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Song of the Day: Low Girl - No Reasons

August 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Low Girl’s upcoming album Is It Too Late To Freak Out

Song of the Day: Vibrant, restless, sprawling, turbulent, simmeringly angry indie-fuzz-pop about a messy breakup in this latest single by the British band fronted by Sarah Cosgrove, heralding their debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out, due out on 22 October via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Selector Dub Narcotic - When Boys Cry

August 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for When Boys Cry animated by Andrew Ebright

Song of the Day: A groovy deep-voiced tearjerker dance track by the veteran American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and DJ Calvin Johnson, known for bands including Beat Happening, but here under in his dance music alter ego, with the title track of his forthcoming EP out on 12 September via K Records

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Song of the Day: Whitmer Thomas - Bronco Buster

August 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitmer Thomas

Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series

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Song of the Day: Westside Cowboy - Drunk Surfer

August 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Westside Cowboy’s debut EP This Better Be Something Great

Song of the Day: Dynamic, powerful, passionate, stop-start and soaring indie-rock by the Manchester band, taken from their debut EP This Better Be Something Great, out now on Heist or Hit / Nice Swan Records

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Song of the Day: Laufey - Lover Girl

August 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Laufey

Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, charming new retro-style bossa nova track, the latest single heralding the acclaimed Icelandic-Chinese pop artist’s third album, A Matter of Time, out on 22 August via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Chappell Roan - The Subway

August 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

It’s travelling … Video still from Chappell Roan’s The Subway

Song of the Day: Mixing echoes of classic full-blown 80s pop with modern twists, candid sexuality, self-detrimental humour and elements of the Sundays and the Cranberries, the American acclaimed superstar singer-songwriter returns with a soaring pop single about a transport-based encounter

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Song of the Day: P.E. (with Eleanor Friedberger) - Color Coordinator

August 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

P.E.’s upcoming album, Oh!, out on Wharf Cat Records

Song of the Day: Bubbling bass, intricate beats, saxophone and the voice of The Fiery Furnaces singer characterise this innovative, catchy and stylish new single by the New York electronic music collective of Pill and Eaters, heralding their third album Oh!, out on 3 October via Wharf Cat Records

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Song of the Day: Dutch Mustard - Life

August 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dutch Mustard - Life

Song of the Day: Blistering indie rock by the London-based trio fronted by the Amsterdam artist Sarah-Jayne Riedel about that sinking feeling of heartbreak you see coming, but want to at least temporarily dip out of, out on DM Records

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Song of the Day: Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

August 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

Song of the Day: Joined on co-lead vocals Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante, the acclaimed, flamboyant American experimental psych, rock, soul and pop performer aka Sean Lee Bowie returns with a a punchy indie rock number with some shades of the Cure, and their first release since 2023, out on Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Nation of the Language - Under The Water

July 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nation of Language’s Ian Richard, Devaney Aidan Noell, and Alex MacKay

Song of the Day: Simple, pleasing, crisp, four-chord synthpop with brass sounds and shades of OMD by the Brooklyn band in this new single heralding their upcoming album, Dance Called Memory, out on 19 September via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September

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Song of the Day: Whitney - Dandelions

July 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitney - Dandelions

Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL

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Song of the Day: The Last Dinner Party - This is The Killer Speaking

July 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Last Dinner Party’s upcoming new album, From The Pyre

Song of the Day: Channelling ABBA and more – opulent, dramatic, catchy pop with a dark undercurrent of story and fable, where being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer with matching cinematic, fantasy video, by the acclaimed all-female British band following last year’s debut Prelude to Ecstasy, and heralding their second album, From The Pyre, out on 17 October on Universal Island

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Song of the Day: The Charlatans - We Are Love

July 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Charlatans - We Are Love

Song of the Day: An upbeat jangly, melodic return from the now veteran and enduring 90s British indie rock band fronted by Tim Burgess, with beautiful guitars and positive lyrics in this title track heralding their upcoming album out on 31 October on BMG

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Song of the Day: Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

July 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place

Song of the Day: The Michigan-based band formerly known as Kingfisher herald their upcoming debut album under the new name with this unusual, passionately stirring and sprightly chamber-pop-jazz-indie-pop single with added strings and brass

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Song of the Day: Emma Harner - Yes Man

July 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma Harner

Song of the Day: A classy, clever new folk-pop number about defying a toxic relationship, featuring with intricate arpeggiated guitar playing by the singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts, taken from her recent debut EP Taking My Side

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Song of the Day: Mina Tindle - Heaven Thunder (featuring Sufjan Stevens)

July 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Mina Tindle

Song of the Day: A delicate, passionate, defiant new single by the French pop and folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, aka Pauline de Lassus, joined by the American singer-songwriter on vocals and The National’s Bryce Dessner on guitars, out on S76

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Song of the Day: Indigo De Souza – Be Like the Water

July 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Indigo De Souza’s upcoming album, Precipice

Song of the Day: Candid, crisp, beautiful and sensitive new single by the singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Precipice, out on 25 July via Loma Vista

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Song of the Day: Danny L Harle - Starlight (featuring PinkPantheress)

July 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Danny L Harle - Starlight (featuring PinkPantheress)

Song of the Day: Bouncy, squeaky, quirky electro-pop by British music producer and composer, here joined by the English singer-songwriter aka Victoria Beverley Walker, out on XL Recordings

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Song of the Day: Home Counties - Humdrum

July 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Home Counties’ upcoming album, Humdrum

Song of the Day: Bristling with anxiety and dry wit, social misfires, self-sabotage and success-envy, a striking, sardonic, synth-heavy, distinctive new single the London six-piece band in the title track from their next album, produced by Al Doyle of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, and out on 24 October via Submarine Cat Records

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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 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
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 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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