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A scene from Squid’s multifaceted Swing (In A Dream) video directed by Yoonha Park
Song of the Day: Mellower on first listen than much their previous work, an intriguingly original dynamic exploration into the subconscious with an experimental prog element by the Brighton post-punk band, taken from their forthcoming new album O Monolith, out on Warp Records
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Fontaines D.C. – 'Cello Song
Song of the Day: A fabulous, spine-tingling cover by the acclaimed Dublin band, produced by Elbow’s Guy Garvey, and taken from a forthcoming album of songs by legendary folk singer – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake
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The Bloodstreams - Clockwork Man
Song of the Day: Superb, swaggering, dramatic, a fusion of 60s garage rock, pop and postpunk with alarm clock, saxophone, trumpet, and a dash of the Rolling Stones in this second single from the London bands’ forthcoming debut album, How To Be A God
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HotWax
Song of the Day: A blistering, glittering indie-rock single by the young trio from Hastings whose influences include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Courtney Love and Nirvana. Out on Marathon Artists
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Dark and alluring: bar italia
Song of the Day: A dark and alluring new single by the art-rock / post-punk trio of Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, Nina Cristante, and Samuel Fenton, with fuzz guitar, crisp drums and arresting vocals. Out on Matador Records
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Brodie Milner
Song of the Day: A stomping indie/post-punk single with super-sharp self-deprecatory lyrics with a William Burroughs-referenced literary bent by the Hull singer and multi-instrumentalist
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The Raincoat’s Gina Birch’s solo album, I Play My Bass Loud
Song of the Day: A rip-roaring, passionate, powerful Breeders-style single from legendary The Raincoat’s co-founder and bass player, and perhaps the pick from her debut solo album I Play My Bass Loud
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Starting something: Do Nothing
Song of the Day: Brand new punchy postpunk, nothing to do with penguins, but with a theatrically entertaining video and sharp lyrics by the witty Nottingham band fronted by singer Chris Bailey. Out on Exact Truth Records
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From the video for SAMO by ACR, featuring the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Song of the Day: Referencing the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, with his work animated in the the video, a fabulously funky, punchy, new electro-pop single by the legendary post-punk Manchester band from their forthcoming new album, 1982
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Drahla: Lip Sync
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, smart art post-punk with angular guitar, a thrumming bass line and semi-spoken vocals by the band from Leeds inspired by the idea of syncing to social norms, social deflection without being fully present
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Double trouble: Dream Wife
Song of the Day: Caustically humorous, tight, playful and dynamic, the new single by the punk/pop London trio of Rakel Mjöll, Alice Go, and Bella Podpadecabout is arrestingly entertaining on the wrong kind of partner
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Cowboy Nudes, the new single by Geese
Song of the Day: Slick, catchy, upbeat, fast, rhythmic, guitar indie by the Brooklyn band, their first since acclaimed 2021 debut album Projector, with a song “about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world” according frontman Cameron Winter
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The Psychotic Monks from Paris
Song of the Day: A striking, menacing, dark, hypnotic fusion of electronica, techno, post-punk and industrial noise, with reversed sounds and shades of Underworld by French band in a song about exhaustion on tour and mental health within the music industry
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Heartworms: Jojo Orme
Song of the Day: Dark, disturbing, but arrestingly brilliant and original, a new electro post-punk track by the south London’s Jojo Orme and co from the debut EP, A Comforting Notion, out 24 March on Speedy Wunderground, produced by Dan Carey
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Lost in the bagging area …
Song of the Day: For anyone with that heavy post-weekend feeling, a brilliantly catchy, punchy, darkly humorous post-punk single with shades of The Fall, Sleaford Mods and LCD Soundsystem by the cousin duo from Glasgow
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Baba Ali
Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries
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O. the band: drummer Tash Keary and saxophonist Joe Henwood
Song of the Day: Wonderfully fresh, vibrant, energetic instrumental debut single by the sax and drumming south London duo of Joe Henwood and Tash Keary produced rapidly and skilfully by Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label
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Chris Niles and Hannah Skelton of abracadabra
Song of the Day: Clever, quirky, mischievous 80s-style new wave post-punk electro-pop with a dash of Talking Heads by the Oakland California duo of Hannah Skelton and Chris Niles from their forthcoming album, Shapes & Colors, out on Melodic Records
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Nuha Ruby Ra
Song of the Day: Strangely alluring, eclectic, polyrhythmic electro-art-punk by the London artist imagines herself as a painting and being prodded and stared at by others – “Don’t touch me/ feel me”
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A Certain Ratio’s next album, 1982, is out in 2023
Song of the Day: The legendary Manchester post-punk band continue to roll out wonderfully vibrant new singles, and the latest from their forthcoming new album, 1982, is a mix of Afrobeat funk and jazz and fizzy keyboards, with vocalist Ellen Beth Abdi
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