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Song of the Day: Heith - [] () () , 21, wheel of fortune

January 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Heith’s latest album: X, wheel

Song of the Day: A mesmeric and strikingly original track by Italy’s Daniele Guerrini, artist and electronic musician based in Milan, here with beautiful additional guitar and brass, from his recent album, X, wheel, out on PAN Records

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New Albums …

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Nov 1, 2024
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World
Nov 1, 2024

New album: Powerful, moving and dark, on grief, loss and the passing of time, this milestone release by the British cult band of Robert Smith is their first LP of new songs for 16 years, but is worth the wait with its emotional depth and strength

Nov 1, 2024
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Nov 1, 2024
Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes
Nov 1, 2024

New album: A beautifully quirky, unique cross-genre, melodic, meandering experimental release of surreal lyricism of jazz-folk-pop by the Belgian-US duo of Zach Phillips and Ma Clément joined by an ensemble of six other musicians

Nov 1, 2024
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Oct 29, 2024
One True Pairing: Endless Rain
Oct 29, 2024

New album: A strikingly beautiful new LP by the Kendal singer-songwriter aka Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, whose tender, high voice soars and also brings hushed tones across a gorgeous set of autumnal-feel songs, accompanied by inventive sounds on various acoustic instruments

Oct 29, 2024
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Oct 28, 2024
Underworld: Strawberry Hotel
Oct 28, 2024

New album: The veteran techno rave and electronica king pair Karl Hyde and Rick Smith return with one of their finest LPs of the 11 to date, a miasma of metronomic beats, stream-of-consciousness lyrics, ambience, energy and ecstatic elevation

Oct 28, 2024
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Oct 27, 2024
Amyl and The Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness
Oct 27, 2024

New album: The Australian punk band fronted by the electric personality of irrepressible singer Amy Taylor return with another set of fabulous songs, with some new musical dynamic variation, plenty of humour, swearing, exposed flesh, but also self-aware, kick-ass feminism driven by great riffs and melodies

Oct 27, 2024
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Oct 25, 2024
Laura Marling: Patterns In Repeat
Oct 25, 2024

New album: The popular British indie-folk singer-songwriter returns with her eighth studio LP, one of of gentle intricacy and delicate acoustic beauty, particularly reflecting on newly becoming a mother, as well as ideas and behaviours inherited down generations

Oct 25, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024
Porridge Radio: Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
Oct 21, 2024

New album: The London band fronted by the passionate singer-songwriter Dana Margolin return with a fourth indie LP of angst-ridden intensity, using her signature repetitive phrasing, vivid lyrics and emotional dynamics

Oct 21, 2024
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Oct 20, 2024
Half Waif: See You At The Maypole
Oct 20, 2024

New album: Ethereal, shimmering, poetic, sensual delicate experimental folk and synth-pop in this substantial 17-track sixth LP, following 2021’s Mythopoetics, by the New York singer-songwriter and producer Nandi Rose Plunkett, with lingering release about pain, grief, but resilience and beauty

Oct 20, 2024
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Oct 19, 2024
Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate
Oct 19, 2024

New album: The London-based Welsh electronic artist, DJ and producer’s fourth LP takes a new mainstream turn, celebrating daydreaming and emancipated creativity through electronica and dance music, combining ambience and beats with guest collaborators Bicep, Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, and George Daniel

Oct 19, 2024
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Oct 19, 2024
Marysia Osu: Harp, Beats and Dreams
Oct 19, 2024

New album: Truly gorgeous experimental work by London’s Trinity Laban-graduate harpist of Polish parentage, who as well as conventionally rippling the strings of instrument, creatively uses it with other effects, adds sea other nature sounds with electronica, with magical sprinkles of guest vocals, cello, woodwind and percussion

Oct 19, 2024
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W.H. Lung: Every Inch Of Earth Pulsates
Oct 19, 2024

New album: The Manchester-formed synth-indie-pop five-piece return with fresh toe-tapping electro retro sounds, but also with a particularly big, live sound, achieved by relocating to Sheffield to work with producer Ross Orton (MIA, Arctic Monkeys, Working Men’s Club)

Oct 19, 2024
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Oct 19, 2024
Silverbacks: Easy Being A Winner
Oct 19, 2024

New album: The Dublin sextet of frontman Daniel O’Kelly, brother Kilian and co return with a third album, one of mischief, eccentricity and no shortage of musical skill, witty lyrics and clever, intricate and powerful triple guitar riffing, co-produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox

Oct 19, 2024
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Oct 16, 2024
Field Music: Limits of Language
Oct 16, 2024

New album: After various side and solo projects, Sunderland brothers Peter and David Brewis return with their very own inventive brand of classy, clever, quirky, and funky experimental pop

Oct 16, 2024
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Oct 15, 2024
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
Oct 15, 2024

New album: Appearances might partly deceive, as while this almighty release by the Denver, Colorado quartet of Paul Riedl, Isaac Faulk, Morris Kolontyrsky and Jeff Barrett has a grunting death metal tag, it also traverses a wondrously inventive landscape of dynamic prog, folk, rock, krautrock and beyond with an accompanying film

Oct 15, 2024

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Nov 1, 2024
Song of the Day: World News - Junkie
Nov 1, 2024

Song of the Day: Delightfully dynamic, stirring, melodic, jangly guitar work with a Stone Roses influence in this new single by the London-based indie quartet, out on Pie & Mash Records

Nov 1, 2024
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Oct 30, 2024
Song of the Day: Richard Dawson - Polytunnel
Oct 30, 2024

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

Oct 30, 2024
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Oct 29, 2024
Song of the Day: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Afterlife
Oct 29, 2024

Song of the Day: Springboarding a new approach and sound with her band, the New York artist’s new single, despite the dark, grief-stricken subject matter, is euphoric, and heralds her forthcoming album Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, out 7 February on Jagjaguwar

Oct 29, 2024
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Oct 28, 2024
Song of the Day: HotWax - She's Got A Problem
Oct 28, 2024

Song of the Day: Searing rock by the talented Hastings trio of Tallulah Sim-Savage, Lola Sam, and Alfie Sayers, and the first single taken from their forthcoming debut album, Hot Shock, out in March 2025 on Marathon Artists

Oct 28, 2024
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Oct 27, 2024
Song of the Day: Anna B Savage - Agnes (featuring Anna Mieke)
Oct 27, 2024

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

Oct 27, 2024
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Oct 26, 2024
Song of the Day: Do Nothing: Summer of Hate
Oct 26, 2024

Song of the Day: After 2023’s excellent debut LP Snake Sideways, the Nottingham experimental indie quartet featuring the distinctive voice of singer Chris Bailey return with dark, quirky, sharp and pointed song about childhood memories, a bully and a reference to the Terminator 2 actress

Oct 26, 2024
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Oct 25, 2024
Song of the Day: Panda Bear - Defense
Oct 25, 2024

Song of the Day: At a chilled walking pace, gently tender, mesmeric psychedelic rock by the American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalistand co-founding member of Animal Collective Noah Lennox, heralding his forthcoming first solo album for five years, Sinister Grift out in February 2025 via Domino Records

Oct 25, 2024
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Oct 23, 2024
Song of the Day: Heartworms - Warplane
Oct 23, 2024

Song of the Day: Inspired by the death of a young WW2 Spitfire pilot, a dark, yet evocative, exciting, pacy, dynamic, postpunk single with distorted guitars, propeller like drums, and the alluring, explosive presence of Jojo Orme, heralding a debut album Glutton for Punishment, and produced by Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground

Oct 23, 2024
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Oct 22, 2024
Song of the Day: Sorry - Waxwing
Oct 22, 2024

Song of the Day: A wonderfully warped and weird new single by the London-based experimental indie band, with bursts of static, spectral synths, dark humour chopped vocals from lead-songwriter Asha Lorenz and catchy pop hooks on the themes of desire and catharsis, plus a cheeky reference to a 1982 Toni Basil hit

Oct 22, 2024
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Oct 21, 2024
Song of the Day: Vundabar - Life Is A Movie
Oct 21, 2024

Song of the Day: “What were you doing in my song last night?” After yesterday’s serene love meta-song by C Duncan, another clever but different analogy with this punchy, witty indie-rock number of creative references by the Boston, Massachussetts band, out on Loma Vista

Oct 21, 2024
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Oct 20, 2024
Song of the Day: C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song
Oct 20, 2024

Song of the Day: This beautiful, romantic, melodiously gliding orchestral pop meta-song, flush with swooning strings and yearning, is the title track heralding the Scottish multi-instrumentalist and singer’s forthcoming new album out on 24 January 2025 via Bella Union

Oct 20, 2024
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Oct 19, 2024
Song of the Day: MRCY - Angels
Oct 19, 2024

Song of the Day: Timeless, uplifting new soul reminiscent of the golden period of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield by the duo of south London singer Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield producer Barney Lister with a number “trusting that the universe will be on your side, provided you go for what you want.”

Oct 19, 2024

Word of the week

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Oct 16, 2024
Word of the week: doch-an-dorris
Oct 16, 2024

Word of the week: From the17th-century Scottish Gaelic phrase, deoch an doruis (and also with the form deochandorus), this literally means “door-drink” – a toast made with, or to honour, someone about to depart

Oct 16, 2024
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Oct 4, 2024
Word of the week: eel-skins / excruciators
Oct 4, 2024

Word of the week: Aside from the literal outer layer of the ray-finned slippery fish, this evocative, slightly suggestive 19th-century slang means very tight trousers, while this week’s bonus word, excruciators, points to the experience of wearing very tight shoes

Oct 4, 2024
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Sep 19, 2024
Word of the week: flittermouse
Sep 19, 2024

Word of the week: With other variants such as flickermouse and flinder-mouse, this rather charming Tudor-period English noun is a rather evocative and onomatopoeically descriptive one for that quietly sonic-guided night creature – the bat

Sep 19, 2024
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Sep 5, 2024
Word of the week: gnomon
Sep 5, 2024

Word of the week: From the Ancient Greek, γνώμων (gnṓmōn)this pointed noun literally means one that knows or examines, but it is specifically the part of a sundial that casts a shadow as well as referring to other mathematical terms

Sep 5, 2024
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Aug 22, 2024
Word of the week: hederaceous / hederigerent
Aug 22, 2024

Word of the week: Two lesser known and very similar adjectives from the Latin word heder – hederaceous meaning resembling ivy, while hederigerent describing that which is dressed with or bedecked in ivy

Aug 22, 2024
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