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Marika Hackman returns with a double-edged health kick: No Caffeine
Song of the Day: This engaging, sweet-sounding new indie single by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist feels initially like some upbeat health manual, but it is dark and edgy – “rattling off tactics to prevent a panic attack while likening her anxiety to an abusive partner”
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King Creosote aka Kenny Anderson
Song of the Day: A beautiful, uplifting new number and the first by the Scottish experimental folk singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson, from his upcoming album, I DES, his first for seven years, due out 3 November on Domino Records
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Beirut return with a new album, Hadsel, in November
Song of the Day: A beautiful, tender, wistful and crisply rhythmic alternative folk number by the New Mexico band led by trumpeter Zach Condon, taken from Beirut’s upcoming tenth album, Hadsel, out on 10 November via Pompeii Records
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Aoife Nessa Frances - Fantasy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, slow, vivid, evocative and stirring new alternative folk songs with rippling harp, woodwind, strings, keyboards and rich vocal harmonies by the Dublin artist, out on Partisan Records
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Mitski
Songs of the Day: A couple of gorgeous, new tracks, slow, swooning, sublime, with pure vocals with gentle country and orchestral strings build from the Japanese-American artist’s forthcoming seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, out 15 September on Dead Oceans
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Sufjan Stevens
Song of the Day: A beautiful, intimate, delicate-yet-cutting lullaby-like breakup new song by the acclaimed US artist, heralding his forthcoming new album, Javelin, the first since 2020’s The Ascension, but one more akin to his full singer-songwriter mode, 2015’s powerfully moving Carrie & Lowell
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Modern Nature’s forthcoming album, No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union in September
Song of the Day: Not one, but actually two recent beautiful experimental folk tracks by the Cambridge-based band led by Jack Cooper – expansive, contemplative, and meditative on ideas of intricate infinity in nature, taken from the forthcoming album No Fixed Point In Space, out on Bella Union.
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Whitney’s new single, Kansas
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful, poetic fusion of Americana, country and 70s-style folk with lovely vocal harmonies by the Chicago band of Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and co, following last year’s fourth album, Spark. Out on Secretly Canadian
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Lutalo’s forthcoming new EP, AGAIN
Song of the Day: Distinctive, introspective, original, ear-catching indie-folk-fuzz-rock by the Vermont-based musician Lutalo Jones, taken fro his forthcoming EP, AGAIN, released on 25 August via Winspear Records
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Maple Glider’s forthcoming second album, I Get Into Trouble
Song of the Day: The Melbourne singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch returns with a fusion of the cutting and beautiful with a song about religious shaming, inspired by the biblical story of Dinah, a woman sexually assaulted but victim-blamed
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Madeline Kenney forthcoming new LP A New Reality Mind
Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records
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Magia Bruta’s latest album, Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records
Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records
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Palehound’s next album, Eye On The Bat, is out on July
Song of the Day: Clever, witty, candid, tender, self-detrimental, finely constructed indie by the Brooklyn artist Ellen Kempner with a song of shamefully realising “Yes, you ARE the asshole” from their new album, Eye on the Bat, out Polyvinyl Records in July.
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From the animated video for Angelo De Augustine’s The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
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Sylvan Weekends - debut EP Outliers
Song of the Day: Perky, jaunty indie folk-pop with fast, slick, clever lyrics presented like a stream of consciousness conversation by the London trio of Matthew, Freya and Daniel in this opening track from their debut EP, Outliers, out on Blythe Hill Records
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Genevieve Dawson
Song of the Day: Taken from her new five-track EP, What's Mine Is Yours, out on 26 May, a beautiful new number by the London-based singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh
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Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album, RPG
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s marine life-inspired music by Cosmo Sheldrake, further stimulus about the natural world comes from the string and drone style of Newcastle-upon-Tyne experimental folk artist Jayne Dent from the forthcoming album RPG
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Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten’s forthcoming debut solo album
Song of the Day: Catchy, beautifully poetic, upbeat acoustic folk-rock by the frontman of Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. with a new single using Irish mythology, trailing his debut solo album, Chaos for the Fly, out on 30 June via Partisan Records
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LOCKS’ new EP, Tall Tales
Song of the Day: A wonderful Tom Waits-esque oddball new release of gory imagery, rattled chains and stomping staccato by the dark, Tiger Lillies cabaret-style gypsy folk London band from their recent EP, Tall Tales
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Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track
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