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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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Tyler Ballgame’s debut album, For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: Some voices are once in a generation. The likes of Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley. And now here’s the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter, his truly tremendous tenor soaring supremely on this soulful indie-Americana rock number about how love makes glorious fools of us, and heralding his upcoming debut album For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade
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Gurriers. Erasure
Song of the Day: The Dublin post-punk band’s first single since last year’s blistering debut LP Come And See continues their fierce flammability with what frontman Dan Hoff describes as “an unwavering cry into the void in the face of imperialism and tyranny”, out now on No Filter
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Courting - The Twins (1969)
Song of the Day: A pulsating, passionate, dynamic, indie-postpunk single about missing something once you’ve lost it by the Liverpool quartet of Connor McCann, Josh Cope, Sean Murphy-O'Neill, and Sean Thomas, following their album out earlier this year, Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story. Out on Lower Third / PIAS
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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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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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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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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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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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The Antlers aka Peter Silberman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously sparse, intimate, number with quiet piano accompaniment before a powerful explosion of sound by the New York singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Peter Silberman from the upcoming new album Blight, out on 10 October via Transgressive Records
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Robert Plant’s upcoming new album, Saving Grace
Song of the Day: A fabulously alluring cover by the Led Zeppelin frontman of the Low song written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk, joined here by Plant’s band Sacred Grace, featuring the sound of the cuatro, and heralding the forthcoming album Sacred Grace, out on 26 September via Nonesuch Records
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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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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: A beautiful, gentle, poignant acoustic number of bittersweet optimism by the London indie/postpunk trio, here performed by Anouska Sokolow out on Fat Possum Records
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Maruja’s single Trenches is the latest to herald their debut album Pain To Power
Song of the Day: Influenced by Rage Against The Machine, a seething, menacing new track by the Manchester jazz-punk band, one they describe as “a call for revolution in the face of the oppressive,” with searing, combative lyrics by vocalist Harry Wilkinson and interweaving sax by Joseph Carroll, heralding their debut album Pain to Power, out on 12 September via Music For Nations
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Upchuck (Photo: Michael Tyrone Delaney)
Song of the Day: Blistering, ferocious new punk, raging against hopelessness and confronting the spectacle of social injustice that has become daily drudgery for their generation by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, from their forthcoming new album I’m Nice Now, produced by Ty Segall, and out on 3 October via Domino Records
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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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Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union
Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union
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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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bar italia
Song of the Day: The London indie-rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton return with a punchy, gnarly, lively lead-swapping new post-punk number, heralding their upcoming new album Some Like It Hot, out on 17 October via Matador Records
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