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Alex Izenberg’s forthcoming album I’m Not Here
Song of the Day: Eccentric, enigmatic but infectiously catchy like film musical number, with added woodwinds and wailing guitar, influences such as Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, this joyously odd single from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter comes from his forthcoming album I'm Not Here
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Destroyer’s forthcoming new album, Labyrinthitis
Song of the Day: Restless, catchy and a little irreverent, this second single from the forthcoming album Labyrinthitis by Dan Bejar from Vancouver features his distinctive vocal delivery underpinned by jazz intro then a infectious funk disco beat
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Kevin Devine’s forthcoming album Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong
Song of the Day: Breezy, catchy indie disco pop with this second single off from the upcoming tenth record, Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong by the singer-songwriter from Staten Island who describes this as “a dance song for wallflowers, body music for the brain …”
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Mxmtoon posing as muse for someone’s potential song
Song of the Day: Bright, catchy, summer-breezy, lo-fi by the 21-year-old YouTuber, ukulele player and bedroom pop star singer-songwriter aka Maia from Oakland California, with a love song playing on the idea of being muse – inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting
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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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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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Sharon Van Etten
Song of the Day: This powerful new standalone synth-pop single by the exceptionally voiced American singer-songwriter is a cathartic number about fighting depression, paranoia, self-doubt and a sense of dissociation, of feeling “not connected to my body”
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Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
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Helena Deland
Song of the Day: Stark, emotional and exquisite new single by the Vancouver-born, Montreal-based singer-songwriter with lyrics that touch on human fragility and mutability amid the crashing, timeless waves, all accompanied by a stunning video
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Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station
Song of the Day: A beautifully understated, melancholy piano-and-voice-only new song from Canadian Tamara Lindeman, taken from the forthcoming album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars out on 4 March on Fat Possum Records
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Dot Allison
Song of the Day: A nicely alternative, dark, spooky number for Valentine’s Day by the sensual voiced Scottish singer-songwriter and seasoned collaborator, here with a fabulous dub-reggae remix version that was the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s final project before his death last summer
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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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Léa Sen
Song of the Day: A sensual, dreamy sun-kissed new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter and producer that touches on loses sanity but is also about wanting to grow and handle life with more wisdom
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Alewya’s EP Panther In Mode
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Panther In Mode, a sensual, powerful fusion of soul, reggae and other roots music by the charismatic London singer, here celebrating her African heritage, out on Because London Records
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Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr
Song of the Day: After Rheinzand’s Elefantasi and Röksopp’s dream-like fantasy, further ethereal and sea cow creatural wonder in the form of the Chicago band’s beautiful new single, following their last year’s album -io, out on Matador Records
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Dreamscape: Röyksopp’s new album Profound Mysteries
Song of the Day: Taken from the Norwegian electronic duo’s forthcoming album Profound Mysteries, out on 29 April on Dog Triumph Records, this serene, dreamy new single features Goldfrapp’s soaring, high, breathy, sensual vocals
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Rheinzand’s forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis, and released originally in Danish, but with French, Italian, English, Spanish and Dutch versions, with images of fantasy pink elephants, pills, mushrooms an more, catchy disco electro-pop number is “about drugs and good times, but also about hangovers, loneliness, and a twist of identity crisis.” It is decorated with wonderful string flourishes and rising swells of sound.
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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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The eyes have it: rom the video for Yumi Zouma’s In The Eyes Of Our Love
Song of the Day: Uplifting, catchy new alt-pop by the New Zealand band taken from the forthcoming fourth studio album, Present Tense, out on 18 March on Polyvinyl Record Co. and Play It Again Sam, Australia
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Mysterious spheres: the cover of Darkside’s 2021 album, Spiral
Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, mesmeric, guitar crackling, ticking, ghostly number with elements of Fat White Family, krautrock and blues, from the New York duo of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, taken from sessions for their last year’s album, Spiral
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