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Song of the Day: PJ Harvey – A Child's Question, August

April 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Polly Jean Harvey

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British indie artist returns with slow, intense, inventive bird-themed new single about solace and love, from her forthcoming album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, out in July Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Pozi - Pest Control

April 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Pozi: Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook and Tom Jones

Song of the Day: Fabulously thrumming bass, glissando and rhythmic violin, drums and vocal harmonies by the British post-punk trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones in this political song taken from their forthcoming new album Smiling Pools, out on PRAH

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Song of the Day: LOCKS - Jars (Tall Tales EP)

April 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

LOCKS’ new EP, Tall Tales

Song of the Day: A wonderful Tom Waits-esque oddball new release of gory imagery, rattled chains and stomping staccato by the dark, Tiger Lillies cabaret-style gypsy folk London band from their recent EP, Tall Tales

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In 2023, alternative, folk Tags LOCKS, Out Of The Woods Records, songs, song of the day, Tom Waits, The Tiger Lillies
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Song of the Day: Patrick Wolf - Nowhere Game (The Night Safari EP)

April 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The return of Patrick Wolf

Song of the Day: Taken from his recent EP, The Night Safari, his first release for a decade, the multi-talented south Londoner singer and musician’s dynamic, dark new alternative baroque pop single is a fusion of electronica, viola, violin, Celtic harp, celeste, suitcase organ and bowed psaltery

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Song of the Day: The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

April 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Last Dinner Party

Song of the Day: A polished, catchy, candid and declamatory art-pop-rock debut by the south London five-piece band with chorus that has musical shades of ABBA and Sparks

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Song of the Day: Little Dragon - Slugs of Love

April 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Little Dragon return with Slugs of Love

Song of the Day: Catchy alternative indie-pop by the band from Gothenburg, Sweden with a number about pleasure-seeking laziness in relationships, and in a style they imagine “being played by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colours.”

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Song of the Day: YOVA - Feel Your Fear

April 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Yova’s new single

Song of the Day: Punchy, rhythmic alternative indie pop by the duo of Macedonia-born vocalist Jova Radevska and London-based musician Mark Vernon with penetrative jagged guitar, organ and trumpet parts in a song about tendency to form addictions to alleviate pain

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Song of the Day: Sahalé - Djiin

April 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony

Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best

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Song of the Day: Mary Ocher - Love Is Not a Place (feat. Your Government)

April 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Mary Ocher’s

Song of the Day: Taken from the charity EP, Power and Exclusion from Power (out on Underground Institute) released on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a powerful anti-nationalist alternative electronica hymn by the Jewish-Ukranian political artist

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Song of the Day: Brooke Combe - Black Is The New Gold

April 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Brooke Combe

Song of the Day: Classic soul-pop with a wonderful smooth, gliding voice by Scottish singer-songwriter from Midlothian, taken from her forthcoming new eight-track EP

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Song of the Day: Jessie Ware - Begin Again

April 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessie Ware - Begin Again

Song of the Day: The British singer-songwriter’s luxuriant latest return comes in a wonderfully opulent and upbeat mix of disco, pop, funk, soul and gospel with brass, and heralds her forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled That! Feels Good!

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Song of the Day: Terry - Gold Duck (Call Me Terry album)

April 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Terry: Call Me Terry

Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy and quirky post-punk pop with an electronic twist by the Melbourne, Australia quartet of Amy Hill, Al Montfort, Xanthe Waite and Zephyr Pavey, taken from their brand new album Call Me Terry, out today on Upset The Rhythm

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Song of the Day: Sam Burton - Long Way Around

April 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, Dear Departed, out on Partisan Records

Song of the Day: Sounding from another era, that of the 70s and Harry Nilsson, a wonderfully powerful and romantic voice and number from the contemporary Los Angeles singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album Dear Departed, out in July on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Pip Blom - Tiger

April 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Pip Blom

Song of the Day: The amiable Amsterdam indie quartet of siblings Pip and Tender Blom, Gini Cameron and Darek Mercks return with a upbeat, refreshed sound, still with thoughtful lyrics but closer to pop with added electronica

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Song of the Day: WITCH - Avalanche of Love (featuring Sampa the Great)

April 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

WITCH’s forthcoming album, Zango

Song of the Day: The pioneering zamrock band originally formed in the 1970s are joined by the charismatic Zambian singer and rapper in this fabulously funky new track, potent mix of African, psychedelic rock, garage rock, jazz, hip hop and blues

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Song of the Day: McKinley Dixon - Run, Run, Run

April 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

McKinley Dixon’s forthcoming album - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

Song of the Day: Slick, catchy soul and hip-hop with a serious message about gun culture and youth by the multi-talented musician from Richmond, Virginia, from his forthcoming fourth album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? out on City Slang in June

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Song of the Day: Hannah Jadagu - Warning Sign

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hannah Jadagu’s upcoming album, Aperture, out on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: Smooth, gentle soul, electronica and rock intertwine in this beautiful new single by the New York-based artist from Mesquite, Texas. It’s taken from her upcoming album, Aperture, out on 19 May on Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: La Féline - Dancing

April 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

La Féline’s latest album, Tarbes

Song of the Day: Smooth, supercool, catchy French disco pop and funk for a Saturday by Lyon’s singer-songwriter Agnès Gayraud, also French philosopher and journalist who graces a range of styles

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Song of the Day: Underworld - And The Colour Red

April 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Underworld - And The Colour Red

Song of the Day: British electronic dance music veterans Karl Hyde and Rick Smith return with a mesmeric, infectiously brilliant banger filled with oddball phrased-in sounds and gnomic phrases

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Song of the Day: Ursa Major Moving Group - Welcome To The Noosphere

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track

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New Albums …

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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 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026

new songs …

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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 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026

Word of the week

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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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