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Song of the Day: Cosmorat - St. Villain

June 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cosmorat

Song of the Day: This opening track from the London indie-alt-pop trio’s new EP, Evil Adjacent, is a beautiful ghostly. dark, powerful creation showing the breadth of their dynamic, experimental and original range

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Song of the Day: Storefront Church - Coal

June 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Storefront Chuch’s forthcoming new album, Ink & Oil

Song of the Day: Dark, cinematic, orchestral, vividly disturbing but highly evocative new work by the LA-based composer, singer and musician Lukas Frank taken from his forthcoming album Ink & Oil

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Song of the Day: Paige Kennedy - Lingerie Model

June 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Phoebe Green track, another witty, punchy, ironic pop number from the co-writer on that song – the Kent artist who fuses funk, electronic and indie with caustic lyrics in this queer pop song about body image and others’ expectations

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Song of the Day: Loma - Pink Sky

May 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Loma’s forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: A beautiful, ghostly new track by the Anglo-American trio of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski (from Cross Record) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), heralding their forthcoming new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, out 28 June on Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: 潘PAN - Imperfect Poetry

May 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

潘PAN aka Pan Wei Ju

Song of the Day: An entrancing, experimental hybrid of spoken word and electronica by the Taiwanese rapper Pan Wei Ju, with a song about strength in vulnerability in the form of “a monologue of a young and not so experienced witch, who doesn’t always do all her magic and alchemy right.”

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Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture

May 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture

Song of the Day: Following his fourth album Heaven Is a Junkyard (2023), a delicate, beautiful new single about angels by Idaho artist Trevor Powers, inspired by finding a piece of paper tucked into the bars of a bus-stop metal bench

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Song of the Day: Rosie Lowe - Mood to Make Love

May 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Rosie Lowe

Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love

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In 2024, experimental, R&B, soul, pop Tags Rosie Lowe, Blue Flowers Music, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Lovebites

May 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue

Song of the Day: After fabulous singles and EPs, a sparkling psychedelic pop number about mixing platonic and romantic love to herald the west London artist’s forthcoming debut album Starface, sci-fi-themed about alien visitor, and all about what makes us human

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop, psychedelia Tags Lava La Rue, Dirty Hit Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Colin Stetson - The Love It Took To Leave You

May 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Colin Stetson

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”

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In 2024, alternative, avant garde, experimental, jazz Tags Colin Stetson, Invada Records, Envision Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: J.R.C.G - Dogear

May 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

J.R.C.G’s forthcoming debut LP Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra), on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: With a fantastically meaty, dark thrum, groove and infectious abstraction, a new post-punk single by the Tacoma, Washington-based artist Justin R. Cruz Gallego, from from his forthcoming debut album Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra) out on 2 August via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: Orlando Weeks - Dig (featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg)

May 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Size matters: from the video for Orlando Weeks’s Dig featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg

Song of the Day: The now Lisbon-based British singer-songwriter returns with an engagingly original song about a “tit-for-tat, under-your-breath half-argument of the kind that happens in public” joined by half of Wet Leg on back vocals and a fabulous video directed by Matt Harris-Freeth

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Song of the Day: Uche Yara - ZUU (zoo)

May 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The incomparable and irrepressible Uche Yara

Song of the Day: With a unique delivery and distinctive cocktail of beats and interweaving vocal harmonies, the charismatic, eclectic Berlin-based, Austrian singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter returns with the opening from her new EP, Golden Days

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Song of the Day: upsammy - Embrytone

May 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

upsammy - Embrytone, from the Maloca Records release titled SIIIX, Vol.1

Song of the Day: Superbly intricate rhythms, chimes and other delicate sounds abound in this absorbingly original latest single by the electronic musician aka Thessa Torsing from Amsterdam

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Song of the Day: Jon Hopkins: RITUAL (evocation)

May 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album, RITUAL

Song of the Day: The innovative British electronic musician returns with a mesmeric lead single designed to capture the idea of “opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried” and heralds his forthcoming electronic symphony album, RITUAL, out on 30 August via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Heart Racer

May 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali - Heart Racer

Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger

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Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)

April 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)

Song of the Day: A welcome return by the highly original London singer-songwriter with a rich crunchy guitar soundscape, ticking beats and echoes of 90s alternative radio with lyrics on the theme of realising the preciousness of time

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Song of the Day: Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual

April 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual

Song of the Day: A sensual, funky and stylish new dance number by the London artist, written through the lens of a very personal early teenage story, a song about sexual liberation, but also a critique of the hyper-sexualised society we live in

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In 2024, disco, electronica, experimental, dance, soul, trip-hop Tags Sans Soucis, Decca, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Kaeto - Don't Ask

April 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kaeto’s striking new look in the video for Don't Ask

Song of the Day: Funky, groovy, smooth and stylish, but with candid, caustic feminist lyrics about body and self-image come in this brilliant new single and video by the innovative Scottish London-based artist

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Song of the Day: Brijean - Workin’ On It

April 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Brijean’s forthcoming album Macro

Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy, wonderfully oddball funk-disco single by the LA-based singer and percussionist Brijean Murphy of Toro Y Moi and Poolside, here with multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart, also delivering an alluringly lazy vocal style, which gives extra appeal considering the subject matter

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Song of the Day: Yannis & The Yaw - Walk Through Fire (featuring Tony Allen)

April 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Yannis & The Yaw: the Foals’ frontman’s upcoming EP project

Song of the Day: Fabulous drumming from a past session by the departed legend Tony Allen, and passionate blues-rock vocals from Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis in this opening track from his new project and upcoming EP, Lagos Paris London – out on 30 August via Transgressive Records

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New Albums …

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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 3, 2026
Buck Meek: The Mirror
Mar 3, 2026

New album: The Brooklyn-based Texan guitarist of Big Thief returns with his fourth solo LP filled with tender, thoughtful, beautiful folk-country-rock, a tiny splash of analogue synths, joined by bandmate James Krivchenia as producer, Adrianne Lenker on backing vocals, plus guitarist Adam Brisbin and harp player Mary Lattimore

Mar 3, 2026
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Mar 1, 2026
Mitski: Nothing’s About To Happen To Me
Mar 1, 2026

New album: Following 2023’s acclaimed The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, now an eighth LP of sublime beauty, wit and melancholy and silken vocal tones from the American singer-songwriter, mixing pop, rock, echoes of Laurel Canyon era, and stories and metaphors of love and loss, insecurity, independence and solitude all set at home – and no shortage of cats

Mar 1, 2026

new songs …

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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
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Mar 6, 2026
Song of the Day: SPRINTS - Trickle Down
Mar 6, 2026

Song of the Day: The feisty, ferociously fun Dublin post-punk band return with a punchy, on-point angry new number about the flawed economic term, watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and frustratingly being told to stay patient while everything burns

Mar 6, 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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