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Billy Nomates returns with a single addressing her own mental health
Song of the Day: Catchy but powerfully candid and poignant, and appearing to address the end of a relationship, but really confronting depression and mental health issues, a superb new single the artist Tor Maries, out on Invada Records
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BATTS aka Tanya Batt
Song of the Day: A beautiful slow-burning new number suffused grief but also hope, from Melbourne singer-songwriter Tanya Batt, duetting here with Sharon Van Etten, whom she supported in Australia, both voices sublimely complementary
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Jockstrap
Song of the Day: A mesmerising new single of soaring voice and strange sounds and city scenario from the forthcoming debut album of the London experimental electro-pop of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye
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Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …
Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records
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Sunny disposition: Yves Jarvis
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming fourth album The Zug out on 13 May, a delightful sunny acoustic number about self-development as a musician by the Canadian experimental pop artist Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet, previously known as Un Blonde
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Gretel Hänlyn
Song of the Day: The latest in a series of ear-catching indie-pop singles from the London singer-songwriter with a deep, rich, distinctive voice, is about holding back in social situations and becoming aware the only obstacle is yourself
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Elizabeth Fraser and Damon Reece
Song of the Day: A supremely beautiful new track featuring the unmistakable voice of former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser working here with her partner Damon Reece, with rippling synths, guitar and drums, and taken from the forthcoming EP Sun's Signature, out 18 June on Partisan Records
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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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Good Morning’s Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair and furry friend
Song of the Day: Downbeat, gentle, acoustic, but strangely uplifting with a novel mix of horns, banjo and whistling, this new double-sided single by the Melbourne duo of Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair, comes alongside the humorously self-deprecating
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Shearwater’s forthcoming album The Great Awakening
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming LP The Great Awakening, out 10 June, this elegant, beautiful number by the band from Austin, Texas, is reminiscent of Talk Talk, and is inspired by the mostly South American group of so-called strange-jointed mammals – armadillos, anteaters, and sloths
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Kate Bollinger’s forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
Song of the Day: Smooth, mellow, elegant, and easy paced with a beautiful melody, crisp guitar and drums, this new number the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, comes from her forthcoming new EP Look At It In The Light
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C Duncan
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union
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Artwork for Oh Stephanie by Stubborn Heart
Song of the Day: From third in their Out of Our Hands series of releases, the London pair of Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald’s Electronic Soul Music number is a beguiling piece of melancholy synth pop
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Chilli Jesson
Song of the Day: Striking new pop from the former Parma Violets bassist and singer Alexander "Chilli" Jesson in this catchy number, quoting Plato, that also aims to highlight the seriousness of mental illness and examination of what a healthy relationship should be
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P.E.
Song of the Day: Taken from their sophomore album The Leather Lemon, also shown here, a mesmeric mix of thrumming rock, pop, saxophone, and electronica by the New York band featuring members of Pill and Eaters
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Future Islands are making moves again
Song of the Day: After The Mainline by Spiritualized, another train connection, referring to with the F Train of the Brooklyn subway, with further soaring momentum in this love song featuring thrumming bass, synths, drums and the emotive delivery of Samuel T Herring of the Baltimore band, out on 4AD
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DC Gore
Song of the Day: After Kittin and the The Hacker, more retro pop, partly echoing the smooth 80s synths and delivery of Pet Shop Boys, but also stepping back another way, in this catchy, darkly humorous, Brexit-themed number is a “satirical fever dream set in the wake of our current populist predicament” by the British songwriter
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Caroline Polacheck
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s experimental piece by composer Jon Opstad, further unusual use of classical elements and staccato strings by the American pop singer and songwriter’s B-side to the hit Billions, here covering the innovative 2020 song by electronica’s Oneohtrix Point Never, and also giving it a big Enya-style echo
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Poppy Ajudha’s forthcoming album The Power In Us
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album The Power In Us, the latest of several passionate, soulful pop songs about society and politics by the London singer-songwriter, focuses on the damaging system of male control that screws up relationships and pro-choice
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