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Song of the Day: Soulwax - Run Free

July 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Soulwax, aka Stephen and David Dewaele

Song of the Day: Heralding the innovative electronica and production Belgian brothers Stephen and David Dewaele’s forthcoming first studio album in seven years, All Systems Are Lying, a catchy celebration of their genre for their first studio album in seven years, released on 17 October on DEEWEE / Because Music

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Song of the Day: Hot Chip - Devotion

July 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Hot Chip’s new single, Devition, heralding their upcoming best-of compilation Joy In Repetition

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British electro-pop dance band’s new single is a nostalgic, tender, and gradually rousing, catchy love song heralding their upcoming greatest hits album, Joy In Repetition, out on 5 September on Domino Records, part of their 20-year celebrations, with tour dates

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Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel

July 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nilüfer Yanya’s new EP Dancing Shoes

Song of the Day: Beautiful, textured, luxuriant experimental dream pop by the British artist, taken from her just released EP Dancing Shoes, out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: anaiis - Deus Deus

July 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Devotion & The Black Divine, the upcoming new album by anaiis

Song of the Day: A slow, sensual, sultry soulful new experimental number, perfect for a hot summer’s day by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album Devotion & The Black Divine, out on 25 September via 5dB Records

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Song of the Day: Tchotchke - Poor Girl

July 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tchotcheke’s Anastasia Sanchez, Eva Chambers, and Emily Tooraen

Song of the Day: Three-part interweaving vocal harmonies, three ironic, mini-sob stories, and a quirky, retro pop sound with shades of Brian Wilson come on the West Coast trio’s latest single, heralding their upcoming sophomore album, Playin’ Dumb, due out on 9 September

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney - Semitones

July 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the artwork for Madeline Kenney’s upcoming album Kiss From The Balcony

Song of the Day: Slow, simmering, mesmeric, intimate, gentle, experimental dream-pop by the Oakland, California artist, heralding her upcoming new album Kiss From The Balcony, out on 18 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Ada Lea - Something in the Wind

June 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ada Lea’s upcoming third album, when i paint my masterpiece

Song of the Day: An ethereally beautiful new single inspired by the non-remembrance of a dream by the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and artist Alexandra Levy, heralding her upcoming third album when i paint my masterpiece, due out on 8 August via Saddle Creek Records

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Song of the Day: Mac DeMarco - Home

June 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mac DeMarco’s upcoming new album, Guitar

Song of the Day: The LA-based Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer returns with a gentle, slow, beautiful Beatles-esque number heralding his upcoming new album, Guitar, self-released on his Mac’s Record Label

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Song of the Day: Blood Orange - The Field (featuring feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar)

June 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blood Orange - The Field

Song of the Day: An eclectic collaboration fusing soulful, warm, soothing, summery chamber pop and clubby, click beats by the British singer-songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes (formerly Lightspeed Champion) with a variety of guests

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Song of the Day: The Beths - No Joy

June 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Beths

Song of the Day: Upbeat music but mixed lyrical misery in this engaging new single by the likeable New Zealand indie rockers Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair and Tristan Deck, heralding their upcoming new album Straight Line Was A Lie out on 29 August via ANTI- Records

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Song of the Day: Cass McCombs - Peace

June 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Cass McCombs’ upcoming new album Interior Live Oak

Song of the Day: A beautiful, warm, rich, acoustic embrace of a song about a farewell word from the California singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Interior Live Oak, out on 15 August 2025 on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - MadDog

June 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Man/Woman/Chainsaw

Song of the Day: Recently released alongside the track Adam & Steve, the innovative, alternative London indie band’s latest single combines post-punk, heavy rock, prog, and folk, decorated by violin and passionate vocal in a melange of melodious experiment, out on So Young Records

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Song of the Day: Yazmin Lacey - Ain't I Good For You

June 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yazmin Lacey

Song of the Day: Delicious, classy, sprightly soul and RnB by the east London-born, Nottingham based pure-voiced singer-songwriter in a new track co-written with and produced by Eg White & Jonny Lattimer, and out on AMF Records

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Song of the Day: Cardinals - Big Empty Heart

June 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Cardinals

Song of the Day: A stylish, dramatic, dynamic, impassioned new single by the Irish indie-folk-rock-post-punk band from Cork comprising Aaron Hurley, Darragh Manning, Euan Manning, Finn Manning and Oskar Gudinovic, out on So Young Records

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Song of the Day: Gruff Rhys - Chwyn Chwyldroadol!

June 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Gruff Rhys

Song of the Day: A charming, catchy new number by the Cardiff-based indie singer-songwriter and former Super Furry Animals frontman, heralding his upcoming Welsh language album, Dim Probs out on 12 September, via Rock Action Records

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Song of the Day: Other Lives - Mystic

June 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Other Lives - Mystic

Song of the Day: Majestic, slow, shimmering experimental pop by the Oklahoma-formed, Portland Oregon-based band founded by Jesse Tabish, Jonathon Mooney, and Josh Onstott, heraldng their upcomng album Volume V, out on 10 October via Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (featuring Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra)

June 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

David Byrne returns in his own inimitable style, with an upcoming new album, Who Is The Sky?

Song of the Day: The ever innovative ex-Talking Heads frontman returns with a jaunty, restorative, upbeat new number capturing some universal human behaviour and emotions, heralding his new album, Who Is The Sky?, on out 5 September via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Wheel of Change

June 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hand Habits - Wheel of Change heralds the upcoming album, Blue Reminder

Song of the Day: A tender, wistful, cautious, beautiful new number full of yearning, and walking an emotional tightrope, by the Los Angeles indie-folk-rock artist Meg Duffy, from the upcoming new album, Blue Reminder, out on 22 August via Fat Possum Records

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Song of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs

June 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: Nate Amos and Rachel Brown

Song of the Day: Dynamic, pace-changing, stylishly experimental indie rock with droll, clever delivery and shades of Deerhoof by the Brooklyn band of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, heralding their forthcoming album It's a Beautiful Place, out on 22 August via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Sudan Archives - Dead

June 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sudan Archives - DEAD

Song of the Day: With her first new music since the 2022 LP Natural Brown Prom Queen, the LA-based American experimental violinist, singer, and songwriter Brittney Denise Parks’ new single is written as an exploration of orchestral Black dance music and the parts of ourselves that are more human than machine, and vice versa

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

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Dec 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture Of A Butterfly
Dec 15, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful, delicate, fluttering, eclectic, heartbreak folk and Americana by the singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, heralding her forthcoming new album, Valentine, out on 16 January via Loose Future

Dec 15, 2025
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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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