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Song of the Day: t l k - Serenia

February 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Image from the animated video for t l k’s Serenia by Alfie Dwyer

Song of the Day: Ethereal, dreamy, intricate electronica by the Bristol producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, in her new song described a “self-soothing, metaphysical landscape” in the character of the title character’s mind palace, out on Giftshop Records

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Song of the Day: Debby Friday - So Hard To Tell

February 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Debby Friday

Song of the Day: Breaking out of a harsh, crash-smash electronica opening, this self-chiding number by the Toronto-based singer and rapper morphs into a beautiful, graceful soulful number and comes from her forthcoming album, Good Luck

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Song of the Day: Stanlæy - fluorescent_fossils

February 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Stanlæy’s recent album theeverything_inbetween

Song of the Day: Taken from the recent album the_everything_inbetween, a gorgeous, meandering, eclectic, experimental track with jazz elements, strings and a distinctive high voice by the Bristol-based Bethany Stenning, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist

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Song of the Day: The Psychotic Monks - Crash

February 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Psychotic Monks from Paris

Song of the Day: A striking, menacing, dark, hypnotic fusion of electronica, techno, post-punk and industrial noise, with reversed sounds and shades of Underworld by French band in a song about exhaustion on tour and mental health within the music industry

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Song of the Day: Clark - Town Crank

February 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clark

Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label

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Song of the Day: Unloved - I Did It

January 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Unloved’s I Did It

Song of the Day: Further wonderfully quirky, stylish, groovy, neo-noir electro-pop by the trio of Jade Vincent, Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes who did much of the Killing Eve soundtrack, with a song for their forthcoming next album, Polychrome

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Song of the Day: Villager - Lemons

January 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new Villager EP, Blind Eye

Song of the Day: Juicily enthralling, shapeshifting electronica by the artist Alex Young from the recent EP, Blind Eye, with a special twist on techno with soundscapes that strip down into syncopated rhythms and shuffling garage hi-hats. Out on Pretty Weird

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Song of the Day: Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are (featuring Kae Tempest)

January 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia

Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith

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Song of the Day: James Holden - Contains Multitudes

January 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

James Holden’s new album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

Song of the Day: A colourful, mesmeric, intricate collage of looped electronica, tabla, piano and violin come together in this epic lead single by the London artist’s forthcoming album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, out via Border Community

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Burn Me Out

January 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali

Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries

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Song of the Day: Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian - Grains (wee Paulownia Wood)

January 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ryuichi Sakamoto reworkings tribute album featuring a variety of guests including David Sylvian and Thundercat

Song of the Day: Beautiful, strange, atmospheric, tender, rattling and evocative, a reworking of an older track by the legendary Japanese musician and composer by old friend and collaborator Sylvian, from a Sakamoto tribute album, To The Moon And Back

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Song of the Day: Peter Gabriel - Panopticom

January 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Peter Gabriel - Panopticom

Song of the Day: With a vibrant, dynamic sound and heralding his first album of completely new material for 20 years, i/o, the singer, songwriter, producer and campaigner’s single is based on the idea of creating an infinitely expandable accessible data globe: the Panopticom

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Song of the Day: Heith - [] () () , 21, wheel of fortune

January 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heith’s latest album: X, wheel

Song of the Day: A mesmeric and strikingly original track by Italy’s Daniele Guerrini, artist and electronic musician based in Milan, here with beautiful additional guitar and brass, from his recent album, X, wheel, out on PAN Records

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Song of the Day: O. – OGO

January 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

O. the band: drummer Tash Keary and saxophonist Joe Henwood

Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, vibrant, energetic instrumental debut single by the sax and drumming south London duo of Joe Henwood and Tash Keary produced rapidly and skilfully by Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Death & Vanilla - Find Another Illusion

January 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Death & Vanilla’s forthcoming album, Flicker

Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy baroque-psych-folk by the Swedish band from Malmö, the first single from their forthcoming new album, Flicker, their first album in four years, out in March via Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Marina Herlop - abans abans

January 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Marina Herlop’s 2022 album Pripyat

Song of the Day: From last year’s album Pripyat, the magical opening track by the Barcelona pianist and singer with a fabulous inventive and experimental composition interweaving skilful playing and vocal manipulation

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Song of the Day: Decisive Pink - Haffmilch Holiday

December 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Decisive Pink: Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

Song of the Day: Filled with wonderful modular synth whistles, squeaks, squiggles, plonks and industrial noises, fabulously dreamy old-school-style electro-pop by the New York duo of Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

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Song of the Day: La Dame - Watcha Gonna Do (feat. Goldie B)

December 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

La Dame’s Furtives EP

Song of the Day: Rhythmic, eclectic, witchy, and an altogether mysterious brew, this striking and wonderful single by the artist Erica Lippert, with guest vocals by Goldie B aka Bonnie Mbala, from La Dame’s fourth EP, Furtives

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Song of the Day: Holly Waxwing - Sister Species

December 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Single cover for Holly Waxwing’s Sister Species

Song of the Day: Wonderfully intricate, fidgety, twinkly and beautiful electronica by the artist Garrett Crosby from Providence, Rhode Island, in this latest single, out on PC Music

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Song of the Day: abracadabra - talk talk (shapes & colors album)

December 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Chris Niles and Hannah Skelton of abracadabra

Song of the Day: Clever, quirky, mischievous 80s-style new wave post-punk electro-pop with a dash of Talking Heads by the Oakland California duo of Hannah Skelton and Chris Niles from their forthcoming album, Shapes & Colors, out on Melodic Records

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New Albums …

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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 5, 2026
Lala Lala: Heaven 2
Mar 5, 2026

New album: Moving from Chicago to New Mexico, Reykjavík, then London and now Los Angeles, the UK-born artist Lillie West’s experimental indie dream pop is a fascinating release about restless escapism while trying to stay where she is

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Iron & Wine: Hen's Teeth
Mar 3, 2026

New album: Timeless, poetic, gentle folk-rock in this eighth solo album by the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam, in warm, tender album with a title that suggests the idea of the impossible yet real, and an earthier, darker, more more tactile companion to his Grammy-nominated 2024 album Light Verse

Mar 3, 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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