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Song of the Day: Oxford Drama - The Leader

February 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Oxford Drama’s Marcin Mrówka and Małgorzata Dryjańska

Song of the Day: Catchy, summery, indie-pop disguises this pointed, caustic political satire on modern-day truth-bending absurdity in this single by the Polish duo from Wroclaw of Małgorzata Dryjańska and Marcin Mrówka, heralding their forthcoming LP

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Song of the Day: Four Tet - Daydream Repeat

February 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Four Tet - Daydream Repeat

Song of the Day: The second single of 2024 from British electronic artist Kieran Hebden is a nimbly ecstatic mix of skip beats, harp-like chimes and crunchier sounds, and heralds his forthcoming new album, Three, out on 15 March on his label, Text Records

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental Tags Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, songs, song of the day, Text Records
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Song of the Day: Mike Lindsay - Lie Down

February 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tabling ideas: Mike Lindsay’s forthcoming album, Supershapes Volume 1, out on Moshi Moshi

Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, folk Tags Mike Lindsay, Anna B Savage, Moshi Moshi, albums, songs, song of the day, Tunng, LUMP
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Song of the Day: Tomasz Guiddo and Jimi Tenor - Where The Wild Roam

February 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Where The Wild Roam EP by Tomasz Guiddo & Jimi Tenor

Song of the Day: A delicious fusion of jazz, electronica, dance music and classical, celebrating freedom, by the Warsaw-born DJ, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, joined by the acclaimed Finnish saxophonist Jimi Tenor on vocals, flute, piano and keyboards

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, fusion, indie, jazz Tags Tomasz Guiddo, Jimi Tenor, Compost Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Beth Gibbons - Floating On A Moment

February 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Beth Gibbons’ album Lives Outgrown is due out in May

Song of the Day: This hauntingly delicate, yet powerful single heralds the Portishead singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, building through gentle strings and her distinctively beautiful, fragile vocal style

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Song of the Day: Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

February 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

Song of the Day: A dream-like, ghostly, otherworldly and beautiful single with a mesmeric mix of vocals and electronica by the experimental, eclectic London-based Irish-Chilean singer, songwriter, producer and DJ Salvador Navarrete

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Song of the Day: William Doyle - Relentless Melt

February 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

William Doyle’s upcoming new album, Springs Eternal

Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, fuzz-guitar experimental pop from the British musician from Bournemouth, and a single with a ongoing watery theme from his forthcoming album Springs Eternal, out on Tough Love

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, pop, rock Tags William Doyle, Tough Love Recordings, songs, song of the day, Mike Lindsay
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Song of the Day: Vitya Payal'nik - Science

February 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Vitya Payal'nik’s EP Solder Flux

Song of the Day: Packed with mischievous, oddball sounds, beeps, bass lines and stop-start rhythms, some mesmerically clever, inventive electronica and dance music by the Ukrainian musician, taken from the recently released Solder Flux EP

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Song of the Day: Group Listening - Frogs

February 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Group Listening’s Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo). Photo: Huw Evans

Song of the Day: A wonderfully odd and beautiful release featuring field recordings of the titular resonantly relaxing amphibians by the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing duo of Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo)

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Song of the Day: Stevie Toddler - Wake Me Like

January 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Stevie Toddler’s forthcoming 8-track EP release, Last Time Forever

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming sophomore release, Last Time Forever, a gorgeous experimental mix of pop, jazz and classical by the Bristol artist, here with rolling piano sounds, orchestral instruments and a wonderful wooziness that captures that moment of falling awake in a dream-like state

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Song of the Day: Blue Whale - Otic Brawl

January 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Blue Whale’s forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images

Song of the Day: Excellently angular, guitar post-punk spiralling with a crazed but controlled momentum by the Belfast band in this opening instrumental track of their forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images

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Song of the Day: Kim Gordon - BYE BYE

January 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kim Gordon

Song of the Day: A dark, menacing but very strikingly original new number by the legendary former Sonic Youth frontwoman, fusing noise rock, electronica, and a farewell shopping-and-packing list, which heralds her next solo album, The Collection, out on 8 March

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In 2024, alternative, experimental, post-punk, punk, rock Tags Kim Gordon, Matador Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Campus Christy - Very Complex (feat. Piya Malik)

January 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Campus Christy - Very Complex

Song of the Day: Languidly catchy pop-rock and with fuzz guitar, this is the single by the band featuring Stones Throw founder Chris Manak (aka Peanut Butter Wolf) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Ellis, joined by Piya Malik of Say She She

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Songs of the Day: Leonardo Barbadoro - Bomi / Hybr Spiro (from Musica Automata album)

January 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Leonardo Barbadoro’s Musica Automata album features 80 instrument robots

Songs of the Day: Mesmeric, unusual, charming, ingenious instrumental gems released late last year by the Italian composer from an album performed by an orchestra of over 80 robots, and currently the largest robot orchestra in the world

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Song of the Day: Dana Gavanski - How To Feel Uncomfortable

January 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dana Gavanki’s upcoming third album, LATE SLAP, out on Full Time Hobby

Song of the Day: Heralding her forthcoming next album, LATE SLAP, the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter releases a beautifully disarming, woozily alternative folk single with deliciously droll originality

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Song of the Day: Sam Akpro - Death By Entertainment

January 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sam Akpro

Song of the Day: With a fabulously meaty bass thrum, a textured guitars, drums and synths, a forthright, engaging track about living in excess, released late last year by the singer, songwriter & producer from Peckham in south-east London

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In 2023, 2024, alternative, experimental, indie, post-punk Tags Sam Akpro, Anti Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Solar Eyes - Let's Run Away

January 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

On track for the album release: Solar Eyes’ Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis

Song of the Day: The Birmingham psych/pop duo launch into 2024 with a galloping pace mixing in a heady, eclectic mix of shoegaze, indie, sci-fi, spaghetti western and echoes of Ennio Morricone with a escape-themed track heralding their debut album and recorded in Texas

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Song of the Day: TATYANA - Hold My Hand / Down Bad

January 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tatyana from the video for Hold My Hand

Song of the Day: A distinctive, catchy, clever and innovative pair of recent electro-pop singles packed with textured sounds by the London artist Tatyana Phillips, taken from their forthcoming album, It's Over, out on 22 March via Sinderlyn

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Song of the Day: Memory Of Jane - Loose Lines

January 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Memory of Jane - Loose Lines

Song of the Day: Rippling, intricate drums and bass, soothing synths and understated vocals come in this highly original recent single by the French/British multi-instrumentalist Maïlé Doremus-Cook, and is produced by Oli Bayston

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Song of the Day: Jim Perkins - Winter

January 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jim Perkins: Winter

Song of the Day: A delicate, beautiful, seasonally evocative orchestral instrumental new single by the London pianist and composer out on Bigo and Twigetti

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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