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Song of the Day: Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

February 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

Song of the Day: A dream-like, ghostly, otherworldly and beautiful single with a mesmeric mix of vocals and electronica by the experimental, eclectic London-based Irish-Chilean singer, songwriter, producer and DJ Salvador Navarrete

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Song of the Day: William Doyle - Relentless Melt

February 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

William Doyle’s upcoming new album, Springs Eternal

Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, fuzz-guitar experimental pop from the British musician from Bournemouth, and a single with a ongoing watery theme from his forthcoming album Springs Eternal, out on Tough Love

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop, rock Tags William Doyle, Tough Love Recordings, songs, song of the day, Mike Lindsay
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Song of the Day: Vitya Payal'nik - Science

February 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Vitya Payal'nik’s EP Solder Flux

Song of the Day: Packed with mischievous, oddball sounds, beeps, bass lines and stop-start rhythms, some mesmerically clever, inventive electronica and dance music by the Ukrainian musician, taken from the recently released Solder Flux EP

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In 2024, alternative, dance, electronica, experimental Tags Vitya Payal'nik, Late Night Superglue, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Group Listening - Frogs

February 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Group Listening’s Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo). Photo: Huw Evans

Song of the Day: A wonderfully odd and beautiful release featuring field recordings of the titular resonantly relaxing amphibians by the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing duo of Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo)

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In 2024, alternative, avant garde, experimental Tags Group Listening, Stephen Black, Sweet Baboo, Paul Jones, PRAH, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Stevie Toddler - Wake Me Like

January 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Stevie Toddler’s forthcoming 8-track EP release, Last Time Forever

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming sophomore release, Last Time Forever, a gorgeous experimental mix of pop, jazz and classical by the Bristol artist, here with rolling piano sounds, orchestral instruments and a wonderful wooziness that captures that moment of falling awake in a dream-like state

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Song of the Day: Blue Whale - Otic Brawl

January 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Blue Whale’s forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images

Song of the Day: Excellently angular, guitar post-punk spiralling with a crazed but controlled momentum by the Belfast band in this opening instrumental track of their forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images

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Song of the Day: Kim Gordon - BYE BYE

January 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kim Gordon

Song of the Day: A dark, menacing but very strikingly original new number by the legendary former Sonic Youth frontwoman, fusing noise rock, electronica, and a farewell shopping-and-packing list, which heralds her next solo album, The Collection, out on 8 March

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, post-punk, punk, rock Tags Kim Gordon, Matador Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Campus Christy - Very Complex (feat. Piya Malik)

January 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Campus Christy - Very Complex

Song of the Day: Languidly catchy pop-rock and with fuzz guitar, this is the single by the band featuring Stones Throw founder Chris Manak (aka Peanut Butter Wolf) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Ellis, joined by Piya Malik of Say She She

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Songs of the Day: Leonardo Barbadoro - Bomi / Hybr Spiro (from Musica Automata album)

January 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Leonardo Barbadoro’s Musica Automata album features 80 instrument robots

Songs of the Day: Mesmeric, unusual, charming, ingenious instrumental gems released late last year by the Italian composer from an album performed by an orchestra of over 80 robots, and currently the largest robot orchestra in the world

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In 2023, 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental Tags Leonardo Barbadoro, Helical, robots, songs, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Dana Gavanski - How To Feel Uncomfortable

January 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dana Gavanki’s upcoming third album, LATE SLAP, out on Full Time Hobby

Song of the Day: Heralding her forthcoming next album, LATE SLAP, the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter releases a beautifully disarming, woozily alternative folk single with deliciously droll originality

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, folk Tags Dana Gavanski, Full Time Hobby, Mike Lindsay, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Sam Akpro - Death By Entertainment

January 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sam Akpro

Song of the Day: With a fabulously meaty bass thrum, a textured guitars, drums and synths, a forthright, engaging track about living in excess, released late last year by the singer, songwriter & producer from Peckham in south-east London

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In 2023, 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, post-punk Tags Sam Akpro, Anti Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Solar Eyes - Let's Run Away

January 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

On track for the album release: Solar Eyes’ Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis

Song of the Day: The Birmingham psych/pop duo launch into 2024 with a galloping pace mixing in a heady, eclectic mix of shoegaze, indie, sci-fi, spaghetti western and echoes of Ennio Morricone with a escape-themed track heralding their debut album and recorded in Texas

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop, psychedelia, shoegaze Tags Fierce Panda Records, Solar Eyes, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: TATYANA - Hold My Hand / Down Bad

January 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tatyana from the video for Hold My Hand

Song of the Day: A distinctive, catchy, clever and innovative pair of recent electro-pop singles packed with textured sounds by the London artist Tatyana Phillips, taken from their forthcoming album, It's Over, out on 22 March via Sinderlyn

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Song of the Day: Memory Of Jane - Loose Lines

January 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Memory of Jane - Loose Lines

Song of the Day: Rippling, intricate drums and bass, soothing synths and understated vocals come in this highly original recent single by the French/British multi-instrumentalist Maïlé Doremus-Cook, and is produced by Oli Bayston

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Song of the Day: Jim Perkins - Winter

January 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jim Perkins: Winter

Song of the Day: A delicate, beautiful, seasonally evocative orchestral instrumental new single by the London pianist and composer out on Bigo and Twigetti

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Song of the Day: Strange Boy - Sophia

January 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Strange Boy: Kieran Brunt and Matthew Huxley

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming debut album, Love Remains, beautiful, delicate, inspiring electronica with orchestration and falsetto vocals by the London duo of Kieran Brunt and Matthew Huxley, inspired by the arrival of a life-affirming niece

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Song of the Day: Osees - Goon (Intercepted Message album)

December 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Osees’ latest album, Intercepted Message

Song of the Day: Another gem from 2023, a brilliantly madcap track taken from latest LP, Intercepted Message, by the prolific San Francisco rock band fronted by John Dwyer, with a prime example one with their current psychedelic, synth-punk fireworks to go with garage-rock guitar and double drums

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In 2023, experimental, electronica, post-punk, prog rock, psychedelia, rock Tags Osees, Thee Oh Sees, In The Red Records, Castle Face Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Σtella - Girl Supreme

December 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Σtella

Song of the Day: Released earlier this year, a supremely catchy electro-pop single by the Athens-based Greek artist Stella Chronopoulou about a casual romantic encounter becoming a fateful affair

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In 2023, electronica, experimental, pop Tags Σtella, songs, song of the day, Sub Pop Records
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Song of the Day: Peacey - Culture Bandit (featuring Vanessa Hidary)

December 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Peacey - Culture Bandit (featuring Vanessa Hidary)

Song of the Day: Punchy, pacy, catchy and exclamatory, a super smart talky-dance track by the Edinburgh-based DJ and electronica artist David Peace joined by New York spoken-word artist celebratory multiculturalism

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Song of the Day: Ugly - Hands of Man

December 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ugly - Hands of Man

Song of the Day: Rich vocal harmonies, interweaving acoustic instruments and a dynamic structure building to a powerful crescendo come in this mesmeric new single from the Cambridge-formed band

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New Albums …

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026

Word of the week

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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