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Deradoorian’s forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: Enthralling, inspiring, imaginative electronica and and analogue percussion by the New York singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, with this latest single heralding the forthcoming album, Ready For Heaven, out on Fire Records on 9 May
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: Striking and articulate as ever, this first single since 2022 by the south London rapper, lyricist, poet, playwright and author is a defiant, empowering shout-out to non-binary identity with an arresting video
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Billy Nomates - The Test
Song of the Day: Dealing with a turbulent 18 months including the death of her father, the innovative British artist Tor Maries returns with a powerful new track heralding her forthcoming third album Metalhorse, out on 16 May via Invada Records
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Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be
Song of the Day: Following 2023’s popular and Mercury Prize-nominated LP When Will We Land?, Edinburgh DJ and producer Joshua Mainnie’s new single, co-written with Jamie Livingstone, is a dark, menacing, spoken-word number heralding his forthcoming second album Loner, out on 30 May on Ninja Tune
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Léa Sen’s forthcoming album, Levels, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Deliciously fluid, smooth, relaxed, gentle, melancholy indie-pop by the Paris-born, French-Martiniquan London-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, heralding her forthcoming debut album, Levels, out on 30 May via Partisan Records
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Getting the job done: Chappell Roan
Song of the Day: After the huge success of 2023’s debut LP The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, the Missouri singer-songwriter and queen of catchy pop and the candid principled scourge of online trolls channels a different genre with a mischievously lesbian country number, with added ironic multi-role video
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Jacob Alon
Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
Song of the Day: From the upcoming album Tall Tales, the Radiohead/The Smile frontman joins the longstanding British electronic collaborative musician and lover of vintage synths in this innovative work with a video following a package through a delivery factory
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Carmel Smickersgill
Song of the Day: Weirdly and wonderfully inventive, oddball wonky work by the Manchester electronic artist with a number about habits and coping mechanisms through a repeating 5/4 rhythm and reverse saxophone sample, from her new EP Unsolicited Advice, out on 16 May on PRAH
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Nova Twins: Amy Love abnd Georgia South
Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Monsters, explosive fireworks rock by the British duo of Amy Love and Georgia South in this dynamic ‘celebration of the power of women’ and heralding their third album, Parasite & Butterflies, due out on 29 August via Marshall Records
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Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars
Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records
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Andy Bell’s latest album is Pinball Wanderer
Song of the Day: Taken from the Ride frontman’s recent solo album, Pinball Wanderer, an infectious, extended syncopated, psychedelic groove reminiscent of The Stone Roses with a dash of krautrock
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Doechii - Anxiety
Song of the Day: Re-released and re-recorded after her more recent success with last year’s album Alligator Bites Never Heal, a fabulous, sharp, inventive number from the Tampa, Florida rapper and singer, sampling Gotye’s 2011 hit Somebody That I Used To Know
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The Voidz - Blue Demon
Song of the Day: The experimental rock band featuring Strokes’ Julian Casablancas on distorted, sci-fi style vocals return with a synth-laden, syncopated, oddball but catchy release, also filled with caustic, indirect references to Israel’s destruction and occupation of Palestine and the US foreign policy hand in it
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Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner
Song of the Day: Funky, catchy, danceable new single by the Oakland, California experimental pop duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, and the the first taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out on 16 May, via 4AD
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose
Song of the Day: Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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TORRES and Julien Baker
Song of the Day: A witty, droll but also beautiful, bittersweet country number with TORRES, aka MacKenzie Scott, on the lead vocal, with lyrics about a girl she had a crush on in her youth and the resulting conflict with her mother, and heralding the LP Send A Prayer My Way, out 18 April on Matador Records
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Model/Actriz
Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records
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