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Song of the Day: Cornershop - Double Denim

July 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cornershop - Double Denim

Song of the Day: The British experimental indie rock band of Tjinder Singh, Ben Ayres and co return with a craftily catchy, perky, quirky summer single of patterns and shapes with a new version featuring the breezy vocals of Italian film star Rosanna alongside crisp, retro electronica, staccato guitar riffs and taut bass and percussion

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, indie, pop, rock Tags Cornershop, Tjinder Singh, Ben Ayres, songs, song of the day, Ample Play Records
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Song of the Day: Nubya Garcia - Clarity

July 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nubya Garcia’s upcoming album, Odyssey

Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz

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In 2024, classical, experimental, jazz Tags Nubya Garcia, Concord Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Field Music - Six Weeks, Nine Wells

July 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Field Music’s forthcoming album, Limits of Language

Song of the Day: After various side projects, Sunderland’s innovative alt-pop makers, the Brewis brothers David and Peter return with their first new music as Field Music for over three years and a single of synths and an absolutely gorgeous, stirring chorus

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Field Music, Memphis Industries, David Brewis, Peter Brewis
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Song of the Day: Party Dozen - The Big Man Upstairs

July 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Party Dozen’s forthcoming album Crime In Australia

Song of the Day: A powerful, surging stirring, experimental postpunk but also melodic track by the Sydney-based duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, about the tumultuous political landscape of Queensland during the reign of 60s-80s Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, post-punk Tags Party Dozen, Temporary Residence, Australia, Kirsty Tickle, Jonathan Boulet, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Laurie Anderson - Road To Mandalay

June 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laurie Anderson

Song of the Day: With a magical, dream-like atmosphere, shimmering guitars, violin, and the soft spoken narrative voice of the veteran American musical experimentalist and artist best known for O Superman, this comes from her new album Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records

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In alternative, 2024, avant garde, experimental, spoken word Tags songs, song of the day, Laurie Anderson, Nonesuch Records
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Song of the Day: Hayden Thorpe - They

June 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Hayden Thorpe’s upcoming album, Ness

Song of the Day: A beautiful, crisp, enchanting, experimental number of interweaving polyrhythms with clarinet, by the British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and former Wild Beasts frontman taken from the upcoming album Ness, out 27 September on Domino

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop Tags Hayden Thorpe, Domino Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Brijean - Euphoric Avenue

June 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart

Song of the Day: Deliciously dream-like delicate vocals and rich, intertwining luscious sounds by the duo of LA-based singer and percussionist Brijean Murphy of Toro Y Moi and Poolside, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, pop Tags Brijean, Brijean Murphy, Doug Stuart, Ghostly International, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Canty - ta-da

June 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Canty’s new EP titled hahahahahahahahaha, out on Full Time Hobby

Song of the Day: Dark, gently thrumming, softly textured bass and a distinctive experimental electronica sound by the East London singer, musician and producer’s latest EP, hahahahahahahahaha, out on Full Time Hobby

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, pop Tags Canty, Full Time Hobby, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop Tags Cosmorat, Don Chelada Records, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, experimental, film soundtrack Tags Storefront Church, Lukas Frank, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, indie, pop Tags Paige Kennedy, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, experimental Tags Loma, Sub Pop Records, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, hip hop, spoken word Tags 潘PAN, PAN, Transgressive, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, Americana, experimental Tags Youth Lagoon, songs, song of the day, Trevor Powers, Fat Possum
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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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In experimental, alternative, 2024, industrial, post-punk, punk Tags J.R.C.G, Justin R. Cruz Gallego, Sub Pop Records, songs, song of the day
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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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In 2024, alternative, experimental, folk, pop Tags Orlando Weeks, Rhian Teasdale, Wet Leg, Fiction Records, songs, song of the day
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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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New Albums …

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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