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Song of the Day: Party Dozen - Mad Rooter

November 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Party Dozen - Mad Rooter/Ghost Rider single

Song of the Day: A stomping rock, raucously catchy new single by the Sydney Australia duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, available as 7-inch double A-side with the song Ghost Rider, single out 5 December via City Slang/GRUPO

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In 2025, alternative, experimental, indie, post-punk, rock Tags Party Dozen, City Slang, Grupo, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: The Wave Pictures - Alice

November 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Wave Pictures: David Tattersall (guitar and lead vocals), Franic Rozycki (bass), and Jonny Helm (drums)

Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British indie trio with a soaring, smart, dream-filled number with notes of 60s garage rock, classic 70s rock and 90s US indie, lyrically and inspired by the writings of William Burroughs, and heralding their upcoming album Gained / Lost, due out 27 February 2026 via Bella Union

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Song of the Day: COBRAH - Torn

November 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

COBRAH - Torn

Song of the Day: Striking, high-octane and intense electronica and dance music with a stylish video by the experimental Swedish artist Clara Sofie Blom Christensen, whose previous EP Succubus won a Swedish Grammi in 2024

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In 2025, alternative, experimental, electronica, dance Tags COBRAH, songs, song of the day, Gagball AB, Atlantic Records
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Song of the Day: Nubiyan Twist and Fatoumata Diawara - Chasing Shadows

November 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Fatoumata Diawara enjoys some studio time

Song of the Day: A fabulous, agile, upbeat, energetic blend of jazz, afrobeat, soul and funk as the Leeds-formed London collective join forces with the legendary Malian singer-songwriter on this new single, both a celebration and a lament, out on Strut Records

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Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI (featuring GUTS)

November 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI

Song of the Day: A tasty groove and food theme by the New York rapper and trumpeter aka Leron Thomas, joined by the French DJ and producer in this this droll, witty, slick and stylish new single, following May’s album, Confines, released on Heavenly

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Song of the Day: Genesis Owusu - Death Cult Zombie

October 31, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Genesis Owusu

Song of the Day: A sharp Halloween-themed catchy post-punk number with a caustic bite at the monsters of far-right politics and an entertaining video by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper and singer, out on OURNESS

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Song of the Day: Lankum - Ghost Town

October 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dublin’s Lankum return, bringing a new dimension to Specials classic

Song of the Day: An extraordinarily haunting and powerful release by the experimental Irish folk band with a cover of the often topical 1981 Specials classic number, now with a different dimension of drone sounds, strings, rich vocal harmonies, piano and a climax of rippling synths and beats, released on Rough Trade

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Song of the Day: Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp

October 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp, his third album

Song of the Day: The south London rapper’s title track from his recently released third album, a slick and candid summary of the dilemmas and hypocrisies of social conscience, racism, social media, and protest in a time of political unrest and uncertainty

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In 2025, experimental, hip hop Tags Dave, songs, song of the day, Universal, Neighbourhood Recordings, Fraser T Smith
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Song of the Day: ROSALÍA - Berghain (featuring Björk & Yves Tumor)

October 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

ROSALÍA returns with a dramatic single heralding upcoming album LUX

Song of the Day: A flamboyant, baroque-pop multi-lingual extravaganza of a heartbreak love song by the Spanish pop superstar, the title named after techno club in Berlin, and joined by the acclaimed Icelandic and American artists, choir and orchestra, and a curtain raiser to Rosalía’s upcoming album LUX, out on 7 November on Columbia/Sony

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Song of the Day: Twen - Tumbleweed

October 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Twen’s Ian Jones and Jane Fitzsimmons

Song of the Day: A punchy, catchy escapism-themed new single with glittering, psychedelic guitar jangles and a pacy, perky delivery by the Nashville indie-rock duo of Ian Jones and Jane Fitzsimmons, heralding their upcoming album Fate Euphoric, out on 4 November via Twen Enterprises

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Song of the Day: Tunng - Anoraks

October 26, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tunng - Anoraks

Song of the Day: Following their acclaimed, 20th anniversary celebratory latest album, Love You All Over Again, the British folktronica band return with a gorgeous, gentle, psychedelic story-song, featuring the voice of co-writer Sam Genders, and released on Full Time Hobby

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Song of the Day: Howling Bells - Heavy Lifting

October 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Howling Bells return with a single from their upcoming new album, Strange Life, their first since 2014

Song of the Day: The Australian indie-rock band of siblings Juanita and Joel Stein and drummer Glenn Moule return with their first new music for 11 years, heralding their upcoming fifth album Strange Life, out on Friday 13 February 13th 2026, via NUDE Records

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Song of the Day: Lande Hekt - Favourite Pair of Shoes

October 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Favourite shoes: Lande Hekt’s upcoming new album, Lucky Now

Song of the Day: A bittersweet, catchy, jangly mixed emotions, hope-filled indie-pop number by the British singer/songwriter (formerly of Muncie Girls) heralding her new album, Lucky Now, due out 30 January, 2026 via Tapete

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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi returns with a powerful interpretation of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy song

Song of the Day: A powerful, smoky, stylish, passionate cover version of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy number by the acclaimed British singer and guitarist, returning with a haunting duet with the US artist, their vocals intertwining in a song about intimacy beyond romance - the quiet, profound love found in friendship

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Song of the Day: Y - Skipper

October 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Y’s Sophie Coppin and Adam Brennan

Song of the Day: Punchy, fierce postpunk by the London collective, heralding their upcoming debut EP with a saxophone laced song addressing class divide and hierarchy in which the rich skip through a world they feel they own, released on on SO Recordings and Hideous Mink Records

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Song of the Day: Sleaford Mods ft. Gwendoline Christie and Big Special - The Good Life

October 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sleaford Mods’ new album The Demise Of Planet X, is out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records

Song of the Day: The Notts duo of Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson and return with a fabulously furious, colourful, sweary and darkly acerbic number, with explosive, passionate rage by the Game of Thrones actress, spooky vocals by the indie/postpunk Black Country duo, and a video by brilliant British horror director Ben Wheatley, heralding the new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records

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Song of the Day: Stella Donnelly - Year of Change

October 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stella Donnelly’s upcoming album Love and Fortune

Song of the Day: Beautiful, delicate, reflective piano folk-pop about period of separation, difficulty and loneliness by the Australian singer/songwriter heralding her upcoming third album Love and Fortune, out on 7 November via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control

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Song of the Day: Hatchie - Only One Laughing

October 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hatchie aka Harriette Pilbeam

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Cocteau Twins, experimental soaring shoegaze and dream pop by the Australian singer-songwriter and musician Harriette Pilbeam, heralding her new album, Liquorice, out on 7 November via Secretly Canadian, and the follow-up to single first single, Lose It Again

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Songs of the Day: Momoko Gill - No Others / When Palestine Is Free

October 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Momoko Gill

Songs of the Day: A beautiful free-flowing fusion of jazz and groove soul by the Japan- and US-raised, London-based drummer, producer, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with two songs heralding her forthcoming debut album Momoko, out on 11 January 2026 via Strut Records / K7 Music

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Song of the Day: BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native

October 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native

Song of the Day: Following their second album, National Average over the summer, the witty, punchy, Walsall, Black Country post-punk duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, return with a striking number frontman “about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy”

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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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