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Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years

January 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years

Song of the Day: After the beautiful melancholy of their last year’s Everything Harmony album, the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario return with a smooth, jangly, glowing, wistful, 70s-style Byrds-echoing rock number about making the most of your time

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In 2024, psychedelia, rock Tags The Lemon Twigs, Captured Tracks, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Osees - Goon (Intercepted Message album)

December 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Osees’ latest album, Intercepted Message

Song of the Day: Another gem from 2023, a brilliantly madcap track taken from latest LP, Intercepted Message, by the prolific San Francisco rock band fronted by John Dwyer, with a prime example one with their current psychedelic, synth-punk fireworks to go with garage-rock guitar and double drums

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In 2023, experimental, electronica, post-punk, prog rock, psychedelia, rock Tags Osees, Thee Oh Sees, In The Red Records, Castle Face Records, songs, song of the day
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Songs of the Day: Dorothy Carter - The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing / Celtic Medley

December 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee

Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments

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In 1978, 2023, alternative, folk, psychedelia, traditional Tags Dorothy Carter, Palto Flats, Putojefe Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: MGMT - Mother Nature / Bubblegum Dog

December 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

MGMT’s forthcoming album, Loss of Life

Song of the Day: Heralding their first album in six years and their fifth overall – Loss Of Life – out in February,2024, a couple of gentle, but poignant and powerful metaphorical animal numbers by the American neo-psychedelic rock and experimental pop band

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In 2023, alternative, indie, pop, psychedelia, rock Tags MGMT, Mom+Pop Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: da Googie - Slither (from Split LP with Too Many Things)

November 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Split LP by da Googie (aka Deb Googe) and Too Many Things

Song of the Day: Dark, scratchy, mysterious, and devilishly different, this is the mesmeric opening number on a brand new three-track solo project by Deb Googe, revered bass player with My Bloody Valentine, Thurston Moore Group and Brix Smith

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In 2023, alternative, experimental, psychedelia, rock, indie Tags Deb Googe, da Googie, Too Many Things, song of the day, My Bloody Valentine
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Song of the Day: Teeth of the Sea – Butterfly House

October 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Teeth of the Sea

Song of the Day: Mesmeric electro-pop and psychedelia with searing rock guitar, beautiful vocals by guest Kath Gifford all take flight on this single by the London band taken from their recently released album, Hive, inspired by Frank Herbert’s 1973 novel Hellstrom’s Hive

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In 2023, alternative, psychedelia, rock, pop Tags Teeth of the Sea, Kath Gifford, Rocket Recordings, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Flamingods - Tall Glass

August 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Flamingods

Song of the Day: The Bahraini-British alternative psych-rockers return with with their unique sound, here layering funk guitars over wonky synths in a number inspired by Afro-synth music of the 1970s

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In 2023, alternative, experimental, psychedelia, rock Tags Flamingods, The Liquid Label, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Fat Dog - King of the Slugs

August 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fat Dog’s debut single - King of the Slugs

Song of the Day: Using that garden scourge invertebrate as humorous metaphor, a wonderfully energetic, flamboyant fusion of post-punk, psych-rock and electronica by the south London band led by frontman Joe Love with their debut single, out on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Goat - Unemployment Office

August 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Goat are back …

Song of the Day: Meaty, viscous, dark, mysterious psychedelic-gothic rock with the unmistakable sound of the returning masked collective band from Sweden, taken from their forthcoming fifth album Medicine, out in October on Rocket Recordings

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Song of the Day: Iraina Mancini - What You Doin' (feat. Miles Kane & Kitty Liv)

July 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Iraina Mancini

Song of the Day: A superb Sunday glam-rock stomper with a 60s psych-pop vibe by the British singer, DJ and model, with guests on guitar on harmonica, taken from her forthcoming album Undo the Blue, out on 18 August on Needle Mythology

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Renegade

May 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue

Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish sci-fi-themed psychedelic glam-rock-pop by the west London singer and rapper accompanied by a highly entertaining space and robot-themed video, out on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: WITCH - Avalanche of Love (featuring Sampa the Great)

April 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

WITCH’s forthcoming album, Zango

Song of the Day: The pioneering zamrock band originally formed in the 1970s are joined by the charismatic Zambian singer and rapper in this fabulously funky new track, potent mix of African, psychedelic rock, garage rock, jazz, hip hop and blues

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Song of the Day: Lavinia Blackwall - The Damage We Have Done

April 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new single …

Song of the Day: Beautifully profound but serious melodic psych-folk-pop about eco meltdown and the passing of time by Glasgow’s former Trembling Bells singer from her forthcoming second album following 2020’s fabulous Muggington Lane End

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In 2023, folk, pop, psychedelia Tags Lavinia Blackwall, Trembling Bells, songs, song of the day, The Barne Society, Black Records
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Song of the Day: Meshell Ndegeocello - Virgo

March 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Meshell Ndegeocello’s Virgo

Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, experimental, funk, fusion, jazz, psychedelia, soul, hip hop Tags Meshell Ndegeocello, songs, song of the day, Blue Note Records
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Song of the Day: London Brew - Miles Chases New Voodoo In The Church

January 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The forthcoming London Brew album

Song of the Day: A fabulous swirling concoction of jazz and psychedelia by a top-class group of London musicians reinterpreting Miles Davis’ album Bitches Brew and his ode to Jimi Hendrix (Miles Runs the Voodoo Down)

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Song of the Day: Death & Vanilla - Find Another Illusion

January 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Death & Vanilla’s forthcoming album, Flicker

Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy baroque-psych-folk by the Swedish band from Malmö, the first single from their forthcoming new album, Flicker, their first album in four years, out in March via Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Kali Horse - In The Water

December 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kali Horse

Song of the Day: Sensual, mesmerising, liquid, echoey, ethereal, psychedelic krautrock-pop with oscillating drum rhythm, beautiful rumblings, rippling harp and vocals by the Toronto duo Desiree Das Gupta and Sam Maloney

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Song of the Day: L.T. Leif - Pass Back Through

December 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

It follows ..

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical and experimental, an oddly beautiful, gently moving and uplifting new alt-folk single by the Glasgow-based Canadian artist about about the cyclical nature of suffering, endurance and survival

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Song of the Day: The Arcs - Keep On Dreamin'

October 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From the Arcs’ new video for Keep On Dreamin’

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album Electrophonic Chronic, out in January, a wonderfully woozy psychedelic garage rock number by the band that includes Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys, and out on Easy Eye Sound

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Song of the Day: Black Lips - Lost Angel

October 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Black Lips from their new album Apocalypse Love

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s City of Angels by Ladytron, a dark, smouldering new number by the US garage rockers from Georgia, who return with a story of a Hollywood Babylonian dreamscape, full of neon despair, a croon to the rebellious, leather, lost angel, and a new album

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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026
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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025

new songs …

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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 2026

Word of the week

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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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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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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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