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Song of the Day: Lawn Chair - Rhoenians Death

May 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lawn Chair’s new EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s new Blur track, more indie, here with with a theme of exhuberent restlessness and a witty, punchy postpunk edge in this excellent second single by the band from Cologne, German, from their EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!

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Song of the Day: Blur - The Narcissist

May 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Blur’s next album, The Ballad of Darren

Song of the Day: A simple two-chord riff, call-and-response, melancholy reflective lyrics by Damon Albarn, and lovely melody and a rousing chorus? The classic Britpop quartet return with a first single from their forthcoming ninth album, The Ballad of Darren

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Song of the Day: Genevieve Dawson - Made from the Earth

May 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Genevieve Dawson

Song of the Day: Taken from her new five-track EP, What's Mine Is Yours, out on 26 May, a beautiful new number by the London-based singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh

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Song of the Day: Remi Wolf - Prescription

May 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Remi Wolf

Song of the Day: Turn it up to 11. Soaring vocals, huge horn sounds, classic piano pop with a massive rousing climax? It’s all in this new single from the flamboyant California singer-songwriter, their first new music since 2021’s Juno album

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Song of the Day: ANOHNI and the Johnsons - It Must Change

May 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984

Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity

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Song of the Day: Anna Erhard: Campsite

May 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clever licks: Anna Erhard

Song of the Day: The title track of the the Berlin artist’s latest album is beautifully crisp, oddball German electro-pop with clever licked, jagged guitars, quirky lyrics and ironic, nostalgic detail about a summer camping trip

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Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

May 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Surusinghe number, a Saturday offering of dynamic and mesmeric electro-house dance music comes from the charismatic Vietnam-born, Cannes-based DJ and producer, who is also the great grandson of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso

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Song of the Day: Surusinghe - Skit

May 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Surusinghe

Song of the Day: A lively snap track for Friday packed with clever, innovative, intricately woven stop-start electronica, breaks, beats, sharp bass lines, textures and percussion in this latest single by the Naarm/Melbourne-born, London-based artist from her forthcoming new EP

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Song of the Day: Modern Woman - Achtung

May 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

“While Julie plays piano in C” - Achtung by Modern Woman

Song of the Day: Brilliantly punchy post-punk with sharp, vivid, killer spoken lyrics by Sophie Harris, thrumming bass line and explosive guitar effects by the London-based band with a song about a childhood crush on a boy with German parents, and a particularly a scary dad

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Song of the Day: Baxter Dury - Celebrate Me

May 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Celebrate Me by Baxter Dury

Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character

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Song of the Day: Me Lost Me - Festive Day

May 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album, RPG

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s marine life-inspired music by Cosmo Sheldrake, further stimulus about the natural world comes from the string and drone style of Newcastle-upon-Tyne experimental folk artist Jayne Dent from the forthcoming album RPG

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Song of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Bathed In Sound (Wild Wet World EP)

May 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World

Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Renegade

May 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue

Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish sci-fi-themed psychedelic glam-rock-pop by the west London singer and rapper accompanied by a highly entertaining space and robot-themed video, out on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Grian Chatten - Fairlies

May 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten’s forthcoming debut solo album

Song of the Day: Catchy, beautifully poetic, upbeat acoustic folk-rock by the frontman of Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. with a new single using Irish mythology, trailing his debut solo album, Chaos for the Fly, out on 30 June via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Ash Walker - Time Gets Wasted (featuring Denitia and Sly5thAve)

May 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ash Walker

Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals

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Song of the Day: Fran Lobo - Tricks

May 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fran Lobo

Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship

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Song of the Day: Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

May 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The cover of Yussef Dayes’ forthcoming album, Black Classical Music

Song of the Day: A whirlwind of brilliant dynamism, energy and invention by the British jazz drummer with the title track of his forthcoming debut solo album, out on Brownswood Recordings, Warners and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings

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Song of the Day: The Clientele - Blue Over Blue

May 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Clientele are back …

Song of the Day: With their first new music for six years, beautifully shiny, polished, twinkling indie pop by the London-based band from the forthcoming ninth album, I Am Not There Anymore, out on 28 July via Merge Records

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - Jetski

April 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius b

Song of the Day: Clever, engaging, energetic experimental pop by the London-based artist, aka Frank Belcourt, from their forthcoming new EP, DIN, out on 30 June via Mark Ronson's label Zelig Music

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Song of the Day: Nightbus - Mirrors

April 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Manchester band Nightbus’s new single, Mirrors

Song of the Day: A dark, atmospheric, thrumming piece of cityscape psychology post-punk by the trio of Jake Cottier, Olivia Rees and Zac Melrose from Manchester, with shades, or indeed Shadowplaym of Joy Division, out So Young Records

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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
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 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
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 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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