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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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Laufey
Song of the Day: This mesmeric, haunting, piano-accompanied new single comes from the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir about her experience in a relationship with someone who is more in love with her image as an artist than her as a person
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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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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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Marta Del Grandi - The Best Sea
Song of the Day: Following last year’s exquisite album, Selva, the Italian singer-songwriter from Milan returns with a beautiful new single with a metaphor reflecting on themes of sisterhood and the evolution of close relationships
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LYR’s Blossomise EP
Song of the Day: To mark a special project in conjunction with The National Trust, marking the first day of spring, and also World Poetry Day, two beautifully evocative tracks from a new EP by the trio of poet laureate Simon Armitage, with music from singer Richard Walters, and producer Patrick J Pearson
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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Song of the Day: An immediately arresting, gorgeous indie Americana of poise and elegance by the Liverpool duo of singer Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, joined here by Sharon Van Etten on vocal harmonies, with the title track of their forthcoming album, out on City Slang
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s upcoming new album, Eye To The Ear
Song of the Day: A fabulously oddball and inventive new aquatic-themed number by the experimental London vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who uses field recordings, human and non-human voices, with an upcoming new album Eye To The Ear
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youbet’s Nick Llobet
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
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Anastasia Coope
Song of the Day: The opening track of the New York singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Darning Women has a beautiful spooky psychedelic folk quality with slinking piano and layered, echoey choral voices before electric guitar entry, expressing a mood of both hysteria and euphoria
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Ella Raphael - Tangled Love
Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”
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Maya Hawke’s forthcoming album, Chaos Angel
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, pointed folk with country inflections, about ambition and FOMO, by the singer, actress and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman heralding her forthcoming album, Chaos Angel, out on 31 May on Mom + Pop Records
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Tabling ideas: Mike Lindsay’s forthcoming album, Supershapes Volume 1, out on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer
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Beth Gibbons’ album Lives Outgrown is due out in May
Song of the Day: This hauntingly delicate, yet powerful single heralds the Portishead singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, building through gentle strings and her distinctively beautiful, fragile vocal style
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Briston Maroney
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, tender, emotive, car-drive themed folk-country by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Knoxville, Tennessee, with a voice reminiscent of Elliott Smith
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Good call: Real Estate’s upcoming new album, Daniel
Song of the Day: Beautiful, perfect simplicity of melody is deceptively hard to achieve, but it flows freely in this new track by the Brooklyn indie-folk band, heralding their forthcoming album, Daniel, out in February on Domino Records
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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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Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
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