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Song of the Day: Kit Sebastian - Metropolis

August 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kit Sebasian’s new album New Internationale is out in September via Brain Feeder Records

Song of the Day: Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth

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Song of the Day: Father John Misty - I Guess Time Makes Fools Of Us All

August 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Father John Misty’s Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl, out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl

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Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - High

July 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jorja Smith - High

Song of the Day: The silky-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall in the West Midlands latest single strong, self-healing, soulful, rhythmical dance track, one she describes as “about finding a friend within myself, even through the lows, you have to find the highs”

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Song of the Day: Karen O and Danger Mouse - Super Breath

July 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Danger Mouse and Karen O

Song of the Day: A stylish new, restlessly lovestruck single by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer and the acclaimed producer aka Brian Burton, heralding a special reissue of duo’s 2019 LP, Lux Prima, which will be re-released on 19 September

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Song of the Day: Thandii - Call It What You Like

July 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Thandii’s forthcoming album, Come As You

Song of the Day: Quirky, clever, eclectic, percussive, alternative and inventively experimental electro-pop from the Margate partner duo and seasoned touring musicians Jessica Berry and Graham Godfrey, also heralding their forthcoming albums Come As You/ Dream With You out in September

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Song of the Day: Joan As Police Woman - Long For Ruin / Back Again

July 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Joan As Police Woman aka Joan Wasser

Song of the Day: A wonderful and welcome return by the NY multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Joan Wasser, with a song that seeks reconciliation of a dissolved romantic relationship, inspired by the styles of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, mixes soul, funk, pop and prog, and is second single from her forthcoming album Lemons, Limes & Orchids

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Song of the Day: Dafna - Love Bomb (from album The Paradox of Choice)

July 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dafna’s recent album, The Paradox of Choice

Song of the Day: Catchy 80s-inspired synth-pop with echoes of A-ha and Toni Basil by the Boulder-Colorado singer-songwriter Dafna Margalit of Israeli heritage, taken from her excellent latest album The Paradox of Choice, released in May

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Song of the Day: Juniore - Méditerranée

July 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Juniore’s next album, Trois, Deux, Un – out on 13 September

Song of the Day: Perfect for a sweltering July summer weekend, sensual French pop with images of seashore, pebbles, naked flesh and the Mediterranean Sea by the sophisticated Parisian indie 60s-style band, heralding their forthcoming album TROIS, DEUX, UN, out on 13 September

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Song of the Day: Cornershop - Double Denim

July 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cornershop - Double Denim

Song of the Day: The British experimental indie rock band of Tjinder Singh, Ben Ayres and co return with a craftily catchy, perky, quirky summer single of patterns and shapes with a new version featuring the breezy vocals of Italian film star Rosanna alongside crisp, retro electronica, staccato guitar riffs and taut bass and percussion

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Song of the Day: Pom Pom Squad - Downhill

July 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The falling feeling: Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad

Song of the Day: Catchy, breezy, yet also anxious indie rock-pop from the Brooklyn-based band of singer Mia Berrin, in a song about the push-pull between those opposing sides her introvert-extrovert personality and the ambition can sometimes feel self-destructive

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Song of the Day: Field Music - Six Weeks, Nine Wells

July 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Field Music’s forthcoming album, Limits of Language

Song of the Day: After various side projects, Sunderland’s innovative alt-pop makers, the Brewis brothers David and Peter return with their first new music as Field Music for over three years and a single of synths and an absolutely gorgeous, stirring chorus

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Song of the Day: Bad Moves - Hallelujah

July 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Bad Moves’ forthcoming album Wearing Out The Refrain

Song of the Day: A catchy, upbeat social protest number by the Washington DC indie pop band about curtailed freedom of speech, prejudice and social division from religion, taken from the forthcoming new album Wearing Out The Refrain, out on Don Giovanni Records

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Song of the Day: Longplayer - My Dreams of You

July 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

That floating feeling: from the video for Longplayer’s My Dreams Of You

Song of the Day: Sunny, wistful, nostalgic rock in a classic, swooning, smooth 70s style, written, recorded and produced by Mikey Long, the guitarist of US folk-rock band Drugdealer, with his new project.

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Song of the Day: Du Blonde - Blame

July 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Du Blonde’s latest look

Song of the Day: Following 2021’s Homecoming album, the multi-talented Beth Jeans Houghton returns with an angry, catchy rock number about long-time-coming explosion of rage and defiance in the face of gaslighting within an interpersonal relationship

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Song of the Day: Alex Izenberg - An Obscured Odyssey / The Wraith Behind Our Eyes

July 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Alex Izenberg. Photo: Giraffe Studios

Song of the Day: Delicious, swooning, beautifully gentle melodies and subtle elements of country and psychedelia distinguish this pair of singles by the Los Angeles artist, heralding his forthcoming fourth LP, Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, out on 26th July via Weird World / Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Clothesline From Hell - You Don't Know

July 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Clothesline From Hell’s upcoming EP< Soon We’ll All Be Smoking

Song of the Day: A mesmeric new single that builds momentum with syncopated drum beats, reversed vocals, intricate riffs and an alluring voice by the Toronto indie-bedroom-pop artist Adam LaFramboise, taken from his upcoming EP Soon We’ll All Be Smoking

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Song of the Day: Clairo - Sexy to Someone

June 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Clairo’s forthcoming album, Charm

Song of the Day: Smooth, sensual, wistful pop by the singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, Claire Cottrill, with rippling flutes, piano, mellotron, synths, percussion and organ, taken from her forthcoming album, Charm, out in July on Clairo Records, co-written also and produced by Leon Michels

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Song of the Day: The Japanese House - :)

June 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Amber Bain

Song of the Day: Sprightly, upbeat, tender country-flavoured pop about the joy and romantic excitement of meeting a female stranger in this smiley-symbol titled new single by the British singer-songwriter Amber Bain, and out on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot - For the Time Being

June 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot )…

Song of the Day: Taken from his brand new EP, The Raptor, magnificently melodious, eclectic, catchy, witty, indie 80s-style electro-pop about being present in the moment by the London-based enigmatic alien alias of former Baxendale frontman Tim Benton, with gloriously infectious chorus qualities of Pet Shop Boys and Pulp

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Song of the Day: Imogen and the Knife - Red (Is My Colour)

June 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Imogen and the Knife - Red (Is My Colour)

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sensual, simmering and powerful number by the British singer-songwriter Imogen Williams, about legacy, womanhood and learned behaviour that shapes the degradation of women, asking what it would mean to start again without any influence of heritage or structures

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New Albums …

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Apr 29, 2026
Sam Grassie: Where Two Hawks Fly
Apr 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful debut LP by the London-based Glaswegian fingerstyle folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, with added saxophone, double bass, flute, clairsach and clarinet in a release of mostly the traditional, covers, sung or instrumental, and supported by the Bert Jansch Foundation

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Irmin Schmidt: Requiem
Apr 29, 2026

New album: A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Gia Margaret: Singing
Apr 28, 2026

New album: Gently profound, and full of wondrous, mesmeric, slow, delicate experimental songs, this simple title has a powerful resonance – it is the Chicago artist’s first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer (there have been two instrumental LPs since), having suffered and recovered from a severe vocal injury, she returns with a delicate, candid, whispery but hauntingly beautiful delivery

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Angelo De Augustine: Angel in Plainclothes
Apr 28, 2026

New album: A beautiful, delicate fifth LP from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, friend and collaborator with Sufjan Stevens with whom he shares a stylistic resemblance, here with themes on life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Carla dal Forno: Confession
Apr 28, 2026

New album: This lo-fi, darkly minimalist but also oddly candid fourth LP by the Australian, Castlemaine-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist centres on the conflicted, obsessive feelings about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way”, and “an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire.”

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Friko: Something Worth Waiting For
Apr 26, 2026

New album: Passionate, powerful, dynamic indie rock in this sophomore LP by the Chicago-based quartet that gallops forwards with a driving momentum, some elements of early PJ Harvey and Radiohead, and is produced by John Congleton

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
White Denim: 13
Apr 26, 2026

New album: This 13th LP in two decades by the Austin, Texas rock band fronted by James Petralli has a particularly mischievous experimentalism, spreading styles far beyond breathlessly paced prog rock, with wrily humorous, surreal, personal and passionate numbers across heavy funk, dub, soul, psyche, country, dirty blues and more, joined by host of outstanding extra musicians

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Hukwe Zawose Foundation: Asili ya Mama
Apr 24, 2026

New album: Wonderfully evocative field recordings release of Wagogo, Waluguru and Wasambaa Tanzanian women singing traditional songs in their villages, rarely heard outside of their own circles, the title is translated as The Origin of Mother, rich in stories and capturing the place where song is first learned, first felt, first shared

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig
Apr 23, 2026

New album: Four decades since their self-titled debut, Brooklyn alternative rockers John Flansburgh and John Linnell return with their 24th LP, packed with of punchy, pacy, wistful, whimsical, clever wordplay and indie rock-pop, buoyantly satirical and also a little world weary at times, they remain oddball, lively commentators on the ongoing absurdity of life

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Eaves Wilder: Little Miss Sunshine
Apr 22, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Honey Dijon: The Nightlife
Apr 22, 2026

New album: The irrepressible, prolific and charismatic London-based Chicago DJ, musician, producer and vinyl lover returns with a flamboyantly fun celebration of club and queer culture through the prism of dance music from disco to house, with a wide variety of guest vocalists

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Tiga: HOTLIFE
Apr 21, 2026

New album: Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
TOMORA: Come Closer
Apr 20, 2026

New album: A striking, dynamic collaboration between Norwegian experimental pop sensation Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one of half of Chemical Brothers, with a sensual, otherworldly energetic fusion of mystical, sensual ambience, and block-rocking dance beats

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Jessie Ware: Superbloom
Apr 20, 2026

New album: Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor

Apr 20, 2026

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May 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Bleachers - I'm Not Joking
May 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Featuring harpsichord, Hammond organ, Dobro and more, producer Jack Antonoff and his New Jersey rock band return with a heartfelt love song single heralding the upcoming album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit

May 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Metric - Crush Forever
Apr 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Uplifting, effervescent electro-disco-pop by the Toronto indie rock band, with a song vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines describes as “my love letter to strong girls in this world”, taken from their recently released 10th album, Romanticize the Dive, out on Metric Music via Thirty Tigers

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim Ghedi - The Hungry Child
Apr 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, gripping, visceral folk by the Sheffield singer-songwriter, with a striking number based on an early 19th-century German poem about the fatal story of a child pleading for food, and, following last year’s acclaimed album, Wasteland, also out on Basin Rock, it heralds his upcoming soundtrack for the Hugh Jackman film, The Death of Robin Hood.

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 27, 2026
Song of the Day: holybones (with Baxter Dury) - SLUGBOY
Apr 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, unsettling, sleazy and strange, this is arrestingly vivid new collaborative single between the clandestine London electronic collective and the downbeat, deep-voiced poetic Londoner, out on Promised Land Recordings

Apr 27, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Good Person
Apr 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gentle, droll, humorously self-deprecatingly, and also delicately beautiful, this new experimental folk single by the moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy addresses the love-hate relationship with making music, out on Fat Possum

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Pigeon - Miami
Apr 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, sunny, upbeawt indie synth-pop with an African twist by the Margate band fronted by Falle Nioke, with flavours of William Onyeabor, Hot Chip and New York 70s disco, heralding their upcoming album OUTTANATIONAL, out on 1 May via Memphis Industries

Apr 25, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Tricky - Out of Place (featuring Marta Złakowska)
Apr 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A pulsating fusion of beats, orchestral strings and the Bristol trip-hop pioneer’s distinctive, deep, croaky voice, with an emotional reference to his daughter Mina Topley-Bird (1995–2019), and heralding his first solo album for six years, Different When It’s Silent, out on 17 June via False Idols

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Apr 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, simmering, slow, melancholy and reflective, a surprise single and welcome return by the acclaimed US artist, evoking the haunting, sun-bleached landscapes and musical textures of his 2015 Grammy winning album Morning Phase, out now on Iliad Records/Capitol Records

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Song of the Day: Gelli Haha - Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep
Apr 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Described appropriately as somewhere between Studio 42 and Area 51, eccentric, effervescent, spacey, catchy and eclectic disco pop by the Los Angeles artist (aka Angel Abaya, co-written with Sean Guerin) out on Innovative Leisure

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Song of the Day: LEENALCHI 이날치 - Here Comes That Crow 떴다 저 가마귀
Apr 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, funky, psychedelic and quirky new work by the seven-piece Seoul-based Korean pansori band led by bassist Jang Young Gyu with the title track of their new EP, out on 12 June via Luaka Bop, and heralding a European and North American tour

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Big Storm
Apr 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky experimental indie folk-pop by the innovative Manchester-based California artist, featuring a clever video that old footage and Hoop in various vintage guises, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home, out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic of Music

Apr 20, 2026

Word of the week

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Apr 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
Apr 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
Apr 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

Apr 9, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
Mar 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

Mar 27, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026

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