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Made Kuti
Song of the Day: During these dark days, a wonderfully new bright and uplifting layered jazz-Afrobeat sound of trumpet, sax and keyboards from the multi-instrumentalist Made, grandson of Fela and son of Femi
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Nayana IZ
Song of the Day: The latest number by the British-Asian rapper and singer from the London creative collective, NiNE8, is a love song with rich layers of jazz, soul, R&B and Bollywood, with horn and keyboard parts and a strong, smooth assertive voice
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The cover for Arlo Parks’ forthcomign LP Collapsed in Sunbeams
Song of the Day: Smooth, soulful and soul-searching, the latest single from the impressively mature 20-year-old London singer-songwriter Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho examines a difficult relationship fraught by social prejudice
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In Limbo: Max Pope
Song of the Day… But you can see it from here. This alluring recent single by the London singer-songwriter has a smooth, soulful, rich sound, but also beautifully captures a droll sense of personal and universal uncertainty, insecurity and limbo
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The Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: Released earlier in 2020, a sample of the fabulously energised music of the musicians’ collective in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, led by eco activist Pisko Crane who play instruments made from recycled rubbish
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He’s back: Joel Culpepper
Song of the Day: A classy, richly layered, new funk-pop-soul number by the high-voiced south R&B London singer-songwriter who has echoes of Curtis Mayfield
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Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album
Song of the Day: Electro-pop, Chic-era New York City 70s disco vibes, African, Caribbean and Cape Verdean influences are interwoven in this infectious, eccentric newest single by Amsterdam’s Niels Nieuborg, with guest Americo Brito
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The two Swiss Cyrils: Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Song of the Day: The people! Wonderfully catchy krautrock-inspired electro-pop that began as a reaction to tourist overcrowding and since Covid has a nostalgic feel by the eccentric duo from Geneva, Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
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Jane Weaver’s new album, Flock, is out in March 2021
Song of the Day: Do you look at yourself and find nothing? After Martha Hill and Lui Hill, the funky electro-pop self-questioning theme continues with this great new single by the Liverpudlian artist echoes elements of David Bowie and St Vincent
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Lui Hill’s new single
Song of the Day: ‘Calling the creatures I do have inside’. From Martha Hill to Lui Hill, and a new, humorously dark funk-pop number that examines the method of finding your inner self – by the Berlin-based artist
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Martha HIll’s latest EP, Summer Up North
Song of the Day: This classy, catchy number by the artist from Scotland now based in Newcastle Upon Tyne comes from her second EP, Summer Up North, featuring her distinctive, husky voice and clever mix of electronica and guitar
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The new single by Common, with Black Thought and PJ
Song of the Day: The latest from the Chicago-born rapper, actor and activist both political and personal mix of unusual rhythms and rhymes and is taken from his seven-track album project with guests, A Beautiful Revolution (Pt 1)
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The various perspectives of Hotel Lux’s 2020 EP Barstool Preaching
Song of the Day: Contrasting in apparent confidence, two powerfully acerbic, self-examining first-person perspectives by the postpunk-pop band from Portsmouth from their EP Barstool Preaching, out on Nice Swan Records
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Remix cover of CLT DRP’s album Without The Eyes
Song of the Day: Blisteringly angry bass and energetic apathy wrapped in quasi-satirical feminine punk-pop? It’s all here in this track by the electro-punk trio based in Brighton from their debut album Without The Eyes, out on Small Pond Recordings
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Tactics, the EP by Soccer96
Song of the Day: This synth-krautrock fusion of wonderfully droll apathetic humour comes via the synth-drums duo Danalogue and Betamax from The Comet Is Coming, with the dry delivery vocals of jazz experimentalist Alabaster dePlume
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Artwork for Rian Treanor’s new album File Under UK Metaplasm
Song of the Day: Extraordinary and unpredictable rhythmic electronica over a fast metronomic click makes up this vibrant new instrumental by the experimental musician and DJ from Rotherham, taken from his forthcoming second LP – File Under UK Metaplasm
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Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping
Song of the Day: This mind-bending number of brilliant, experimental cosmic jazz-electronica with wonky, twisting sonics and rhythm by London’s Nathan Curran-Tugg is a cavalcade of musical wit, infinite jest and energy from the new album Trans-Neptunia
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From the video for Undecided Voters
Song of the Day: As voting continues in the US presidential elections, a wry and catchy new number by the indie band from Toronto, with echoes of The Strokes, dips into online manipulation of the ‘undecided’ or indeed ‘undercover’
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Song of the Day: On US election day, in a song that came out last year, a pertinent reminder of what kind of sham incumbent is in the White House, and what problems must be addressed, by the veteran New York singer-songwriter
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Cover of the Tune–Yards single
Song of the Day: Brilliant new single from California’s eclectically creative Merrill Garbus and and Nate Brenner is a heady mix of loops, percussion and screaming fuzz vocals, capturing anger felt by many under conditions of being ignored and pushed to the brink
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