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Mandrake Handshake - King Cnut
Song of the Day: A mesmeric spread of instruments stir this potent cauldron of a new single by the London band of “flowerkraut”, a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, here inspired by the 11th-century Norse ruler of Britain, released on the cult indie label Tip Top Recordings
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La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
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Melts’ upcoming new album, Field Theory
Song of the Day: A storming new single of frenetic, krautrock-electronic-psych-rock by the Dublin band, with scintillating synth lines and the charismatic, cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny, heralding their upcoming second album, Field Theory, out on 12 April on Fuzz Club
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Borough Council - Prescribed
Song of the Day: With a mesmeric, rhythmic, riffing krautrock momentum and some echoes of the Cure, a dark but fresh, eclectic debut the Hastings trio of Haydn Ackerley, Joe Ackerley and Tom Healey
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En Attendant Ana’s new album, Principia
Song of the Day: From the recently released album, Principia, an infectious and beautiful fusion of folk-pop and momentum-building krautrock and echoes of Stereolab and Nico by the Parisian indie quintet fronted by singer-songwriter Margaux Bouchaudon
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Kali Horse
Song of the Day: Sensual, mesmerising, liquid, echoey, ethereal, psychedelic krautrock-pop with oscillating drum rhythm, beautiful rumblings, rippling harp and vocals by the Toronto duo Desiree Das Gupta and Sam Maloney
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Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe
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The debut LP by Aircooled
Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards
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Stereolab’s forthcoming new compilation of rarities and unreleased tracks
Song of the Day: Newly released for a forthcoming rarities compilation, but originally written in 1995, this classic krautrock-influenced number by the avant-pop band of Laetitia Sadier and co was originally written for to complement a sculpture made by the band’s artist collaborator, Charles Long, on 1995’s Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
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Melt’s forthcoming debut album Maelstrum
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming debut album Maelstrom, a scintillating storm of a song mixing psychedelia, space rock, krautrock, Hammond organ and driving guitar and vocals by the band from Dublin
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FredAtlast aka Fredrik Wallin
Song of the Day: Catchy krautrock-inspired indie pop by Little Dragon Swedish bassist Fredrik Wallin with an infectious beat, drone note, and lyrics that are “a meditation on impermanence and our way of dealing with loss. A plea to our nearest to be: nearer, dearer and more daring.”
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Song of the Day: This blistering new meta-song that also lampoons building developers comes from the London band’s forthcoming album Forest Of Your Problems. It’s a frenzy of krautrock-electronic-pop with echoes of The Fall and Suicide
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Anna Friedberg on the cover of her latest EP
Song of the Day: A couple of tracks from the latest EP by the London and Berlin band who mix electronica with a rhythmically frenzied krautrock style, one with copious cowbell, the other a catchy pop song about freeing yourself to let go of everything and anything
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
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The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess
Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person
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The two Swiss Cyrils: Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Song of the Day: The people! Wonderfully catchy krautrock-inspired electro-pop that began as a reaction to tourist overcrowding and since Covid has a nostalgic feel by the eccentric duo from Geneva, Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
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Tactics, the EP by Soccer96
Song of the Day: This synth-krautrock fusion of wonderfully droll apathetic humour comes via the synth-drums duo Danalogue and Betamax from The Comet Is Coming, with the dry delivery vocals of jazz experimentalist Alabaster dePlume
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The sleeve for LCD Soundsystem's debut first single
Song of the Day: After our previous Eric B. and Rakim number, Know The Ledge, it's a different, double-edged song, and a debut by Brooklyn's James Murphy and co satirising the fear of not staying in vogue
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Over the moon and far away: Can in 1973 and their cover for the album Soon Over Babaluma
Song of the Day: Continuing the lunar theme, and extending to the outer limits of experimentalism after Moondog and Captain Beefheart, the sequence also ties in with the German band also highly influential on the late Mark E Smith
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Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet – musician, artist, visionary.
Song of the Day: With the recent passing of The Fall's Mark E Smith, and all the songs, tributes and stories that have followed, it now seems only appropriate to follow up with music Smith loved by one of his major influences
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