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Sunny War
Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress
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Echolalia: Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby
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Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe
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Låpsley - Church
Song of the Day: The singer-songwriter from York, Holly Lapsley Fletcher, returns with a beautiful, candid, autobiographical, acoustic finger-picking number about still waiting to find life’s directions, and with a Joni Mitchell namecheck
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In full bloom: Richard Dawson
Song of the Day: This warm, beautiful, tender, poetic new single by the British experimental folk artist evokes a gardener finding comfort in the the noble, calming, sometimes mysterious business of raising vegetables and heralds Dawson’s new album End of the Middle, to be released on 14 February 2025 on Weird World / Domino Records
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Anna B Savage’s upcoming third album You & i are Earth is out in January on City Slang
Song of the Day: “There’s magic here.” An exquisite, intimate but also energetic new single by the British experimental folk singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang Records
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Josh Tillman
Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world
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Tunng's forthcoming album, Love You All Over Again
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, delicate folktonica by the British band who pioneered this sound, heralding their forthcoming album Love You All Over Again, due out on 24 January 2025, and marking 20 years since the band’s first album, Mother’s Daugher and Other Songs, out on Full Time Hobby
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Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)
Song of the Day: A beautiful, agile, indie-folk-alt-country new single by the Canadian-Japanese artist, heralding, after previous EPs, her forthcoming debut album, SAYA, due out in February 2025 on Dirty Hit Records
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Jacob Alon: Fairy In A Bottle
Song of the Day: Gorgeous fragility and high-voiced, delicate control with a wonderful melody all come in this exquisite performed debut by the singer songwriter from Glasgow, here produced by Dan Carey, and out on Universal
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Big Warm Bed - Jackie
Song of the Day: A deliciously gentle, subtle, melancholic, lo-fi release with vivid lyrical detail by the Leeds singer-songwriter Jacob Andrews, taken from the brand new EP, Shores I’m Swimming In, out on Dance To The Radio
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Bon Iver
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming SABLE EP, and with a first new song since 2020’s AUATC, Justin Vernon returns with beautifully stripped back, understated acoustic guitar number of wistful solitude and apology, crisply poetic rhymes and pointed lyrics, out on Jagjaguwar
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Wussy
Song of the Day: Graveyard themed, but also referencing the euphonic phrase considered the most among the English language’s most beautiful, a catchy, spooky lo-fi krautrocky title track with a fabulous retro disco footage video, from the Cincinnati band’s latest EP, out on Shake It Records
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Aisha Badru
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate, ethereal number by the breathy-voiced Florida-based Nigerian-American artist about purpose, making time for yourself and making that time significant, taken from her upcoming second album The Sun Still Rises, out on 29 November via Nettwerk
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Tucker Zimmerman
Song of the Day: A gorgeously gentle,, evocative new number by the veteran Belgium-based Californian folk singer-songwriter and poet, with backing vocals by Adrienne Lenker and produced by her band Big Thief, who also play on Zimmerman’s forthcoming album, Dance of Love, out on 11 October via 4AD
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Broadcast’s final release, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, is out in September
Song of the Day: A truly gorgeous previously unreleased intimate, haunting acoustic song discovered after the passing of the British band’s singer Trish Keenan, heralding a compilation, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, and the final release from Broadcast, available from 28 September 2024 via Warp Record
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Joanna Sternberg - A Country Dance
Song of the Day: Reminiscient of Dory Previn or Peggy Seeger in vocal delivery, style and charm, this beautiful, romantic, acoustic new single by the New York singer-songwriter also appears in the film Between The Temples, and is released on Fat Possum Records
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
Song of the Day: Simplicity and beauty encapsulate this gorgeous acoustic string-infused new single by the Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter, the first since her debut album I Need to Start a Garden (2018), out on her hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co
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