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Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo

April 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo

New album: A remarkable release of experimental p-funk jazz, soul and pop by the British singer and multi-instrumentalist, exploring the ups and downs of her neuro-divergence (autism and ADHD), and playing, writing and producing everything entirely on her own in her south London back-bedroom home studio

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In albums, funk, hip-hop, hip hop, jazz, experimental Tags Emma-Jean Thackray, Brownswood Recordings, Parlophone
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Marysia Osu: Harp, Beats and Dreams

October 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Marysia Osu: Harp, Beats and Dreams

New album: Truly gorgeous experimental work by London’s Trinity Laban-graduate harpist of Polish parentage, who as well as conventionally rippling the strings of instrument, creatively uses it with other effects, adds sea other nature sounds with electronica, with magical sprinkles of guest vocals, cello, woodwind and percussion

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In albums, alternative, experimental, electronica, classical, jazz, folk Tags Marysia Osu, albums, new albums, new releases, Brownswood Recordings
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Yussef Dayes: Black Classical Music

September 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Yussef Dayes: Black Classical Music

New album: Taking a title cue from Miles Davis, a brilliant, landmark 19-track debut LP by the supremely gifted British jazz drummer variously exploring and re-interpreting many sides of 70s funk, reggae and afrobeat, joined by a stellar group of musicians and vocalists

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In albums, African, alternative, experimental, funk, jazz, hip-hop, poetry, reggae, soul, spoken word Tags Yussef Dayes, Shabaka Hutchings, Leon Thomas, Charlie Stacey, Venna, Alexander Bourt, Tom Misch, Nathaniel Cross, Elijah Fox, Chronixx, Brownswood Recordings, albums, new albums, new releases
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Kokoroko: Could We Be More

August 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kokoroko: Could We Be More

New album: Variously mesmeric, chilled, smooth, staccato, slow then pacy, after many gigs and smaller releases the eight-piece London jazz and Afrobeat band finally have an LP of stirring (mostly) instrumentals that mix a variety of influences from Lagos to London

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In albums, African, funk, fusion, jazz Tags Kokoroko, Brownswood Recordings, albums, new releases
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New albums: Brittany Howard, Liam Gallagher, Hiss Golden Messenger, Thurston Moore, Roxy Girls, LIFE, Andrew Combs, Chastity Belt, One True Painting, Joe Armon–Jones, Ebony Steel Band

October 3, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Wonderful soul voice: Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes

Wonderful soul voice: Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes

This latest roundup includes solo projects by previous performers with Alabama Shakes, Oasis and Wild Beasts, plus postpunk from Roxy Girls and LIFE, and a reunion for the members of Chastity Belt

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In albums, ambient, country, dance music, electronica, dub, experimental, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional Tags albums, new releases, Brittany Howard, Alabama Shakes, Liam Gallagher, Oasis, Hiss Golden Messenger, Thurston Moore, Roxy Girls, LIFE, Andrew Combs, Chastity Belt, One True Pairing, Wild Beasts, Joe Armon-Jones, Ebony Street Band, Kraftwerk, Columbia Records, Warner Bros, Merge Records, Daydream Library, Rough Trade, Afghan Moon, New West Records, Hardly Art, Domino Records, Brownswood Recordings, OM Swagger Music
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New Albums …

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Apr 30, 2025
Femi Kuti: Journey Through Life
Apr 30, 2025

New album: The son of the the legend Fela Kuti continues is own legacy, now aged 62, with another vibrant release, and his first self-produced, of stirring, superbly performed afrobeat, positive life philosophy, social justice campaigns, and critiques of Nigerian politics and corruption.

Apr 30, 2025
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Apr 30, 2025
Zoé Basha: Gamble
Apr 30, 2025

New album: A sparkling, delightful, charming, polished and witty self-released debut by the Dublin-based French-American singer and guitarist who mixes folk, country, jazz, blues, French chanson and Appalachian with crisply performed covers and originals

Apr 30, 2025
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Apr 29, 2025
BRONCHO: Natural Pleasure
Apr 29, 2025

New album: The Oklahoma-based alt-rockers return more than six years since their last LP, Bad Behavior, with a fifth LP of finely crafted songs of a distinctively warm, gentle sound, textured guitar layers and Ryan Lindsey’s unusual, high, understated, oddly soothing voice

Apr 29, 2025
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Apr 28, 2025
Prima Queen: The Prize
Apr 28, 2025

New album: A playful, bright, shimmering, witty indie-pop debut LP by the transatlantic duo of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden, who, following a series of strong singles and EPs, present a variety of clever, nuanced, vivid songs about all kinds of difficult and dysfunctional relationships and self-deprecatory insecurity

Apr 28, 2025
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Apr 27, 2025
Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto: Electric War
Apr 27, 2025

New album: Sharp, stylish, bluesy, 60s garage rock and psychedelia by the British power trio, of Barrie Cadogan and Lewis Wharton, best known for the theme from Better Call Saul, teaming up with acclaimed producer and drummer of The Heliocentrics

Apr 27, 2025
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Apr 27, 2025
Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo
Apr 27, 2025

New album: A remarkable release of experimental p-funk jazz, soul and pop by the British singer and multi-instrumentalist, exploring the ups and downs of her neuro-divergence (autism and ADHD), and playing, writing and producing everything entirely on her own in her south London back-bedroom home studio

Apr 27, 2025
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Apr 26, 2025
The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required
Apr 26, 2025

New album: Seven years since their last LP together, and many different projects in the meantime, Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi and Eccentronic Research Council’s Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan return with their clever, witty electro-dance satire on a dystopian world, with guests including Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter and actor Ewen Bremner

Apr 26, 2025
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Apr 26, 2025
Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman
Apr 26, 2025

New album: Rotherham’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor returns for a third LP of empowering therapy-themed full-on gospel harmonies and dance music styles with lyrics that are earthily honest, filthy, sweary, humorously emotional, philosophical and entertaining

Apr 26, 2025
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Apr 26, 2025
Rebekka Karijord: The Bell Tower
Apr 26, 2025

New album: This extraordinary work, a fusion of experimental folk and classical, is a one of rare and exquisite beauty by the Stockholm-based acclaimed Norwegian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, creating sounds from the human voice alone into a powerful, delicate, poetic melancholy, mother-perspective ode to the peril of our planet in the age of the Anthropocene

Apr 26, 2025
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Apr 25, 2025
Viagra Boys: viagr aboys
Apr 25, 2025

New album: A mischievously rewritten self-title comes with this witty, infectiously catchy, devilishly energised new release by the raucously fun Swedish punk band from Stockholm, one which satirically lampoons the stupidity of day-to-day modern existence

Apr 25, 2025
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Apr 25, 2025
Anika: Abyss
Apr 25, 2025

New album: Moving away from the ambient, dreamy synths of her 2021 album Change, the British German singer-songwriter Anika Henderson’s third LP is wilder, grittier, more post-punk, grungey, and themed around frustration, anger, and confusion with the current world

Apr 25, 2025
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Apr 25, 2025
Beirut: A Study of Losses
Apr 25, 2025

New album: Gentle, ambient, acoustic, meditative, often very beautiful and filled with inventive surprises, this unusual 18-track album by the American experimental band fronted by Zach Condon was commissioned by and comes in conjunction with a tour by idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe

Apr 25, 2025
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Apr 25, 2025
Mamalarky: Hex Key
Apr 25, 2025

New album: Defying definition other than the label of experimental psych-rock four-piece – the Los Angeles band’s album is an eccentric, quirky set of songs that can’t easily be unlocked with this tool or any other, but still pull you into their enjoyably agile mystery

Apr 25, 2025
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Apr 24, 2025
Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz
Apr 24, 2025

New album: The likeable TV On The Radio frontman, visual artists and LA-based actor releases his first solo LP, an impressively punchy, tender, angry, sharp, intelligent fusion of synth-pop, postpunk and funk, working with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Wilder Zoby – energised in sound, but tinged with thematic grief and loss

Apr 24, 2025

new songs …

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Apr 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Apr 30, 2025

Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records

Apr 30, 2025
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Apr 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Yugen Blakrok - The Grand Geode (featuring Sa-Roc)
Apr 29, 2025

Song of the Day: The South African sorceress of mystical hip-hop returns with a poetic, powerful new single, joined here by Sa-Roc, nad heralding her forthcoming album The Illusion of Being, co-written with and produced by Kanif The Jhatmaster, out on 21 May via I.O.T. Records

Apr 29, 2025
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Apr 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Hotgirl - The Stink
Apr 28, 2025

Song of the Day: With shades of Sonic Youth, a searing, pacy, razor-sharp new indie-grunge-post-punk single from by the Dublin band, fronted by the charismatic singer Ashley Abbedeen, and fabulous, edgy, energetic musicianship by guitarist Sophie Boxwell, drummer Nick Stanley and bassist Jake Hurley, from their recent EP Blast Off, out on Cartoon Records

Apr 28, 2025
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Apr 27, 2025
Song of the Day: WITCH - Queenless King
Apr 27, 2025

Song of the Day: Continuing their triumphant re-emergence after 2023’s album Zango which ended a near-40 hiatus, Zambia’s pioneering zamrockers return with their classic psychedelic groove, heralding the forthcoming new album SOGOLO, out 13 June on Partisan Records

Apr 27, 2025
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Apr 26, 2025
Song of the Day: The Bug Club - How To Be A Confidante
Apr 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Fabulously witty, playful, catchy and engaging, the Welsh indie band’s latest single featuring a charming vocal duo performance between guitarist Sam Willmett and bassist Tilly Harris, heralds their upcoming fourth LP, Very Human Features, out on 13 June via Sub Pop Records

Apr 26, 2025
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Apr 25, 2025
Song of the Day: MRCY - Wandering Attention
Apr 25, 2025

Song of the Day: Powerful, rapturous, soaring as well as darkly candid soul by the British duo of south London singer-songwriter Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield-born producer-instrumentalist Barney Lister, heralding the album VOLUME 2, out 30 May on Dead Oceans

Apr 25, 2025
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Apr 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Folk Bitch Trio - The Actor
Apr 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful vocal harmonies in a swooning melody combined with mischievously explicit, ironic lyrics and a playful role-playing video by the Boygenius-like Melbourne folk-pop trio of Grace Sinclair, Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, out on Jagjaguawar

Apr 24, 2025
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Apr 23, 2025
Song of the Day: Tropical Fuck Storm - Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser
Apr 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records

Apr 23, 2025
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Apr 22, 2025
Song of the Day: Deerhoof - Under Rats (featuring Saul Williams)
Apr 22, 2025

Song of the Day: Uniquely oddball, innovative post-punk, hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts by the San Francisco band joined by the US rapper and poet, heralding from the forthcoming Deerhoof album, Noble And Godlike In Ruin, out on Joyful Noise Recordings

Apr 22, 2025
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Apr 21, 2025
Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - Plans
Apr 21, 2025

Song of the Day: A punchy yet tender love song about the uncertain future by the Bristol-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out 16 May on Invada Records

Apr 21, 2025
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Apr 20, 2025
Song of the Day: Sorry - Jetplane
Apr 20, 2025

Song of the Day: Woozily strange with a fabulously throbbing bass, jittery saxophone and restless vocals, it’s the freaky new single by the north London postpunk/ indie band, following previous single Waxwing, out on Domino Records

Apr 20, 2025
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Apr 19, 2025
Song of the Day: Girl Group - Flink Pike
Apr 19, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, wittily ironic, nimble, crisply sung acoustic indie pop by the five-piece Liverpool band of Katya, Maria, Thea, Mia, and Lil, with a titular Nordic expression meaning “good girl”, and one “often used to describe young women striving to meet impossible expectations.”

Apr 19, 2025

Word of the week

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Apr 21, 2025
Word of the week: ranunculaceous
Apr 21, 2025

Word of the week: An adjective describing something related to or belonging to the Ranunculaceae plant family, particular those more commonly described as buttercups. But what of them in song?

Apr 21, 2025
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Apr 9, 2025
Word of the week: sesquipedalian
Apr 9, 2025

Word of the week: First appearing in English in the mid-17th century, meaning “a foot and a half long”, it’s a noun identifying words with multiple syllables, or an often derogatory adjective for a person with a tendency to use overlong words

Apr 9, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
Word of the week: tolypeutine
Mar 26, 2025

Word of the week: A noun related to the term Tolypeutinae, this is a subfamily of Chlamyphoridae of the armadillo family, consisting of the giant, naked-tailed and particularly the three-banded species

Mar 26, 2025
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Mar 12, 2025
Word of the week: ulotrichous
Mar 12, 2025

Word of the week: While it’s entirely natural in animals such as sheep as well as some humans, depending on an individual’s point of view it’s either a blessing or a curse. From Greek words oûlos (crisp, curly) and -trikhos (haired), this adjective means having curly or woolly hair

Mar 12, 2025
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Feb 26, 2025
Word of the week: varsovienne
Feb 26, 2025

Word of the week: Our latest etymological move into obscurity originates in around 1850 in Warsaw, Poland, and also known as the varsouvienne or varsoviana – a slow, graceful dance in 3/4 waltz time, which also combines elements of the mazurka and polka

Feb 26, 2025
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