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LYR’s Blossomise EP
Song of the Day: To mark a special project in conjunction with The National Trust, marking the first day of spring, and also World Poetry Day, two beautifully evocative tracks from a new EP by the trio of poet laureate Simon Armitage, with music from singer Richard Walters, and producer Patrick J Pearson
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Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett and Jamie Sierota, aka meija, in the Possum video
Song of the Day: A pair of recent excellent indie-pop singles by the LA based producer and songwriter Jamie Sierota, witty, catchy and clever, featuring respectively, guests Jawny - aka American singer Jacob Lee-Nicholas Sullenger, and Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett
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Nuha Ruby Ra
Song of the Day: The stylishly creative East London singer-songwriter returns with an alluring, innovative fusion of sultry pop and dark, burbling, electronica in a warehouse dancefloor setting
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Crystal Murray
Song of the Day: From the London-based Parisian singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album Sad Lovers and Giants, scintillating, catchy, sexy electro-pop with a fabulous street-scene video. The album is out on 31 May via Because Music
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Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
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Låpsley
Song of the Day: Sensual, powerful alternative pop about stirrings of religion-formed guilt by by the Southport-raised singer-songwriter Holly Lapsley Fletcher, out on Believe UK
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Barry Adamson
Song of the Day: A brilliant belter of a Motown-style soul single by the revered Manchester musician and songwriter, capturing the fatal final day of the great singer in 1964, taken from Adamson’s forthcoming new album Cut To Black
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Liz Lawrence returns with Big Machine from her new album, Peanuts, out on Chrysalis
Song of the Day: Classy, articulate, stirring and strident indie electro-pop by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist with this lead single from the upcoming brand new album Peanuts, out on Chrysalis Records
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Phone addiction: Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: One of two recent singles heralding the forthcoming new album by Scotland’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, a witty, articulate, deadpan lament about online hate, mixing a disco beat with guitar line
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King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Song of the Day: An immediately arresting, gorgeous indie Americana of poise and elegance by the Liverpool duo of singer Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, joined here by Sharon Van Etten on vocal harmonies, with the title track of their forthcoming album, out on City Slang
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M(h)aol - Pursuit
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent debut album Attachment Styles, a visceral, intense single by the feminist postpunk Dublin band, about the traumatic experience of being followed home
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Kamasi Washington
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Los Angeles virtuoso jazz saxophonist returns with this dramatic, energetic opening track, originally written by by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and heralding his forthcoming new album, Fearless Movement, out 3 May via Young Records
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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Nick Cave
Song of the Day: The Australian legend returns with characteristic zeal and passion with this striking narrative title track from his upcoming 18th studio album, one capturing his recurring themes of death, religion, love and violence, a reflecting on a chaotic world
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Cosmo Sheldrake’s upcoming new album, Eye To The Ear
Song of the Day: A fabulously oddball and inventive new aquatic-themed number by the experimental London vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who uses field recordings, human and non-human voices, with an upcoming new album Eye To The Ear
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youbet’s Nick Llobet
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
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La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
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Anastasia Coope
Song of the Day: The opening track of the New York singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Darning Women has a beautiful spooky psychedelic folk quality with slinking piano and layered, echoey choral voices before electric guitar entry, expressing a mood of both hysteria and euphoria
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Ella Raphael - Tangled Love
Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”
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Sinkane’s new album, We Belong
Song of the Day: This hugely uplifting title track from the forthcoming eighth album by the New York band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, is fabulously stylish, Sly Stone-inspired, gospel funk and soul with an energy that really flies
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