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Song of the Day: Low Girl - No Reasons

August 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Low Girl’s upcoming album Is It Too Late To Freak Out

Song of the Day: Vibrant, restless, sprawling, turbulent, simmeringly angry indie-fuzz-pop about a messy breakup in this latest single by the British band fronted by Sarah Cosgrove, heralding their debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out, due out on 22 October via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Whitmer Thomas - Bronco Buster

August 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitmer Thomas

Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series

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Song of the Day: Westside Cowboy - Drunk Surfer

August 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Westside Cowboy’s debut EP This Better Be Something Great

Song of the Day: Dynamic, powerful, passionate, stop-start and soaring indie-rock by the Manchester band, taken from their debut EP This Better Be Something Great, out now on Heist or Hit / Nice Swan Records

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Song of the Day: Olivia Barton - Matter To You

August 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Olivia Barton’s upcoming album Myself and For You.

Song of the Day: Gentle, reflective indie-folk number of candid, unrequited love and yearning by the singer-songwriter from Orlando, Florida, heralding her forthcoming next album For Myself and For You, out on 10 October

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Song of the Day: Dutch Mustard - Life

August 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dutch Mustard - Life

Song of the Day: Blistering indie rock by the London-based trio fronted by the Amsterdam artist Sarah-Jayne Riedel about that sinking feeling of heartbreak you see coming, but want to at least temporarily dip out of, out on DM Records

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Song of the Day: Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

August 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

Song of the Day: Joined on co-lead vocals Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante, the acclaimed, flamboyant American experimental psych, rock, soul and pop performer aka Sean Lee Bowie returns with a a punchy indie rock number with some shades of the Cure, and their first release since 2023, out on Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Tuxis Giant - Days

July 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tuxis Giant’s upcoming album You Won’t Remember This

Song of the Day: Beautifully intricate guitar work and a catchy melody by the Boston and Brooklyn indie-folk band fronted by Matt O’Connor whose songs candidly and sensitively capture themes such as selective tricks of memory and their gender journey, taken from their forthcoming album, You Won’t Remember This, out on 15 August via Worry Bead Records

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Song of the Day: Snõõper - Worldwide

July 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Snõõper

Song of the Day: Frenetic, stomping, bass-heavy, angular guitar and catchy post-punk with echoes of Leeds’ Delta 5 by the Nashville band in this title track from their forthcoming new album, out on 3 October via Third Man Records

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Song of the Day: The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September

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Song of the Day: Flock of Dimes - Long After Midnight

July 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Flock of Dimes aka Jenn Wasner

Song of the Day: Beautiful gentle bittersweet acoustic single by the Baltimore indie musician and singer-songwriter aka Jenn Wasner heralding her upcoming new album, The Life You Save out on 10 October, via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: Tame Impala - End of Summer

July 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Tame Impala’s End of Summer

Song of the Day: In a change from the tuneful, psychedelic indie-pop of previous work, Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker channels his creativity into a hybrid of electronic dance music, with shades of the acid house era of 1989, as well as Underworld and beyond, with his first release on Columbia Records

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Song of the Day: Whitney - Dandelions

July 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitney - Dandelions

Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Jeff Tweedy - One Tiny Flower

July 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jeff Tweedy’s upcoming album Twilight Override

Song of the Day: This eclectic, cross-rhythmic but beautiful evocative folk-rock single by the Wilco frontman is whimsical tale of a man who trips over a flower and dies, yet also celebrates the power of nature, and heralds his upcoming triple solo album, Twilight Override, out on 26 September via dBpm Records

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Song of the Day: The Charlatans - We Are Love

July 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Charlatans - We Are Love

Song of the Day: An upbeat jangly, melodic return from the now veteran and enduring 90s British indie rock band fronted by Tim Burgess, with beautiful guitars and positive lyrics in this title track heralding their upcoming album out on 31 October on BMG

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Song of the Day: Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

July 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

Song of the Day: The Michigan-based band formerly known as Kingfisher herald their upcoming debut album under the new name with this unusual, passionately stirring and sprightly chamber-pop-jazz-indie-pop single with added strings and brass

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Song of the Day: Emma Harner - Yes Man

July 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma Harner

Song of the Day: A classy, clever new folk-pop number about defying a toxic relationship, featuring with intricate arpeggiated guitar playing by the singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, taken from her recent debut EP Taking My Side

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Song of the Day: Indigo De Souza – Be Like the Water

July 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Indigo De Souza’s upcoming album, Precipice

Song of the Day: Candid, crisp, beautiful and sensitive new single by the singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Precipice, out on 25 July via Loma Vista

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Song of the Day: Geese - Taxes

July 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Geese - Taxes

Song of the Day: With the distinctive ghostly wail of Cameron Winter’s voice and tribal drumming, a truly alternative sound by the New York band, heralding the upcoming third album Getting Killed, out on 26 September via Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Home Counties - Humdrum

July 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Home Counties’ upcoming album, Humdrum

Song of the Day: Bristling with anxiety and dry wit, social misfires, self-sabotage and success-envy, a striking, sardonic, synth-heavy, distinctive new single the London six-piece band in the title track from their next album, produced by Al Doyle of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, and out on 24 October via Submarine Cat Records

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Song of the Day: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

July 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Of Monsters and Men - Television Love

Song of the Day: The Icelandic indie-folk-rock band’s first single for five years is a dynamic, crescendo building number video capturing the strangeness of an Icelandic summer night and expressing a conversation moving between time and space, past and present, out on Skarkali Records / Virgin

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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026

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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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