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Robert Plant’s upcoming new album, Saving Grace
Song of the Day: A fabulously alluring cover by the Led Zeppelin frontman of the Low song written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk, joined here by Plant’s band Sacred Grace, featuring the sound of the cuatro, and heralding the forthcoming album Sacred Grace, out on 26 September via Nonesuch Records
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Spoon
Song of the Day: Released alongside another catchy single, Chateau Blues, this krautrock-ish indie rock number is a twist on the standard love by the Austen, Texas band fronted by Britt Daniel, and out on Matador Records
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Dijon’s new album, Baby
Song of the Day: Almost as Prince-like as the sadly departed Purple One himself, this striking, vibrant funk-pop number by the Baltimore singer, musician, producer and actor Dijon Duenas comes from his recently released second LP, Baby, out on R&R and Warner Records
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Patrick Watson
Song of the Day: The Montreal singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist collaborates with the acclaimed fellow Canadian singer-songwriter on a beautifully moving duet, of intertwining harmonies and string arrangements, heralding Watson’s upcoming album Uh Oh, due out 26 Septembervia Secret City Records
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Chalk - Pain
Song of the Day: A blistering, visceral, pulsating new single with strains of The Prodigy by the post-punk/ dance electronic Belfast trio fronted by Ross Cullen about while wanting to feel untouchable, how vulnerability can overtake you, out on after their recent signing with NYC-based label ALTER Music
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Alabama Shakes
Song of the Day: Brittany Howard rejoins old bandmates Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell for their first music together in a decade, with this powerful, poignant, soaring soulful number recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios with longtime collaborator Shawn Everett, out on Island Records / UMG
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Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, poignant acoustic number of bittersweet optimism by the London indie/postpunk trio, here performed by Anouska Sokolow out on Fat Possum Records
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Maruja’s single Trenches is the latest to herald their debut album Pain To Power
Song of the Day: Influenced by Rage Against The Machine, a seething, menacing new track by the Manchester jazz-punk band, one they describe as “a call for revolution in the face of the oppressive,” with searing, combative lyrics by vocalist Harry Wilkinson and interweaving sax by Joseph Carroll, heralding their debut album Pain to Power, out on 12 September via Music For Nations
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Upchuck (Photo: Michael Tyrone Delaney)
Song of the Day: Blistering, ferocious new punk, raging against hopelessness and confronting the spectacle of social injustice that has become daily drudgery for their generation by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, from their forthcoming new album I’m Nice Now, produced by Ty Segall, and out on 3 October via Domino Records
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Unapologetically different: Sorry
Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming third album, COSPLAY, which includes some previous singles, the innovative and unapologetically experimental London indie band’s latest is an effervescently, sparkling, whimsical love song, and the album is out on 7 November via Domino Records
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Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union
Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union
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Sloan’s upcoming album Based On The Best Seller
Song of the Day: The veteran and acclaimed Canadian indie rockers’ latest single thrums with rich influences from Simon & Garfunkel to Jellyfish Babies to The Fall and heralds their upcoming new album Based on the Best Seller, out on 29 September via Two Minutes for Music / Yep Roc
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bar italia
Song of the Day: The London indie-rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton return with a punchy, gnarly, lively lead-swapping new post-punk number, heralding their upcoming new album Some Like It Hot, out on 17 October via Matador Records
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Hannah Frances’s upcoming album Nested In Tangles
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, vocal-echoing, hauntingly strange, beautiful and woozily wondrous mix of avant-folk and jazz by the acclaimed Chicago composer, vocalist, guitarist, and poet, heralding her upcoming new album, Nested In Tangles, out on 10 October by Fire Talk Records
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Jay Som
Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric, dream-like electro- and bedroom pop by the American LA-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer aka Melina Duterte,, from her forthcoming fourth LP, Belong, out on 10 October via Lucky Number / Polyvinyl
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Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …
Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records
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Wombo
Song of the Day: Clever, polyrhythmic, angular, intricate but also dreamy experimental rock by the three-piece indie band from Louisville, Kentucky, from their recently released third album Danger in Fives, out on Fire Talk Records
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Neko Case’s upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green
Song of the Day: Catchy, piano-based rolling pop and Americana by the US singer-songwriter in a song inspired by her late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the band Flat Duo Jets, and heralding Case’s first album for seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, out on 26 September via ANTI Records
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TEED - Desire
Song of the Day: The US-based British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter Edward Higginbottom, now shortening his moniker to TEED, returns with new single (with B-side The Echo) – a dreamy, wistful piece of electro-pop, out on Nice Age Records
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Prewn - System
Song of the Day: Wonderfully woozy and alternative chamber folk-pop and psychedelic rock builds in this title track to the upcoming new album by the band led by Izzy Hagerup from Northampton, Massachusetts, due out on 3 October via Exploding in Sound Records
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