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Song of the Day: Braxe + Falcon (with Sunni Colon) - Elevation

May 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

DIfferent category: Braxe + Falcon

Song of the Day: Smooth, sublime, electro-funk-pop by the French dance music production pair of Alain and Stéphane Quême, aka Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, joined here by Sunni Colon, taken from their forthcoming Step By Step EP that also features Panda Bear

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In 2022, dance, pop, funk, electronica Tags Braxe + Falcon, DJ Falcon, Alain and Stéphane Quême, Sunni Colon, Panda Bear, Domino Records
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Song of the Day: Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine (Minions soundtrack)

May 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine from the new Minions movie soundtrack

Song of the Day: A shamelessly upbeat summer disco-funk number as part of the soundtrack for the new animated 70s-themed Minions movie soundtrack featuring the veteran Motown singer, and the Australian band

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In 2022, dance, disco, funk, pop Tags Diana Ross, Tame Impala, Kevin Parker, Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew, Patrik Berger, Minions, film soundtrack
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Song of the Day: Lizzo - About Damn Time

April 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

What has Lizzo have in common with Stephen Hawking? They’re both about damn time

Song of the Day: It’s Friday, and about damn time some brand new disco funk - and who better to supply it than the colourful, charismatic American singer with a number that heralds her forthcoming new album, three years in the making

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In 2022, funk, pop Tags Lizzo, songs, song of the day, Universal
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Song of the Day: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges - B-Side (from Texas Moon EP)

February 26, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta

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Song of the Day: Seratones - Good Day

February 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Seratones, fronted by AJ Haynes

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming third album Love & Algorhythms, an upbeat, and truly uplifting positive fusion of pop, soul, funk and gospel by the soul-rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Out no New West Records

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Song of the Day: Fantastic Negrito - Highest Bidder

February 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Fantastic Negrito

Song of the Day: Fabulous mix of funk, blues and African influences in this ironic song by the flamboyant musician from Oakland, California about greed, excess, commodities and racial prejudice inspired in style by Taj Mahal’s idea of the “gods of Africa meeting the ghosts of Mississippi”

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In 2022, African, funk, pop, rock, blues Tags Fantastic Negrito, songs, song of the day, Storefront Records
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Song of the Day: Ibibio Sound Machine - All That You Want

February 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ibibio Sound Machine

Song of the Day: It really it all anyone might want too. Excellent new electro-pop afro-funk by the London band fronted by Eno Williams from their forthcoming album Electricity, out on Merge Records and produced by Hot Chip

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Song of the Day: Lucius - Next to Normal

February 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Lucius’s LP Second Nature, out on 8 April

Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album Second Nature, superbly funky disco pop by the LA-based quartet fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, about dealing with grief, paranoia and depression, but how it is help by being in the right company

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Song of the Day: Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In

January 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Melt Yourself Down’s latest single

Song of the Day: A single o blistering pace and riff released a couple of months ago by the London band that fuses jazz, punk, jazz, funk and North African influences, led by tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and joined by vocalist Kushal Gaya

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In 2021, African, funk, jazz, punk Tags Melt Yourself Down, Pete Wareham, Kushai Gaya, Ben Hillier, songs, song of the day, Decca, Universal
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Song of the Day: The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam

December 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton

The Lazy Eyes

Song of the Day: “I want it all to be OK”. Thumpingly fun, psych-rock-funk number, streaked with insanely catchy riffs and bassline and dreamy vocals by the Sydney, Australia band from their forthcoming debut LP, following two EPs

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Song of the Day: Foals - Wake Me Up

December 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton

And then there were three: Foals

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album

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Song of the Day: Warmduscher - Wild Flowers

November 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Hitting the hot-spot: Warmduscher

Song of the Day: Sweary, grumbling grandiloquence by Clams Baker and co in a catchy piece of disco-funk where everything gets the finger with this new single by the mischievous collective ahead of their forthcoming fourth album

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Song of the Day: Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity

November 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Switched on: Ibibio Sound Machine

Song of the Day: Electronic pop and afro-funk combine in this Hot Chip-produced new single by the vibrant London band exploring the connection between people and the power resource, and through all of life’s complexities, why it’s a simple answer

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Song of the Day: Sam Evian - Knock Knock

September 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt

Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt

Song of the Day: The crisp, laid back, stylish, gentle funk of this single by the Brooklyn artist comes in a clever contrast to the seriousness of subject – a divided America facing a Capitol skirmish scandal and difficult schisms to deal with and heal

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Song of the Day: Horse Meat Disco and The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Sanctuary

September 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album

Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album

Song of the Day: Wonderfully dance-infectious, catchy retro mix of 70s disco and funk, this new Ray Mang Extended Remix of this title track number from the 2020 album Love & Dancing featuring the NYC band and the London DJ collective

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Song of the Day: TOKiMONSTA feat. Channel Tres – Naked

September 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton
TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California

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Song of the Day: Liv.e - _21

September 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Liv.e aka Olivia Williams

Liv.e aka Olivia Williams

Song of the Day: A gorgeous mix of funk, jazz, Latin shuffle and soul by the Dallas-raised, LA-based 23-year-old singer-songwriter (pronounced Liv) Olivia Williams from her new EP CWTTY+

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Song of the Day: Twin Shadow - Is There Any Love

August 12, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Twin Shadow

Twin Shadow

Song of the Day: Taken from the fourth, self-titled album by LA-based Dominican-American artist George Lewis Jr, this fabulously funky track puts out the big universal question with fresh, vivacious guitar riffs and touches of electronica

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Song of the Day: El Michels Affair - Murkit Gem (from Yeti Season)

August 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Yeti Season …

Yeti Season …

Song of the Day: A wonderfully oddball mix of funk, soul, hip hop, Turkish, Asian and jazz styles by the group founded by New York-based bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels, here about the famous mythical Himalayan creature, and featuring Hindi singer Piya Malik

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Song of the Day: Myd - Let You Speak

July 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Myd’s Born A Loser

Myd’s Born A Loser

Song of the Day: Catchy, eccentric ironic electro-pop by the French musician, record producer, singer, sound engineer and DJ Quentin Lepoutre, from his debut album Born A Loser, out on Ed Banger and Because 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 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 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 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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