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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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Black Pumas’ forthcoming album it titled Chronicles of a Diamond
Song of the Day: A superb new soul-gospel number featuring the soaring voice of singer Eric Burton with Austin, Texas bandmate guitarist-producer Adrian Quesada, taken from their forthcoming album Chronicles Of A Diamond
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Tiberius B’s latest EP - DIN
Song of the Day: Taken from the latest EP, DIN, the London-based artist Frank Belcourt’s track is beautiful experimental pop with fabulous drums and a tuneful homage to trans beauty
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Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes - All I Need / Finish Line
Song of the Day: “Food. Shelter. Find a mate. Danger.” Brilliantly snappy, dynamic dance-electronica with a dash of Goldfrapp in this superb collaboration between the soaring-voiced south London singer and the Los Angeles composer and producer
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Animal attraction: FIZZ
Song of the Day: Oozing energy and fun, and building from a quiet start to to ironic, grand crescendos, a stirring new indie-pop number filled with sparkling vocals and instrumentation by the effervescent quartet comprising Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland, dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown
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Anna Erhard measures hits a new high of 170cm
Sweeping Promises’ new album, Good Living Is Coming For You
Song of the Day: Taken from their recently released album Good Living Is Coming For You, fantastically punchy, catchy, witty early-80s-style post-punk by the band comprising Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug from Lawrence, Kansas
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Jalen Ngonda’s forthcoming new album Come Around and Love Me, out on Daptone Records
Song of the Day: Fabulous high-soaring soul with a delicious rolling rhythm reminiscent of classic Motown Marvin Gaye in this title track from the forthcoming album and first on Daptone Records by the singer from Maryland, US, now settled in Liverpool
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Sufjan Stevens
Song of the Day: A beautiful, intimate, delicate-yet-cutting lullaby-like breakup new song by the acclaimed US artist, heralding his forthcoming new album, Javelin, the first since 2020’s The Ascension, but one more akin to his full singer-songwriter mode, 2015’s powerfully moving Carrie & Lowell
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Modern Nature’s forthcoming album, No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union in September
Song of the Day: Not one, but actually two recent beautiful experimental folk tracks by the Cambridge-based band led by Jack Cooper – expansive, contemplative, and meditative on ideas of intricate infinity in nature, taken from the forthcoming album No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union.
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: After last year’s Polyawkward EP and other excellent releases, the Leeds-based post-punk indie band return with a clever, sharp song with lyrics by frontwoman Lily Fontaine about the contradictions of growing up in Pendle, Lancashire
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Mysterious neighbour … Folly Group’s new single
Song of the Day: Sharp, witty, energised new post-punk single by the south London band with particularly strong drumming, and a curtain-twitching theme in a long tradition of neighbour-themed songs such as Space’s Neighbourhood or Tom Waits’ What’s He Building?
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Goat are back …
Song of the Day: Meaty, viscous, dark, mysterious psychedelic-gothic rock with the unmistakable sound of the returning masked collective band from Sweden, taken from their forthcoming fifth album Medicine, out in October on Rocket Recordings
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Whitney’s new single, Kansas
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful, poetic fusion of Americana, country and 70s-style folk with lovely vocal harmonies by the Chicago band of Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and co, following last year’s fourth album, Spark. Out on Secretly Canadian
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Orla Gartland
Song of the Day: Superb, punchy, driving, witty indie-pop in this eccentric, double-edged love song by the talented and charismatic Irish singer-songwriter who first gained huge acclaim via her YouTube channel
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Cory Wong - Call Me Wild (featuring dodie)
Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy funk pop the brilliant Minnesota guitarist and producer from Vulfpeck and other bands, here with witty lyrics about a night out delivered by guest vocalist Dodie, taken from Cory’s forthcoming solo album, The Lucky One
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One to remember: Jaakko Enio Kalevi’s forthcoming album, Chaos Magic
Song of the Day: Beautifully crisp, droll, gentle-paced deep-voiced electro-pop with echoes of early 80s and The Human League by the ingenious, mischievous Finnish artist, from the upcoming album Chaos Magic out on 17 November on Weird World / Domino
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eee gee - School Reunion
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll but resplendent soaring Abba-like pop by the Brooklyn-based Danish singer-songwriter Emma Grankvist who seamlessly merges humorous irony and fabulous melody. With a fabulously disturbing video to match, it’s another single from her forthcoming new album, She-Rex
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CHAI channel their philosophy of Neo Kawaii
Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, quirky, feminist post-punk-pop celebrating self-love, oddness and individuality by the Japanese quartet from Nagoya of twin sisters Mana and Kana, with rhythm section of Yuna and Yuuki
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The incomparable Bootsy
Song of the Day: Superbly infectious brassy, squelchy Prince and also Parliament-like like funk of the highest order by legendary bass master with Queens rapper Baby Triggy and Hamburg singer Fantaazma
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