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The beautifully vivid Short Stories EP by Francis Lung
Song of the Day: Taken from the new EP, Short Stories, this beautifully intimate, vivid, narrative-spoken number that builds powerfully into a dreamy climax by the Manchester artist tells of a widow transported back in time by an onion soup
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The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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The Orielles
Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming new album, Tableau, some mesmeric, shapeshifting 8-minute, gradual-build celestial dream pop by the Yorkshire trio from Halifax, with an ever wider innovative range
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Elemental fusion of opposites: who else, but Björk?
Song of the Day: The iconic Icelandic artist returns, literally with a bang – mixing mighty opposites in a song about how such things may combine – clattering, hammering beats, involving Indonesian experimental duo Gabber Modus Operandi – and clarinets, joining from disharmony into into an eventual frenetic unison
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Alice Boman
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s song by Daniela Lalita, another beautifully fragile, sensual number, a melancholy dream-pop love song reminiscent of a mix of Kate Bush and Sufjan Stevens, here by the Swedish singer-songwriter, with guest vocals by the American artist Michael Hadreas
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Daniela Lalita
Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush
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Nick Hakim returns with his smoothly refined sound
Song of the Day: A deliciously mellow, honey-smooth and beautifully refined funk number by the Brooklyn-based musician, taken from his from the forthcoming album COMETA out on 21 October 21 on ATO Records
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The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
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From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency
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Panda Bear aka Noah Benjamin Lennox
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Reset, this wonderfully ironic look at the life of staring at screens and mobile technology uses a retro vocal harmony style reminiscent of Beach Boys, with added electronic beeps and a dash of They Might Be Giants
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Hatis Noit’s new album: Aura
Songs of the Day: Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals
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Song of the Day: Taken from his new album Escapology, the first since 2019’s Nothing, an extraordinary, incomparable piece of electronica with oddball rhythmic chords, beats and and scratchy trickling sounds by the alias of Hyperdub record label Steve Goodman
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Saya Gray’s latest album is titled 19 Masters
Song of the Day: An outstanding and unusual fusion of folk, pop, country and psychedelia by the Japanese-Canadian singer-songwriter interlacing strong acoustic guitar chords and arpeggios, explosive drums, interwoven voices and birdsong
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Eat Your Own Ears’ new compilation EP1
Song of the Day: A joyously intricate new number mixing keyboards, beats and more acoustics from a thumb piano to hammered dulcimer quality, by the British electronic artist Kieran Hebden, taken from a new limited edition release from the label Eat Your Own Ears Recordings, EP1
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Is it Me or is it You?
Song of the Day: With interweaving vocals and beats, fantastically shapeshifting experimental electronica from the forthcoming album Let's Turn It Into Sound by the LA-based composer, performer and producer from Orcas Island, Washington State
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Sudan Archives
Song of the Day: Striking, pacy, rhythmical, with interweaving vocal loops of vocals and instruments, this fabulous latest single by the LA-based singer-songwriter, violinist and rapper is about insecurities forced on a brown skin Black female by American beauty standards
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The Mars Volta’s Blacklight Shine
Song of the Day: After 10 years of schisms and side projects, the Texan prog-rock experimental duo of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and band finally reunite with an unique blend of funk, rock, Cuban and Afro-Cuban drumming and English and Spanish lyrics
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Stromae’s third album, Multitude
Song of the Day: An extraordinary song of harpsichord, chanson, and hip hop, as well as its video, from the recent third album, Multitude, by the innovative Belgian artist of Rwandan Tutsi descent, Paul Van Haver, about a fictional tribute to a sex worker and maternal heroic figure who has passed away, here playing the part of a leader delivering a speech from a podium
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Clas Tuuth – Say You Did EP cover
Song of the Day: Crisp, catchy, mesmeric electronica, this experimental new single by the London artist is co-written with and features Kate Stables from This Is The Kit. It’s also title track from the new EP, out on Need No Water Records
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