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Song of the Day: Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You

August 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You

Song of the Day: Menacing in title, but beautiful in sound, melody and execution, this extraordinarily powerful, slow-build number by the Sydney, Australia singer-songwriter is a revenge murder ballad, a cathartic retelling of Beard’s experience of sexual assault

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Song of the Day: Just Mustard - We Were Just Here

August 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Just Mustard

Song of the Day: Dreamy, mesmeric electro-indie-shoegaze-pop by the five-piece band from Dundalk, Ireland, with the title track heralding their forthcoming new album out on 24 October via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: IDLES - Rabbit Run

August 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

IDLES - Rabbit Run, from the soundtrack from Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing

Song of the Day: Powerfully, simmering, menacing and explosive … new from the Bristol punk band, taken from the original soundtrack from the upcoming Darren Aronofsky thriller movie, Caught Stealing, out on Protozoa / Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Wolf Alice - White Horses

August 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wolf Alice in the woods

Song of the Day: Heralding the British band’s upcoming fourth album The Clearing, this thrumming, Fleetwood Mac-like, acoustic 70s-style rock number is the only one from the LP to feature drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals, with Ellie Rowsell joining in the chorus

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Song of the Day: Jens Lekman - Wedding in Leipzig

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jens Lekman

Song of the Day: The Swedish singer/songwriter’s latest is a witty, catchy, vividly detailed narrative of a nervous wedding singer, worried about being seated at the singles table with oddballs, and heralds his new Songs For Other People’s Weddings, out on 12 September via Secretly Canadian

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Song of the Day: Low Girl - No Reasons

August 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Low Girl’s upcoming album Is It Too Late To Freak Out

Song of the Day: Vibrant, restless, sprawling, turbulent, simmeringly angry indie-fuzz-pop about a messy breakup in this latest single by the British band fronted by Sarah Cosgrove, heralding their debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out, due out on 22 October via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Selector Dub Narcotic - When Boys Cry

August 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for When Boys Cry animated by Andrew Ebright

Song of the Day: A groovy deep-voiced tearjerker dance track by the veteran American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and DJ Calvin Johnson, known for bands including Beat Happening, but here under in his dance music alter ego, with the title track of his forthcoming EP out on 12 September via K Records

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Song of the Day: Whitmer Thomas - Bronco Buster

August 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitmer Thomas

Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series

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Song of the Day: Disclosure and Anderson .Paak - NO CAP

August 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Disclosure and Anderson .Paak - NO CAP

Song of the Day: An itchily infectious and ecstatic fusion of dance music and hip-hop between the British electronic music duo brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, with the American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, out on Apollo Records / Disorder Records /UMG / Capitol Records

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Song of the Day: Westside Cowboy - Drunk Surfer

August 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Westside Cowboy’s debut EP This Better Be Something Great

Song of the Day: Dynamic, powerful, passionate, stop-start and soaring indie-rock by the Manchester band, taken from their debut EP This Better Be Something Great, out now on Heist or Hit / Nice Swan Records

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Song of the Day: Laufey - Lover Girl

August 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Laufey

Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, charming new retro-style bossa nova track, the latest single heralding the acclaimed Icelandic-Chinese pop artist’s third album, A Matter of Time, out on 22 August via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Chappell Roan - The Subway

August 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

It’s travelling … Video still from Chappell Roan’s The Subway

Song of the Day: Mixing echoes of classic full-blown 80s pop with modern twists, candid sexuality, self-detrimental humour and elements of the Sundays and the Cranberries, the American acclaimed superstar singer-songwriter returns with a soaring pop single about a transport-based encounter

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Song of the Day: P.E. (with Eleanor Friedberger) - Color Coordinator

August 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

P.E.’s upcoming album, Oh!, out on Wharf Cat Records

Song of the Day: Bubbling bass, intricate beats, saxophone and the voice of The Fiery Furnaces singer characterise this innovative, catchy and stylish new single by the New York electronic music collective of Pill and Eaters, heralding their third album Oh!, out on 3 October via Wharf Cat Records

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Song of the Day: Olivia Barton - Matter To You

August 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Olivia Barton’s upcoming album Myself and For You.

Song of the Day: Gentle, reflective indie-folk number of candid, unrequited love and yearning by the singer-songwriter from Orlando, Florida, heralding her forthcoming next album For Myself and For You, out on 10 October

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Song of the Day: Dutch Mustard - Life

August 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dutch Mustard - Life

Song of the Day: Blistering indie rock by the London-based trio fronted by the Amsterdam artist Sarah-Jayne Riedel about that sinking feeling of heartbreak you see coming, but want to at least temporarily dip out of, out on DM Records

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Song of the Day: Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

August 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yves Tumor & NINA - We Don't Count

Song of the Day: Joined on co-lead vocals Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante, the acclaimed, flamboyant American experimental psych, rock, soul and pop performer aka Sean Lee Bowie returns with a a punchy indie rock number with some shades of the Cure, and their first release since 2023, out on Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Tuxis Giant - Days

July 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tuxis Giant’s upcoming album You Won’t Remember This

Song of the Day: Beautifully intricate guitar work and a catchy melody by the Boston and Brooklyn indie-folk band fronted by Matt O’Connor whose songs candidly and sensitively capture themes such as selective tricks of memory and their gender journey, taken from their forthcoming album, You Won’t Remember This, out on 15 August via Worry Bead Records

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Song of the Day: Snõõper - Worldwide

July 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Snõõper

Song of the Day: Frenetic, stomping, bass-heavy, angular guitar and catchy post-punk with echoes of Leeds’ Delta 5 by the Nashville band in this title track from their forthcoming new album, out on 3 October via Third Man Records

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Song of the Day: Nation of the Language - Under The Water

July 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Nation of Language’s Ian Richard, Devaney Aidan Noell, and Alex MacKay

Song of the Day: Simple, pleasing, crisp, four-chord synthpop with brass sounds and shades of OMD by the Brooklyn band in this new single heralding their upcoming album, Dance Called Memory, out on 19 September via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

July 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September

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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 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
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 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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