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Deep Tan
Songs of the Day: Two fabulously strange, caustic, musically minimal postpunk / new wave tracks by the London band from their new EP Creeping Speedwells, one a play on the epochal word holocene, the other about an extreme drinking session
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Regressive Left
Song of the Day: Sharp, angry quirky post-punk with keyboards and semi-spoken delivery by the London trio, their second single, which “is about how neoliberalism acts as a shield for irresponsible politicians and greedy profiteers”
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Moderate Rebels
Song of the Day: This track from the first part of the London collective’s new 30-track trilogy album If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right is a heavily deadpan ironic list song about political, social and cultural trends of a slow-creep malaise
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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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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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Folly Group
Song of the Day: An uplifting new postpunk number about rediscovering the carefree side of childhood joy by the south London quartet from Brixton’s Windmill scene, taken from the forthcoming debut EP Awake and Hungry
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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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On the button: Earth Scum by FYI Chris
Song of the Day: The final track on the album Earth Scum by the Yorkshire and Macclesfield duo of Chris Coupe and Chris Watson features viscerally acerbic, self-deprecating gallows humorous delivery by Mancunian poet and performer Thick Richard
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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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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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The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
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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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From Wu-Lu’s video for South directed by Denisha Anderson
Song of the Day: This brilliantly visceral and menacing new single by the south London producer, aka Miles Romans Hopcraft, has tales of lockdown and the destruction of a community with driving beats and lyrics with in a trip hop post-punk mix, with shades of Tricky
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Venus Furs - debut LP
Song of the Day: From his eponymous debut album, this powerful piece of psych-indie-rock by the Montreal multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Kasner has a ghostly, dark, tragic quality, and a sinister undercurrent
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Hamish Hawk
Song of the Day: Pacy, witty, and beautifully bleak, this new single by the post-punk indie artist from Edinburgh is a perfect lockdown song of paranoia, dry, dark humour and frantic delivery that builds to a fabulous frenzy
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Song of the Day: Alight with scorching post-punk guitars and searingly angry vocals, this track from new EP Disappearing Act, about tyrannical power-grabbing figures, is by Yorkshire’s answer to Idles, Shame, Fontaines D.C. and The Fall
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It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard
Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Songs of the Day: A triple bill of fast and furiously brilliant postpunk by duo Owen Deutsch and Sean from the New York collective and label D4MT Labs Inc, covering subjects such as war and colonialism, taken from the LP Age of Exile
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It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours
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The various perspectives of Hotel Lux’s 2020 EP Barstool Preaching
Song of the Day: Contrasting in apparent confidence, two powerfully acerbic, self-examining first-person perspectives by the postpunk-pop band from Portsmouth from their EP Barstool Preaching, out on Nice Swan Records
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