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Song of the Day: With a dark, sinister video by Teesside filmmaker John Kirkbride, the Middlesbrough band return with simmering rage-filled dance and spoken-word number around the corruption and frustrations of modern Britain, performed by Kingsley Hall
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clipping.’s Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
Song of the Day: Slick, agile clever, innovative, cross-genre hip-hop/cyberpunk with shades of OutKast with added classic late-80s Roland TB-303 bass rave sounds, by the Los Angeles experimentalist trio fronted rapper by Daveed Diggs with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
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FKA twigs - Eusexua
Song of the Day: The striking, stylish delicately voiced new trance-electronica single by the highly original British artist (aka Tahliah Debrett Barnett) is a sensual, heartbeat-throbbing number using her made-up word to describe the state of “momentary transcendence”, and is the title track heralding her forthcoming third album, out on Young Records
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Fresh delivery, Adult DVD’s new EP, Next Day Shipping
Song of the Day: Fresh delivery and punchy, energetic electro-postpunk by the Leeds band in the opening track from their new EP Next Day Shipping, following other singles Doomsday Prepper, Bill Murray and Yacht Money
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Aisha Badru
Song of the Day: A beautiful, delicate, ethereal number by the breathy-voiced Florida-based Nigerian-American artist about purpose, making time for yourself and making that time significant, taken from her upcoming second album The Sun Still Rises, out on 29 November via Nettwerk
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Julie Dawson: Bottom of the Pool
Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual, dream pop and electronica in this side project by the singer from the Galway band, NewDad, with this title track her forthcoming debut album, out on 13 September via Fair Youth Records
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The Smile’s third album, Cutouts, is due on 4 October
Song of the Day: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, again with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner return with a brisk, sharp, staccato guitar and horn number, the latest heralding their third as The Smile, Cutouts, arriving on 4 October on XL Recordings
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Soft and tender: Tindersticks
Song of the Day: Deliciously paced, tender melancholy in the distinctive style of vocalist Stuart Staples and the Nottingham band from their forthcoming 14th studio album, Soft Tissue, released on 13 September via Lucky Dog / City Slang
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Broadcast’s final release, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, is out in September
Song of the Day: A truly gorgeous previously unreleased intimate, haunting acoustic song discovered after the passing of the British band’s singer Trish Keenan, heralding a compilation, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006, and the final release from Broadcast, available from 28 September 2024 via Warp Record
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Floating Points: Cascade album is out in September
Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric electronica that grows in intensity and complexity from the British artist Sam Shepherd, heralding hiis forthcoming next LP, Cascade, released on 13 September via Ninja Tune
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Shelf Lives: John Hillyard and Sabrina Di Giulio
Song of the Day: Visceral, biting, powerful, punchy, semi-spoken, semi-screamed electro post-punk with a dark theme by the London-based duo of producer John Hillyard and Toronto-born vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio, out on Not Sorry Mom Records
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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode to Clio
Song of the Day: Delicate then thunderous, an experimental rock-folk-jazz fusion by the young London sextet with a collage of relationships and an overarching violin melody, heralding their upcoming EP Eazy Peazy, out on 8 November via Fat Possum
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She Drew The Gun, aka Louisa Roach
Song of the Day: Liverpool’s brilliant Louisa Roach returns with a powerful new number described as “like a therapy session with your shadow self. It’s a looking in the mirror song, a song to my subconscious, my shadow,” and following the title track single, heralds her forthcoming album, Howl, out on 15 November via Submarine Cat Records
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Fie Eike
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, emotive, evocative and cinematic new number about how boundaries become fluid in our existential pursuit of belonging. by the Copenhagen-based composer and singer Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, creating a soundscape from piano, electronica, field recordings from nature, and above all her soaring, beautiful voice
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Laurie Anderson’s forthcoming new album, Amelia
Song of the Day: The American veteran experimentalist’s gorgeously vivid and serene travelogue song featuring the British singer heralds her forthcoming album, Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records
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Public Service Broadcasting’s forthcoming album, The Last Flight, captures the final story of Amelia Earhart
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s electricity-themed SOTD, the latest bright-spark history-inspired release by the British band of Willgoose, Wrigglesworth and co comes from the plane name of pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart, and heralds their new album The Last Flight
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Lael Neale
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent third album Star Eaters Delight, the American singer-songwriter returns with a sizzlingly mesmeric, alternative psychedelic folk written during a power cut caused by an ice storm
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Mura Masa and yeule
Song of the Day: A stylish, innovative, clubby, sensual electronica-into-acoustic new number by the producer of yesterday’s SOTD by Gretel, aka the Guernsey-born electronic music artist Alex Crossan featuring yeule, aka Singaporean singer Nat Ćmiel
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