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Chloe Slater - Fig Tree
Song of the Day: Powerful, intelligent, passionate, defiant indie pop by the Manchester-based with a new single about female social pressures on looks and ageing, with a metaphorical reference to the titular wrinkly tree in Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar
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Cloth - Polaroid
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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Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album, The Purple Bird
Song of the Day: Homely, toe-tapping, but as ever, wittily droll, Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with a very Nashville-style folk-country number with fiddle and Grammy-winning mandolinist Tim O’Brien, heralding a new album, The Purple Bird on 31 January via Domino Records
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The Priscillas - Plastic
Song of the Day: Panache-filled, punchy panic by the glamorous London power-punk quartet in this new single about how one of the planet’s biggest polluting problems goes down to cellular level, with menacing guitars and bass lines, driving drums, and sharp, dynamic vocal harmonies
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KuleeAngee - Animated Love
Song of the Day: A fabulous toe-tapping, funk-disco, acid-house-influenced, talky-vocal indie-electronica groove debut by the Scottish duo of Duncan Grant and Keshav Kanabar, out on the Manchester indie label, Lab Records
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The Ocelots - The Good of a Bad Year - from the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly
Song of the Day: This beautiful, gently paced, piano-based single, about highlighting overlooked moments of joy, heralds the forthcoming new album Everything, When Said Slowly, by the Leipzig-based Irish twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson from Wexford
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Les Amazones d’Afrique
Song of the Day: A fabulous, feisty, Afro-electro dance track by the female collective, calling for women of all sizes to unite on the dancefloor ‘without fear or worry’ and featuring newest member Nigerian singer Jemiriye on lead vocals alongside founding member Mamani Keïta
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Sophie Jamieson’s forthcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on Bella Union
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, gut-wrenching, intimate folk and electronica single by the London-based singer-songwriter about trying to find forgiveness when faced with pain, from the upcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on 17 January 2025 on Bella Union
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SASAMI’s forthcoming album, Blood On The Silver Screen
Song of the Day: Superbly soaring, stirring, classy melodic rock-pop by the Los Angeles singer-songwriter and classically trained French horn player Sasami Ashworth, with a new single about that sense of dizzying longing in that in-between state of an ambiguous relationship, and heralding her next album, Blood On The Silver Screen
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Kelora
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, shimmering, haunting psychedelic dream pop and cyber folk by the Glasgow-formed, London-based duo of Kitty Hall and Benedict Salter, heralding their new album, Sleepers, out on 10 February via True Panther Records
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Marie Davdison
Song of the Day: The Canadian DJ-producer, electronic musician and vocalist returns with a sassy, talky, catchy, witty electro-pop dance number heralding her new album, City of Clowns, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau out 28 February 2025, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label
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Catchy: Franz Ferdinand
Song of the Day: Glasgow’s favourite art-pop-rockers, fronted by the articulate Alex Kapranos, return with another catchy, jaunty new love song heralding their forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out 10 January 2025 on Domino Records
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Sunny War
Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress
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Echolalia: Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby
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Getdown Services: Josh Law and Ben Sadler
Song of the Day: Droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves by the enterainingly downbeat Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler taken from their new EP, Your Medal’s In The Post, out on Breakfast Records
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FEET - Number One
Song of the Day: Following the excellent Make It Up album in the summer, a strutting, catchy new indie single by the London five-piece band, out on Submarine Cat Records
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Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe
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Decius: Birth Of A Smirk
Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher
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Squid: digging deep into new musical territory
Song of the Day: This epic, enigmatic experimental new track, featuring harpsichord sounds alongside intricate guitars, driving beats and menacing lyrics, heralds the Brighton art-rock-post-punk band’s third LP, Cowards, out in February 2025 on Warp Records
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BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Tim Bernardes - Poeira Cosmica
Song of the Day: The Toronto instrumental trio of Chester Hansen, Alexander Sowinski, and Leland Whitty return with a fabulous jazz-Brazilian poetic fusion with the smooth, tender, soaring voice of singer-guitarist of the São Paulo band, O Terno
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