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The Last Dinner Party. From the video for My Lady of Mercy
Song of the Day: Another dynamic, passionate, luxuriant pop-rock single by the British five-piece, this time about girl admiringly seeing for the first time a painting of Joan of Arc, feeling a huge romantic crush, but also one that’s affected by the “bloody, carnal language of religious experience”
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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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See no evil: Hungry
Song of the Day: Blisteringly energetic, new-wave guitar pop and post-punk with socio-political songwriting by the Manchester-based quartet in new single about turning against moral standards for profit
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Talk Show - Closer
Song of the Day: Brilliantly energised, dynamic, feverishly catchy, tightly riffing post-punk dance music boils to the surface in this latest single by the south London Goldsmiths-formed quartet with the talky, menacing voice of frontman Harrison Swann
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Brimheim aka Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff
Song of the Day: A quirky, catchy and melodious indie-electro-pop love song by the Malmö-based singer-songwriter with a distinctive voice, Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff and friends, out on TAMBOURHINOCEROS
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L'Rain’s new album, I Killed Your God, out on Mexican Summer
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic sounds mixing electronica, soul, pop, some rippling prog, warped guitar indie, sensual and wild wild vocals by the Brooklyn singer and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, taken from the forthcoming third album, I Killed Your Dog, out on Mexican Summer
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Midlake and John Grant – You Don't Get To / Roadrunner Blues
Songs of the Day: In a smoothly brilliant blend, reuniting after Grant’s 2010 album Queen of Denmark, a double single release featuring the US/Icelandic solo artist’s typically caustic, humorous lyrics and the Denton folk-rock band’s classic sound
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The Stones and their heavy hint ad placed in east London’s Hackney Gazette, before a press event at the Hackney Empire
Song of the Day: “I'm still taking the pills and I'm off to Brazil.” The veterans’ first new music since 2005, starts up their instantly recognisable Richards guitar with Jagger vocals, and capturing a lovers’ argument, was released today in east London to herald the forthcoming album, Hackney Diamonds, out on 20 October
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Bouncing back … Soft Play’s Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent
Song of the Day: A brilliant banger of a Friday song to blow your socks off with sackfuls of searingly humorous satire about from anti-PC culture and other current divisions in this punk number by the duo of Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent, formerly known as Slaves
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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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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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Mysterious neighbour … Folly Group’s new single
Song of the Day: Sharp, witty, energised new post-punk single by the south London band with particularly strong drumming, and a curtain-twitching theme in a long tradition of neighbour-themed songs such as Space’s Neighbourhood or Tom Waits’ What’s He Building?
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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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Lutalo’s forthcoming new EP, AGAIN
Song of the Day: Distinctive, introspective, original, ear-catching indie-folk-fuzz-rock by the Vermont-based musician Lutalo Jones, taken fro his forthcoming EP, AGAIN, released on 25 August via Winspear Records
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Incoming and outgoing: The Antlers - Tide
Song of the Day: Gentle, acoustic and unusually beautiful, a new experimental number the Brooklyn duo of Peter Silberman and Michael Lerner, identifying natural phases over a lifetime with an oceanic metaphorical theme
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Song of the Day: The Kills - LA Hex / New York
Song of the Day: Meaty fuzz guitars, trumpets and powerful, husky vocals in this new US city-themed double A-side by the Anglo-American duo of Jamie Hince and vocalist Alison Mosshart with their first new recordings in seven years
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Enjoyably OTT: Mother Mother
Song of the Day: Indulgently over-the-top, shamelessly cliched, but hugely enjoyable pop-rock by the Vancouver band with a huge sound, oodles of teen angst, Muse-style operatic overdubbed vocals and guitar riffs and a horror movie-style video
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Wicketkeeper’ forthcoming new album, Zambroni
Song of the Day: “Modest, basic, robust design, with 24-hour army time. I feel safe in your red glow…” A beautiful, sleepy, clever groove with a love song extended metaphor in this first single from the Margate/London indie trio’s sophomore album, Zambroni, out on on 22 September via Umpire Records
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The buoyant debut EP, Woo Hoo, by congratulations
Songs of the Day: A pair of enthralling, energetic, clever, humorous fuzz-guitar, indie-rock / noise-pop numbers by the Brighton band, taken from their debut EP, Woo Hoo, out in September on Bella Union
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Yard Act
Song of the Day: The Leeds post-punk quartet return with a blistering new single about constant social shifts in perception, ownership and recognition through the metaphor of a classic piece of clothing, with frontman James Smith’s biting lyrics alongside a driving dance-punk energy
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