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Song of the Day: As the 2022 Wimbledon tournament begins, let’s enjoy this sharp, witty new post-punk number by the Liverpool quartet, about a different form of to-and-fro ball-hitting in a dysfunctional relationship
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From the new Hamish Hawk video
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Angel by First Aid Kit, another angel-themed number by the Scottish singer-songwriter – stirring, witty, wry, declamatory, black-humoured, and showing consistently fine form since last year’s album Heavy Elevator
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FIrst Aid Kit: Johanna and Klara Söderberg
Song of the Day: The Swedish sisters' Johanna and Klara Söderberg return with their first new record for three years, with their signature close, warm vocal harmonies and uplifting pop-country, this song expressing a release from insecurity and anxiety and being about kinder to yourself
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Hether aka Paul Castelluzzo’s new release
Song of the Day: Fabulously dirty, bluesy fuzz guitar-based vampiric love song by the alias of Californian jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter Paul Castelluzzo, who tunes up and distorts his voice for a distinctive style
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Joyeria
Song of the Day: Fabulously droll, the latest single by the London-based Canadian singer-songwriter has echoes of David Berman of Silver Jews, and focuses ironically on a character with memories of the good times, but wondering where they went as he battles depression
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Regressive Left
Song of the Day: With shades of LCD Soundsystem and The Human League, this sharp new postpunk single by the trio fronted by Simon Tyrie focuses on deliberately assuming the worst of someone or something they’ve said or done, something exacerbated by social media
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Seraphina Simone
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming new EP, clever, catchy indie pop with lyrics about self-esteem, and media bias on what makes for attractive, by the bright London artist who is also the daughter of 80s pop star Terence Trent D’Arby
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Gemma Rogers’ debut album No Place Like Home
Song of the Day: Catchy, witty indie pop with a fabulous riff, and lyrics that offer an antidote to the addiction of staring at a smartphone and the invasive and personal nature of social media, taken from the forthcoming debut LP No Place Like Home, by the London artist
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PVA: Untethered
Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune
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Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl
Song of the Day: Given a wider audience by its inclusion on the Killing Eve TV series soundtrack, this fusion of glam rock and electro-pop by the trio of LA’s Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia and Belfast producer and DJ David Holmes is sexy and stylish, and now also comes with some brand new ear-catching remixes including by Horse Meat Disco
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Donna Thompson
Song of the Day: With soulful voice reminiscent of Lianne La Havas and Minnie Riperton, this beautiful new number about yearning in a long-distance relationship (especially over lockdown) comes from the London singer and drummer from her upcoming debut EP Something True on PRAH Recordings
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La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity
Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP
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Jesca Hoop
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment
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Maja Lena
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s Regina Spektor nectar collecting song, two beautiful but melancholy floral referencing folk pop numbers, the former brand new and from forthcoming album Pluto, the latter from 2021’s album The Keeper by the half-Swedish and Stroud-based musician Marianne Parrish
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Regina Spektor’s upcoming album: Home, Before and After
Song of the Day: Picked a few weeks ago for our playlists for songs about bees, and while not mentioning the insect, certainly within the interpretation, this inventively striking strings-and-brass new single about relentless collection by the Russian-American singer-songwriter is from her forthcoming album Home, Before and After
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Otherworldly and delicate: Florist
Song of the Day: An exquisitely otherworldly, delicate, shimmering folk-pop single with a space theme by the New York quartet featuring singer Emily Sprague, taken from their forthcoming 19-track self-titled album, out on Double Double Whammy
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Rachel Sermanni’s forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Seaside Haiku by Laura Veirs, another beautiful shoreline-themed number, by the Scottish signer-songwriter, the first with Courtney Harman, taken from her forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea, out on Jellygirl Records
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Laura Veirs
Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming album, Found Light, a beautiful grungey folk-pop number by the singer-songwriter created from haiku poems written on a visit to the cold, windy beach of windy beach in Seaside, Oregon, and about coming to terms with being single
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Cola’s album Deep in View
Song of the Day: A thrumming, knotty, crafty, catchy post-punk single with a glam-rock beat by the trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums) from their debut album Deep in View out on Fire Talk
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Special Interest
Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years
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