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Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track
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From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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On ferlile ground: Alynda Lee Segarra aka Hurray for the Riff Raff
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra
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Jarvis Cocker - sticking around in the video
Song of the Day: Released to highlight issues around Cop26, a catchy, dancey new club anthem combined with the poignant, profound, whispering delivery of the Pulp frontman seeking a path to a unified way to address climate change
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David Holmes new single is a cri de coeur to governments about Covid and climate change
Song of the Day: This stirring dance track by the Belfast producer composer and DJ with the French singer calls out the world governments on corruption and incompetence during the pandemic and, ahead of COP26, over inaction in the face of the climate crisis
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All down together … English Teacher from Leeds
Song of the Day: Dry wit and powerful irony by the Leeds indie band, with an apocalyptic monologue about what happens when people listen to the likes of Wallace Hartley, the bandleader of the Titanic, as a distraction to the sinking of the ship
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Jordan Rakei’s forthcoming album What We Call Life
Sublime, sunny sounding new soul pop that also profoundly addresses climate change by the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album What We Call Life, released 17 September on Ninja Tune
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Noname’s latest single, Rainforest, from the
Song of the Day: A supremely smooth and slick eco-themed and political new hip hop/soul number with a Latin beat by the Chicago rapper aka Fatimah Nyeema Warner whose new self-released album in 2021 is titled Factory Baby
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2020 sees the very welcome return of Stevie Wonder
Song of the Day: While both began as love songs, these first new numbers in four years by the soul great have a strong multi-layered political element, calling for solidarity in times of rising racism, an election and an epidemic
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From the video for I’m Getting Tired
Song of the Day: This thunderous combination of drums, screaming horns and call-and-answer vocals by the Irish producer and guests is a catch-all protest against ongoing global farce and lies, from Covid-19 to climate change, Trump to Johnson to Brexit
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Robert Forster - from the cover of his 2019 album, Inferno
Song of the Day: As summer simmers on, a hot weather cracker from the new album by the Australian singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Go-Betweens, about his native Brisbane, but one that also hints heavily at global warming
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Bob Dylan in 1962
Song of the Day: A Dylan song was inevitably going to drop here at some point, and, from current flooding, climate change and US foreign policy wrangles, this apocalyptic early number recorded in 1962 the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis remains just as hard-hitting and relevant
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Kate Tempest
Song of the Day: From PJ Harvey's war-torn English rose we move to a passionate post-Brexit poem-song with an industrial, urban edge that captures an isolated, confused, dystopian Britain and beyond
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