, and babbling brooks’

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Song of the Day: Koreless - White Picket Fence

September 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: With an extraordinary video directed by FKA twigs, this equally unclassifiable, soaring song mixing harpsichord, electronica and a quasi-medieval madrigal-style vocal comes from the London band’s debut album Agar

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New Albums …

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Mar 18, 2026
The Black Crowes: A Pound of Feathers
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s resurgent release Happiness Bastards, Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson return with their 10th album in four up-and-down decades, with a belting release packed with Stones/ Keith Richards-style riffs, and a full-blooded, full-throttle classic and catchy rock

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Alexis Taylor: Paris In The Spring
Mar 18, 2026

New album: The clarity and high range of the distinctive Hot Chip lead singer returns with his seventh solo LP, packed with personal, candid, philosphofical and sometimes melancholy lyrics allided with bright, melodic leftfield electro-pop, a dash of country, elegant disco-house, and Vangelis-inspired soundscapes, and a title echoing a psychological test where things are not as they seem

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Diagonale Des Yeux: Madeleine
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Wonderfully weird, wonky, woozy, avant-garde, absurdist oddness by the French duo of Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay, with their lo-fi, ramshackle, DIY postpunk and retro-electronica, sharing sung and spoken vocals across French, German, English and Spanish

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Yebba: Jean
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Following 2021’s Dawn, a second LP by the American singer and songwriter from West Memphis, Arkansas, aka Abigail Smith, moves towards an eclectic mix of gentler, more understated pop, folk, gospel, R&B, and soul, is named after her late grandmother, and has candid, personal themes of mourning and spiritual healing

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 17, 2026
The Sophs: Goldstar
Mar 17, 2026

New album: A fairytale story of a debut for the Los Angeles six-piece fronted by Ethan Ramon, who cold-emailed demos to Rough Trade Records before even playing a live gig and were signed – that instinctive leap of faith rewarded by this stylish, bold, mercurial, confident, darkly humorous, eclectic debut leaping between rock, indie, pop, hoedown country, delta blues and beyond

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Kim Gordon: Play Me
Mar 13, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s The Collective, the former Sonic Youth frontwoman’s fourth solo LP continues her extraordinary experimental, innovative journey, moving to more melodic beats and shorter tracks with a motorik krautrock-style driven coloured by strange sounds, intense emotions and sharply angled, dark, droll social commentary

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
ELIZA: The Darkening Green
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The London artist Eliza Caird (formerly under the mainstream pop moniker Eliza Doolittle) returns with more of the cool, slow, sensual, gentle, sophisticated experimental soul-funk style evolving from her 2022 album A Sky Without Stars, here with particularly polished, silky, stripped back grooves and vocals

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer returns with a new selection of soothing, meditative mix of experimental classical and jazz, but this time joined with six different singers represented by the birds on the album artwork

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
waterbaby: Memory Be A Blade
Mar 10, 2026

New album: A delicate, experimental, understated soulful chamber pop debut by the pure-voiced Stockholm-born singer-songwriter (aka Kendra Egerbladh) in 25-minute, eight-track release of lo-fi, lyrically semi-improvised numbers about heartbreak and self-renewal in a world of gorgeous musical sensations

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Joshua Idehen: I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try
Mar 10, 2026

New album: With a strikingly long title, a euphoric and honest full debut LP by the British-born Nigerian poet, spoken word artist and musician based in Sweden, working with his musical partner Ludvig Parment’s sonic layers, packed pacy dance and hip-hop grooves, clever sampling, slower reflections, and articulate expressions of positivity through the ups and downs of grief and hope

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Gnarls Barkley: Atlanta
Mar 10, 2026

New album: Finally, after an 18-year gap since their last collaboration in the heady days of the hit Crazy, with the St Elsewhere and The Odd Couple LPs a third and supposedly final album from fabulous singer CeeLo Green and producer and musician aka Brian Burton with a mix of soaring soul, hip-hop, pop and RnB with songs filled with vivid lyrical memories and strong, emotive melodies

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Various: HELP(2) - War Child Records
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Not only a timely and topical milestone charity record following the first in 1995 to help bring aid and wide variety of support to children in war zones around he world, but an impressive double-LP array of stellar British and international talent and powerful, poignant 23 songs from Arctic Monkeys to Young Fathers

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: We Are Together Again
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Just over a year after 2025’s The Purple Bird, but from parallel recording sessions and familiar co-musicians, the veteran Louisville-Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with another collection of exquisite, intimate, gently defiant lo-fi folk to troubled times, an ode to community with a beautiful array of acoustic instruments and his poignant, insightful lyrics and delivery

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
DEADLETTER: Existence Is Bliss
Mar 5, 2026

New album: This second LP by the South Yorkshire/London six-piece expands their post-punk sound palette with a collection of arresting, thrumming songs, often dark and challenging, with richly exploratory lyrics across dystopian and existential questions, yet despite a climate of difficult, shows how gasping for life’s oxygen is essential

Mar 5, 2026

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Mar 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Rostam - Like A Spark
Mar 18, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful new acoustic folk-pop single with echoes of early 70s Van Morrison by the US musician, producer and former member of Vampire Weekend, heralding his upcoming third solo album American Stories out on 15 May via Matsor Projects

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell
Mar 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, witty, innuendo-filled new number about being and single and lonely, with some stylistic echoes of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, heralding the acclaimed Grammy-winning Texas country singer-songwriter’s upcoming seventh album, Middle of Nowhere, out 1 May on Lost Highway

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Black Diamond
Mar 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A splendidly rousing eight-minute retro-style electro-pop baroque melodrama by the Finnish artist with the deep, rich voice, one that stylistically and in his own fashion, draws a pentagram between Goblin, Rondo Veneziano, Cerrone, Doris Norton and Lindstrom, out on Domino Records

Mar 16, 2026
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Mar 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Hannah Lew - Sunday
Mar 15, 2026

Song of the Day: An appropriate day to highlight this classy latest single of shimmering 80s-style synth-pop with echoes of OMD, with themes about pain, love and grief from the upcoming debut album by the Richmond, California artist, out on 10 April via Night School Records

Mar 15, 2026
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Mar 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Mei Semones - Tooth Fairy (featuring John Roseboro)
Mar 14, 2026

Song of the Day: A charming cross-genre fusion of bossa nova, jazz, folk and chamber pop sung in English and Japanese by the Brooklyn-based American musician with a tale of losing a tooth on the subway and friendship, from the upcoming album Kurage, out 10 April on Bayonet Records

Mar 14, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Robyn - Blow My Mind
Mar 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual electro-pop with a dash of Kraftwerk by the acclaimed Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Robin Miriam Carlsson, in this latest from the upcoming album Sexistential out on 27 March via Konichiwa / Young Records

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Scratches
Mar 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The latest single by the London singer-songwriter is punchy, powerful psychedelic rock number with tearing riffs and lyrics about damage from troubled relationship, abuse and self-harm, from the forthcoming EP Do You Know Everything?, out on BMG

Mar 12, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - City of Symbols (featuring eejebee)
Mar 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish fusion of electronica, soul, hip hop and Ethiopian rhythmic influences centring on themes of heritage, family by London singer, songwriter, producer and multidisciplinary artist, with drums from eejebee and guitar from Vraell, heralding from the forthcoming new debut Zero out 22 June via LDN Records / Because Music

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Huarinami - Carried Away
Mar 10, 2026

Song of the Day: Explosive, stylish, gritty, restless indie-psychedelic punk with angular, angry guitars, driving bass and wonderfully arresting vocals by Pauline Janier (aka Cody Pepper) fronting the French London-based four-piece in this single fuelled by the frustration of big-city life, and heralding their sophomore EP Nothing Happens, due for release on 6 June

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes
Mar 9, 2026

Song of the Day: Following the singles Eden and Jupiter and Mars, another stylish, experimental indie synth-pop release by the New York artist with the title track of upcoming second Charm moniker album, out on 20 March via Dead Oceans

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Aldous Harding - One Stop
Mar 8, 2026

Song of the Day: An enigmatic, oddly stylish, stripped back, piano-based new experimental folk single by the New Zealand singer-songwriter, namechecking John Cale, and from her upcoming album Train on the Island out May 8 via 4AD

Mar 8, 2026
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Mar 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Max Winter, Asha Lorenz & Rael - Candlelight
Mar 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A dark, stylish, striking fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, spoken word, and jazz by the London-based rapper and friends, and the the first single from the collaborative mixtape Like the season!, out on Secret Friend

Mar 7, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Feb 12, 2026
Word of the week: yanggeum
Feb 12, 2026

Word of the week: A form or hammered dulcimer, this traditional Korean instrument, with a flat and trapezoidal shape, has seven sets of four metal strings hit by thin bamboo stick

Feb 12, 2026
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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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