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Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has a Mother

June 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jesca Hoop

Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment

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Song of the Day: Regina Spektor – Up The Mountain

June 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Regina Spektor’s upcoming album: Home, Before and After

Song of the Day: Picked a few weeks ago for our playlists for songs about bees, and while not mentioning the insect, certainly within the interpretation, this inventively striking strings-and-brass new single about relentless collection by the Russian-American singer-songwriter is from her forthcoming album Home, Before and After

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Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso: Sunburn

May 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn

Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings

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Song of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

May 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon

Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"

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Song of the Day: Rubber Oh - Hyperdrive Fantasy

May 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the forthcoming Rubber Oh album Space Craft

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Space Craft, a psychedelic-pop-rock number of rich riffing and vocal harmonies, dark menace, electronic wobbles and space adventure by Newcastle’s Sam Grant – guitarist and producer from Pigs x 7. Out on Rocket Recordings

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Song of the Day: Crack Cloud - Please Yourself

May 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby

Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry

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Song of the Day: Mogwai - Boltfor

May 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Mogwai’s latest single Boltfor

Song of the Day: A majestic standalone single by the Glasgow alternative rock band known for their powerful, epic instrumentals, this one a prime example, accompanied by a beautiful video

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Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam - Rigatoni

May 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

A visual taste of Pan Amsterdam’s Rigatoni

Song of the Day: Produced by Damu The Fudgemunk (Earl Davis), another food-titled piece of highly original hip hop by the American rapper Leron Thomas, here with a chess-move theme, and doing a jazz trumpet solo at the end

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Song of the Day: QUINQUIS - Netra Ken

May 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The debut QUINQUIS album SEIM

Song of the Day: Translated from the Breton language as Nothing Anymore, and from the solo artist Émilie Tiersen’s forthcoming debut album SEIM, a mesmeric, mysterious electronica number with beautiful vocals and a rasping background element

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Song of the Day: A Mountain of One - Surrender

May 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Stars Planets Dust Me album by A Mountain of One

Song of the Day: Taken from the recently released album Stars Planets Dust Me, a clever piece of piano-based experimental pop, disco and funk with a skipping rhythm and semi-talking delivery reminiscent of Ian Dury, by the trio of Mo Morris, Leo Elstob and vocalist/pianist Zeb Jameson

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Song of the Day: Gwenno – An Stevel Nowydh (The New Room)

May 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Gwenno

Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Tresor released on 1 July 2022, a mesmeric single of psych-folk-pop by the Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Mererid Saunders as usual in her native tongue, meaning The New Room

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Song of the Day: IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly (featuring Abyss X)

April 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly album cover

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Butterflies by Wunderhorse, another flutter now with this striking electronica and guitar title track from a new album by Portuguese artist and Terrain Ahead label founder Ivo Pacheco, here with singer Abyss X aka Evangelia Lachianina

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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - Blue Bones

April 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health

Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records

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Song of the Day: Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water

April 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jockstrap

Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye

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Song of the Day: Yves Jarvis - Bootstrap Jubilee

April 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sunny disposition: Yves Jarvis

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming fourth album The Zug out on 13 May, a delightful sunny acoustic number about self-development as a musician by the Canadian experimental pop artist Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet, previously known as Un Blonde

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Song of the Day: Son Lux and Moses Sumney - Fence

April 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once

Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals

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Song of the Day: Shearwater: Xenarthran

April 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths

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Song of the Day: C Duncan - Bell Toll

April 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

C Duncan

Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: P.E. - Contradiction of Wants

March 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

P.E.

Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters

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Song of the Day: Kae Tempest - Salt Coast

March 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest’s upcoming new album The Line Is A Curve

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Brexit-themed beach setting by DC Gore, a different style and tone, but with a connection, with the poet’s recent number expressing a melancholy love song to Britain, tasting its vulnerability and change with many vivid, nuanced, emotional lines

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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 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 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 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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