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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go

September 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go

Song of the Day: A late-summer splash of catchy, colourful indie pop by the London artist, but one that also critiques AI anxiety and online intimacy “like not being able to tell if your crush sent you a text ghostwritten by ChatGPT”, and, produced by Fraser T Smith and out on BMG, it follows last year’s acclaimed debut album, Starface

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Song of the Day: lucky break - Burning String

September 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

lucky break is newly signed to Fire Records

Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, tender melodic acoustic indie single about pressures over life plans by the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Emma Gerson, whose influences include Fiona Apple and Bedouine, and is newly signed to Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Yukimi - Get It Over

September 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yukimi - Get It Over

Song of the Day: Following her debut solo album, For You, earlier this year, Sweden’s Little Dragon singer returns with a beautiful, walking pace soulful number about being lost in your own inner world, unable to find a way out into the real world, and co-written with Canadian singer-songwriter Saya Gray and LD drummer Erik Bodin, out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Picture Parlour - Used To Be Your Girlfriend

September 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Picture Parlour’s Katherine Parlour and Ella Risi

Song of the Day: Mixing a tone of bittersweet regret and defiance, a catchy new single by the Manchester-formed, London-based indie band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and guitarist Ella Risi, from their upcoming debut album The Parlour out on 14 November via EMI/Universa

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Song of the Day: Adam Buxton - Dancing in the Middle

September 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Dancing In The Middle, from Adam Buxton’s album Buckle Up

Song of the Day: A perky, very catchy, humorous piece of whimsical comedy electro-pop about middle-men and mediocrity by the popular British podcaster, actor and comedian, taken from his recently released debut albumBuckle Up, out on Decca / Universal

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Song of the Day: Djo - Carry The Name

September 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Djo aka actor Joe Keery

Song of the Day: Poignant, catchy, classic rock-pop with some echoes of Mott the Hoople, Graham Nash and The Beatles, by the American actor and and singer-songwriter Joe Keery, taken from The Crux Deluxe, a newly released extended version of his third album, The Crux, which came out earlier this year on AWAL

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Song of the Day: Gorillaz - The Happy Dictator (featuring Sparks)

September 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The upcoming ninth Gorillaz album - The Mountain, with artwork by Jamie Hewlett

Song of the Day: A perky, potent, and dream-experimental pop combination of Blur’s Damon Albarn and his cartoon band join joining with the beloved brothers Ron and Russell Mael with this catchy, satirical number, heralding the new Gorillaz album, The Mountain, out on 20 March 2026 via Kong

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Song of the Day: Blue Bendy - Poke

September 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Blue Bendy - Poke

Song of the Day: Innovative, enthralling, all-a-swirl, vividly passionate acoustic-experimental indie-folk-art-rock by the south-east London band, recently released on Practise Music and their first single since last year’s debut album So Medieval

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Song of the Day: Ladytron - I Believe In You

September 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ladytron - I Believe In You

Song of the Day: With a series of mesmeric lyrical similes with catchy, clubby, retro synth-pop, by the Liverpool-formed band of Helen Marnie, Daniel Hunt, and Mira Aroyo return with this single, out on Nettwork Records, following 2023’s LP Time’s Arrow

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Song of the Day: Gretel - Unbloom

September 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

A continually blooming talent: Gretel

Song of the Day: With her distinctive, deep, rich and also soaringly high wide-range vocals, the London singer-songwriter Gretel Hänlyn makes a passionate, welcome return with this powerful indie-grunge-rock number out on Breadcrumb Records/ AWAL

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Song of the Day: Spoon - Guess I'm Fallin In Love

September 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Spoon

Song of the Day: Released alongside another catchy single, Chateau Blues, this krautrock-ish indie rock number is a twist on the standard love by the Austen, Texas band fronted by Britt Daniel, and out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Dijon - Another Baby!

September 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dijon’s new album, Baby

Song of the Day: Almost as Prince-like as the sadly departed Purple One himself, this striking, vibrant funk-pop number by the Baltimore singer, musician, producer and actor Dijon Duenas comes from his recently released second LP, Baby, out on R&R and Warner Records

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Song of the Day: Patrick Watson - House on Fire (with Martha Wainwright)

September 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Patrick Watson

Song of the Day: The Montreal singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist collaborates with the acclaimed fellow Canadian singer-songwriter on a beautifully moving duet, of intertwining harmonies and string arrangements, heralding Watson’s upcoming album Uh Oh, due out 26 Septembervia Secret City Records

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Song of the Day: Alabama Shakes - Another Life

September 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Alabama Shakes

Song of the Day: Brittany Howard rejoins old bandmates Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell for their first music together in a decade, with this powerful, poignant, soaring soulful number recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios with longtime collaborator Shawn Everett, out on Island Records / UMG

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Song of the Day: Sorry - Echoes

August 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Unapologetically different: Sorry

Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming third album, COSPLAY, which includes some previous singles, the innovative and unapologetically experimental London indie band’s latest is an effervescently, sparkling, whimsical love song, and the album is out on 7 November via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Sloan - No Damn Fears

August 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sloan’s upcoming album Based On The Best Seller

Song of the Day: The veteran and acclaimed Canadian indie rockers’ latest single thrums with rich influences from Simon & Garfunkel to Jellyfish Babies to The Fall and heralds their upcoming new album Based on the Best Seller, out on 29 September via Two Minutes for Music / Yep Roc

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Song of the Day: Jay Som - Cards On The Table

August 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jay Som

Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric, dream-like electro- and bedroom pop by the American LA-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer aka Melina Duterte,, from her forthcoming fourth LP, Belong, out on 10 October via Lucky Number / Polyvinyl

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Song of the Day: Jamie Woon - When

August 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …

Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records

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Song of the Day: Neko Case: Winchester Mansion of Sound

August 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Neko Case’s upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green

Song of the Day: Catchy, piano-based rolling pop and Americana by the US singer-songwriter in a song inspired by her late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the band Flat Duo Jets, and heralding Case’s first album for seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, out on 26 September via ANTI Records

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Song of the Day: TEED (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) - Desire

August 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

TEED - Desire

Song of the Day: The US-based British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter Edward Higginbottom, now shortening his moniker to TEED, returns with new single (with B-side The Echo) – a dreamy, wistful piece of electro-pop, out on Nice Age Records

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New Albums …

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Mar 19, 2026
Book of Churches: Book of Churches
Mar 19, 2026

New album: Beautiful, tender, melancholic and poetic, a walking-pace acoustic folk and Americana debut solo release by the singer-songwriter Felix Mackenzie-Barrow, co-lead singer with the Nottingham alternative indie band Divorce

Mar 19, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
The Black Crowes: A Pound of Feathers
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s resurgent release Happiness Bastards, Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson return with their 10th album in four up-and-down decades, with a belting release packed with Stones/ Keith Richards-style riffs, and a full-blooded, full-throttle classic and catchy rock

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Alexis Taylor: Paris In The Spring
Mar 18, 2026

New album: The clarity and high range of the distinctive Hot Chip lead singer returns with his seventh solo LP, packed with personal, candid, philosphofical and sometimes melancholy lyrics allided with bright, melodic leftfield electro-pop, a dash of country, elegant disco-house, and Vangelis-inspired soundscapes, and a title echoing a psychological test where things are not as they seem

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Diagonale Des Yeux: Madeleine
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Wonderfully weird, wonky, woozy, avant-garde, absurdist oddness by the French duo of Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay, with their lo-fi, ramshackle, DIY postpunk and retro-electronica, sharing sung and spoken vocals across French, German, English and Spanish

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Yebba: Jean
Mar 18, 2026

New album: Following 2021’s Dawn, a second LP by the American singer and songwriter from West Memphis, Arkansas, aka Abigail Smith, moves towards an eclectic mix of gentler, more understated pop, folk, gospel, R&B, and soul, is named after her late grandmother, and has candid, personal themes of mourning and spiritual healing

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 17, 2026
The Sophs: Goldstar
Mar 17, 2026

New album: A fairytale story of a debut for the Los Angeles six-piece fronted by Ethan Ramon, who cold-emailed demos to Rough Trade Records before even playing a live gig and were signed – that instinctive leap of faith rewarded by this stylish, bold, mercurial, confident, darkly humorous, eclectic debut leaping between rock, indie, pop, hoedown country, delta blues and beyond

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Kim Gordon: Play Me
Mar 13, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s The Collective, the former Sonic Youth frontwoman’s fourth solo LP continues her extraordinary experimental, innovative journey, moving to more melodic beats and shorter tracks with a motorik krautrock-style driven coloured by strange sounds, intense emotions and sharply angled, dark, droll social commentary

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
ELIZA: The Darkening Green
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The London artist Eliza Caird (formerly under the mainstream pop moniker Eliza Doolittle) returns with more of the cool, slow, sensual, gentle, sophisticated experimental soul-funk style evolving from her 2022 album A Sky Without Stars, here with particularly polished, silky, stripped back grooves and vocals

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer returns with a new selection of soothing, meditative mix of experimental classical and jazz, but this time joined with six different singers represented by the birds on the album artwork

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
waterbaby: Memory Be A Blade
Mar 10, 2026

New album: A delicate, experimental, understated soulful chamber pop debut by the pure-voiced Stockholm-born singer-songwriter (aka Kendra Egerbladh) in 25-minute, eight-track release of lo-fi, lyrically semi-improvised numbers about heartbreak and self-renewal in a world of gorgeous musical sensations

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Joshua Idehen: I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try
Mar 10, 2026

New album: With a strikingly long title, a euphoric and honest full debut LP by the British-born Nigerian poet, spoken word artist and musician based in Sweden, working with his musical partner Ludvig Parment’s sonic layers, packed pacy dance and hip-hop grooves, clever sampling, slower reflections, and articulate expressions of positivity through the ups and downs of grief and hope

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Gnarls Barkley: Atlanta
Mar 10, 2026

New album: Finally, after an 18-year gap since their last collaboration in the heady days of the hit Crazy, with the St Elsewhere and The Odd Couple LPs a third and supposedly final album from fabulous singer CeeLo Green and producer and musician aka Brian Burton with a mix of soaring soul, hip-hop, pop and RnB with songs filled with vivid lyrical memories and strong, emotive melodies

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Various: HELP(2) - War Child Records
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Not only a timely and topical milestone charity record following the first in 1995 to help bring aid and wide variety of support to children in war zones around he world, but an impressive double-LP array of stellar British and international talent and powerful, poignant 23 songs from Arctic Monkeys to Young Fathers

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: We Are Together Again
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Just over a year after 2025’s The Purple Bird, but from parallel recording sessions and familiar co-musicians, the veteran Louisville-Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with another collection of exquisite, intimate, gently defiant lo-fi folk to troubled times, an ode to community with a beautiful array of acoustic instruments and his poignant, insightful lyrics and delivery

Mar 9, 2026

new songs …

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Mar 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jorja Smith - Price Of It All
Mar 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Sumptuous, soaring, classic soul/R&B/pop by the British smooth-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall, West Midlands, in this number from the soundtrack for new TV series, Bait, starring Riz Ahmed, and released on FAMM

Mar 20, 2026
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Mar 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Liza Lo - Birdsong
Mar 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Following her acclaimed debut album Familiar, a beautiful, warm, intimate, tender folk number featuring guitar, fiddle and double bass by the Amsterdam-born, London-based producer and singer-songwriter, Liza Lo Hoek, out on Gearbox Records

Mar 19, 2026
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Mar 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Rostam - Like A Spark
Mar 18, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful new acoustic folk-pop single with echoes of early 70s Van Morrison by the US musician, producer and former member of Vampire Weekend, heralding his upcoming third solo album American Stories out on 15 May via Matsor Projects

Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell
Mar 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, witty, innuendo-filled new number about being and single and lonely, with some stylistic echoes of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, heralding the acclaimed Grammy-winning Texas country singer-songwriter’s upcoming seventh album, Middle of Nowhere, out 1 May on Lost Highway

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Black Diamond
Mar 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A splendidly rousing eight-minute retro-style electro-pop baroque melodrama by the Finnish artist with the deep, rich voice, one that stylistically and in his own fashion, draws a pentagram between Goblin, Rondo Veneziano, Cerrone, Doris Norton and Lindstrom, out on Domino Records

Mar 16, 2026
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Mar 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Hannah Lew - Sunday
Mar 15, 2026

Song of the Day: An appropriate day to highlight this classy latest single of shimmering 80s-style synth-pop with echoes of OMD, with themes about pain, love and grief from the upcoming debut album by the Richmond, California artist, out on 10 April via Night School Records

Mar 15, 2026
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Mar 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Mei Semones - Tooth Fairy (featuring John Roseboro)
Mar 14, 2026

Song of the Day: A charming cross-genre fusion of bossa nova, jazz, folk and chamber pop sung in English and Japanese by the Brooklyn-based American musician with a tale of losing a tooth on the subway and friendship, from the upcoming album Kurage, out 10 April on Bayonet Records

Mar 14, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Robyn - Blow My Mind
Mar 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual electro-pop with a dash of Kraftwerk by the acclaimed Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Robin Miriam Carlsson, in this latest from the upcoming album Sexistential out on 27 March via Konichiwa / Young Records

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Scratches
Mar 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The latest single by the London singer-songwriter is punchy, powerful psychedelic rock number with tearing riffs and lyrics about damage from troubled relationship, abuse and self-harm, from the forthcoming EP Do You Know Everything?, out on BMG

Mar 12, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - City of Symbols (featuring eejebee)
Mar 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish fusion of electronica, soul, hip hop and Ethiopian rhythmic influences centring on themes of heritage, family by London singer, songwriter, producer and multidisciplinary artist, with drums from eejebee and guitar from Vraell, heralding from the forthcoming new debut Zero out 22 June via LDN Records / Because Music

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Huarinami - Carried Away
Mar 10, 2026

Song of the Day: Explosive, stylish, gritty, restless indie-psychedelic punk with angular, angry guitars, driving bass and wonderfully arresting vocals by Pauline Janier (aka Cody Pepper) fronting the French London-based four-piece in this single fuelled by the frustration of big-city life, and heralding their sophomore EP Nothing Happens, due for release on 6 June

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes
Mar 9, 2026

Song of the Day: Following the singles Eden and Jupiter and Mars, another stylish, experimental indie synth-pop release by the New York artist with the title track of upcoming second Charm moniker album, out on 20 March via Dead Oceans

Mar 9, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Feb 12, 2026
Word of the week: yanggeum
Feb 12, 2026

Word of the week: A form or hammered dulcimer, this traditional Korean instrument, with a flat and trapezoidal shape, has seven sets of four metal strings hit by thin bamboo stick

Feb 12, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026

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