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Playlists: songs about tickets, passes and invitations

January 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Get your AAA passes here to a full musical experience ….

Tickets to travel, alluring invitations to important passes come in all forms, and inspired by last week’s topic nominators, guest inspector Loud Atlas brings you access to all areas of musical enjoyment

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New Albums …

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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
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Jan 27, 2025
Tunng: Love You All Over Again
Jan 27, 2025

New album: A beautiful, celebratory album of the pioneering British ‘folktronica’ band’s 20 years of music, with an eighth LP of brand new songs fully capturing their distinctive, delicate, crisply poetic, agile style with a delicious feeling of circularity.

Jan 27, 2025
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Jan 26, 2025
C Duncan: It's Only A Love Song
Jan 26, 2025

New album: The Scottish composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist’s fifth album is timeless, romantic, clever, lush, piano-based orchestral pop with serenely beautiful chord changes and melodies, with heartache on the pain-pleasure axis expressed in the most delicious, old-fashioned form

Jan 26, 2025
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Jan 26, 2025
FKA twigs: EUSEXUA
Jan 26, 2025

New album: Cheltenham’s Tahliah Barnett returns for a third LP edge-pushing electronica, techno and avant-pop with a self-created title fusing euphoria, ecstasy and sex to express that feeling of transcendent losing yourself in the moment

Jan 26, 2025
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Jan 25, 2025
Anna B Savage: You & i are Earth
Jan 25, 2025

New album: This third album of exquisite folk by the English singer-songwriter is a beautiful love letter to Ireland as a spiritual home as well as her Irish partner, flowing with delicious images, tenderness and intelligence

Jan 25, 2025
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Jan 24, 2025
Mogwai: The Bad Fire
Jan 24, 2025

New album: Glasgow’s finest experimental rockers return with their 11th studio album, another classic of dark-humoured, irreverent titles for their dynamic, quiet-to-stormy arpeggio-laden, always stirring songs and instrumentals

Jan 24, 2025
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Jan 20, 2025
Songhoy Blues: Héritage
Jan 20, 2025

New album: The Malian band return with a vibrant fourth LP exploring their desert musical roots with more of an acoustic and intricately rhythmic sound than their previous more electrified, distinctive African blues-rock, and includes an appearance on vocals by Rokia Koné and other more traditional instrument guest musicians

Jan 20, 2025
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Jan 20, 2025
Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal
Jan 20, 2025

New album: Released last month, the Geese frontman’s solo LP is nothing like its title in genre, but a brilliantly eccentric, eclectic, inventive, surreal mosaic of dream-like DIY oddness – blues, folk, pop and psych rolled up in droll humour, existential dread and creative patchwork streams of the sub-conscious and non-sequitur

Jan 20, 2025
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Jan 19, 2025
Jasmine 4.t - You Are The Morning
Jan 19, 2025

New album: An outstanding folk/rock debut by the Manchester-based trans singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank, whose moving songs tackle ambiguous relationships, identity, tangled joy, heartache, camaraderie and isolation of trans-feminine life an LP produced by the Boygenius trio of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker

Jan 19, 2025
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Jan 18, 2025
The Weather Station: Humanhood
Jan 18, 2025

New album: Beautifully balanced, nuanced, delicate, intimate new experimental folk by Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman on a gorgeous seventh LP that goes to the individual and collective core of being alive, with a free-flowing semi-acoustic songs partly created by improvisation with her six-piece band, decorated with flurries of woodwind

Jan 18, 2025
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Jan 17, 2025
Ela Minus: DÍA
Jan 17, 2025

New album: A wonderfully eclectic, inventive, darkly ecstatic, introspective yet musically expansive electronica and dance music follow-up to 2020’s debut, Acts of Rebellion, on the theme of light and self-discovery by the Colombian singer-songwriter, musician and producer

Jan 17, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Lambrini Girls: Who Let The Dogs Out
Jan 10, 2025

New album: This feisty, humorous, angry, intelligent, kick-ass debut by the Brighton queer-punk band fronted by duo Lily Macieira and Phoebe Lunny is an explosion of artful, acerbic attitude and energy, and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear
Jan 10, 2025

New album: After a greatest hits tour and two recently new band members, the Glasgow art-rockers fronted by the sharp-witted Alex Kapranos return with renewed vim and vigour, with an unashamed air of going full-tilt on classic FF in their sound and style perky, pacy, hooky indie-pop

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon
Jan 10, 2025

New album: Always infectiously fun and effervescently charismatic, the blue-haired South African star’s third LP bursts with witty, sex-positive braggadocio, sung in Xhosa and English, and spanning the rhythms and sounds of Johannesburg and Durban with electro-pop and cross-genre dance

Jan 10, 2025

new songs …

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Jan 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Sparks - Do Things My Own Way
Jan 30, 2025

Song of the Day: Continuing an approach they’ve followed for more than five decades, the ever entertaining brothers Ron and Russel Mael return with further fun, groundbreaking pop, heralding their 28th studio album, MAD!, out this year on Transgressive Records

Jan 30, 2025
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Jan 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Snapped Ankles - Raoul
Jan 29, 2025

Song of the Day: The mysterious, masked London electro-postpunk band returns with a catchy, driving, dark, dystopian-flavoured new single, heralding their fourth LP Hard Times Furious Dancing, out on 28 March on The Leaf Label

Jan 29, 2025
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Jan 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Tamino - Sanctuary (featuring Mitski)
Jan 28, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, acoustic, emotive, Jeff Buckley-esque hope-and-heartbreak single by the Antwerp-born Egyptian-Belgian indie artist joined by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter, and heralding Tamino’s forthcoming third album Every Dawn’s a Mountain, out on 21 March via Communion Group

Jan 28, 2025
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Jan 27, 2025
Song of the Day: The Moonlandingz - The Sign of A Man
Jan 27, 2025

Song of the Day: The mischievous band featuring Sheffield’s Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Fat White Family’s frontman Lias Saoudi serve up a catchy, colourful cocktail of 80s-era European electro-disco with a fabulously tongue-in-cheek dance-costume video

Jan 27, 2025
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Jan 26, 2025
Song of the Day: Neal Francis - What's Left Of Me
Jan 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Classic 70s-inspired lush piano pop with shades of Electric Light Orchestra by the Chicago-based singer-songwriter with a single about the toils of life the road, heralding his third album, Return to Zero, out 14 March via ATO Records

Jan 26, 2025
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Jan 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Viagra Boys - Man Made Of Meat
Jan 25, 2025

Song of the Day: A humorously vivid title with punchy, catchy number and video with this ironic take on consumerism and the art world by the mischievous Swedish punk band, in this first single from the forthcoming album viagr aboys, due out on 25 April on Shrimptech Enterprises

Jan 25, 2025
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Jan 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Self Esteem - Focus Is Power
Jan 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Full vocal force with rich gospel-style harmonies and an affirmingly defiant message from the charismatic Rotherham singer-songwriter Rebecca Taylor, heralding her upcoming third LP as Self Esteem, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April on Polydor Records

Jan 24, 2025
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Jan 23, 2025
Song of the Day: Prima Queen - The Prize
Jan 23, 2025

Song of the Day: After a series of strong singles and EPs, new serene, poignant, post-breakup, uplifting indie dream pop from charismatic transatlantic pair of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden with this title track from their forthcoming debut album, out on 25 April, via Submarine Cat Records

Jan 23, 2025
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Jan 22, 2025
Song of the Day: Youth Lagoon - Speed Freak
Jan 22, 2025

Song of the Day: A mesmeric new banger with the whispering voice of Trevor Powers, the shapeshifting, innovative Idaho-based songwriter and producer, taken from his forthcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream, out Fat Possum Records on 21 February

Jan 22, 2025
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Jan 21, 2025
Song of the Day: Lucy Dacus - Ankles
Jan 21, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful string-laden, tactile love song new single by the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia and one third of the trio Boygenius, taken from her from forthcoming new album, Forever Is A Feeling, out on 28 March, via Geffen Records

Jan 21, 2025
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Jan 20, 2025
Song of the Day: Skunk Anansie - An Artist Is An Artist
Jan 20, 2025

Song of the Day: A welcome and excellent return from the London rockers fronted by the inimitable Deborah "Skin" Dyer with a punchy, uncompromising number about creative life, its disciplines, sacrifices and identity, out on Frontiers Records

Jan 20, 2025
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Jan 19, 2025
Song of the Day: Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly
Jan 19, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings

Jan 19, 2025

Word of the week

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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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Nov 27, 2024
Word of the week: broticolous
Nov 27, 2024

Word of the week: Mice, rats, spiders, foxes to raccoons, this obscure adjective, connected to the French noun broticole, this relates to any animal and insect species with a tendency to live around and alongside humans and their dwellings perhaps as scavengers, but also showing adaptability

Nov 27, 2024
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