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Song of the Day: Denison Witmer - Focus Ring (featuring Sufjan Stevens)

December 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Denison Witmer’s forthcoming LP Anything At All

Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records

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New Albums …

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New album: After last year’s excellent debut LP, How To Be A God, the south-east London quartet return with another heady swirl of stylishly swaggering, stomping, darkly visceral 60s garage rock, psychedelia and with tasty echoes of 70s Bowie, Stooges, Cramps and Birthday Party-era Nick Cave

Dec 16, 2024
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Angel Olsen and various: Cosmic Waves Volume 1
Dec 14, 2024

New album: A novel form of “compilation reimagined as a dialogue” LP by the acclaimed, serene-voiced American singer-songwriter, showcasing five different lesser-known artists on Side A, and then covering other songs by them on Side B

Dec 14, 2024
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Dec 12, 2024
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Dec 12, 2024

Album review: Released on the wonderfully innovative, independent London label Erased Tapes, the New York-based composer joins with the French group on a mesmeric, 50-minute work of seven instrumental tracks for three vibraphones and 1-bit electronics

Dec 12, 2024
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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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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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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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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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Papa M: Ballads of Harry Houdini
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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
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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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Song of the Day: Mogwai - God Gets You Back
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Song of the Day: Released in September, the first of two powerful, dynamic, stormy and serene singles so far heralding the veteran Glasgow experimental rockers’ forthcoming 11th album, The Bad Fire, out on 24 January 2025, on their label Rock Action Records

Dec 17, 2024
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Song of the Day: Circa Waves - Like You Did Before
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Song of the Day: Reminiscent of the high-octane early-2000s New York indie of The Strokes and The Walkmen, this passionate new single heralds the Liverpool quartet’s forthcoming sixth album, Death & Love, Pt1, out on the 31 January, via Lower Third/ PIAS

Dec 16, 2024
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Song of the Day: Not a new song, but a lovely remastered and recently re-released version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis song performed with beautiful finger-picking precision and wonderful vocal charm by the teenage folk, blues and roots Irish singer-songwriter from Ballybofey in County Donegal, from last year’s debut album, I Kept These Old Blues, out on Tompkins Square, and now Decca

Dec 15, 2024
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Dec 14, 2024
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Dec 14, 2024

Song of the Day: Heralding LOWER, his first album in seven years, the innovative, eclectic, New Orleans-based American singer-songwriter returns with a dark, mysterious and unique mix of sounds of fuzz guitar, electronica, noise pop, hip-hop, ambient and indie rock, with a dream-like video

Dec 14, 2024
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Song of the Day: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
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Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Afterlife, a shuddering, powerful, perspective-scanning new indie track by the American artist and her backing band, heralding the forthcoming self-titled album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar

Dec 13, 2024
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Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records

Dec 12, 2024
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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

Dec 11, 2024
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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 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.”

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