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Song of the Day: Dr. Joy - Midtown

September 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Dr. Joy’s self-titled debut album

Dr. Joy’s self-titled debut album

Song of the Day: Taken from, and typifying their just released self-titled 8-track debut album, this wonderfully woozy, cosmic psychedelic number by the Toronto collective has a collage of influences including ‘cubism, dadaism, Baltic disco, Italian soundtracks, and babbling brooks’

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Song of the Day: Koreless - White Picket Fence

September 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: With an extraordinary video directed by FKA twigs, this equally unclassifiable, soaring song mixing harpsichord, electronica and a quasi-medieval madrigal-style vocal comes from the London band’s debut album Agar

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Song of the Day: Anna B Savage – Since We Broke Up

September 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Anna B Savage

Anna B Savage

Song of the Day: After her debut album earlier this year, A Common Turn, a new breakup number from the London singer-songwriter displaying her rich, deep, velvety voice, more bird reference, and a powerful lyrical delivery

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Song of the Day: Maarja Nuut - Hinged / A Scene

September 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Maarja Nuut

Maarja Nuut

Song of the Day: The title track with unusual, complex rhythmic changes, nature’s woozy sounds and another of strange whispery beauty by the Estonian singer, violinist and electronic artist from her latest album, which is also featured here

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Song of the Day: La Luz - Watching Cartoons

September 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton
La Luz

La Luz

Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy psychedelia-folk harking back to the 1970s Scooby Doo era from the Seattle-formed California-based trio of Shana Cleveland, Alice Sandahl, and Lena Simon with Adrian Younge producing from their forthcoming self-titled new album

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Song of the Day: workfriends - Stunt Doubles

September 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
False member? From the new video by Workfriends

False member? From the new video by Workfriends

Song of the Day: Inspired by the idea of a Hollywood unsung hero in the shadows who then takes over as doppelganger, this fresh, sharp witty post-punk number comes from the Sheffield-based five-piece indie band

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Song of the Day: TOKiMONSTA feat. Channel Tres – Naked

September 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton
TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California

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Song of the Day: The Bug Club - The Fixer

September 9, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The Bug Club’s forthcoming album Pure Particles

The Bug Club’s forthcoming album Pure Particles

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy indie with snappy lyrics, blistering guitar and strong dash of Jonathan Richman in altogether very tasty dose by the Welsh trio of trio of Sam Willmett, Tilly Harris, and Dan Matthew from their forthcoming mini album Pure Particles

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Song of the Day: Moonchild Sanelly - Yebo Teacher

September 7, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Moonchild Sanelly is instantly recognisable by her blue hair and high voice

Moonchild Sanelly is instantly recognisable by her blue hair and high voice

Song of the Day: Fresh and lively electro hip hop from the South African artist also known as Sanelisiwe Twisha from Port Elizabeth who learned her skills on the poetry and music scenes in Durban Johannesburg, developing her brand of ‘future ghetto punk’

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Song of the Day: Mindchatter - Here I Go Again

September 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Mindchatter’s Here I Go Again

Mindchatter’s Here I Go Again

Song of the Day: Spookily catchy electronica with wonderfully dry, humorous lyrics about internal indecision, with rich, dark bass sounds under the pseudonym of New York producer Bryce Connolly

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Song of the Day: Abba - Don't Shut Me Down / I Still Have Faith In You

September 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Abba return, using new technology to bring their past selves to the present with a new album and tour

Abba return, using new technology to bring their past selves to the present with a new album and tour

Song of the Day: With all the fanfare, and four decades on from their last new music, the fab four of Benny, Bjorn, Agnetha and Anni-Frid return with that emotion-pulling pop formula that recalls their 70s and early 80s heyday, along with a second single I Still Have Faith In You and forthcoming album Voyage

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Song of the Day: Liv.e - _21

September 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Liv.e aka Olivia Williams

Liv.e aka Olivia Williams

Song of the Day: A gorgeous mix of funk, jazz, Latin shuffle and soul by the Dallas-raised, LA-based 23-year-old singer-songwriter (pronounced Liv) Olivia Williams from her new EP CWTTY+

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Song of the Day: Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture - Leywole

August 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Falle Nioke

Falle Nioke

Song of the Day: An exhilarating crossover by the 33-year-old singer and percussionist from Guinea joining forces with the electronica duo from Margate in a number that means "whatever" in Coniagui, inspired by watching a strong woman reject the advances of a pushy man in the street

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Song of the Day: Darkside - Lawmaker

August 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Darkside’s recent new album, Spiral

Darkside’s recent new album, Spiral

Song of the Day: A menacing, strange narrative, possibly about Covid, a power-crazed doctor and popularism, and a North African vibe crossed with slow psych rock in a film noir soundtrack feel all comes in the mysterious work of New York duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington and their extraordinary new album Spiral, out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Penelope Isles - Sailing Still

August 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Penelope Isles: sibilngs Jack and Lily Wolter and friend

Penelope Isles: sibilngs Jack and Lily Wolter and friend

Song of the Day: Powerful, beautiful, slow psych-alt-rock with soaring strings, intimate lyrics, blistering guitars and sounds of the ocean by the Brighton band of siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, from the forthcoming second album, Which Way To Happy, out on 5 November on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: binki: Revolve

August 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers

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Song of the Day: moa moa - Coltan Candy

August 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
moa moa

moa moa

Song of the Day: With a fabulous shuffle rhythm, bassline, synths and dark lyrics relating to the dubious trade in the African-mined metal mineral coltan, used in the manufacture of mobile phones, this alt-pop single comes via the great production of Dan Carey on the Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Czarface, MF DOOM and Godforbid - So Strange

August 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Super What? is the second collaborative album between Czarface and MF DOOM

Super What? is the second collaborative album between Czarface and MF DOOM

Song of the Day: Wonderfully quirky work about the eccentric masked character in this posthumous work by by brilliant lyricist and sadly late rapper MF Doom joined by US rap supergroup of 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck from their second collaborative LP Super What?, out on Silver Age Records

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Song of the Day: Red Telephone - Happy Man

August 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Red Telephone

Red Telephone

Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric

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Song of the Day: Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Imminent Shadow

August 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection forthcoming album

Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection forthcoming album

Song of the Day: Reminiscent of Nick Drake and hauntingly beautiful, this new acoustic single from with guitar, organ, flute and more, comes from the forthcoming self-titled album by the London singer-songwriter and pedal steelist now located in Nashville

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New Albums …

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July 2, 2026
Ibeyi: Offering
July 2, 2026

New album: Sensual, soulful, gentle, intricate fourth release by the French twin sister duo of Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz, singing in English, French, Spanish and Yoruba, and in this new, self-penned collection, mixing soulful R&B with influences of their Cuban percussionist father, Parisian childhood, and some musically interweaving parallels with Rosalía

July 2, 2026
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July 1, 2026
Muse: The Wow! Signal
July 1, 2026

New album: “If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing,” once half-joked Queen’s guitarist Brian May, and as one of Muse’s big muses, the British rock trio take that full galactic maxim to the max in this entertainingly over-the-top 10th LP inspired themes of space and alien life

July 1, 2026
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June 30, 2026
Various Artists: Candomblé - Sacred Rhythms In Brazil
June 30, 2026

New album: A mesmerically powerful collection of field recordings and remixes of the Brazilian religious and musical ritual tradition of candomblé, originating in the 19th century among enslaved west Africans who used polyrhythmic drumming and chanting circles to induce possession by spirits

June 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026
Alewya: Zero
June 29, 2026

New album: A dazzling debut of diversity and experimentation by the Saudi Arabia-born, Sudan- and London-raised raised Ethiopian–Egyptian artist, producer, and visual creative, who inventively channels her rich musical heritage, with English, Amharic and Arabic lyrics, blending the traditional and modern, and inspired by the diaspora experience

June 29, 2026
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June 28, 2026
Beth Orton: The Ground Above
June 28, 2026

New album: Exquisitely beautiful, vulnerable, raw and sensitively emotional, candid ninth LP in now over three decades by the British singer-songwriter, self-producing again after 2022’s Weather Alive, with a group of highly accomplished, complementary musicians, and lyrical themes of survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and deciding to stay - in love, in art, and in the world

June 28, 2026
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June 23, 2026
Jim Ghedi: The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)
June 23, 2026

New album: Extremely evocative, darkly visceral and elegiac, this folk-based soundtrack by the Sheffield singer-singer and composer captures the deeply unromantic and violent new feature film depicting Hood as a criminal non-hero from writer/director Michael Sarnoski and starring Hugh Jackman, very much stands on its own as album

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Graham Coxon: Castle Park
June 22, 2026

New album: With delightful echoes of the The Jam, The Kinks, The Bees, Small Faces and other classic 60s pop and mod influences, the Blur guitarist’s resurfaced and unreleased solo LP was actually recorded in 2011 at the time of his 2012 album A+E, and made with producer Ben Hillie

June 22, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026

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July 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Boy Harsher - Jeans
July 5, 2026

Song of the Day: Tuneful, understated, 80s dark-wave influenced, cinematic synth-pop about small-town escapism and working a dead-end job by the Northampton, Massachusetts-based duo vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller, accompanied by a striking video, out on Atlantic

July 5, 2026
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July 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Yung Singh - Situationz
July 4, 2026

Song of the Day: Energising, wriggly, effervescent dance music with a Panjabi twist by the East Midlands DJ and producer, taken from his debut EP Bloom, which also draws on his heritage folk traditions and Indian classical rhythms, and out on 1 July via his own label EKTA

July 4, 2026
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July 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Smidley - Capstone (featuring Lucy Dacus)
July 3, 2026

Song of the Day: Engaging experimental indie rock by the St Louis, Missouri band joined her by acclaimed guest singer-songwriter Dacus, and with a fascinating video directed by frontman Conor Murphy, heralding the upcoming album Murphy Horse, out on 25 September via Royal Mountain Records

July 3, 2026
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July 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Nicole Atkins - When The Night Falls
July 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Heartfelt, soaring melody, post-breakup soulful Americana rock-pop by the acclaimed Nashville singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming new album, Drama out on18 September via Sun Records

July 2, 2026
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July 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Yard Act - New Beginnings
July 1, 2026

Song of the Day: An updated indie-rock style as well as optimistic theme by the post-punk band from York fronted by the articulate presence of James Smith, heralding their new album, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, out on 17 Jul via Island/Universal

July 1, 2026
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June 30, 2026
Song of the Day: This Is Lorelei - Billy Came Back
June 30, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, wistful, propulsive take on the classic acoustic American road song with a heartfelt singalong chorus from the project of Brooklyn’s Nate Amos (also one half of Water From Your Eyes), heralding his upcoming new album The Singer In My Band, out on 11 September via Matador Records

June 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026
Song of the Day: PJ Harvey - Voyager
June 29, 2026

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British artist returns with an ethereal, pensive, soaring, orchestral-backed number with swelling string arrangements and pulsing synthesiser signals stretching out into the cosmos: icy, ethereal, and pensive, inspired by NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 space probes that launched in 1977, now still transmitting on the move in interstellar space, the single now out on Partisan Records

June 29, 2026
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June 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Swapmeet - Halfway
June 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Delicately tuneful indie about approaching confrontation, by the Adelaide, Australian four-piece fronted by Venus O’Broin, are heralding their debut album, Mount Zero, on 17 July via Winspear Records

June 28, 2026
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June 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim James - Come Again
June 27, 2026

Song of the Day: A strident, stirring, shuffle-rhythm, kaleidoscopic indie-rock meditation on resilience in the face of chaotic instability by the three-times Grammy nominated Kentucky-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and founding member of My Morning Jacket, heralding his new solo album, Wowed Out, due out 28 August via ATO Records

June 27, 2026
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June 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys
June 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gloriously uplifting indie-folk dream-pop the the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, joined on backing by her Boygenius friends Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and a charming medieval fantasy video also starring actor Skyler Gisondo, from the upcoming third LP Lost Weekend, out on 14 August via Dead Oceans

June 26, 2026
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June 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Cinder Well - Beyond The Pale
June 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, poetic, vivid folk and Americana about uncertainty and guilt by the LA–based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, heralding her upcoming album A Blooming Body, out on 17 July via Hen House Studios

June 25, 2026
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June 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Holter - Fantasy
June 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sensual, dream-like, ethereal new track by the acclaimed Los Angeles composer and songwriter, heralding her upcoming new album Materia, out on 21 August, a seven-track companion album to her superb 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves, also out on Domino Records

June 24, 2026

Word of the week

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July 3, 2026
Word of the week: oeillade
July 3, 2026

Word of the week: This evocative literary term (pronounced er-yaard) originating from the Middle French œil, meaning eye, means an amorous, flirtatious, furtive, or suggestive glance, or ogle, as well as now rare red wine grape

July 3, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026

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