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Desperate Journalist
Song of the Day: ‘If it’s no one’s fault, then it’s everyone’s fault’. Collective responsibility. Powerful, dark, profound, visceral postpunk by the London band, from their forthcoming fourth album Maximum Sorrow!, out on 2 July 2021 on Fierce Panda Records
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Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: This thumpingly catchy, caustically ironic electro-pop by the rising Manchester star about a dysfunctional relationship has a jittery electronica spoken verse and a big indie-style chorus
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On the up: Crumb
Song of the Day: Dreamy of voice, ghostly and original of sound, dynamically clever of rhythm and catchy of melody, this floaty pop song comes from a very fine new LP, titled Ice Melt by the New York indie band
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The forthcoming album by Lightning Bug
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album A Color of the Sky, a slow, beautifully serene, soft focus, dream-like number by the New York band about time passing and changing childhood perspective
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Maja Lena, aka Marianne Parrish
Song of the Day: Beautiful, eerie singing and songwriting branches out in the solo project and Swedish nickname of Marianne Parrish, who is based Stroud in Gloucestershire, and is formerly of the alt-folk band Low Chimes
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Horsegirl’s latest release
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s angry, pacy Grand National by Liverpool’s Courting, a far gentler, lo-fi but dynamically building number by the young indie female trio from Chicago, with echoes of Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian and keenly observed lyrics
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Grand National by Courting
Song of the Day: On a day when one of the most famous horse races returns, a better bet is this fiercely caustic, fast and furious, post-punk critical perspective about the Aintree event by a nearby band, the Liverpool-based indie four-piece
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Skullcrusher aka Helen Ballantine
Songs of the Day: Two beautifully delicate acoustic numbers by the New York-born, LA-based singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine who humorously names herself after a powerlifting move, but sounds more like Elliott Smith
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Song of the Day: ‘I’ll get your mother’. A beautiful, melancholy but drily humorous number by the Bristol-based Glaswegian singer-songwriter Paul Tierney about the limits of connection with parents on the habitually awkward telephone call home
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Blanketman
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s track by northerners FYI Chris who live in south-east London and Manchester’s Thick Richard, a catchy, restless indie number by the Mancunian quartet about considering to leave the capital
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Glueland, the latest EP by Do Nothing, is released today
Songs of the Day: Taken from the Nottingham indie band’s latest EP, Glueland, these delightfully oddball numbers combine changeable, shuffling rhythms, clever, abstract guitar and bass lines, and surreally existential half-spoken half-sung lyrics by frontman Chris Bailey
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For Those I Love, aka David Balfe
Song of the Day: A powerful autobiographical number about the aftermath of witnessing a death as a child, building from a soulful sample intro into a spoken-word narrative, this new track by Dublin producer, poet and songwriter David Balfe comes from his forthcoming self-titled album
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Modern Hinterland … Diving Bell
Song of the Day: With powerful drums, thrumming bass, clever guitar start-stops and a wonderfully uplifting vocal style, this rousing number by the London-based Anglo-American indie band comes from their recently released album Diving Bell
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Whispering Sons’ Surface
Song of the Day: This mesmerically vivid, dark, atmospheric and geologically themed number about isolation is by the electro-goth-post-punk band from Brussels fronted by Fenne Kuppens and comes the forthcoming album Several Others
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Du Blonde is back
Song of the Day: With an unstoppable chorus and fuzz guitar style that mixes Ramones with glam rock, this fabulously catchy upbeat heartbreak pop song brings Beth Jeans Houghton together with longtime friend and Chicago indie artist
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The Lounge Society
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Speedy Wunderground release, another from the label and produced by Dan Carey, the latest strong single by the very promising young indie band from Hebdon Bridge in West Yorkshire
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A shoe-in for Brodka
Song of the Day: With taut, rhythmic guitars, a jittery sax and strong melody that builds momentum, a brilliant indie postpunk collaboration between the Polish singer and the band involving innovative producer Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label
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Ohtis - Schatze
Song of the Day: Sweary, cuttingly ironic, catchy and clever, this conversational single by the trio from Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit captures the attitude of a selfish, male, anti-social, social media pest and gamer
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Close mic threesome: Baby Boys
Song of the Day: A slick fusion of fast country-style guitar, funk, hip hop and pop by the trio from Saint Paul builds momentum with a trumpet finish and comes from their forthcoming album, Threesome
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All Mine
Song of the Day: ‘A song about the overly entitled and underwhelmed’ is how this punchily humorous and caustic postpunk number is described by the band from Brooklyn, and indeed it is
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