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Song of the Day: Albertine Sarges - Hold On

November 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Albertine Sarges

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming new EP Family of Things EP, a quirky, witty, personal, talk-singing original and candid number about nicotine addiction and other self-confession oddities and struggles by the Berlin-based artist. Out on Moshi Moshi

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Song of the Day: Steve Mason - No More (featuring Javed Bashir)

November 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Steve Mason’s new single, No More, addresses British imperialism and the huge Brexit mistake

Song of the Day: The former Beta Band frontman returns with an innovative, stirring, distinctive cross-genre new single about imperialism and a big rebuff to Brexit, with guest vocals by the Pakistani singer, taken from the forthcoming album Brothers & Sisters

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Song of the Day: Uh - Hit

November 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Uh’s new song Hit comes from their forthcoming album Humanus

Song of the Day: Mesmerically strange and captivating experimental synth-pop by brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, from north-west London, and taken their upcoming debut album, Humanus, out on PRAH

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Song of the Day: Pozi - Slightly Shaking Cells

November 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Pozi’s new single Slightly Shaking Cells

Song of the Day: Fabulously quirky, skittish, energetic new single by the indie pop postpunk trio of drummer/vocalist Burroughs, violinist/vocalist Rosa Brook and bassist/vocalist Tom Jones with this number about the strange beauty of the ageing process

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Song of the Day: David Brewis (Field Music) - The Last Day

November 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

David Brewis’s forthcoming solo album

Song of the Day: A catchy, candid, brass-infused story of the tricky final last day of school by one half of the brother duo of Field Music, heralding his forthcoming solo album, The Soft Struggles, out on Daylight Saving Record

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Song of the Day: Leland Whitty - Awake

November 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Leland Whitty’s forthcoming debut solo album, Anyhow

Song of the Day: A beautiful, evocative instrumental piece, by Toronto experimental jazz BadBadNotGood's saxophonist with shimmering, gliding sounds of strings, keyboards, bass and other playing from his bandmates, heralding Whitty’s debut solo LP, Anyhow, out on Innovative Leisure

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Song of the Day: Caroline Rose – Love / Lover / Friend

November 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Caroline Rose

Song of the Day: Delicate, intimate and whispery but slowly building, from gentle Spanish guitar and orchestral strings into an intense explosion of emotion and vocal harmonies, this is a powerfully intense new single comes from the New York singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: Hekla - The Whole

November 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hekla’s second album Xiuxiuejar

Song of the Day: Haunting, mesmeric, beautifully spooky sounds and voice by the Icelandic singer theremin player and cellist who with some upbringing in Barcelona and is also influenced by the Catalan language, this track the first from her latest album, Xiuxiuejar, out on Phantom Limb

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Song of the Day: Quasi - Queen of Ears

November 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Quasi: Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss

Catchy, clever, crunch-squelchy organ-fuelled new indie single of discombobulation by the Portland-based duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater-Kinney), heralding their first album for a decade, Breaking the Balls of History, out on Sub Pop

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Song of the Day: Spencer Cullum - Kingdom Weather

November 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Spencer Cullum’s forthcoming new album

Song of the Day: Beautiful new 70s-style folk rock/country number by the Nashville-based British artist, featuring extra guest vocals by Japanese singer Yuma Abe, plus evocative woodwind, taken from his forthcoming second Coin Collection album, out on Full Time Hobby

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Song of the Day: Say She She - Fortune Teller

November 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Say She She

Song of the Day: Beautiful disco with a delicate shimmering piano, and a nod to Nile Rodgers’ Chic, by the Brooklyn band fronted by Sabrina Cunningham, Nya Gazelle Brown & Piya Malik taken from their recent debut album, Prism, out Karma Chief / Colemine Records

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Song of the Day: Philip Selway - Check For Signs Of Life

November 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: John Cale - The Story of Blood (featuring Weyes Blood)

November 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood) and John Cale

Song of the Day: The veteran musician and former Velvet Undergrounder’s new single heralds his first album in a decade, Mercy, with this mesmeric, ambient, strangely evocative number circulating with singer-songwriter Natalie Mering

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Song of the Day: Dora Jar - Spell

October 31, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Dora Jar

Song of the Day: A ghostly, breathy, ethereal and beautiful new number that marks Halloween, but is more about late October’s seasonal time of change by the California and New York alt-pop/folk singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski

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Song of the Day: Ásgeir - Borderland

October 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ásgeir’s fifth studio album, Time On My Hands

Song of the Day: Beautiful new folk-electronica single that captures the creative point between being asleep and awake, by the Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson from his fifth album, also out this week, Time On My Hands, out on One Little Independent

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Song of the Day: Nakhane - Do You Well (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nakhane Mahlakahlaka

Song of the Day: A raunchy disco banger by the Nakhane Mahlakahlaka, the South African singer, songwriter, actor, and novelist, and non-binary LBGTQ+ activist, here collaborating with the American musician

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Song of the Day: Hamish Hawk - Think Of Us Kissing

October 26, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hamish Hawk’s second album, Angel Numbers, is due on early 2023

Song of the Day: The Edinburgh artist returns with anthemic panache on this new, stylish, lyrically clever single, “a tragic, romantic song about the music industry, looking at the lengths an artist may or may not go in order to have glory showered upon them.”

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Song of the Day: Teleman - Short Life

October 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Teleman return with a new

Song of the Day: A punchy, anthemic, uplifting new indie-pop single, the first from the English band’s forthcoming fourth LP, Good Time/Hard Time, out next spring, is all about making the most of our time while we have it. Out on Moshi Moshi

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Song of the Day: Sister Wives - O Dŷ i Dŷ

October 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sister Wives: Donna Lee, Rose Love, Lisa O’Hara, and Liv Willars

Song of the Day: A mesmeric recent single of ghostly psych-rock folk by the alluring Welsh language four-piece band, translated as House To House, taken from their soon to be released album, Y Gawres, out on Libertino Records

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Song of the Day: Gretel Hänlyn - Drive

October 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Gretel Hänlyn

Song of the Day: Punchy, darkly sinister and rock-driven new indie single by the innovative London singer-songwriter with a distinctive deep voice and an ability to deliver songs in a variety of styles. Out on VLF Records

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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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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 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
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June 23, 2026
Song of the Day: BODEGA - All Inside Aquarium
June 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Moving away from of their post-punk sound into more of a meaty, guitar-driven melodic rock, the New York band return with a catchy, witty, singalong title track, , an existential anthem influenced by Jane’s Addiction, from their upcoming album, out on 9 October via Chrysalis Records

June 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Song of the Day: EELS - Cap In Hand
June 22, 2026

Song of the Day: A pointed, subtle but also catchy number about making mistakes, regret and social division, US artist Mark Oliver Everett and band return with the lead single from the upcoming album out on 16 October via E Works / Play It Again Sam

June 22, 2026
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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 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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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

April 23, 2026

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