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Crazy again: Beth Ditto and co are back …
Song of the Day: With a thrumming bass but also a notably tender and catchy love song, the Arkansas-formed indie trio fronted by the charismatic Beth Ditto return after more than a decade away to herald a new album, Real Power, produced by Rick Rubin
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Annie Dressner: 18 Years
Song of the Day: Bright, uplifting and elegantly shuffling in sound, but melancholy in lyrics – a classic combination – this new single by the New York folk-pop singer-songwriter is about self-recrimination:“You have nothing and no one but yourself to blame”
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Dutch Uncles - At The Wheel
Song of the Day: Taut, tight, restrained, this classy, gently funky indie pop number is new by the quartet from Marple, south of Manchester, and follows their album released earlier this year, True Entertainment, out on Memphis Industries
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MGMT’s forthcoming album, Loss of Life
Song of the Day: Heralding their first album in six years and their fifth overall – Loss Of Life – out in February,2024, a couple of gentle, but poignant and powerful metaphorical animal numbers by the American neo-psychedelic rock and experimental pop band
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Cover of Future Islands’ forthcoming album People Who Aren't There Anymore
Song of the Day: A poignant, vivid, uplifting, gently tuneful new electro-pop single by the Baltimore band fronted by the inimitable Samuel T. Herring, taken from the forthcoming new album, People Who Aren't There Anymore, out on 26 January via 4AD
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Bolis Pupul’s debut solo album LETTER TO YU is out in March 2024
Song of the Day: Brilliantly clean sounding, evocative electro-pop with shades of Kraftwerk by the Belgian musician from Ghent, in a new song featuring Hong Kong field recordings and video to match, and heralding his forthcoming debut solo LP
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The Jesus And Mary Chain’s forthcoming new album, Glasgow Eyes
Song of the Day: The legendary East Kilbride alternative rock band returns with a spine-tingling, dark banger of a single heralding their forthcoming next album, Glasgow Eyes, out in March 2024 on Fuzz Club
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Ed Harcourt - Strange Beauty
Song of the Day: Heralding his next studio album, El Magnifico, the English singer-songwriter returns with classic, soaring, piano-based, romantic pop number “that uses visceral imagery to convey that classic old feeling of love and the immense power it has”
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Björk and Rosalía spar in the video
Song of the Day: The distinctively stylish Icelandic and Spanish stars combine on a soaring new track about uncertain romance, with all funds raised going to the non-profit organisation AEGIS to combat and raise awareness of the dangers of open pen fish farming in Iceland
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Jacques - Absolve
Song of the Day: A beautifully original, gradually building, mesmerically experimental pop single by the Parisian artist, rich in strings and alternative sounds, with a fabulously odd video set in the Louvre gallery
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Formerly of Wild Beasts, Tom
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, harp-sweeping, soaring, poetic and full-voiced new single by the former Wild Beasts singer Tom Fleming with a poignant small-town vignette about childhood and adulthood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts in the aisles of supermarkets
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Dora Jar
Song of the Day: Wonderfully crisp, catchy, uplifting indie pop, in a song inspired by taking an internet break and feeling more alive, by the New York-based artist Dora Jarkowski from North Carolina
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Laetitia Sadier’s forthcoming album, Rooting For Love
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming next solo album, Rooting For Love, out in early 2024, an instantly recognisable sound of slick, smooth, effortlessly beautiful pop by the singer and co-founder of Stereolab
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Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Merseyside electro-pop artist returns with a slow, beautiful number about searching for joy and love, uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life
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TimlehyC Duncan - Just Like Clockwork
English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Julia Holter - Sun Girl
Song of the Day: A welcome return from the American singer-songwriter, whose last LP was 2018’s acclaimed Aviary, with a mesmeric, ethereal, experimental number featuring fragments of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, and fretless bass
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The Miserable Rich - Crows
Song of the Day: Perky piano pop with a dark undertone about nature’s apocalypse by the Brighton band inspired by the clever, mysterious, tool-using corvid species, heralding a first album in 13 years
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PREGOBLIN - Nobody Likes Me
Song of the Day: A welcome return from band fronted by south London’s Jessica Winter and Alex Sebley with luxuriant beautiful, melodious pop with their characteristically mischievously dark, humorous, bittersweet lyrics
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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