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Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: A magical, strikingly original staccato-and-smooth vocal blend of traditional West African, folk and electronica by the Guinea-born, now Margate-based, singer and multi-instrumentalist in a song about his teenage years of life-changing relocation, from his forthcoming debut album Love From The Sea on 26 September via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Folk Bitch Trio
Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar
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From the video for Poor Creature’s The Whole Town Knows
Song of the Day: A stirring, primal, powerfully dark, vivid hybrid-folk single by the trio of Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody (of Lankum) heralding their debut album All Smiles Tonight, out on 11 July via River Lea Records
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Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains’ mos recent album, Âge Fleuve
Song of the Day: A beautiful, smoky, sensual, dreamy new version of a recent song, now with rewritten lyrics from the French-British pop band’s most recent album, Âge Fleuve sung in French by the American singer-songwriter, and out on InFiné Records
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Billie Marten’s forthcoming album, Dog Eared
Song of the Day: A bright and sunny love song with a twist by the London-based British folk-pop singer-songwriter aka Isabella Sophie Tweddle, from Ripon North Yorkshire, heralding her forthcoming fifth studio album, Dog Eared, out on 18 July via Fiction Records
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Jacob Alon
Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside
Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records
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Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding in the striking new video for No Front Teeth
Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Rebekka Karijord’s forthcoming album, The Bell Tower
Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union
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Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, Earthstar Mountains, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union
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Florist’s upcoming album, Jellywish
Song of the Day: Gentle, beautiful, reflective indie-folk by the Catskill Mountains / New York quartet of singer and songwriter Emily Sprague with Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro and Felix Walworth, heralding their forthcoming album, Jellywish, out on 4 April on Double Double Whammy
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Black Country, New Road - Besties
Song of the Day: An eccentric, eclectic, catchy new single about friendship by the Cambridge-formedm London-based British experimental band mixing folk and indie with dabbles of harpsichord, saxophone and more, heralding their upcoming third album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April on Ninja Tune
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Lucy Dacus
Song of the Day: A beautiful string-laden, tactile love song new single by the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia and one third of the trio Boygenius, taken from her from forthcoming new album, Forever Is A Feeling, out on 28 March, via Geffen Records
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Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly / Brutes
Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings
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Tunng - Snails
Song of the Day: Delicious, delicate, detailed and poetic, it’s a beautiful acoustic new single by the British folktronica pioneers, heralding their new album Love You All Over Again, which in part celebrates 20 years of making music, out on 24 January on Full Time Hobby
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Heather Nova - Ghost In The Room
Song of the Day: Ghostly by name, ethereally delicate by nature, this delicate new track by the Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet is about tangibly missing someone, and heralds her latest LP, Breath And Air, out on 21 February on V2
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New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song
Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar
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Richard Dawson stands motionless among the bargain hunters …
Song of the Day: A seasonal gem of beautifully droll wit and storytelling by the brilliant experimental folk singer-songwriter, heralding his upcoming new LP, End of the Middle, out 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino
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