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Song of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Bathed In Sound (Wild Wet World EP)

May 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World

Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds

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Song of the Day: Ash Walker - Time Gets Wasted (featuring Denitia and Sly5thAve)

May 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ash Walker

Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals

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Song of the Day: Fran Lobo - Tricks

May 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fran Lobo

Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - Jetski

April 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius b

Song of the Day: Clever, engaging, energetic experimental pop by the London-based artist, aka Frank Belcourt, from their forthcoming new EP, DIN, out on 30 June via Mark Ronson's label Zelig Music

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Song of the Day: YOVA - Feel Your Fear

April 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Yova’s new single

Song of the Day: Punchy, rhythmic alternative indie pop by the duo of Macedonia-born vocalist Jova Radevska and London-based musician Mark Vernon with penetrative jagged guitar, organ and trumpet parts in a song about tendency to form addictions to alleviate pain

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Song of the Day: Sahalé - Djiin

April 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony

Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best

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Song of the Day: Mary Ocher - Love Is Not a Place (feat. Your Government)

April 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Mary Ocher’s

Song of the Day: Taken from the charity EP, Power and Exclusion from Power (out on Underground Institute) released on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a powerful anti-nationalist alternative electronica hymn by the Jewish-Ukranian political artist

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Song of the Day: Ursa Major Moving Group - Welcome To The Noosphere

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track

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In 2023, folk, experimental, indie, pop, post-punk, alternative Tags Ursa Major Moving Group, Ursula Russell, songs, song of the day, Faith & Industry Records, climate change, José Argüelles, time
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Song of the Day: This Is The Kit - Inside Outside

April 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

This Is The Kit’s new album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out in June

Song of the Day: Released today, a crisp, beautifully crafted alternative folk number with guitars, horns and intricate rhythms by Kate Stables and co, taken from the next album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out on Rough Trade and produced by Gruff Rhys

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Song of the Day: Cinder Well - Two Heads, Grey Mare

April 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cadence, the new album by Cinder Well

Song of the Day: A beautifully atmospheric new release by Amelia Baker’s experimental folk project about a human spending a night with a selkie-like vision who comes out of the water, from the forthcoming album, Cadence

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Song of the Day: Comfort - Wild and Fragile

March 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Comfort’s forthcoming album, What’s Bad Enough?

Song of the Day: Just as the title suggests, a sensitive yet anarchically inventive fusion of alternative hip hop and beautiful, unwieldy sweeping strings and electronica by the Glasgow sibling duo from their forthcoming album What's Bad Enough? out in May on Fatcat Records

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Song of the Day: Squid - Swing (In A Dream)

March 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

A scene from Squid’s multifaceted Swing (In A Dream) video directed by Yoonha Park

Song of the Day: Mellower on first listen than much their previous work, an intriguingly original dynamic exploration into the subconscious with an experimental prog element by the Brighton post-punk band, taken from their forthcoming new album O Monolith, out on Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Meshell Ndegeocello - Virgo

March 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Meshell Ndegeocello’s Virgo

Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, experimental, funk, fusion, jazz, psychedelia, soul, hip hop Tags Meshell Ndegeocello, songs, song of the day, Blue Note Records
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Song of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Barley

March 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: Rachel Brown and Nate Amos

Song of the Day: Highly original experimental pop with oddball, mantra-like deadpan and palpitating, repetitive rhythms by the Brooklyn duo of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos from their forthcoming album Everyone's Crushed on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Fire-Toolz - I Couldn't Have Been BoRn At ThE wRoNg TiMe Because I Was Never Even Born LOL!

March 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fire-Toolz’s forthcoming album I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There

Song of the Day: An entrancing, unwieldy energy ball of almost indescribable eclecticism comes with this experimental fusion of electronica, pop, dark metal, prog, jazz and ambience by the Chicago producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid

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Song of the Day: James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything

March 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything

Song of the Day: The big-name producer (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode …) and Simian Mobile Disco member’s new intricate, clever, slow Bowie-esque electro-pop single is all about self-reliance

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Song of the Day: Miss Tiny - The Sound

February 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft and Dan Carey

Song of the Day: A dark, alluring, boldly bass, catchy debut indie single about the claustrophobia of inner city life by a band formed by Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft of the bands Childhood and Warmduscher, and Speedy Wunderground producer Dan Carey

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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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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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