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Bria Salmena: Big Dog

April 3, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Bria Salmena: Big Dog

New album: A striking, stylish debut by the Toronto artist, also co-written and co-produced with Duncan Hay Jennings, the frontwoman of Canadian post-punk outfit FRIGS delivers a mix of dark, deep, smoky-voiced pop, crafted krautrock, shimmery shoegaze, and goth-electronica

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In albums, alternative, experimental, electronica, goth, grunge, post-punk, pop, rock Tags Bria Salmena, Sub Pop, albums, new albums, new releases
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Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain

April 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain

New album: A warm, simmering, insightfully beautiful, bittersweet, gently paced, folk-country-pop album by the New Yorker Catskills Mountains-based singer-songwriter, made in collaboration with partner Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian) and including guest appearances from Sufjan Stevens and Clairo

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In albums, Americana, country, experimental, folk, indie, pop Tags Hannah Cohen, Sam Evian, Bella Union, albums, new albums, new releases
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Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing

April 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

New album: The London electronica post-punk, tree-camouflage-dressed quartet return with their vigorously inventive, infectiously dance-inspiring, krautrock-ish defiant work holding up a mirror to the absurdities and injustices of modern life

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In albums, alternative, electronica, experimental, post-punk, dance Tags Snapped Ankles, The Leaf Label, albums, new albums, new releases
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Apr 3, 2025
Bria Salmena: Big Dog
Apr 3, 2025

New album: A striking, stylish debut by the Toronto artist, also co-written and co-produced with Duncan Hay Jennings, the frontwoman of Canadian post-punk outfit FRIGS delivers a mix of dark, deep, smoky-voiced pop, crafted krautrock, shimmery shoegaze, and goth-electronica

Apr 3, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Sacred Paws: Jump Into Life
Apr 2, 2025

New album: Breezy, buoyant, musically breathless upbeat but also wistful indie with notes of folk, country and highlife, Bhundu Boys-esque guitars and fast-fill drumming by the Glasgow band formed by Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers

Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain
Apr 2, 2025

New album: A warm, simmering, insightfully beautiful, bittersweet, gently paced, folk-country-pop album by the New Yorker Catskills Mountains-based singer-songwriter, made in collaboration with partner Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian) and including guest appearances from Sufjan Stevens and Clairo

Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 1, 2025
Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing
Apr 1, 2025

New album: The London electronica post-punk, tree-camouflage-dressed quartet return with their vigorously inventive, infectiously dance-inspiring, krautrock-ish defiant work holding up a mirror to the absurdities and injustices of modern life

Apr 1, 2025
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Apr 1, 2025
Yukimi: For You
Apr 1, 2025

New album: This debut solo album by the seasoned frontwoman of Sweden’s acclaimed electronica/dance group Little Dragon Yukimi Nagano is a classy collection of measured pace, poise and elegance, mixing soul, jazz and pop with guest vocals by Lianne La Havas

Apr 1, 2025
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Mar 29, 2025
Lucy Dacus: Forever Is A Feeling
Mar 29, 2025

New album: The golden-voiced Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter and one-third of the Boygenius trio is the first to return to her solo work – a subtle, candid, understated, richly lyrical, sensitive LP about her troubled relationship, decorated with fingerpicked acoustic guitar, piano, orchestral strings and harp

Mar 29, 2025
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Mar 28, 2025
Perfume Genius: Glory
Mar 28, 2025

New album: The shapeshifting, enigmatic US singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas returns with his distinctive brand of polished, beautiful chamber pop, with themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, identity, and also features a guest appearance by Aldous Harding

Mar 28, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
Jeffrey Lewis: The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis
Mar 26, 2025

New album: One of the great independent singer-songwriters around, the prolific New Yorker and cartoonist returns with his clever, witty, alternative indie-folk, here with an amusing visual play on that famous Bob Dylan album for this brand new LP recorded with his band in just four days at Haptown Studios, Nashville

Mar 26, 2025
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Mar 25, 2025
Hamilton Leithauser: This Side Of The Island
Mar 25, 2025

New album: Having experimented with different styles his solo albums The Walkman frontman rekindles passionate, raw intensity and pent-up energy alongside introspection in latest LP in part produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner.

Mar 25, 2025
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Mar 25, 2025
Benefits: Constant Noise
Mar 25, 2025

New album: Super-sharp, angry and articulate, this is striking, vivid, social and political spoken word and hip-hop on a backdrop of cinematic electronica, dance and punk by the Middlesbrough duo of Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major – a scything sonic and verbal attack on western ills at home and abroad

Mar 25, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds
Mar 23, 2025

New album: A rite of passage to the senses, this short, sharp, experimental debut noise rock LP by the New York quartet feels like being dropped into a growling, stop-start pinball machine, but the experience is weirdly rewarding

Mar 23, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
Annie & The Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul)
Mar 23, 2025

New album: A fabulously uplifting soul, gospel and funk release the the family band who release their first LP four decades into their career, fronted by the supreme voice of West Point, Mississippi’s Annie Caldwell, alongside her daughters, husband and god-daughter

Mar 23, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
Brian D'Addario: Till The Morning
Mar 23, 2025

New album: A solo album by one half of the Long Island brothers band The Lemon Twigs, here channelling his many 60s and 70s influences, from The Beatles to The Hollies, Beach Boys to Byrds to Dave Clark Five, bringing balladic beauty and melancholy, and old-school vocal harmony pop

Mar 23, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny
Mar 23, 2025

New album: South-east London’s Aria Wells returns her second album after 2021’s Man Made with a stylish, dark, smoky fusion of trip-hop, hip-hop, reggae, neo-soul, R’n’B, and indie rock, with a variety of timbres and themes, but overall one of self-renewal and change

Mar 23, 2025

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Apr 4, 2025
Song of the Day: Orbital and Tilda Swinton - Deepest
Apr 4, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran electronica dance music brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll return with mesmeric beats mixed with the soothing meditation voice of the acclaimed British actress

Apr 4, 2025
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Apr 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Wet Leg - Catch These Fists
Apr 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A pugnaciously fun, indie-post-punk new single by the Isle of Wight band formed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with a catchy, scratchy, angular guitar riff and their trademark, mischievous, talky asides. It heralds their upcoming new album, Moisturizer, out on 11 July on Domino

Apr 3, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Mount Palomar - L'Aliment (featuring Karla Chubb)
Apr 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Pulsating, energising new dance music by the Belfast-based producer and live electronica DJ Neil Kerr, here partly inspired by early Janet Jackson, with a French title meaning food, and lyrics (“eats me inside”) sung by Ireland’s charismatic Sprints vocalist

Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Self Esteem - If Not Now, It’s Soon
Apr 1, 2025

Song of the Day: A life-affirming, stridently positive new number about hope, perseverance and patience by Yorkshire’s charismatic Rebecca Lucy Taylor with grand, declamatory vocals and orchestral strings, heralding her forthcoming third album, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April via Polydor/Universal

Apr 1, 2025
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Mar 31, 2025
Song of the Day: Amy Millan - Make Way For Waves
Mar 31, 2025

Song of the Day: Gentle, soothing, flickering, swirling electronica and dream pop by the Canadian indie guitarist and singer-songwriter from Montreal, heralding her first solo album in 15 years, I Went To Find You, out on 30 May via Last Gang Records

Mar 31, 2025
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Mar 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Maria Somerville - Stonefly
Mar 30, 2025

Song of the Day: Deliciously atmospheric, ambient, transportative dream-pop by the Irish artist from Galway, with a video directed by Daniel Swan, taken from the forthcoming album Luster out on 25 April, via 4AD

Mar 30, 2025
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Mar 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Bonobo - Dark Will Fall (featuring Jacob Lusk) (Lazarus soundtrack)
Mar 28, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, moody, beautiful new work by the Brighton musician Simon Green, joined by the exquisite voice of the Gabriels singer in this song from the soundtrack to the new series Lazarus by Japanese anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe, out via Adult Swim

Mar 28, 2025
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Mar 27, 2025
Song of the Day: CMAT - Running/Planning
Mar 27, 2025

Song of the Day: Fabulously stylish, passionate, humorous, fantasy-scenario country-pop pours out in this new single by the charismatic Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, heralding her upcoming third album, EURO-COUNTRY, out on 29 August via AWAL Recordings

Mar 27, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
Song of the Day: TOKiMONSTA - Enjoy Your Life
Mar 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Taken from the Los Angeles DJ and producer Jennifer Lee’s very recent album Eternal Reverie which explores a variety of pop and dance styles, this joyous 70s disco funk number rekindling a 1981 hit single by Nigeria’s Oby Onyioha brings a spring to any step, released on Young Art Records.

Mar 26, 2025
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Mar 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Lucius - Impressions (featuring Madison Cunningham)
Mar 25, 2025

Song of the Day: Striking, stylish, with rich vocals, intricate alternative indie-pop by the LA quartet fronted by vocalists and co-songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a number about false identity, featuring guest Madison Cunningham, the latest single from their upcoming fourth and self-titled album, out on 2 May via Fantasy Records

Mar 25, 2025
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Mar 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Feeble Little Horse - This Is Real
Mar 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Leaping unexpectedly between sweet, gentle indie and raucous, explosive noise rock, this striking, otherworldly post-punk release by the Pittsburgh quaret is a weird and wonderful challenge to the senses

Mar 24, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
Song of the Day: Billie Marten - Feeling
Mar 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A bright and sunny love song with a twist by the London-based British folk-pop singer-songwriter aka Isabella Sophie Tweddle, from Ripon North Yorkshire, heralding her forthcoming fifth studio album, Dog Eared, out on 18 July via Fiction Records

Mar 23, 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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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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