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Song of the Day: Clara Mann - Remember Me (Train Song)

December 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Clara Mann’s forthcoming album, Rift

Song of the Day: Deliciously sparse, ghostly, delicate folk in with a lovely melancholic farewell song by the London singer-songwriter, with the latest single from her forthcoming album, due to be released on 7 March 2025, via on The state51 Conspiracy

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New Albums …

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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
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Dec 3, 2024
Papa M: Ballads of Harry Houdini
Dec 3, 2024

New album: The alt-rock LA-based musician from Louisville, Kentucky, aka David Pajo, returns with six long-ish numbers, not necessarily themed around the famous escape artist, but packed with ear-catching, meaty, thrumming, sometimes looped, and always dynamic guitar work and rhythmic experimentation

Dec 3, 2024
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Nov 27, 2024
Kendrick Lamar: GNX
Nov 27, 2024

New album: Braggadocio, flamboyant personas and diss rap is nothing new in hip hop, but the genre’s current chief innovator and Pulitzer Prize winner presents an artfully inventive form filled with eye-poppingly agile, madcap, mischievous wordsmithery, in this surprise new release filled with playful stylistic switches and some surprise targets

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 27, 2024
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad
Nov 27, 2024

New album: The latest in the Nashville singer’s projects with an international collective of musicians interprets traditional creates new folk songs, themed the tough history of the US rail frontier that was mostly built by Irish, African American, Chinese and Japanese immigrants

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
Poppy Ajudha: Poppy
Nov 25, 2024

New album: The south London singer-songwriter’s sophomore LP takes different direction to her 2022’s more social and political issue-based debut The Power In Us, with a more mainstream route of stylish, smart, soaring pop, soul and R&B centred on fraught, divided, candid emotions

Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
Jack Cheshire: Interloper
Nov 25, 2024

New album: Following 2020’s acclaimed Fractal Future Plays, the British experimental musician returns with his sixth LP, an excellent exploration across pastoral psychedelia, lysergic polyrhythms and beautiful field recordings on tricky themes of belonging in age of post-Brexit and gentrification

Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More
Nov 23, 2024

New album: After various singles over the years, the former Pixies member, and Breeders musician finally releases her first full solo album, a truly fabulous execution of superb songwriting, sharp, heartbreak lyrics, diverse musical styles and instruments across indie, rock and pop, all performed with beautiful tenderness, grit and gusto

Nov 23, 2024
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Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes
Nov 23, 2024

New album: A fourth album by the Mercury prize-winner, another gorgeously crafted and performed set of songs drawing on 70s soul and slowly simmering psychedelic rock, and the third produced by Danger Mouse and Inflo

Nov 23, 2024

new songs …

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Song of the Day: Deradoorian - Digital Gravestone
Dec 11, 2024

Song of the Day: Dark, stirring, powerful, this scintillating, extraordinary new single by the New York multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer has rumbling bassline, a sleazy dirty sax sound, crystalline key stabs and jagged guitar lines, and heralds a new album out in 2025, and her first release on Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Clara Mann - Remember Me (Train Song)
Dec 10, 2024

Song of the Day: Deliciously sparse, ghostly, delicate folk in with a lovely melancholic farewell song by the London singer-songwriter, with the latest single from her forthcoming album, due to be released on 7 March 2025, via on The state51 Conspiracy

Dec 10, 2024
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Dec 9, 2024
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Song of the Day: A delightfully warm, tender, beautiful folk love song by the Manchester-based Trans singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank, with title track from their forthcoming album, out on 17 January via Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory Records

Dec 8, 2024
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Song of the Day: An exquisite, tender, gentle, poetic, walking-pace new single decorated with piano, double bass and guitar and perfect intonations of the British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming third album You & i are Earth, out on 24 January via City Slang

Dec 5, 2024
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Dec 4, 2024
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Dec 4, 2024

Song of the Day: A powerful, soaring, emotional soul number about by the troubles of his brother by the pure-voiced singer-songwriter also inspired by the three cities he calls home - Lagos, Laois and London, as well as words of the great Nina Simone: “Between a few worlds, I do belong.”

Dec 4, 2024
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Song of the Day: Chloe Slater - Fig Tree
Dec 3, 2024

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Dec 2, 2024
Song of the Day: Cloth - Polaroid
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Song of the Day: After last year’s beautifully crafted and spun Secret Measure album, the Glasgow twins Rachael and Paul Swinton return with a thrumming, evocative, vivid new indie-pop number around the theme of memory capture, out on Mogwai’s label Rock Action Records

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Sep 19, 2024
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