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Song of the Day: Tame Impala - End of Summer

July 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Tame Impala’s End of Summer

Song of the Day: In a change from the tuneful, psychedelic indie-pop of previous work, Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker channels his creativity into a hybrid of electronic dance music, with shades of the acid house era of 1989, as well as Underworld and beyond, with his first release on Columbia Records

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Song of the Day: clipping. – Night of Heaven (featuring Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala)

July 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Clipping. – Night of Heaven (featuring Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala)

Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, eclectic, experimental mix of hip-hop, neo-classical and electronica by the LA-based trio fronted by rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, joined by the Nigerian-American and Canadian artists, taken from the expanded edition of their latest album, Dead Channel Sky, out on Sub Pop Records. Dead Channel Sky Plus is released on 19 September

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Song of the Day: Poptones - Say Something Now

July 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Poptones - Say Something Now

Song of the Day: Mixing beauty and dissonance, clever, skilfully textured angular guitars and vocals to a mesmeric, bendy, woozy, dream-like effect by the Copenhagen art-rock trio, the second single from their upcoming album Pure, out on 26 September via Happy Metal Records

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Song of the Day: Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

July 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

Song of the Day: The Michigan-based band formerly known as Kingfisher herald their upcoming debut album under the new name with this unusual, passionately stirring and sprightly chamber-pop-jazz-indie-pop single with added strings and brass

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Song of the Day: Emma Harner - Yes Man

July 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma Harner

Song of the Day: A classy, clever new folk-pop number about defying a toxic relationship, featuring with intricate arpeggiated guitar playing by the singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, taken from her recent debut EP Taking My Side

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Song of the Day: Indigo De Souza – Be Like the Water

July 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Indigo De Souza’s upcoming album, Precipice

Song of the Day: Candid, crisp, beautiful and sensitive new single by the singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Precipice, out on 25 July via Loma Vista

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Song of the Day: Geese - Taxes

July 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Geese - Taxes

Song of the Day: With the distinctive ghostly wail of Cameron Winter’s voice and tribal drumming, a truly alternative sound by the New York band, heralding the upcoming third album Getting Killed, out on 26 September via Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Soulwax - Run Free

July 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Soulwax, aka Stephen and David Dewaele

Song of the Day: Heralding the innovative electronica and production Belgian brothers Stephen and David Dewaele’s forthcoming first studio album in seven years, All Systems Are Lying, a catchy celebration of their genre for their first studio album in seven years, released on 17 October on DEEWEE / Because Music

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Song of the Day: Marissa Nadler - Hatchet Man

July 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Marissa Nadler

Song of the Day: A beautiful but chilling single by the American singer-songwriter heralding her upcoming album New Radiations, out on 15 August via Bella Union and Sacred Bones Records

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Song of the Day: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

July 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

Song of the Day: The Icelandic indie-folk-rock band’s first single for five years is a dynamic, crescendo building number video capturing the strangeness of an Icelandic summer night and expressing a conversation moving between time and space, past and present, out on Skarkali Records / Virgin

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Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel

July 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nilüfer Yanya’s new EP Dancing Shoes

Song of the Day: Beautiful, textured, luxuriant experimental dream pop by the British artist, taken from her just released EP Dancing Shoes, out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: anaiis - Deus Deus

July 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Devotion & The Black Divine, the upcoming new album by anaiis

Song of the Day: A slow, sensual, sultry soulful new experimental number, perfect for a hot summer’s day by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album Devotion & The Black Divine, out on 25 September via 5dB Records

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney - Semitones

July 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the artwork for Madeline Kenney’s upcoming album Kiss From The Balcony

Song of the Day: Slow, simmering, mesmeric, intimate, gentle, experimental dream-pop by the Oakland, California artist, heralding her upcoming new album Kiss From The Balcony, out on 18 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Slow Cooked - Vest Poets

June 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Slow Cooked - Vest Poets

Song of the Day: Bursting with breathy, restless, pulsating dance energy and then a calm, unexpected change of pace, the latest from experimental British cellist Slow Cooked aka Louie Barby from Huddersfield, is a strikingly odd and original single

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Song of the Day: Blood Orange - The Field (featuring feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar)

June 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blood Orange - The Field

Song of the Day: An eclectic collaboration fusing soulful, warm, soothing, summery chamber pop and clubby, click beats by the British singer-songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes (formerly Lightspeed Champion) with a variety of guests

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Song of the Day: Sydney Minsky Sargeant - I Don’t Wanna

June 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sydney Minsky Sargeant

Song of the Day: A vulnerable, tender, delicately glistening acoustic new single by the Todmorden-raised singer-songwriter from Working Men’s Club, heralding his upcoming debut solo album, Lunga, out on 12 September 2025 on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: corto.alto - DON'T LISTEN

June 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

corto.alto - DON'T LISTEN

Song of the Day: The latest brilliantly original, experimental, eclectic cross-pollinated jazz-funk by the band led by Glasgow’s multi-instrumentalist producer Liam Shortall, with twisting, turning basslines, sax, percussion, fuzzy vocals and strings, out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - MadDog

June 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Man/Woman/Chainsaw

Song of the Day: Recently released alongside the track Adam & Steve, the innovative, alternative London indie band’s latest single combines post-punk, heavy rock, prog, and folk, decorated by violin and passionate vocal in a melange of melodious experiment, out on So Young Records

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Song of the Day: Deki Alem - House Fire

June 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Deki Alem - House Fire

Song of the Day: Stirring, dark, stylish hip-hop, trip-hop and dance music by the Swedish band fronted by Sammy and Johnny Boakye Bennett, with shades of The Prodigy and Faithless, heralding their upcoming debut album, Forget In Mass, out on Amuseio AB

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Song of the Day: David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (featuring Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra)

June 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

David Byrne returns in his own inimitable style, with an upcoming new album, Who Is The Sky?

Song of the Day: The ever innovative ex-Talking Heads frontman returns with a jaunty, restorative, upbeat new number capturing some universal human behaviour and emotions, heralding his new album, Who Is The Sky?, on out 5 September via Matador Records

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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 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 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - Crumb
Apr 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, playful, gently humorous, self-deprecating experimental indie pop by the inventive transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, with a number about having a fragile crush on someone, and their first new music of 2026, out on Submarine Cat Records

Apr 18, 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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