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Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers with Maya McGrory
Song of the Day: New York-based musician Shane Lavers’ latest single is a mesmeric, textured piece of dreamy digital and analogue experimentalism about memory, accompanied by Zachary Paul on violin and vocals by Maya McGrory, and out on Jagjaguwar
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Stereolab’s new AA side: Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown
Song of the Day: A sprightly, defiant, catchy, classic AA-side release by the Anglo-French avant-pop band, alongside the song Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown, written by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, and out on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records
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The Fiery Furnaces anniversary edition of Blueberry Boat
Song of the Day: Brooklyn’s brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger and co return with a quirky indie-rock experimental echoing piano and vocal number, an additional track to 20th anniversary edition of their seminal 2004 album Blueberry Boat
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A wobbly still from the video for Civilians by Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky, oddball, squelchy, strangely addictive electronica with flute-ish sounds, and an eccentric jelly-based seven-dancers video choregraphed by Melanie Lane x Corps Conspirators, heralding British experimental artist Christopher Clark’s upcoming album Steep Stims, out on 7 November via Throttle Records / Decca.
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Dry Cleaning
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll, different, downbeat, throwaway profundity and wit from the unmistakable delivery of vocalist Florence Shaw and Bowie-esque guitarist Tom Dowse, by the south London post-punk quartet, heralding their upcoming new album Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, and out on 9 January, via 4AD
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Juana Molina – Siestas Ahí
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Argentinian guitarist and pop experimentalist returns with her first single in eight years, making beautiful and extraordinary sounds with her instrument with angelic, otherworldly vocals in a song about dissolving in someone’s kisses, heralding her upcoming new album DOGA, out on 5 November via Sonamos
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Second Sleep
Song of the Day: Released alongside another track, Star Eyes, a stylish, dynamic, funk-pop single relating to the subconscious and dreams by the flamboyant Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, with a highly entertaining fantasy video directed by Amalia Irons
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Danny Brown - Starburst
Song of the Day: A frenetic swirl of arrhythmic, extraordinary, otherworldly, restless sounds and manic energy are all conjured this title track from the forthcoming seventh album (out 7 November via Warp Records) by the innovative American rapper, collaborating here with the Portuguese producer Holly, and Frost Children’s Angel Prost whose voice enters in the latter stages
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Ólöf Arnalds
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union
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feeo’s Theodora Laird
Song of the Day: A delicate, mysterious, magical, ethereal and experimental single by the London duo of the singer Theodora Laird and bassist Caius Williams, with layers of gentle droning synths, drum ripples and half-whispered vocals from the upcoming album Goodness, out on 10 October via AD 93
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From the video by Mikel Patrick Avery for Layered Presence by Tortoise
Song of the Day: Instilling a sense of simultaneous calm and yet unease, a mesmeric, cinematic-feel instrumental by the legendary Chicago experimental, eclectic, improvisational jazz-funk-pyschedelic-prog-electronica band, heralding their first album for nine years, TOUCH, out on 24 October via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records
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Yukimi - Get It Over
Song of the Day: Following her debut solo album, For You, earlier this year, Sweden’s Little Dragon singer returns with a beautiful, walking pace soulful number about being lost in your own inner world, unable to find a way out into the real world, and co-written with Canadian singer-songwriter Saya Gray and LD drummer Erik Bodin, out on Ninja Tune
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Sleaford Mods are back with a bang: Megaton
Song of the Day: The Nottingham punk-rap duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a bang and their first since 2023 – a punchy, catchy, dark-humoured mimicry number about how society is stupidly crippled by social media and separatism – with proceeds from the release going to War Child, the charity that helps children affected in conflict zones
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The Orb - It's Coming Soon
Song of the Day: The veteran British ambient-electronica group of Alex Paterson and co, best known for Little Fluffy Clouds return with a gentle, arpeggiated number with Andy Caine on vocals, heralding the forthcoming album Buddhist Hipsters, out on 10 October via Cooking Vinyl
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The upcoming ninth Gorillaz album - The Mountain, with artwork by Jamie Hewlett
Song of the Day: A perky, potent, and dream-experimental pop combination of Blur’s Damon Albarn and his cartoon band join joining with the beloved brothers Ron and Russell Mael with this catchy, satirical number, heralding the new Gorillaz album, The Mountain, out on 20 March 2026 via Kong
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Steve Gunn
Song of the Day: Following this year’s instrumental album Music for Writers, the prolific Brooklyn singer-songwriter returns with a new release, and a beautiful, serene, acoustic number with guitar, chamber strings and woodwind that opens Daylight Daylight, out on 7 November via No Quarter Records
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Blue Bendy - Poke
Song of the Day: Innovative, enthralling, all-a-swirl, vividly passionate acoustic-experimental indie-folk-art-rock by the south-east London band, recently released on Practise Music and their first single since last year’s debut album So Medieval
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The Antlers aka Peter Silberman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously sparse, intimate, number with quiet piano accompaniment before a powerful explosion of sound by the New York singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Peter Silberman from the upcoming new album Blight, out on 10 October via Transgressive Records
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Robert Plant’s upcoming new album, Saving Grace
Song of the Day: A fabulously alluring cover by the Led Zeppelin frontman of the Low song written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk, joined here by Plant’s band Sacred Grace, featuring the sound of the cuatro, and heralding the forthcoming album Sacred Grace, out on 26 September via Nonesuch Records
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Patrick Watson
Song of the Day: The Montreal singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist collaborates with the acclaimed fellow Canadian singer-songwriter on a beautifully moving duet, of intertwining harmonies and string arrangements, heralding Watson’s upcoming album Uh Oh, due out 26 Septembervia Secret City Records
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