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Song of the Day: Brooke Combe - This Town

January 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Brooke Combe - This Town

Song of the Day: Breezy, escapism-themed, uplifting classic soul by the charismatic, golden voiced Scottish singer, heralding her forthcoming album, Dancing At The Edge of the World, out on Modern Sky UK

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Song of the Day: Panda Bear - Ferry Lady

January 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Panda Bear’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift

Song of the Day: Trumpets, a beautifully serene melody, with an eclectic, catchy Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry clip-clopping vibe and syncopated rhythm? It’s none other than the Animal Collective drummer and vocalist Noah Lennox, who returns with a new single, taken from from his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift, out on 28 February via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Loraine James - Yet To Know The Meaning Of Forever (with Coby Sey)

January 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Loraine James

Song of the Day: Gentle, tender, soulful, crisply experimental new work by the innovative British electronica artist, here joined by the vocalist, musician and fellow south Londoner Coby Sey on the EP New Year's Substitution 3, made between Christmas and New Year

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Song of the Day: Elea Calvet - Filthy Lucre

January 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Elea Calvet

Song of the Day: Slow, smoky, alluring, entrancing and dramatic, this is the title track of the new five-track EP by the eclectic Bristol singer-songwriter released on Hyssop & Victoria

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Song of the Day: Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)

January 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)

Song of the Day: A fabulous fusion of P-funk, jazz, pop and more about seeking refuge from the winter or any darker times, in this recent release by the Leeds-born British singer and multi-instrumentalist joined by the American comedian and musician and out on Brownswood Recordings

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Song of the Day: Heather Nova - Ghost In The Room

January 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Heather Nova - Ghost In The Room

Song of the Day: Ghostly by name, ethereally delicate by nature, this delicate new track by the Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet is about tangibly missing someone, and heralds her latest LP, Breath And Air, out on 21 February on V2

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Song of the Day: The Velveteers - On And On

January 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Velveteers

Song of the Day: Gripping, gutsy, greedy, dirty-fuzz guitar rock by the trio from Boulder, Colorado, heralding their new album A Million Knives, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and released on 14 February via Easy Eye Sound

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Song of the Day: Camp Saint Helene - Wonder Now

December 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song

Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar

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Song of the Day: Richard Dawson - Boxing Day Sales

December 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Richard Dawson stands motionless among the bargain hunters …

Song of the Day: A seasonal gem of beautifully droll wit and storytelling by the brilliant experimental folk singer-songwriter, heralding his upcoming new LP, End of the Middle, out 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino

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Song of the Day: Laura Cannell - On The Twelfth Day Of Christmas

December 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laura Cannell’s twelfth EP Winterlore, from 2024’s monthly themed ‘Lore’ series

Christmas special Song of the Day: A wonderfully haunting and beautiful strings and bells instrumental piece by the British composer from her the twelfth EP, Winterlore in the monthly ‘Year of Lore’ series of 2024

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Song of the Day: Say She She - This Wintertime

December 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Say She She - This Wintertime

Song of the Day: An elevating, intimate, original Christmas song – slow, heartfelt, with high, soulful, soaring vocal harmonies – by the Brooklyn and London band, the B-side of their new single Purple Snowflakes, out on Karma Chief / Colemine Records

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Song of the Day: Meta Golova - Yellow Arrow

December 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Meta Golova’s album Seasonal Hallucination

Song of the Day: Eclectic, catchy, mesmeric electro-punk and darkwave in this single taken from the second album, Seasonal Hallucination, by the duo of Siberian Lena Kilina and Brazilian Carlos Issa, released on cassette on the Berlin-based label Coisas que Matam

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Song of the Day: Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back

December 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back

Song of the Day: Following this year’s fabulous album World of Work, a beautiful new experimental folk-pop single by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer, deliciously decorated with strings, piano, woodwind and her haunting voice. Out on Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Unknown To Known - Wide Waters

December 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Unknown To Known

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic experimental and engaging jazz featuring woodwind, percussion, sitar and bass by the London quartet of Idris Rahman, Jihad Darwish, Tamar Osborn and Yusuf Ahmed from their debut album, Lightship, out on Maps For Getting Lost

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Song of the Day: Julien Baker & TORRES - Sugar in the Tank

December 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

TORRES and Julien Baker. Photo: Ebru Yildiz

Song of the Day: Beautifully crafted country about bittersweet love-sickness by two acclaimed singer-songwriters inspired by their experiences of growing up queer in the southern states, here sharing vocals and playing banjo and guitar in their first single together, out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Mogwai - God Gets You Back

December 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Mogwai’s forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire

Song of the Day: Released in September, the first of two powerful, dynamic, stormy and serene singles so far heralding the veteran Glasgow experimental rockers’ forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire, out on 24 January 2025, on their label Rock Action Records

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Song of the Day: Circa Waves - Like You Did Before

December 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Circa Waves - Like You Did Before

Song of the Day: Reminiscent of the high-octane early-2000s New York indie of The Strokes and The Walkmen, this passionate new single heralds the Liverpool quartet’s forthcoming sixth album, Death & Love, Pt1, out on the 31 January, via Lower Third/ PIAS

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Song of the Day: Muireann Bradley - Candyman

December 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Muireann Bradley’s debut album, I Kept These Blues

Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca

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Song of the Day: Benjamin Brooker - Same Kind of Lonely

December 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Benjamin Brooker at work. (Photo: Trenity Thomas)

Song of the Day: Heralding LOWER, his first album in seven years, the innovative, eclectic, New Orleans-based American singer-songwriter returns with a dark, mysterious and unique mix of sounds of fuzz guitar, electronica, noise pop, hip-hop, ambient and indie rock, with a dream-like video

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Song of the Day: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)

December 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Afterlife, a shuddering, powerful, perspective-scanning new indie track by the American artist and her backing band, heralding the forthcoming self-titled album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar

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New Albums …

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Feb 4, 2026
Geologist: Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?
Feb 4, 2026

New album: The hurdy-gurdy never quite sounded like this before. Animal Collective multi-instrumentalist Brian Weitz is the final member of that experimental collective to release a solo album, and it’s a bizarre journey of oddball sounds and instruments looped through guitar pedal effects krautrock repetitive, meditational exploratory spirit, inhaled through the titular reference to his past as a smoker

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Delaney Bailey: Concave
Feb 4, 2026

New album: A highly absorbing, potent, intense yet understated, ethereally sound-sculptured debut by the Indiana-raised Chicago artist who crafts intimate noir-goth dream pop across themes of vulnerability and mental health

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Cast: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Liverpool’s John Power and co returns after 2024’s Love Is The Call with an eighth LP, packed with anthemic, catchy, voluminous indie rock bangers with P.P. Arnold adding classy backing vocals

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Toni Geitani: Wahj
Feb 3, 2026

New album: A truly magical, highly original, otherworldly landscape of experimental Arabic, electronica, avant-pop, dark ambient and industrial forms by the Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based musician, sound designer, producer, film-maker singer and composer

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Ye Vagabonds: All Tied Together
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Beautiful, evocative, poetic and profound original folk numbers with a traditional style by Irish brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn in their fourth LP, recorded live in a Galway house with acclaimed producer Philip Weinrobe (Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker), and vivid lyrical themes of home and memory

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Plantoid: FLARE
Feb 2, 2026

New album: The nimbly inventive, experimental prog trio from Brighton return following their debut LP Terrapath, with an evolved, often catchier style of oddball riffs, licks, clever tempo changes, unusual rhythms, and unconventional chord progressions with a stirring of jazz inflections, dream pop, psych rock and shoegaze

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost To Kindness
Feb 1, 2026

New album: A bolder, more strident, indie-rock urgency of style by the New Zealand quartet previously known more for dream pop, particularly front-loading this fifth LP with a pacier, spikier material in their decade-long career

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026

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Feb 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Designer Citizen
Feb 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A sharp, catchy, witty and socially satirical new number about current American politics and society by the innovative, experimental, Manchester-based Californian folk singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home due out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music

Feb 5, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Broken Social Scene - Not Around Anymore
Feb 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A sparkling return by Toronto indie collective fronted by Kevin Drew with cleverly, catchy, upbeat rhythmic brass and sax-infused wistful track about disappearing possibilities, and heralding their first album in nearly a decade, Remember The Humans out 8 May via City Slang / Arts & Crafts

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Modern Woman - Dashboard Mary
Feb 3, 2026

Song of the Day: An intriguingly experimental, eclectic, slowing unfolding number with a gently spooky video by the London art-rock band fronted by singer-songwriter Sophie Harris, heralding their debut album Johnny’s Dreamworld on 1 May via One Little Independent Records

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Sego - Buy It Break It
Feb 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Punchy, sharp, witty super-catchy art-punk indie by the Los Angeles-based band from Utah, consisting of Spence (guitar/ lead vocals), Tom (drums), Derv (bass), and Kathleen (keyboards and guitar)

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Chris Brain - Red Sun Rising
Feb 1, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful Nick Drake-reminiscent new folk number with intricate finger-picking by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, and the title track heralding his new album Red Sun Rising, out 1 May via Big Sun Records

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 31, 2026
Song of the Day: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
Jan 31, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful brand new protest song by the Boss, tackling America’s controversial influx of ICE agents into Minneapolis and their recent murders of innocent bystanders Alex Pretti and Renée Good, released on Columbia

Jan 31, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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