Song of the Day: Chappell Roan - The Giver

March 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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New Albums …

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Mar 15, 2025

Circuit des Yeux: Halo On The Inside

Mar 15, 2025

New album: Dark, vivid, pagan, hedonistic, carnal goth-dancefloor experimental electronica and more by the Chicago-based multi-disciplinary superbly alternative artist Haley Fohr and her otherworldly, mesmerically rich, four-octave voice

Mar 15, 2025

clipping.: Dead Channel Sky

Mar 15, 2025

New album: Breathlessly brilliant warp-speed hip-hop with a cyberpunk, electronica and house music soundtrack by the trio fronted by rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, set in a sci-fi dystopian universe of multiple characters and stories

Mar 15, 2025

Mar 11, 2025

Echolalia: Echolalia

Mar 11, 2025

New album: A Nashville ‘supergroup’ in the most free-flowing, relaxed form imaginable, Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning, Dominic Billett and others combine in a beautiful intertwining of pastoral folk, country, and dream-like, psychedelic Americana

Mar 11, 2025

Mar 10, 2025

Lady Gaga: MAYHEM

Mar 10, 2025

New album: Something of return to form and fun for the superstar singer and actress? Certainly this revisits something of her late 2000s Poker Face- and Bad Romance-era flamboyant, bombastic pop sound where excess and outsider oddness made her name

Mar 10, 2025

Melin Melyn: Mill On The Hill

Mar 10, 2025

New album: Enormously entertaining, witty, catchy, folk-country-psych-rock by the Cardiff-London band, with clear, upbeat comparisons to Gruff Rhys and Super Furry Animals as well as other original twists in this warm, vintage-feel new release

Mar 10, 2025

HotWax: Hot Shock

Mar 10, 2025

New album: One of the hottest young bands around, a blisteringly entertaining debut by the Hastings rock/punk trio, with snarling vocals, stormy guitars, bass and explosive drumming by Tallulah Sim-Savage, Lola Sam and Alfie Sayers

Mar 10, 2025

Mar 8, 2025

Divorce: Drive To Goldenhammer

Mar 8, 2025

New album: With a warm, engaging sound, and beautifully crafted, intelligent songs, this excellent debut by the Nottingham indie quartet transcends genres from pop to country, Americana folk to rock with enduring passion and quality

Mar 8, 2025

da Googie + Cara Tivey: The Golden Thread

Mar 8, 2025

New album: A mesmeric, cutting-edge, experimental tapestry of dark, magical, musical textures and songs by an English duo of seasoned, innovative collaborators – My Bloody Valentine bass player Deb Googe, and pianist and composer Cara Tivey in a superb debut LP together

Mar 8, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

SASAMI: Blood On The Silver Screen

Mar 7, 2025

New album: Following 2022’s excellent alchemic metal and more Squeeze LP, the LA-based classically trained French horn player, singer and composer Sasami Ashworth returns with a cinematic, stylish adventure in well-crafted, mainstream-style pop, aided by producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam

Mar 7, 2025

Mar 5, 2025

Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures

Mar 5, 2025

New album: A magical, transportive, gorgeously meditational evocative release by the Japanese singer and multi-instrumentalist with a celestial musical landscape LP inspired by the Ryukyu islands that stretch southwest of Japan towards Taiwan

Mar 5, 2025

Mar 4, 2025

DARKSIDE: Nothing

Mar 4, 2025

New album: Filled with infectious, mystifying oddball but at times brilliant grooves across a range of styles – krautrock, funk, Latin, indie, psyche, prog rock, warped pop, contemporary classical and jazz among others, this third LP by New York’s Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington sees an expansion of their eclectic experimentation now joined by drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza

Mar 4, 2025

Mar 3, 2025

Everything Is Recorded: Richard Russell Is Temporary

Mar 3, 2025

New album: A tender, gentle, minimalistic and rather beautifully eccentric release about mutability and death? It’s the third collaborative LP by producer Richard Russell, joined by a stellar cast of singers and musicians including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Kamasi Washington, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume and Jah Wobble

Mar 3, 2025

Mar 2, 2025

Antony Szmierek: Service Station At The End Of The Universe

Mar 2, 2025

New album: Named after Douglas Adams’ satirical sci-fi Restaurant novel, the likeable Manchester spoken word poet’s debut LP is an entertaining, playful, richly observational mix of Streetsy stream-of-consciousness stories inspired by his home city through the classic sounds of 90s dance music and indie

Mar 2, 2025

Panda Bear: Sinister Grift

Mar 2, 2025

New album: The ever eclectic Animal Collective, Lisbon-based frontman Noah Lennox’s first solo album for five years is an oddly reflective but rather beautiful heartbreak album, one coming out of his divorce, but rich in many styles, from Beach Boys vocal harmonies to reggae, Latin to disco, jaunty 70s pop to psychedelia

Mar 2, 2025

new songs …

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Mar 15, 2025

Song of the Day: Chappell Roan - The Giver

Mar 15, 2025

Mar 14, 2025

Song of the Day: Jacob Alon - Don't Fall Asleep

Mar 14, 2025

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

Mar 14, 2025

Mar 13, 2025

Song of the Day: Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - This Conversation is Missing Your Voice

Mar 13, 2025

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

Mar 13, 2025

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Mar 12, 2025

Song of the Day: Carmel Smickersgill - Build The Habit

Mar 12, 2025

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

Mar 12, 2025

Mar 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Nova Twins - Soprano

Mar 11, 2025

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

Mar 11, 2025

Mar 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Car Seat Headrest - Gethsemane

Mar 10, 2025

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

Mar 10, 2025

Mar 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Andy Bell - Apple Green UFO

Mar 9, 2025

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

Mar 9, 2025

Mar 8, 2025

Song of the Day: Doechii - Anxiety

Mar 8, 2025

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

Mar 8, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

Song of the Day: The Voidz - Blue Demon

Mar 7, 2025

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

Mar 7, 2025

Mar 6, 2025

Song of the Day: Tune-Yards - Limelight

Mar 6, 2025

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

Mar 6, 2025

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Mar 5, 2025

Song of the Day: Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday

Mar 5, 2025

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

Mar 5, 2025

Mar 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Jenny Hval - To Be A Rose

Mar 4, 2025

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

Mar 4, 2025

Word of the week

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Mar 12, 2025

Word of the week: ulotrichous

Mar 12, 2025

Word of the week: While it’s entirely natural in animals such as sheep as well as some humans, depending on an individual’s point of view it’s either a blessing or a curse. From Greek words oûlos (crisp, curly) and -trikhos (haired), this adjective means having curly or woolly hair

Mar 12, 2025

Feb 26, 2025

Word of the week: varsovienne

Feb 26, 2025

Word of the week: Our latest etymological move into obscurity originates in around 1850 in Warsaw, Poland, and also known as the varsouvienne or varsoviana – a slow, graceful dance in 3/4 waltz time, which also combines elements of the mazurka and polka

Feb 26, 2025

Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: withershins / widdershins

Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025

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

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