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New releases: Wolf Alice, Tricky, Pere Ubu, Blancmange, David Gilmour, David Bowie, D.A.F.

September 26, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Wolf Alice

Wolf Alice

The second from Wolf Alice, Tricky's return to 90s glory, experimentation from Pere Ubu, Blancmange continue a sweet return, plus some vinyl revivals from Bowie, the Pink Floyd guitarist and R.A.F complete this week's selection

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In electronica, hip hop, pop, rock, soul, punk, indie Tags new releases, albums, Wolf Alice, Tricky, Pere Ubu, Blancmange, David Gilmour, David Bowie, D.A.F., Jay-Z, Martina Topley-Bird, Pink Floyd
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New Albums …

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Feb 15, 2025
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle
Feb 15, 2025

New album: Extraordinary songs about ordinary lives by the wonderful Newcastle alternative folk singer-songwriter – poetic, strikingly detailed, touching, warm, gently humorous, melancholy, original and gorgeously profound, bringing beauty to banality, private tragedies and small joys

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness
Feb 13, 2025

New album: Warm, tender, thoughtfully profound, intelligent, finely crafted indie-folk with Laurel Canyon-era and Americana elements by the now Manchester-based New Zealand singer-songwriter on themes of hemes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
HONESTY: U R HERE
Feb 11, 2025

New album: Moody, dark, atmospheric, cross-genre inventiveness comes aplenty in this debut LP for Partisan Records by the Leeds-based collective who bring a hard-to-define fusion of ambient, restless electronica, shoegaze, goth, abstract industrial, krautrocky momentum, soulful trip-hop and alt-pop

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Helen Ganya: Share Your Care
Feb 9, 2025

New album: The Brighton-based Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter’s new LP is inspired by the death of her grandmother in 2021, exploring and celebrating her east-Asian heritage in a gorgeously warm, eclectic collection that includes sounds of the Thai dulcimer.

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Squid: Cowards
Feb 9, 2025

New album: Fabulously strange, inventive and and cleverly unsettling third album by the Brighton experimental post-punk, alt-rock quintet with a series of first-person narratives and inner monologues by fictional, disturbing characters - from cult leaders, serial killers, cannibals, sociopaths and arsonists

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Heartworms: Glutton For Punishment
Feb 9, 2025

New album: After a series of outstanding singles, the British artist Jojo Orme releases her debut full LP of inventive, goth-tinged post-punk, with echoes of Siouxsie Sioux and PJ Harvey, and produced the the ever inventive Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Feb 8, 2025

New album: With a strong, seasoned new band, the acclaimed New Jersey singer-songwriter takes a new direction, from her more recent country and folk output, into an expansive sheen of synth, indie, rock and a hint of goth, and themes of emancipation, letting go, and relationships

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Matt Berry: Heard Noises
Feb 7, 2025

New album: The British comic actor, known now for 20 years, from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place to Toast of London to What We Do In The Shadows, returns with his other great indulgent passion, as eccentric multi-instrumentalist and singer of 60s and 70s-inspired psychedelic rock and pop on this impressive 11th studio album

Feb 7, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Brooke Combe: Dancing At The Edge Of The World
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Classy, classic soul full debut LP by the young Scottish singer from Edinburgh, following 2023’s EP, Black Is the New Gold with finely controlled, mature voice and influences from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Baby Huey, and William DeVaughn

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Dilettante: Life Of The Party
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Clever, wry, humorous, refreshing, quirky, experimental pop and art rock from the Manchester-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon and her revolving musical collective, a talented artist known also for playing in BC Camplight’s band

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Maribou State: Hallucinating Love
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Created in the shadow of severe mental and physical health problems for the London experimental duo of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory, their latest LP nevertheless has a joyful flavour, mixing electronica, samples, soul and funk, and featuring an ensemble of strong guest vocalists

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 3, 2025
DECIUS: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)
Feb 3, 2025

New album: After 2022’s Part 1, a second outing of eclectic, mesmerically inventive reworking of deep Chicago acid house/ electronica by the shapeshifting Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family with brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher

Feb 3, 2025
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Feb 2, 2025
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird
Feb 2, 2025

New album: A mischievously droll, but also tender, gently moving new release by Kentucky’s seasoned singer-songwriter Will Oldham, this time very much in Nashville-flavoured country mode, with numbers about community, relationships and the state of the nation, joined by producer and old friend David “ Ferg” Ferguson

Feb 2, 2025
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Jan 29, 2025
Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns
Jan 29, 2025

New album: A striking, eclectic debut LP by the Spanish-American singer-songwriter, who, already with two Ivor Novello awards for songwriting, mixes mainstream pop with a variety of other styles, from close-mic Billie Eilish to drum’n’bass, intimate folk to Cuban rhythms

Jan 29, 2025

new songs …

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Feb 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Feb 15, 2025

Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 14, 2025
Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Grand Mal
Feb 14, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union

Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Divorce - Hangman
Feb 13, 2025

Song of the Day: A clever, passionate, powerful new single with an extended game metaphor by the Nottingham indie band from their forthcoming album Drive to Goldenhammer out on 7 March via Gravity Records / Universal

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 12, 2025
Song of the Day: The Nightingales - Same Old Riff
Feb 12, 2025

Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records

Feb 12, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Caity Baser - Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It)
Feb 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Undeniably infectious, catchy, cheeky, flamboyant confidence-boosting, table-turning pop with brassy embellishments by the charismatic Southampton-raised, Brighton-based artist, out on Chosen Music / Capitol / Polydor

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Feb 10, 2025

Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey

Feb 10, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Song of the Day: Dora Jar - Lucky
Feb 9, 2025

Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Nxdia - Boy Clothes
Feb 8, 2025

Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Song of the Day: Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last (featuring Kristen Stewart)
Feb 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress

Feb 7, 2025
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Feb 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Hannah Cohen - Earthstar
Feb 6, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union

Feb 6, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Tunde Adebimpe - Drop
Feb 5, 2025

Song of the Day: Following the single, Magnetic, late last year, the TV On The Radio frontman and actor returns with another striking number, heralding his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, out on 18 April via Sub Pop Records

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 4, 2025
Song of the Day: Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Zero Sun
Feb 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Fizzing, fabulous, inventively rhythmic psych-blues-funk by the British rock combo of guitarist Barrie Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton joined by drummer Malcolm Catto, heralding their new album Electric War out on 19 April via Easy Eye Sound

Feb 4, 2025

Word of the week

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Feb 11, 2025
Word of the week: withershins / widdershins
Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025
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Jan 29, 2025
Word of the week: xenodocheionology
Jan 29, 2025

Word of the week: It’s something in which many of us may indulge during the thick of winter, planning for holidays via booking websites, this noun meaning the study of hotels, extending also to researching their lore and history

Jan 29, 2025
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Jan 16, 2025
Word of the week: yepsen
Jan 16, 2025

Word of the week: A timeless noun emanating from Middle English ȝespen and first used in around 1325, meaning a unit of measurement being the amount of that can be held in two hands cupped together

Jan 16, 2025
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Jan 9, 2025
Word of the week: zingiberaceous / zinziberaceous
Jan 9, 2025

Word of the week: Two alternative spellings, spicily evocative and colourful, they are adjectives pertaining to the Zingiberaceae family of flowering plants that variously bring that distinctive flavour of, and are a rather fancy way of saying – ginger

Jan 9, 2025
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Dec 12, 2024
Word of the week: aquabob
Dec 12, 2024

Word of the week: Sounding like some water-based children’s TV superhero, it’s actually a particularly apt and descriptive word for wintertime, being an 18th-century English Kent dialect noun meaning icicle

Dec 12, 2024
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