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What has Lizzo have in common with Stephen Hawking? They’re both about damn time
Song of the Day: It’s Friday, and about damn time some brand new disco funk - and who better to supply it than the colourful, charismatic American singer with a number that heralds her forthcoming new album, three years in the making
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IVVVO - Bleached Butterfly album cover
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Butterflies by Wunderhorse, another flutter now with this striking electronica and guitar title track from a new album by Portuguese artist and Terrain Ahead label founder Ivo Pacheco, here with singer Abyss X aka Evangelia Lachianina
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Jacob Slater aka Wunderhorse
Song of the Day: After a series of blue and other colour-themed SOTDs, time to take flight with blue butterflies and an intensely emotional new track suffused with rich guitars and a Pink Floyd feel by the London artist also known as Jacob Slater
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Karma chameleon: from the video for Léa Sen - I Feel Like I'm Blue
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-run of blue- and other colour-themed Songs of the Day, and following her previous single Hyasynth, a slow, sensual new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter from her forthcoming EP You Of Now Pt. 1, out 20 May 2022 on Partisan Records
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Eda Eren’s new release remix
Song of the Day: Continuing on from a trio of blue-themed songs, a new mix by the jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats (NK-OK and Mr DM) of a catchy fusion of disco, jazz and hip-hop about mood and songwriting by the London artist
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Iraina Mancini
Song of the Day: After BATTS and Billy Nomates, a blue-themed trilogy is completed the London singer-songwriter and DJ in a sparklingly optimistic song co-written with Jagz Kooner inspired by 70s psychedelic soul and decorated with brass, strings and Iraina’s soaring vocals
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Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health
Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records
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BATTS aka Tanya Batt
Song of the Day: A beautiful slow-burning new number suffused grief but also hope, from Melbourne singer-songwriter Tanya Batt, duetting here with Sharon Van Etten, whom she supported in Australia, both voices sublimely complementary
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Jockstrap
Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye
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Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …
Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records
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Sunny disposition: Yves Jarvis
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming fourth album The Zug out on 13 May, a delightful sunny acoustic number about self-development as a musician by the Canadian experimental pop artist Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet, previously known as Un Blonde
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Gretel Hänlyn
Song of the Day: The latest in a series of ear-catching indie-pop singles from the London singer-songwriter with a deep, rich, distinctive voice, is about holding back in social situations and becoming aware the only obstacle is yourself
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Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece
Song of the Day: A supremely beautiful new track featuring the unmistakable voice of former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser working here with her partner Damon Reece, with rippling synths, guitar and drums, and taken from the forthcoming EP Sun's Signature, out 18 June on Partisan Records
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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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C Duncan
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union
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Artwork for Oh Stephanie by Stubborn Heart
Song of the Day: From third in their Out of Our Hands series of releases, the London pair of Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald’s Electronic Soul Music number is a beguiling piece of melancholy synth pop
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