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Song of the Day: Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne - Consider This

April 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Keeley Forsyth’s new EP, Hand to Mouth

Song of the Day: Starkly minimalist and beautiful, the opening track from the latest EP, Hand To Mouth, by the rich-voiced Oldham singer, composer and actress, joined by the English multi-instrumentalist on piano. Out on 130701 / FatCat Records

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Song of the Day: Stereolab - Aerial Troubles

April 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stereolab’s upcoming album Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Song of the Day: An instantly catchy new number with abstract, philosophical lyrics by the veteran Anglo-French kraurocky synth-pop band of Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier and co heralding their first studio album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, out 23 May on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records

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In 2025, alternative, electronica, experimental, French, krautrock, pop Tags Stereolab, Laetitia Sadler, Warp Records, Duophonic, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Poor Creature - The Whole Town Knows

April 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Poor Creature’s The Whole Town Knows

Song of the Day: A stirring, primal, powerfully dark, vivid hybrid-folk single by the trio of Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody (of Lankum) heralding their debut album All Smiles Tonight, out on 11 July via River Lea Records

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In 2025, alternative, experimental, folk Tags Poor Creature, River Lea Records, Rough Trade Records, Lankum, Landless, John 'Spud' Murphy
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Song of the Day: AURORA - The Flood

April 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

AURORA - The Flood

Song of the Day: After last summer’s album What Happened To The Heart?, the acclaimed Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes returns with a shimmering, soaring, sparkling new pop single of self-analysis, out on Decca/ Universal

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New Albums …

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Apr 13, 2025
Valerie June: Owls, Omens, and Oracles
Apr 13, 2025

New album: Stylish, catchy, charismatic, effervescent, uplifting, retro, Memphis soul, Americana and country by the singer-songwriter from Jackson, Tennessee whose distinctive, bright resonant voice has some echoes of Eartha Kitt and Macy Gray

Apr 13, 2025
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Apr 13, 2025
Alison Krauss and Union Station: Arcadia
Apr 13, 2025

New album: Classy, seasoned, crisply performed country, folk and bluegrass by the acclaimed Champaign, Illinois singer-songwriter and fiddle player, joined again by her perennial band, their first together since 2011’s Paper Airplane, and her first since the 2021’s album Raise The Roof with Robert Plant

Apr 13, 2025
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Apr 13, 2025
Destroyer: Dan's Boogie
Apr 13, 2025

New album: Eccentric, eclectic, frequently flamboyant experimental rock and pop by the the Vancouver multi-instrumentalist Dan Bejar, following 2022’s Labyrinthitis with nine new songs in his inimitable talk-singing style with stream-of-consciousness lyrics and personnas from hustlers to lounge singers

Apr 13, 2025
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Apr 12, 2025
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
Apr 12, 2025

New album: Wisconsin’s Justin Vernon returns with his fifth album, a sparse, tender, sometimes world-weary, but also often beautiful, distinctive fusion of folk, indie, R&B, soul, country, and a dash of soft rock, all wrapped in celebration of the salmon pink - “the colour of life”

Apr 12, 2025
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Apr 9, 2025
Florist: Jellywish
Apr 9, 2025

New album: Beautiful, entrancing, wide-eyed, deceptive simplicity pervades this poetic fifth LP by the indie folk New York/ Catskill Mountains quartet fronted by singer-songwriter Emily Sprague, here themed around the natural world’s perceived miracles and mysteries

Apr 9, 2025
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Apr 8, 2025
Index For Working Musik: Which Direction Goes The Beam
Apr 8, 2025

New album: Fantastically inventive, stylishly strange, experimental post-punk by the London band on this latest release, with angular guitars, thrumming guffawing brass, jittery, ghostly orchestral strings, and semi-spoken, sometimes whispered, arresting, often menacing vocals

Apr 8, 2025
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Apr 8, 2025
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious
Apr 8, 2025

New album: Thunderous Black Sabbathian doom by the wonderfully entertaining, if deafening, Newcastle Upon Tyne heavy rockers with their fifth album, one which captures dark, uncertain times shaped by neoliberism, an exorcism of anxiety by frontman and lyricist Mark Baty, and a guest appearance by Run The Jewels rapper EL-P

Apr 8, 2025
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Apr 8, 2025
The Waterboys: Life, Death And Dennis Hopper
Apr 8, 2025

New album: A sprawling, lengthy, pseudo-beatnik rock-country release by the British band fronted by Mike Scott, here celebrating the life of the charismatic, often misunderstand hell-raising Hollywood icon, spanning multiple genres, particularly Americana, with a spread of guests including Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle and Fiona Apple

Apr 8, 2025
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Apr 6, 2025
The Nightingales: The Awful Truth
Apr 6, 2025

New album: With sharp turns of phrase and pace, the legendary Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with meatily rich riffs and rhythms, and a collection of wittily ironic songs on social injustice and current affairs like a musical news broadcast

Apr 6, 2025
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Apr 6, 2025
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong
Apr 6, 2025

New album: With a musical reset after the sudden departure of frontman Isaac Wood just at the release of their previous studio album, the Cambridge-formed sextet return with a rich, clever mix of whimsical folk, prog, baroque pop and musical theatre with lead vocals now shared between the three female band members

Apr 6, 2025
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Apr 3, 2025
Bria Salmena: Big Dog
Apr 3, 2025

New album: A striking, stylish debut by the Toronto artist, also co-written and co-produced with Duncan Hay Jennings, the frontwoman of Canadian post-punk outfit FRIGS delivers a mix of dark, deep, smoky-voiced pop, crafted krautrock, shimmery shoegaze, and goth-electronica

Apr 3, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Sacred Paws: Jump Into Life
Apr 2, 2025

New album: Breezy, buoyant, musically breathless upbeat but also wistful indie with notes of folk, country and highlife, Bhundu Boys-esque guitars and fast-fill drumming by the Glasgow band formed by Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers

Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain
Apr 2, 2025

New album: A warm, simmering, insightfully beautiful, bittersweet, gently paced, folk-country-pop album by the New Yorker Catskills Mountains-based singer-songwriter, made in collaboration with partner Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian) and including guest appearances from Sufjan Stevens and Clairo

Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 1, 2025
Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing
Apr 1, 2025

New album: The London electronica post-punk, tree-camouflage-dressed quartet return with their vigorously inventive, infectiously dance-inspiring, krautrock-ish defiant work holding up a mirror to the absurdities and injustices of modern life

Apr 1, 2025

new songs …

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Apr 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne - Consider This
Apr 13, 2025

Song of the Day: Starkly minimalist and beautiful, the opening track from the latest EP, Hand To Mouth, by the rich-voiced Oldham singer, composer and actress, joined by the English multi-instrumentalist on piano. Out on 130701 / FatCat Records

Apr 13, 2025
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Apr 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Stereolab - Aerial Troubles
Apr 12, 2025

Song of the Day: An instantly catchy new number with abstract, philosophical lyrics by the veteran Anglo-French kraurocky synth-pop band of Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier and co heralding their first studio album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, out 23 May on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records

Apr 12, 2025
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Apr 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Pulp - Spike Island (from new album - More)
Apr 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Heralding More, their first new album in 24 years, the beloved Sheffield indie-pop band return with instantly catchy, joyous number referencing Jarvis Cocker’s drive to perform, and a drily humorous titular reference to the legendary Stone Roses gig in Widnes in 1990

Apr 11, 2025
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Apr 10, 2025
Song of the Day: BC Camplight - Two Legged Dog (featuring Abigail Morris)
Apr 10, 2025

Song of the Day: The Manchester-based American singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio’s returns with sumptuous Rundgren-esque, witty piano pop, joined by The Last Dinner Party vocalist, and heralding BC’s upcoming new album, A Sober Conversation out on 27 June via Bella Union

Apr 10, 2025
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Apr 9, 2025
Song of the Day: Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Apr 9, 2025

Song of the Day: The Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno Saunders returns with a sunny upbeat, Smiths-feel guitar jangling nostalgic number about dancefloors that no longer exist, heralding her fourth LP, Utopia

Apr 9, 2025
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Apr 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Poor Creature - The Whole Town Knows
Apr 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A stirring, primal, powerfully dark, vivid hybrid-folk single by the trio of Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody (of Lankum) heralding their debut album All Smiles Tonight, out on 11 July via River Lea Records

Apr 8, 2025
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Apr 7, 2025
Song of the Day: AURORA - The Flood
Apr 7, 2025

Song of the Day: After last summer’s album What Happened To The Heart?, the acclaimed Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes returns with a shimmering, soaring, sparkling new pop single of self-analysis, out on Decca/ Universal

Apr 7, 2025
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Apr 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains - Le Fil (featuring Cassandra Jenkins)
Apr 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, smoky, sensual, dreamy new version of a recent song, now with rewritten lyrics from the French-British pop band’s most recent album, Âge Fleuve sung in French by the American singer-songwriter, and out on InFiné Records

Apr 6, 2025
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Apr 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Obongjayar - Sweet Danger
Apr 5, 2025

Song of the Day: The eclectic London-based British-Nigerian artist aka Steven Umoh returns with a sensual, erotically charged number fusing electronica and afrobeat and his falsetto voice, heralding his new album, Paradise Now, out on 30 May via September Recordings

Apr 5, 2025
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Apr 4, 2025
Song of the Day: Orbital and Tilda Swinton - Deepest
Apr 4, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran electronica dance music brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll return with mesmeric beats mixed with the soothing meditation voice of the acclaimed British actress

Apr 4, 2025
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Apr 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Wet Leg - Catch These Fists
Apr 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A pugnaciously fun, indie-post-punk new single by the Isle of Wight band formed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with a catchy, scratchy, angular guitar riff and their trademark, mischievous, talky asides. It heralds their upcoming new album, Moisturizer, out on 11 July on Domino

Apr 3, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Mount Palomar - L'Aliment (featuring Karla Chubb)
Apr 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Pulsating, energising new dance music by the Belfast-based producer and live electronica DJ Neil Kerr, here partly inspired by early Janet Jackson, with a French title meaning food, and lyrics (“eats me inside”) sung by Ireland’s charismatic Sprints vocalist

Apr 2, 2025

Word of the week

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Apr 9, 2025
Word of the week: sesquipedalian
Apr 9, 2025

Word of the week: First appearing in English in the mid-17th century, meaning “a foot and a half long”, it’s a noun identifying words with multiple syllables, or an often derogatory adjective for a person with a tendency to use overlong words

Apr 9, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
Word of the week: tolypeutine
Mar 26, 2025

Word of the week: A noun related to the term Tolypeutinae, this is a subfamily of Chlamyphoridae of the armadillo family, consisting of the giant, naked-tailed and particularly the three-banded species

Mar 26, 2025
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Mar 12, 2025
Word of the week: ulotrichous
Mar 12, 2025

Word of the week: While it’s entirely natural in animals such as sheep as well as some humans, depending on an individual’s point of view it’s either a blessing or a curse. From Greek words oûlos (crisp, curly) and -trikhos (haired), this adjective means having curly or woolly hair

Mar 12, 2025
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Feb 26, 2025
Word of the week: varsovienne
Feb 26, 2025

Word of the week: Our latest etymological move into obscurity originates in around 1850 in Warsaw, Poland, and also known as the varsouvienne or varsoviana – a slow, graceful dance in 3/4 waltz time, which also combines elements of the mazurka and polka

Feb 26, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
Word of the week: withershins / widdershins
Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025
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