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Song of the Day: Grave Goods – Come

June 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Come, say Grave Goods …

Song of the Day: Raunchily angry, scratchy, dark, bold, minimalist post-punk and heavy rock comes like a bullet with a devilishly menacing video in this new project by members of PINS, Girls Names, and September Girls, and heralds their forthcoming debut album: Tuesday. Nothing Exists

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Song of the Day: Courting – Tennis

June 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

A great musical serving by Courting …

Song of the Day: As the 2022 Wimbledon tournament begins, let’s enjoy this sharp, witty new post-punk number by the Liverpool quartet, about a different form of to-and-fro ball-hitting in a dysfunctional relationship

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In 2022, pop, post-punk, indie Tags Courting, songs, song of the day, Nice Swan Records, Play It Again Sam
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Song of the Day: Regressive Left – Bad Faith (featuring Mandy, Indiana)

June 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Regressive Left

Song of the Day: With shades of LCD Soundsystem and The Human League, this sharp new postpunk single by the trio fronted by Simon Tyrie focuses on deliberately assuming the worst of someone or something they’ve said or done, something exacerbated by social media

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Song of the Day: Cola - Fulton Park

June 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cola’s album Deep in View

Song of the Day: A thrumming, knotty, crafty, catchy post-punk single with a glam-rock beat by the trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums) from their debut album Deep in View out on Fire Talk

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Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Forever In Sunset

May 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Furman returns with a new album in August

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return

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Song of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

May 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon

Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"

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In 2022, indie, pop, post-punk, experimental, electronica Tags Telefís, Cathal Coughlan, Fatima Mansions, Jacknife Lee, Ireland, satire
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Song of the Day: Crack Cloud - Please Yourself

May 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby

Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry

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Song of the Day: Viagra Boys – Troglodyte

May 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Viagra Boys’ upcoming new album Cave World

Song of the Day: After Black Midi and Straw Man Army, more powerful new post-punk with rippling guitar work and a moral outrage against violence, here by the Swedish band from their forthcoming album Cave World

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Song of the Day: Straw Man Army - State of the Art

May 17, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Straw Man Army’s second LP

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s blistering musical military assault by Black Midi, more excellent guitar-based alternative post-punk by the New York duo Owen and Sean with a death-defying number about information overload from their second LP SOS

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Song of the Day: black midi – Welcome To Hell

May 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire

Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos

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Song of the Day: Personal Trainer - Rug Busters

May 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

In shapes: Personal Trainer

Song of the Day: The latest in witty, catchy post-punk-pop by the Amsterdam-based seven-piece with a song loosely about dance and unity, and partly reminiscent of the style of LCD Soundsystem and Brooklyn’s Bodega

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Song of the Day: The WAEVE - Something Pretty

May 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall

Song of the Day: Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall combine in this fabulously sharp, fast, witty, post-punk electro-pop number that cries out on escaping the confines of technology and other distractions

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Song of the Day: Panic Shack - The Ick

April 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …

Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records

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Song of the Day: Peeping Drexels - SKuNK

April 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Peeping Drexels

Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."

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Song of the Day: Flossing - Men On The Menu

April 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Heather Elle of Flossing

Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty

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Song of the Day: LIFE - Big Moon Lake

March 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

LIFE up in the North East of England

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Bob Vylan, another self-addressing mental and physical health issues – drinking, smoking and eating badly and FOMO, by the vibrant post-punk indie band in a title inspired by the location of their studio near the river Humber

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Song of the Day: Nixer - People Feel

January 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nixer’s feeling …

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming EP by the duo of Seán Keenan & Gearóid Peggs from Dublin, a banging new single with shades of early 80s new wave or New York’s Suicide, but with a fresh, viscerally powerful Irish semi-spoken delivery

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Song of the Day: Crows - Slowly Separate

January 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crows

Song of the Day: The first new music in three years by the London band comes in this blistering burst of post-punk taken from second album Beware Believers, due out 1 April via Bad Vibrations Records

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Song of the Day: Ghostbaby - Molly's Got A Brand New Haircut

January 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ghostbaby

Song of the Day: Humorous, droll, catchy and full of pathos, this single comes from the four-piece indie-punk band from Paisley and the Glasgow area, their sound reflecting a love of the Pixies (check the Debaser reference), as well as echoes of early Blur and Libertines

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Song of the Day: Sweeping Promises - Pain Without A Touch

January 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sweeping Promises’s Pain Without A Touch

Song of the Day: Thumpingly catchy post-punk about tricky love by the American indie duo of Lira and Caufield who hail from Lawrence, Kansas and Boston, Massachusetts with this recent new single now out on Sub Pop

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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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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
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Apr 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Gia Margaret - Alive Inside
Apr 19, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicate, dream-like, reflective experimental folk-pop by the American singer-songwriter and producer from Chicago, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Singing, out on Jagjaguwar

Apr 19, 2026
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Apr 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - Crumb
Apr 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, playful, gently humorous, self-deprecating experimental indie pop by the inventive transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, with a number about having a fragile crush on someone, and their first new music of 2026, out on Submarine Cat Records

Apr 18, 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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