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Song of the Day: Say She She - C'est Si Bon

June 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Say She She - C'est Si Bon

Song of the Day: Written in classic hot summer 70s disco, funk and soul vibe, complete with cheeky tinkly bell, a tribute to that era’s club culture with a flavours of Paris, London and New York’s Chic by the Brooklyn female-led band. Out on Colemine Records

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Song of the Day: Ash Walker - Time Gets Wasted (featuring Denitia and Sly5thAve)

May 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ash Walker

Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals

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Song of the Day: Jessie Ware - Begin Again

April 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessie Ware - Begin Again

Song of the Day: The British singer-songwriter’s luxuriant latest return comes in a wonderfully opulent and upbeat mix of disco, pop, funk, soul and gospel with brass, and heralds her forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled That! Feels Good!

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Song of the Day: McKinley Dixon - Run, Run, Run

April 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

McKinley Dixon’s forthcoming album - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

Song of the Day: Slick, catchy soul and hip-hop with a serious message about gun culture and youth by the multi-talented musician from Richmond, Virginia, from his forthcoming fourth album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? out on City Slang in June

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Song of the Day: La Féline - Dancing

April 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

La Féline’s latest album, Tarbes

Song of the Day: Smooth, supercool, catchy French disco pop and funk for a Saturday by Lyon’s singer-songwriter Agnès Gayraud, also French philosopher and journalist who graces a range of styles

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Song of the Day: Sirens of Lesbos - Easy

April 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sirens of Lesbos

Song of the Day: “Let’s make this easy you need someone to love you when the leaves come down.” The latest single the Swiss quintet is a beautifully lilting, soulful, mellow love song with a subtle country flavour

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Song of the Day: Meshell Ndegeocello - Virgo

March 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Meshell Ndegeocello’s Virgo

Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist

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Song of the Day: Alan Braxe - Never Coming Back (featuring Annie)

March 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alan Braxe and Friends - The Upper Cuts

Song of the Day: Sensual, crisp, classic late-70s /early 80s retro-style funk and electro-pop by the French electronica musician and producer Alain Quême, joined here on vocals Anne Berge Strand, from his album The Upper Cuts, out on Smugglers Way

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In 2023, disco, electronica, funk, pop Tags Alan Braxe, Alain Quême, Smugglers Way Records
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Song of the Day: The Blessed Madonna - We Still Believe

February 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Going back to go forward: The Blessed Madonna’s new version of We Still Believe

Song of the Day: Fabulously uplifting celebration of inclusive club culture and rejection of intolerance and fascism with in new version of an older track by the American DJ, producer and musician Marea Stamper, joined by Chicago house legend Jamie Principle

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Song of the Day: Antony Szmierek - Rock and a Calm Place

January 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From Antony Szmierek’s video for Rock and a Calm Place

Song of the Day: Wonderfully wry, witty, catchy and uplifting fusion of disco and hop hop by the Manchester poet in this upbeat interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus, in which pushing that eternal metaphorical rock up the hill can have benefits

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - Afro Dizzy

November 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

A Certain Ratio’s next album, 1982, is out in 2023

Song of the Day: The legendary Manchester post-punk band continue to roll out wonderfully vibrant new singles, and the latest from their forthcoming new album, 1982, is a mix of Afrobeat funk and jazz and fizzy keyboards, with vocalist Ellen Beth Abdi

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Song of the Day: Barry Can't Swim - Like The Old Days

November 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Barry (aka Joshua) with grandad and dog …

Song of the Day: A deliciously twinkly piano, nostalgic disco number by the Edinburgh-born, London-based producer Joshua Mainnie, harking back to his childhood days and the time when, age 9, his grandad bought a piano

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Song of the Day: Magdalena Bay - Unconditional

October 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Magdalena Bay’s Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Young Gun Silver Fox, further rich, luxuriant synth-pop funk with a spacey, dreamy feel by LA-based Florida duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin from their latest album Mercurial World (Deluxe), out on Luminelle

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Song of the Day: Young Gun Silver Fox - Rolling Back

October 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Andy Platts and Shawn Lee

Song of the Day: Rolling Back by name, rolling back by nature – lush, smooth, rich 70s-style sun-kissed funk and soul with an entertaining space-themed video by the duo of Andy Platts (of Mamas Gun) and Shawn Lee forthcoming studio fourth album Ticket To Shangri La

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Song of the Day: Willie J Healey - Dreams

October 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Willie J Healey: crossing with to new direction

Song of the Day: After 2020’s acclaimed Twin Heavy album, this time the Oxford singer-songwriter returns, this time inspired by funk, Philadelphia soul and R&B, with a still very tuneful new direction with a single from the forthcoming album Bunny, out next year on Yala! Records

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Song of the Day: Wooze – Cowardly Custard

September 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Wooze’s Theo Spark and Jamie She

Song of the Day: Channelling deep-voiced 80s pop, funk, rock and new wave from Heaven 17 to Bowie to the Human League, this anarchically fun new single by the colourful core vocal Korean/British duo of Theo Spark (guitars) and Jamie She (drums) comes from rom their latest EP The Magnificent Eleven

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Song of the Day: Louis Cole – I'm Tight

August 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght

Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion

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Song of the Day: Nick Hakim – Happen

August 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nick Hakim returns with his smoothly refined sound

Song of the Day: A deliciously mellow, honey-smooth and beautifully refined funk number by the Brooklyn-based musician, taken from his from the forthcoming album COMETA out on 21 October 21 on ATO Records

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Song of the Day: Jitwam - Stranger Danger (In The Streets Of Life)

August 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jiitwam’s latest album, Third

Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream

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Song of the Day: Oscar Jerome – Berlin 1

August 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Oscar Jerome

Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming new album The Spoon, strangely compelling, momentum-building funk and soul with an original twist by the South London’s Norwich-born singer-songwriter and jazz guitarist

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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 2026

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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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