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Voracious sound: Big Special
Song of the Day: Punchy, witty, searing post-punk abounds in this brilliant new single by the mischievously named duo comprising singer and Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney from Walsall in the Midlands. Out on SO Recordings
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Image from La Battue’s latest album, Farrago
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful in vocals and synths, but filled with restless, protesting, lyrical anguish, a newly released electro-pop number by the French band from Rennes, taken from their latest album, Farrago, released earlier this year on Parapente
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Divorce’s new EP, Heady Metal
Song of the Day: Heralding their new EP, Heady Metal, a beguiling, beautifully melodic alternative synth-pop love song by the alt-country/indie Nottingham quartet with a metaphor about revealing your less attractive side
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Marika Hackman returns with a double-edged health kick: No Caffeine
Song of the Day: This engaging, sweet-sounding new indie single by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist feels initially like some upbeat health manual, but it is dark and edgy – “rattling off tactics to prevent a panic attack while likening her anxiety to an abusive partner”
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Haiku Hands
Song of the Day: Punch-the-air, life-affirming electro-pop by the band from Sydney, Australia, taken the taken from the forthcoming new album, Pleasure Beast, out 1 December on Spinning Top Records
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Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records
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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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Tiberius B’s latest EP - DIN
Song of the Day: Taken from the latest EP, DIN, the London-based artist Frank Belcourt’s track is beautiful experimental pop with fabulous drums and a tuneful homage to trans beauty
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Animal attraction: FIZZ
Song of the Day: Oozing energy and fun, and building from a quiet start to to ironic, grand crescendos, a stirring new indie-pop number filled with sparkling vocals and instrumentation by the effervescent quartet comprising Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland, dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown
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Anna Erhard measures hits a new high of 170cm
Sweeping Promises’ new album, Good Living Is Coming For You
Song of the Day: Taken from their recently released album Good Living Is Coming For You, fantastically punchy, catchy, witty early-80s-style post-punk by the band comprising Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug from Lawrence, Kansas
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: After last year’s Polyawkward EP and other excellent releases, the Leeds-based post-punk indie band return with a clever, sharp song with lyrics by frontwoman Lily Fontaine about the contradictions of growing up in Pendle, Lancashire
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Whitney’s new single, Kansas
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful, poetic fusion of Americana, country and 70s-style folk with lovely vocal harmonies by the Chicago band of Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and co, following last year’s fourth album, Spark. Out on Secretly Canadian
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Orla Gartland
Song of the Day: Superb, punchy, driving, witty indie-pop in this eccentric, double-edged love song by the talented and charismatic Irish singer-songwriter who first gained huge acclaim via her YouTube channel
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eee gee - School Reunion
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll but resplendent soaring Abba-like pop by the Brooklyn-based Danish singer-songwriter Emma Grankvist who seamlessly merges humorous irony and fabulous melody. With a fabulously disturbing video to match, it’s another single from her forthcoming new album, She-Rex
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Lutalo’s forthcoming new EP, AGAIN
Song of the Day: Distinctive, introspective, original, ear-catching indie-folk-fuzz-rock by the Vermont-based musician Lutalo Jones, taken fro his forthcoming EP, AGAIN, released on 25 August via Winspear Records
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Incoming and outgoing: The Antlers - Tide
Song of the Day: Gentle, acoustic and unusually beautiful, a new experimental number the Brooklyn duo of Peter Silberman and Michael Lerner, identifying natural phases over a lifetime with an oceanic metaphorical theme
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Lol Tolhurst, Budgie and Jacknife Lee
Song of the Day: “LA eats its children.” Superbly punchy, rhythmic title track with caustic, striking lyrics about the US city from the forthcoming album a supergroup trio of the ex-Cure drummer, Siouxsie drummer, producer joined by the LCD Soundsystem frontman
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Gemma Rogers
Song of the Day: A tasty fusion of summer pop and gentle reggae by the London artist in a languid, cheery sounding but seriously deadpan song responding to how government takes about civil liberties in an underhand but also blatant form of social control
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Viji’s album, So Vanilla is out on 27 October
Song of the Day: Addictively thrumming, punchy fuzz-guitar indie pop by the London-based Austrian-Brazilian artist Vanilla Jenner with another excellent single out on Speedy Wunderground produced by Dan Carey
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