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Doechii - Anxiety
Song of the Day: Re-released and re-recorded after her more recent success with last year’s album Alligator Bites Never Heal, a fabulous, sharp, inventive number from the Tampa, Florida rapper and singer, sampling Gotye’s 2011 hit Somebody That I Used To Know
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The Voidz - Blue Demon
Song of the Day: The experimental rock band featuring Strokes’ Julian Casablancas on distorted, sci-fi style vocals return with a synth-laden, syncopated, oddball but catchy release, also filled with caustic, indirect references to Israel’s destruction and occupation of Palestine and the US foreign policy hand in it
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Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner
Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose
Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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TORRES and Julien Baker
Song of the Day: A witty, droll but also beautiful, bittersweet country number with TORRES, aka MacKenzie Scott, on the lead vocal, with lyrics about a girl she had a crush on in her youth and the resulting conflict with her mother, and heralding the LP Send A Prayer My Way, out 18 April on Matador Records
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Model/Actriz
Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records
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LIttle Simz (centre), with Obongjayar (left) and Moonchild Sanelly (right)
Song of the Day: Three standout artists together in this extraordinary, thunderous, dark, exciting, menacing, mythological new single of hip-hop and African drumming by the London rapper, with the Nigerian and South African singers
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McKinley Dixon’s forthcoming album, Magic, Alive!
Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish, clever hip-hop with agile notes of jazz and gospel and guests, by the American rapper and singer from Richmond, Virginia, heralding his forthcoming fifth album, Magic, Alive!, out on 6 June via City Slang
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Ora The Molecule aka Nora Schjelderup
Song of the Day: Witty, droll, fun funk-disco by the Norwegian artist and producer aka Nora Schjelderup, heralding her upcoming album, Dance Therapy, out on 21 March via Mute Records
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Hamilton Leithauser
Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music
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Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside
Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records
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Brian D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs
Song of the Day: Classic 70s-inspired pop-rock with a fabulously strong melody and basslines, all entirely played and sung by one of multi-instrumentalist siblings, The Lemon Twigs on an 8-track, and co-produced with brother Michael, out on Headstack Records
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Yugen Blakrok - Osiris Awakens
Song of the Day: The first single from the new album, an alluring, dark, mystical hip-hop by the charismatic South African rapper collaborating with the Madrid-based psychedelic rock band in a number about awakening a sleeping giant – resistance in the face of tyranny
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Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding in the striking new video for No Front Teeth
Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Preoccupations
Song of the Day: A pulsating, sharp new number on history’s repeating patterns with a gripping video showing footage of various cults, this heralds the Calgary, Canadian post-punk/ new wave quartet’s forthcoming album Ill At Lease, ou on Born Losers Records on 9 May
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From Anika’s Hearsay video
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, further, dark, menacing, alluring, experimental grunge-goth rock, this time by by the Berlin artist Anika Henderson, heralding her upcoming album Abyss, out on April 4, 2025 on Sacred Bones Records
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Peter Murphy - Swoon
Song of the Day: Dark, smoky, gothy, simmering, bizarre and Bowie-esque, the Bauhaus singer joins forces with old friend and the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, relating to the state of performer and audience, and heralding his upcoming album Silver Shade out on 9 May via Metropolis Records
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The Waeve: Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records
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