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Song of the Day: alt-J’s third album is full of oddities and wonders, but today’s pick is the album’s opener, the sort of fusion of disparate elements that we love at the Song Bar, mixing PlayStation imagery with Shakespeare and folk
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Trees in 1970.
Song of the Day: Exquisite garden-themed eponymous track from the first of only two albums made in 1970 by the English folk band that immediately split up before reforming until 1973
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Molly Drake (centre, shown here with Rachel and Betty Unthank)
Song of the Day: Could there be a more beautiful song about songs than this, written by Molly Drake (1915-1993), the poet, musician and mother of Nick Drake? It is sung here by the Northumbrian folk band fronted by Rachel and Betty Unthank
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Bedouine aka Azniv Korkejian
Song of the Day: A singer-songwriter of wonderful warmth, intelligence and voice, a song from the Syria-born artist's eponymous first album from this year
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Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas. 'His face told a story'.
Song of the Day: A tribute to the actor who has died aged 91, whose style possessed a deep mystery, and had a gentle singing voice that evoked great pathos, doing a Willie Nelson song in a documentary about his life, Partly Fiction (2012), and more from his career
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