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Song of the Day: L'Rain - Pet Rock

October 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

L'Rain’s new album, I Killed Your God, out on Mexican Summer

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic sounds mixing electronica, soul, pop, some rippling prog, warped guitar indie, sensual and wild wild vocals by the Brooklyn singer and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, taken from the forthcoming third album, I Killed Your Dog, out on Mexican Summer

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Song of the Day: Emma Gatrill - Seed (featuring Rozi Plain and Kate Stables)

October 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Emma Gatrill’s latest single, Seed

Song of the Day: A gorgeously uplifting new single of gentle folk pop with strings, percussion, brass keyboards by the Brighton-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist joined here by two members of This Is The Kit and others

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Songs of the Day: Midlake and John Grant – You Don't Get To / Roadrunner Blues

October 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Midlake and John Grant – You Don't Get To / Roadrunner Blues

Songs of the Day: In a smoothly brilliant blend, reuniting after Grant’s 2010 album Queen of Denmark, a double single release featuring the US/Icelandic solo artist’s typically caustic, humorous lyrics and the Denton folk-rock band’s classic sound

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Song of the Day: Balming Tiger - Trust Yourself

October 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Balming Tiger

Song of the Day: Catchy, snappy, witty upbeat hip-hop and alt-K-pop by Seoul’s South Korean collective that includes San Yawn, rapper Omega Sapien, DJ Abyss, Sogumm, Wnjn, and Mudd the Student

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In 2023, alternative, experimental, hip hop, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Balming Tiger, South Korea, AWAL Recordings, AWAL Records
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Song of the Day: Joe Probert - No Hot Fever

October 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Joe Probert’s EP, The Nose

Song of the Day: Taken from his new EP, The Nose, a dose of hot, stinging soul-funk with a 70s flavour and drum patterns “funkier than a mosquito's tweeter” by the Bristol-raised New Zealand-based singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: The Irrepressibles - Transformation of Acceptance (from Self Love and Acceptance EP)

October 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new Irrepressibles EP, Self Love and Acceptance

Song of the Day: A beautiful, tender, moving exploration of self-acceptance accompanied by piano and strings from the British singer-songwriter Jamie McDermott and friends, taken from their new six-track EP

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In 2023, alternative, pop, classical Tags The Irrepressibles, songs, song of the day, Of Naked Design, Jamie McDermott
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Song of the Day: John J Presley - Silhouettes

October 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

John J Presley’s second album

Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, menacing new single with shades of Nick Cave by the singer and multi-instrumentalist from Walsall, here featuring some frenetic saxophone by Terry Edwards, and taken from John’s forthcoming second LP, Chaos & Calypso

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Song of the Day: Conchúr White - I Did Good Today

October 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Conchúr White

Song of the Day: A beautifully double-edged, intelligent indie-folk single referencing addiction and the longing for validation by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, Northern Ireland from his forthcoming album, Swirling Violets, out in early 2024 on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: The Murder Capital - Heart In The Hole

September 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Murder Capital

Song of the Day: With captivating, intelligent lyrics, an unrelenting intensity and powerful build, this new new single by the Dublin post-punk band follows their second album, Gigi’s Recovery, released earlier this year

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Song of the Day: Lola Young - Conceited

September 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lola Young

Song of the Day: Following her debut album My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely, earlier this year, an arresting new single of personal, passionate address, powerful build with guitar and electronica by the British singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: Vagabon - Lexicon

September 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Vagabon’s new album, Sorry I Haven't Called

Song of the Day: From the recent third album, Sorry I Haven't Called, beautiful, stripped-back soulful pop by the New York-based Cameroonian-American singer-songwriter Laetitia Tamko and produced by Rostam

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Song of the Day: Sega Bodega and Safety Trance - Arena!

September 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sega Bodega and Safety Trance - Arena!

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, otherworldly, dynamically spiralling electronica by Salvador Navarrete, the Irish-Scottish producer, musician, DJ and founder of the Nuxxe label and collective, collaborating here with Venezuela’s Safety Trance, aka Luis Garbán, also known as Cardopusher

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Song of the Day: Liz Lawrence - I Was There (featuring Steve Mason)

September 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Liz Lawrence

Song of the Day: Brand new and alluringly original, the British singer-songwriter returns with a rich guitar sound and lyrics referencing climate change and the singularity, joined by the former Beta Band frontman

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Song of the Day: 15 15 (QuinzeQuinze) - Perfect Heaven

September 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

15 15’s new EP Ataheva

Song of the Day: Unique, mesmeric, spiralling experimental electronica merged with soulful vocals by the Tahitian/Parisian band (also known as QuinzeQuinze), in a “landscape of a marvellous nightmare”, taken from their forthcoming EP Ataheva, out on S76

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Song of the Day: Mock Media - Modern Visions

September 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Mock Media - Modern Visions (Artwork - Jake Monroe)

Song of the Day: Cleverly inventive, stop-start rhythmic, intricate guitar post-punk from this supergroup of Garnet Aronyk (Crack Cloud), Austin Boylan (Pottery), Bennett Smith (N0V3L) and Evan Aesen (Painted Fruits)

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Song of the Day: Big Special - Desperate Breakfast

September 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Voracious sound: Big Special

Song of the Day: Punchy, witty, searing post-punk abounds in this brilliant new single by the mischievously named duo comprising singer and Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney from Walsall in the Midlands. Out on SO Recordings

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Song of the Day: Ego Ella May - Undone

September 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ego Ella May

Song of the Day: An exquisitely crisp, delicate soulful number by the London singer-songwriter inspired by a book about Swedish business who becomes a Buddhist monk in Thailand for 17 years, and is about letting go of control, ditching facades and leaving it all behind

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Song of the Day: CARRTOONS - Grace (featuring Rae Khalil)

September 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new CARRTOONS album, Saturday Night

Song of the Day: After last year’s Homegrown album, the first single from the forthcoming new LP, Saturday Night, some beautifully crisp, free-flowing soul by the New York multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Carr joined by a wonderful guest singer

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Song of the Day: Hania Rani – Don't Break My Heart ft. Duncan Bellamy

September 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hania Rani

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Ghosts, a song of beautiful fragility with piano, delicate electronica, percussion and exquisite vocals by the Polish singer-songwriter, composer and pianist joined here by the Portico Quartet drummer

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Song of the Day: La Battue: Five To Nine

September 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Image from La Battue’s latest album, Farrago

Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful in vocals and synths, but filled with restless, protesting, lyrical anguish, a newly released electro-pop number by the French band from Rennes, taken from their latest album, Farrago, released earlier this year on Parapente

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New Albums …

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June 23, 2026
Jim Ghedi: The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)
June 23, 2026

New album: Beautiful, evocative, darkly visceral and elegiac, thi 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 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 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
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 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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