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Alan Sparhawk
Song of the Day: Minnesota’s Low co-founder’s latest solo release is a beautiful slow, poignant number joined by Duluth band Trampled By Turtles, and features vocals by his daughter Hollis, whose voice is uncannily like that of her mother – Alan’s wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, who tragically died in 2022
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Johnathan | Christian - Where Do We Go From Here?
Song of the Day: Powerful protest and dynamic, darkwave pop from the goth/post-punk duo of Johnathan Mooney (Los Angeles) and Christian Granquist (Stockholm) in this cinematic number about growing US schisms and emotional wreckage after the election return of Donald Trump
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Dog Race - Return The Day (Colours)
Song of the Day: Dark, thrumming, energetic, stylish indie-noir-pop by the Joy Division- and krautrock-influenced London band of Dillon Willis, James Kelly, Jed Finklestein, Kathryn Healy and William Macnab, out on Fascination Street Records
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Rung up: Gina Birch
Song of the Day: A catchy, energising, all-empowering, air-punching new post-punk single by the legendary Raincoats co-founder, artist, bass player and film-maker, inspired by, and name-checking heroines of art, politics and protest, heralding her forthcoming album Trouble, out on 11 July via Third Man Records
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Getdown Services: new EP Primordial Slot Machine
Song of the Day: A brilliantly droll, witty, catchy, eclectic new single mixing a glam-rock beat and a pub-piano accompaniment by the mischievous Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler, heralding their upcoming new EP, Primordial Slot Machine, out on 6 June via Breakfast Records
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Hayley Williams and Moses Sumney
Song of the Day: A soulful, stylish, sexy, slinkily smooth new single featuring both the two American singer-songwriters, both impressive intertwining, dynamic vocal performances and lavish, layered production, out on Tuntum Records
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Kaeto
Song of the Day: Stylish, shimmering, dark pop by the Scottish singer-songwriter with a co-written number with Mathias Wang about language and how perspective shapes meaning and inspired by Tom Tom Club’s Wordy Rappinghood, out on Polydor/Republic Universal
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Avalon Emerson - On It Goes
Song of the Day: The inventive American DJ and producer returns in the latest single of her Perpetual Emotion Machine project with bouncy, quirky dance track, a sped-up reworking of the gospel soul of Storm Queen number, out on Dead Oceans
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Baxter Dury’s upcoming new album, Allbarone
Song of the Day: Heralding his first album in five years, the brilliantly droll, witty, deep-voiced British artist returns with a catchy lead title track single, created with acclaimed producer Paul Epworth, the album out on 12 September on Heavenly Recordings
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Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart
Song of the Day: After last year’s acclaimed LP My Method Actor, the London singer-songwriter returns with a sensual, gentle synths- and strings-laden, whispery vocal track overladen beats, co-written with her creative partner Wilma Archer, and out on Ninja Tune
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Loaded Honey: Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd from Jungle
Song of the Day: Jackson 5 seventies pop vibes ooze from this lush, summery retro sound by the duo of Jungle members Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd, heralding the debut album for this project, Love Made Trees, out on Vetra Records / AWAL on 6 June
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Natalie Bergman, from the video for Gunslinger
Song of the Day: Stylish, smoky, sexy, with a sound that that evokes classic western film scores and vintage soul, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s single heralds her upcoming new album, My Home Is Not In This World, out on 18 July via Third Man Records
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Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records
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The Bug Club’s upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features
Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records
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Folk Bitch Trio
Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar
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From the Girl Group video for Flink PIke
Song of the Day: Catchy, wittily ironic, nimble, crisply sung acoustic indie pop by the five-piece Liverpool band of Katya, Maria, Thea, Mia, and Lil, with a titular Nordic expression meaning “good girl”, and one “often used to describe young women striving to meet impossible expectations.”
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Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, Pink Elephant
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Montreal indie rockers fronted by husband and wife team of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, return with their first new music for three years, a single referring to the Chinese zodiac calendar for 2025, and announcing their new album, Pink Elephant, out on 9 May via Columbia Records
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Sensible comes from Sports Team’s upcoming third album, Boys These Days
Song of the Day: A fabulously catchy and caustically witty Britpop-indie single by the Cambridge-formed band, exploring the myth of betterment and the impossible task facing today’s youth who are given conflicting and contradictory messages of how they are to improve themselves
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Patrick Wolf - Hymn of the Haar
Song of the Day: A beautiful, passionate, poetic new single of evocative, soaring chamber pop by the British singer-songwriter inspired by three years of walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near near his home in east Kent
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