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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: “Take me downtown … the darkness downtown …” A first new single since the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman’s 2019 solo album No Home Record, this powerful protest number with thrumming bass and dissonant guitars is a charity abortion rights fundraiser for Fund Texas Choice
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Nilüfer Yanya
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album, Painless, due in March, an excellent indie single with a whispering restlessness and driving beat by the London-based British artist
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Ghostbaby
Song of the Day: Humorous, droll, catchy and full of pathos, this single comes from the four-piece indie-punk band from Paisley and the Glasgow area, their sound reflecting a love of the Pixies (check the Debaser reference), as well as echoes of early Blur and Libertines
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Sweeping Promises’s Pain Without A Touch
Song of the Day: Thumpingly catchy post-punk about tricky love by the American indie duo of Lira and Caufield who hail from Lawrence, Kansas and Boston, Massachusetts with this recent new single now out on Sub Pop
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EERA’s new album - Speak
Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins
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On ferlile ground: Alynda Lee Segarra aka Hurray for the Riff Raff
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra
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Billy Nomates aka Tor Maries
Song of the Day: Christmas may be over, but it’s never to late to give to those who need it most, especially by this profoundly moving song by the fabulous artist Tor Maries, with this pay-what-you-like single raising funds for Feed The Homeless Bristol
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Jason Pierce aka J Spaceman of Spiritualized
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, the new single by Jason Pierce and co is a love song with an expansive, Christmassy sound and a space theme, but was inspired by the solitude of lockdown
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Cascade Theory by LYR
Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second
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And then there were three: Foals
Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album
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Work ethics: Sprints’ new single
Song of the Day: “This modern hope, that’s all I have.” Brilliantly angry, sharp, ironic postpunk new single by the band from Dublin expressing aspirational frustration through caustic wit, passionate vocals and searing guitar
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Song of the Day: With an almost tongue-twisting title and sharp, caustic lyrics, a sample of London post-punk band’s angry, angular attack approach on modern life with guitar work to match, taken from their EP Fish & Chips
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Loose Fit’s new single, Exhale
Song of the Day: Tight, crisp, catchy, rolling rhythm postpunk by the band from Sydney, Australia, featuring Anna Langdon on vocals, Max Edgar on guitar, Kaylene Milner on drums, Richard Martin on bass, and Jonathan Boulet on congas
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Spoon’s forthcoming album Lucifer On The Sofa
Song of the Day: Blisteringly catchy and hard-hitting new single by the veteran indie rockers from Austin, Texas fronted by Britt Daniel, taken from their forthcoming album Devil On The Sofa, due out February 2022 on Matador Records
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme
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Rozi Plain
Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme
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Song of the Day: One of the standout tracks from the London-based Canadian indie artist’s recent EP, Stains, this number has an angry but catchy half-spoken naive freshness, and concerns frustrations over a difficult queer relationship
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Bambara
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Love on My Mind, a scorching new single about a passionate encounter by the Brooklyn post-punk band formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh with Nick Cave among their influences
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From the visualiser animation by Alex Evans of Comes With Fries for The Lounge Society’s Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
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Sasami Ashworth
Song of the Day: After Molly Nilsson’s Absolute Power yesterday, another superlative through the medium of power-chord indie courtesy of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth from her forthcoming album, Squeeze
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