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Alice Boman
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s song by Daniela Lalita, another beautifully fragile, sensual number, a melancholy dream-pop love song reminiscent of a mix of Kate Bush and Sufjan Stevens, here by the Swedish singer-songwriter, with guest vocals by the American artist Michael Hadreas
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Daniela Lalita
Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush
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The classy trio of Coco
Song of the Day: Brimming with swagger and panache, warmth and vitality, and a mix of The Go-Go’s and glam rock, this new single by the New York trio of Maia Friedman (of Dirty Projectors) , Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider) follows last year’s acclaimed self-titled debut album
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Sweden’s GOAT return with another single and a forthcoming album
Song of the Day: A welcome return with an infectious, syncopated, slightly Tuareg groove with crazed saxophone from the masked purveyors of psychedelic musical mythology, the mysterious band from the tiny Swedish village of Korpilombo, taken from their forthcoming new album Oh Death, out on Rocket Recordings
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Imarhan collaborate again with Gruff Rhys on a short EP
Song of the Day: After the Algerian Tuareg quintet’s gorgeous album Aboogi released in January this year included a collaboration on the song Adar Newlon, Welsh artist Rhys teams up again with another beautiful, delicate track of subtle guitar licks and gentle vocals
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Check the moves: Louis Cole’s I’m TIght
Song of the Day: Superbly sharp, droll, witty and taut electro-funk with a particularly fabulous bass line by the American multi-instrumentalist and founder of the jazz-funk-electronic duo Knower, and taken from his forthcoming solo album Quality Over Opinion
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Nick Hakim returns with his smoothly refined sound
Song of the Day: A deliciously mellow, honey-smooth and beautifully refined funk number by the Brooklyn-based musician, taken from his from the forthcoming album COMETA out on 21 October 21 on ATO Records
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Beth Orton
Song of the Day: To ‘bleed or rust in the rain’. Another beautiful, delicate new love song by the British singer-songwriter balancing passion and surrender, and taken from the forthcoming new album Weather Alive
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The Beths
Song of the Day: A fantastically catchy, upbeat, but also very poignant and intelligently written number by the New Zealand indie quartet that’s also the title track from their forthcoming new album out on Carpark Records and Ivy League
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The Cool Greenhouse forthcoming album Sod’s Toastie
Song of the Day: “It’s like Windows 98 in here.” From the forthcoming second album Sod’s Toastie, a brilliant blend of Bowie-esque post-punk and superbly droll, witty paradox-filled, absurdist spoken lyrics by the British band fronted by Tom Greenhouse
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The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact
Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German
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A biting new single by DEADLETTER
Song of the Day: The latest in a run of excellent indie post-punk single releases by the sharp, witty Yorkshire and London band such as Fit For Work and Pop Culture Connoisseur sees frontman Zac and co highlighting an excessive trait inherent within human behaviour
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LUNGE: Viva Seifert and Mark ‘Arp’ Cleveland
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky synth-pop with a retro 80s feel, shades of OMD and high vocals somewhere between Associates and Kate Bush, this new single about severance and letting go is by the duo of Viva Seifert and Mark “Arp” Cleveland
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The welcome return of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with their first new album since 2013
Song of the Day: Smouldering, dramatic, relating to climate change events and more, this second single, inspired by The Four Seasons’ song Beggin’ comes from the forthcoming album Cool It Down, the first in nine years, by the dynamic and stylish New York alt-rock trio of Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase
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Jiitwam’s latest album, Third
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream
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Red alert: here’s comes De Staat
Songs of the Day: Stylish, syncopated, restless, witty, and slightly menacing, these punchy and pulsating new numbers by the entertaining Dutch alt-rockers comes from their new playlist of songs grouped under different colours – red, yellow, blue
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Sniffany & The Nits
Song of the Day: From their recently released album The Unscratchable Itch, searingly witty punk by the London band with a number from the point of view of a wife whose husband is into swinging, with all the visceral, fetid detail that may entail
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Yumi And The Weather - Can You Tell
Song of the Day: “Let’s drive straight into the fog, All I know is this isn’t love.” Compelling, powerful indie post-punk by Brighton’s Ruby Taylor, in this number about recklessness and regrets, fate and fortune
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Leftfield’s forthcoming fourth studio album
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British electronic duo of Neil Barnes and Adam Wren in this mesmeric clever dancefloor number that has a wobbly echo of the classic 1990s single Phat Planet, and comes from the forthcoming album This is What We Do
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Lip-sync construction worker from the video for So Typically Now
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy, but also scathing electro-pop by New York’s Meg Remy about the cultural vacuum left by the mass exodus from wealthy Brooklyn residents to Kingston in upstate New York, leading to a real estate boom
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