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Bon Iver
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming SABLE EP, and with a first new song since 2020’s AUATC, Justin Vernon returns with beautifully stripped back, understated acoustic guitar number of wistful solitude and apology, crisply poetic rhymes and pointed lyrics, out on Jagjaguwar
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Wussy
Song of the Day: Graveyard themed, but also referencing the euphonic phrase considered the most among the English language’s most beautiful, a catchy, spooky lo-fi krautrocky title track with a fabulous retro disco footage video, from the Cincinnati band’s latest EP, out on Shake It Records
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Aisha Badru
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate, ethereal number by the breathy-voiced Florida-based Nigerian-American artist about purpose, making time for yourself and making that time significant, taken from her upcoming second album The Sun Still Rises, out on 29 November via Nettwerk
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Tucker Zimmerman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously gentle,, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrienne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD
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Broadcast’s final release, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, is out in September
Song of the Day: A truly gorgeous previously unreleased intimate, haunting acoustic song discovered after the passing of the British band’s singer Trish Keenan, heralding a compilation, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, and the final release from Broadcast, available from 28 September 2024 via Warp Record
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Joanna Sternberg - A Country Dance
Song of the Day: Reminiscient of Dory Previn or Peggy Seeger in vocal delivery, style and charm, this beautiful, romantic, acoustic new single by the New York singer-songwriter also appears in the film Between The Temples, and is released on Fat Possum Records
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
Song of the Day: Simplicity and beauty encapsulate this gorgeous acoustic string-infused new single by the Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter, the first since her debut album I Need to Start a Garden (2018), out on her hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co
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Lael Neale
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent third album Star Eaters Delight, the American singer-songwriter returns with a sizzlingly mesmeric, alternative psychedelic folk written during a power cut caused by an ice storm
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Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Fionn Regan
Song of the Day: A beautiful sun-dappled, Mallorca summer-inspired, immersive, and uplifting and new number by Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter heralding his forthcoming new album O Avalanche, released on 1 November
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Laura Marling’s forthcoming new album Patterns In Repeat
Song of the Day: Delicate finger-picking folk in this sunlit, beautiful new single about experiencing the life cycles of motherhood, by the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming next album, Patterns In Repeat, out on Chrysalis Records/ Partisan Records
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Bright Eyes return with a forthcoming new album
Song of the Day: A stomping, chirpy, super-catchy whistle-along number by Omaha’s Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott, all about life’s tiny details, that seem small but turn to be important. It heralds the forthcoming album Five Dice, All Threes, out on 20 September on Dead Oceans
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Isobel Campbell’s new album, Bow To Love out on Cooking Vinyl
A rather beautiful, delicate acoustic track about life and creativity by the LA-based Scottish singer-songwriter’s brand new album, Bow To Love, out now on Cooking Vinyl
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Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Song of the Day: A slice of punchy Balkan brass fun by Toronto’s Canadian collective band, featuring fiery Ukrainian and Spanish rap against floating traditional Ukrainian polyphonic vocals in what is also the title track of their latest album
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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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