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Manipulations … from the video for Proxima by The God in Hackney
Song of the Day: Eclectic, eccentric and ironic, British alt-rock with complex percussion, driving bass line, stirring horn section and powerful buildup is some of the latest ‘prehistoric future music’ from new album Small Country Eclipse
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From the cover of Fragile X’s new EP, Lifetime
Song of the Day: A change of pace into a new collaboration between producer Dylan Chase (Caffeine Worldwide) and vocalist Inga Schunn is a vibrant mix of deep house beats, keyboards and flute, out on Bouquet Records
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From the cover of Polly Scattergood’s 2020 album, In This Moment
Song of the Day: Detailed description, fevered imagination, driving momentum, narrative style and dark intensity by the alternative electro-pop artist from Wivenhoe, Essex mark this title track from her latest, third album out on Future Paradise
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Kama Vardi. Photograph: Goni Riskin
Song of the Day: Sunny but bittersweet, this new folk-pop song infused with French new-wave is by the Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, with a theme based on the idea that while you may find love and a home, it could also cause others suffering
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The ever practical Yard Act
Song of the Day: For all the Saturday DIYers, a jaunty, cheeky cocksure and catchy number by the band from Leeds about a fictional, but familiar character, Graeme, who tells us about a second property he’s currently doing up
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Widowspeak: Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas
Song of the Day: With a bass line to die for, and guitar riff and vocal that trips effortlessly around a beat, this number from Brooklyn pair Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas’s new album Plum, has a wry double edge and a dash of menace
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Djo aka Joe Keery
Song of the Day: A fabulous, fizzling, funky Friday number to lift sprits is today’s pick by the artist also known as Joe Keery, and is very much in the style of Parliament and early Prince, with oodles of high vocals, sizzling synth and brass
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Janelle Monáe in the video for Turntables
Song of the Day: Is change coming? A punchy, funky, powerful new number by the American star that has a weighty political element, and part of the soundtrack to a new documentary out now before the US elections – All In: The Fight For Democracy
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Greentea Peng aka Aria Wells
Song of the Day: A beautiful fusion of gentle Spanish, Erykah Badu-inspired soul, bossa nova and psychedelic R&B from the south London artist also known as Aria Wells, inspired by a Mexican-Mayan phrase related to identity
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Marie Davidson, Asaël R. Robitaille and Pierre Guerineau
Sumptuous, strutting, sexy synth funk-pop of talky-singing in the form of feminist, political defiance by the trio of old Montreal friends with 80s and 90s-style echoes of Handsome Boy Modelling School, Abba and Grace Jones
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Song of the Day: A double set of titular pairs from the Netherlands singer-songwriter, whose style is a beautifully eerie and ethereal, silky voiced indie pop. Her EP This Is Not.A Democracy, out on AT EASE, is due for release in September
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Working Men’s Club
Song of the Day: Following Mariana Trench by Bright Eyes, another kind of geological metaphor in the form of old-school northern electro-pop by the young band from West Yorkshire, inspired by the venue Hebdon Bridge Trades Club
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From the cover art of Bright Eyes’ new album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Song of the Day: Delving deep into natural disasters, mass surveillance and the extreme relief of humanity’s tiny place in a much bigger planetary history, this single comes from the first new Bright Eyes album for a decade, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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Laetitia Acra aka Japan, Man
Song of the Day: Smooth, silky, lilting laid-back pop-funk of amazing maturity from the 15-year-old singer from Beirut, aka Laetitia Acra, from her new EP The Bad Days, on waiting to leave home but feeling composed enough to bide her time
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Ayoni
Song of the Day: Exquisite, soaring lead vocals and harmonies from the Barbadas-born, LA-based soulful singer-songwriter on this acoustic new track that captures the traumas and experience of being a black woman
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This Is The Kit’s new single, taken from the forthcoming album Off Off On out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Wonderfully sprightly acoustic new single by the band fronted by British artist Kate Staples. The finger-picked banjo and clever lyrical structure captures a growing feeling of panic and directionless blame
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Astral Swans’ new single
Song of the Day: Fowl play? A bright, beautifully catchy number of darkly humorous self-loathing and paranoia, the Canadian artist imagining being mocked by local birdlife, all inspired by a wintertime walk through Amsterdam’s Vondelpark
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Millennium Culkin and Hazy James aka Birds Of Pandaemonium
Song of the Day: Seeking the positive in the face of the inevitable, this thuddingly ethereal, transcendent psychedelic debut by Brooklyn’s Millennium Culkin and Hazy James has hints of Echo & The Bunnymen and Mark Lanegan
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David and Katie Pope from The Just Joans (Photo by Allan Whyte)
Song of the Day: Two brilliantly delivered, drily humorous tracks by the Glaswegian band from their most recent album, focusing on the paradox of suffocating city summer life, and insecure youths kicking off into mindless violence
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Sondre Lerche’s 11th studio album, Patience
Song of the Day: Simply uplifting, timeless, classic piano- and guitar-based pop songwriting from the Norwegian artist now based in LA, with syncopated rhythms and a soaring vocal is taken from his recent album, Patience
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