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Isobel Campbell’s new album, Bow To Love out on Cooking Vinyl
A rather beautiful, delicate acoustic track about life and creativity by the LA-based Scottish singer-songwriter’s brand new album, Bow To Love, out now on Cooking Vinyl
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Pixies
Song of the Day: A blistering new short, snappy but explosive single about restlessness by the pioneering US band fronted by Black Francis, joined by the current lineup of Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Emma Richardson
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Girl Scout
Song of the Day: A blistering new sharp riff, guitar-thrumming, fast-and-furious single by the Swedish indie band fronted vocalist/guitarist Emma Jansson with an attack on those who use the vacuous, laissez-faire, indifferent phrase “it is what it is”
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Number one fan: Phoebe Green
Song of the Day: Caustic, pointed, witty, self-aware talky and stylish synth-pop with a rock guitar sheen from the Manchester-based artist taken from her new EP Ask Me Now, out on The Green Dream Machine
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Down in the dirt: Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
Song of the Day: A very welcome return by the irrepressible Amy Taylor and Melbourne punk band with their first new music for three years, mixing anger and humour and poking fun at naysaying fans with this fabulous Detroit garage grit-style number, which, while indisputably Sniffers, also has some strutting echoes of The Rolling Stones
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She Drew the Gun - Howl
Song of the Day: A dazzling new single by the indie-psychedelic band from the Wirral, Merseyside, fronted by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach about our ancestry, time, atoms and how elements of our bodies formed in the hearts of long dead stars over billions of years
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From the video for Quivers’ new single – Apparition
Song of the Day: Classic catchy indie-rock with a glam- and Rolling Stones vibe, beautiful chord changes, a singalong chorus and an owl-inspired video by the Melbourne-based quaret, heralding their forthcoming new album, Oyster Cuts, out on 9 August via Merge Records
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From the entertaining video from Wand’s new single.
Song of the Day: Mesmeric dynamic, shimmering, grinding but also delicate fuzz in a shower haze of shoegaze-psychedelia by the improvisation Los Angeles guitar band fronted by Cory Hanson, from their forthcoming new album Vertigo, out on Drag City Records on 26 July
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Blossoms
Song of the Day: The Stockport, Greater Manchester indie-rockers return with a catchy new song about an apology, but also one that muses on songwriting formulas with a funk beat, with a comedic video set in the Derbyshire hills, football manager Sean Dyke and a classic campervan
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86TVs’ new single, Tambourine
Song of the Day: A striking, short, sharp, shake-it-up indie-rock banger from this new project by ex-members of The Maccabees, Felix and Hugo White, and their brother Will – alongside Jamie Morrison, taken from their self-titled debut album out on 2 August via Parlophone Records
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Baba Ali - Heart Racer
Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger
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Peter Bibby in two of his guises
Song of the Day: … but not anymore!” The latest single by the witty Australian artist is a driving drum-machine, thrumming bass and blistering guitar punk banger, a humorous perspective on changing your ways, with vocal style influences such as Suicide and Throbbing Gristle
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Dea Matrona’s forthcoming debut album For Your Sins
Song of the Day: Classic rock-pop with an new twist and a number about being hopelessly drawn to someone’s charm coming from the Belfast duo Mollie McGinn and Orlaith Forsythe, heralding their forthcoming debut album, For Your Sins.
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Yannis & The Yaw: the Foals’ frontman’s upcoming EP project
Song of the Day: Fabulous drumming from a past session by the departed legend Tony Allen, and passionate blues-rock vocals from Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis in this opening track from his new project and upcoming EP, Lagos Paris London – out on 30 August via Transgressive Records
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Lizzie Esau - Wait Too Late
Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, smouldering, stormy indie synth-rock single by the London-born, Newcastle-raised artist with a song raging against apathy and status quo in a world of climate meltdown and political turmoil
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Afflecks Palace
Song of the Day: An infectiously upbeat, positive, jangly guitar, fast-paced new single by the indie Manchester band named after the city’s famous market stall building, heralding their forthcoming third album
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Fontaines D.C.
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Dublin band return with the first single from forthcoming fourth album, Romance, pushing new sounds including sharp inhales, inspired by a panic attack suffered by by Grian Chatten in London’s St Pancras station and trying to grasp reality amidst chaos
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GIFT - Wish Me Away
Song of the Day: A refreshing, breezy sound by the indie-psychedelic Brooklyn quintet about letting everything slip away, a laissez-faire double-edged feeling of despair and optimism, their first single for Captured Tracks
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Lionlimb’s forthcoming new album, Limbo
Song of the Day: A slow, powerful, rather emotive number written about a much missed pet dog who died two years ago, from New York-based project of Stewart Bronaugh, with drummer Joshua Jaeger, and featuring Angel Olsen’s fabulous voice
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LA Priest’s upcoming EP, La Fusion
Song of the Day: What’s in the woods? A wonderfully upbeat and inventive swirl of nimble guitar, keyboards and vocals by the British artist Sam Eastgate from his upcoming EP La Fusion, out on 3 May via Domino Records
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