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Playlists: songs and music featuring sounds of bells

December 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Who is it? Bjork, of course, jingling a silvery Alexander McQueen number

They’re sometimes the sound of Christmas, but these resonant instruments can crop up in all sorts of situations and music. Reverberating from last week’s topic, guest VikingChild creates Xmas and non-Xmas selections and are extremely a-pealing. Let them ring out!

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What a carillon: songs and music featuring sounds of bells

December 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The bells! The bells! Handheld bells ...

They resonate through time, marking beginnings and endings, life and death, and have a host of meanings and contexts. Alone or in harmony, large or small, as instrument or sound effect, what tintinnabulum tickles your fancy in music?

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DRINK OF THE WEEK

hot toddy with Bell's whisky

SNACK OF THE WEEK

chocolate bells

New Albums …

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Dec 23, 2024
Human Error: Human Error
Dec 23, 2024

New album: Ingenious, playfully inventive electronica by Jeremy Barnes, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, inspired by the idea of how errors lead to invention and discovery, written while teaching music to incarcerated teens at YDDC juvenile detention

Dec 23, 2024
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Dec 20, 2024
Legowelt: A Field Guide To The Void
Dec 20, 2024

Album review: The Netherlands electronic artist Danny Wolfers returns with a delightful mixture of old-school-influenced synth pop, crafting textured soundscapes, nostalgic, futuristic, eccentric and eclectic, steering somewhere between robot voices, cosmic exploration and the dancefloor

Dec 20, 2024
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Dec 18, 2024
E.U.E.R.P.I: 1971
Dec 18, 2024

New album: A truly evocative, alternative experimental project of the Bulgarian composer Mirian Kolev from Tryavna, here combining music with detailed field recordings of an old Soviet train, one still running on trips along the Bulgarian railway line Gabrovo-Tsareva Livada

Dec 18, 2024
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Dec 18, 2024
Saint Etienne: 'The Night'
Dec 18, 2024

New album: The London trio of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs returrn with an strange, dream-like, ambient ‘headphones’ release, one that hovers across their career as if perceived through rain-soaked glass, designed to capture the essence of the after-hours

Dec 18, 2024
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Dec 16, 2024
The Bloodstreams: Eat Your Heart Out
Dec 16, 2024

New album: After last year’s excellent debut LP, How To Be A God, the south-east London quartet return with another heady swirl of stylishly swaggering, stomping, darkly visceral 60s garage rock, psychedelia and with tasty echoes of 70s Bowie, Stooges, Cramps and Birthday Party-era Nick Cave

Dec 16, 2024
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Dec 14, 2024
Angel Olsen and various: Cosmic Waves Volume 1
Dec 14, 2024

New album: A novel form of “compilation reimagined as a dialogue” LP by the acclaimed, serene-voiced American singer-songwriter, showcasing five different lesser-known artists on Side A, and then covering other songs by them on Side B

Dec 14, 2024
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Dec 12, 2024
Tristan Perich and Ensemble 0: Open Symmetry
Dec 12, 2024

Album review: Released on the wonderfully innovative, independent London label Erased Tapes, the New York-based composer joins with the French group on a mesmeric, 50-minute work of seven instrumental tracks for three vibraphones and 1-bit electronics

Dec 12, 2024
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Dec 11, 2024
Native Harrow: Divided Kind
Dec 11, 2024

Album review: Released in September, classy, meticulously crafted, intelligent, warm Americana mix of folk, rock, pop and country by the Philadelphia duo of vocalist Devin Tuel and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Harms in this sixth LP

Dec 11, 2024
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Dec 10, 2024
Clarissa Connelly: World of Work
Dec 10, 2024

Album review: Originally released in April, this beautiful, sensual, mysterious, mystical alt-folk release by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer is filled with long, rapturous notes, piano, strings, church bells, and themes of solitude and death, and evocative of sparse Scandinavian landscapes

Dec 10, 2024
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Dec 10, 2024
Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal
Dec 10, 2024

Mixtape review: Originally released in August, and more recently as a sample-rich, funk-jazz-sourced Flipout label edit version, this third Mixtape by the American rapper Jaylah Ji'mya Hickmon is fabulously feisty, filthy and packed with clever, witty wordplay

Dec 10, 2024
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Dec 6, 2024
White Denim: 12
Dec 6, 2024

New album: Austin, Texas’s brilliantly inventive proggy experimentalists James Petralli and co return with an appropriately named 12th LP, one which, created in the lockdown restrictions of 2020-21, needed a different, more DIY approach, but weaves a fabulous mix of rootsy swing, jazz and influences from Scritti Politti to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Nick Lowe to Jonathan Richman.

Dec 6, 2024
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Dec 6, 2024
Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature
Dec 6, 2024

New album: The debut solo LP by the Glasgwegian LA-based Chvrches lead vocalist is strong, shimmering mainstream pop, and feels very much like nod to mainstream pop heroines of her teenage years, particularly All Saints and Avril Lavigne

Dec 6, 2024
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Dec 4, 2024
Aisha Badru: The Sun Still Rises
Dec 4, 2024

New album: Simple, soothing, gently philosophical but also emotional songs come with the breathy, tender voice of the New York singer-songwriter in this second album of lovely acoustic folk-pop, following 2018’s Pendulum, as well as several EPs

Dec 4, 2024
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Dec 3, 2024
Juanita Stein: The Weightless Hour
Dec 3, 2024

New album: This fourth solo album the the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Australian indie band Howling Bells deals with heavy subjects with a light touch, a sparseness of style, and emotional potency

Dec 3, 2024

new songs …

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Dec 25, 2024
Song of the Day: Laura Cannell - On The Twelfth Day Of Christmas
Dec 25, 2024

Christmas special Song of the Day: A wonderfully haunting and beautiful strings and bells instrumental piece by the British composer from her the twelfth EP, Winterlore in the monthly ‘Year of Lore’ series of 2024

Dec 25, 2024
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Dec 24, 2024
Song of the Day: Say She She - This Wintertime
Dec 24, 2024

Song of the Day: An elevating, intimate, original Christmas song – slow, heartfelt, with high, soulful, soaring vocal harmonies – by the Brooklyn and London band, the B-side of their new single Purple Snowflakes, out on Karma Chief / Colemine Records

Dec 24, 2024
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Dec 23, 2024
Song of the Day: Meta Golova - Yellow Arrow
Dec 23, 2024

Song of the Day: Eclectic, catchy, mesmeric electro-punk and darkwave in this single taken from the second album, Seasonal Hallucination, by the duo of Siberian Lena Kilina and Brazilian Carlos Issa, released on cassette on the Berlin-based label Coisas que Matam

Dec 23, 2024
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Dec 20, 2024
Song of the Day: Clarissa Connelly - Give it Back
Dec 20, 2024

Song of the Day: Following this year’s fabulous album World of Work, a beautiful new experimental folk-pop single by the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised and Copenhagen-based composer and singer, deliciously decorated with strings, piano, woodwind and her haunting voice. Out on Warp Records

Dec 20, 2024
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Dec 19, 2024
Song of the Day: Unknown To Known - Wide Waters
Dec 19, 2024

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic experimental and engaging jazz featuring woodwind, percussion, sitar and bass by the London quartet of Idris Rahman, Jihad Darwish, Tamar Osborn and Yusuf Ahmed from their debut album, Lightship, out on Maps For Getting Lost

Dec 19, 2024
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Dec 18, 2024
Song of the Day: Julien Baker & TORRES - Sugar in the Tank
Dec 18, 2024

Song of the Day: Beautifully crafted country about bittersweet love-sickness by two acclaimed singer-songwriters inspired by their experiences of growing up queer in the southern states, here sharing vocals and playing banjo and guitar in their first single together, out on Matador Records

Dec 18, 2024
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Dec 17, 2024
Song of the Day: Mogwai - God Gets You Back
Dec 17, 2024

Song of the Day: Released in September, the first of two powerful, dynamic, stormy and serene singles so far heralding the veteran Glasgow experimental rockers’ forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire, out on 24 January 2025, on their label Rock Action Records

Dec 17, 2024
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Dec 16, 2024
Song of the Day: Circa Waves - Like You Did Before
Dec 16, 2024

Song of the Day: Reminiscent of the high-octane early-2000s New York indie of The Strokes and The Walkmen, this passionate new single heralds the Liverpool quartet’s forthcoming sixth album, Death & Love, Pt1, out on the 31 January, via Lower Third/ PIAS

Dec 16, 2024
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Dec 15, 2024
Song of the Day: Muireann Bradley - Candyman
Dec 15, 2024

Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca

Dec 15, 2024
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Dec 14, 2024
Song of the Day: Benjamin Brooker - Same Kind of Lonely
Dec 14, 2024

Song of the Day: Heralding LOWER, his first album in seven years, the innovative, eclectic, New Orleans-based American singer-songwriter returns with a dark, mysterious and unique mix of sounds of fuzz guitar, electronica, noise pop, hip-hop, ambient and indie rock, with a dream-like video

Dec 14, 2024
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Dec 13, 2024
Song of the Day: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
Dec 13, 2024

Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Afterlife, a shuddering, powerful, perspective-scanning new indie track by the American artist and her backing band, heralding the forthcoming self-titled album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar

Dec 13, 2024
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Dec 12, 2024
Song of the Day: Denison Witmer - Focus Ring (featuring Sufjan Stevens)
Dec 12, 2024

Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records

Dec 12, 2024

Word of the week

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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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Nov 15, 2024
Word of the week: circumbendibus
Nov 15, 2024

Word of the week: Not a snaking elongated piece of public transport but still a very evocative 17th-century word for a circuitous, long-winded route or way of doing something or telling a story …

Nov 15, 2024
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Oct 16, 2024
Word of the week: doch-an-dorris
Oct 16, 2024

Word of the week: From the17th-century Scottish Gaelic phrase, deoch an doruis (and also with the form deochandorus), this literally means “door-drink” – a toast made with, or to honour, someone about to depart

Oct 16, 2024
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Oct 4, 2024
Word of the week: eel-skins / excruciators
Oct 4, 2024

Word of the week: Aside from the literal outer layer of the ray-finned slippery fish, this evocative, slightly suggestive 19th-century slang means very tight trousers, while this week’s bonus word, excruciators, points to the experience of wearing very tight shoes

Oct 4, 2024
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