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Black Box Recorder – The English Motorway System

June 11, 2018 Peter Kimpton
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The Facts of Life album artwork

Song of the Day: After James Carr's Dark Street and Van Morrison's Bright Road, let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life

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In 2000, electronica, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Black Box Recorder, Luke Haines, The Auteurs, John Moore, Jesus & Mary Chain, Sarah Nixey, roads, Kraftwerk, pop
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Simon & Garfunkel – America

April 14, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Simon and Garfunkel

Simon and Garfunkel

Song of the Day: Following yesterday's radio-listening Roadrunner, we undertake a longer, more wistful journey, capturing the hopes and dreams of travellers on Greyhound bus in Paul Simon's masterpiece

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Tags song of the day, songs, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel, travel, America, buses, relationships, roads, road songs
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Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner

April 13, 2017 Peter Kimpton
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The Modern Lovers

Song of the Day: To complete a trio of radio songs, we turn the dial to one of the most beloved of garage rock numbers of all time, expressing the sheer joy of listening to music on the road

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New Albums …

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Jul 10, 2025
The Reds, Pinks and Purples: The Past Is a Garden I Never Fed
Jul 10, 2025

New album: The San Francisco indie-dream-pop-shoegaze band fronted by Glenn Donaldson release a new LP of jangling guitar and beautifully wistful songs, centred around small talk and everyday water cooler moments with an mischievous but heartfelt delivery and a finely tuned sense of pathos and irony

Jul 10, 2025
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Jul 9, 2025
Half Man Half Biscuit: All Asimov And No Fresh Air
Jul 9, 2025

Song of the Day: The prolific indie legends of Birkenhead fronted by the rapier wit of singer-songwriter Nigel Blackwell return with their 16th LP in four gloriously ironic decades, following 2022’s The Voltarol Years

Jul 9, 2025
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Jul 9, 2025
Durand Jones & The Indicators: Flowers
Jul 9, 2025

New album: Pure, sweet, sublime retro soul by the band from Bloomington, Indiana made of the core trio of vocalist Durand Jones, Aaron Frazer on drums/vocals, and guitarist Blake Rhein, here blooming again with their fifth LP in a decade in a release inspired by the idea of expressing personal vulnerability

Jul 9, 2025
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Jul 8, 2025
Big Special: National Average
Jul 8, 2025

New album: Following 2024’s LP Postindustrial Hometown Blues, the Walsall duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney return with their distinctive, Midlands earthy drawl, drolly humorous, dark and oddly profound, poetic lyrics on the absurdity of life, filled with killer lines, many animal metaphors, spoken and sung to punchy post-punk and experimental sounds

Jul 8, 2025
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Jul 8, 2025
Bruce Springsteen: Tracks II - The Lost Albums
Jul 8, 2025

New albums: Not bootlegs, B-sides or omitted songs from past albums (as in the 1998 Tracks outtakes release), this veritable mountain of unreleased gems – a whopping seven LPs spanning 1983–2018 with 82 unreleased songs and over five hours in a treasure trove of discovery for devoted and new fans

Jul 8, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
Kae Tempest: Self Titled
Jul 4, 2025

New album: A fifth LP by the acclaimed London writer and rapper brings further profound and passionate wordplay themed around their identity, personal story, and dark social issue themes, with a newer sometimes synth-pop sound and guests including Neil Tennant and Young Fathers

Jul 4, 2025
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Jul 3, 2025
Duo Ruut: Ilmateade
Jul 3, 2025

New album: A mesmeric, gorgeous new LP of experimental and traditional acoustic psych-folk songs by the Estonian duo of Ann-Lisett Rebane and Katariina Kivi, who write, sing and play facing each other, primarily on the kannel or (Estonian zither), using texts and repetitive motifs of runo song, oral poetry specific to the Baltic Finnic languages, here exploring the deep connections between weather and emotion

Jul 3, 2025
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Jul 3, 2025
Juan Wauters: MVD LUV
Jul 3, 2025

New album: An oddly charming, touching, gently humorous seventh LP by the Queens, NY-based singer-songwriter, returning to his birthplace of Montevideo, Uruguay, to record a tribute set of song to the place where he grew up and capturing a sense of dual identity – immigrant and native son

Jul 3, 2025
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Jul 1, 2025
Lorde: Virgin
Jul 1, 2025

New album: The mega-selling New Zealand pop singer-songwriter returns with her fourth LP, one that, unlike 2021’s Solar Power, harks back more to the teen partying themes 2017’s Melodrama, but dealt with from a late-20s angle of different angst, added promiscuity, pills and uncertainty

Jul 1, 2025
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Jun 27, 2025
BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation
Jun 27, 2025

New album: Witty, inventive, droll, painfully dark, self-deprecatory humour, killer lines, and timeless piano-based pop, almost showtune melodies? It can only be the latest set of classic songs by the Manchester-based American singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio, who confronts his repressed past, depression and more with his eccentric, eclectic panache

Jun 27, 2025
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Jun 26, 2025
S.G. Goodman: Planting By The Signs
Jun 26, 2025

New album: A third album of powerful, simmering, lyrically vivid, stripped-back folk, country and Americana by the singer-songwriter from Hickman, Kentucky, portraying stories and characters from a small town, with themes about the importance of and cycles of the natural world, and summoning a sound somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Cat Power

Jun 26, 2025
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Jun 25, 2025
Loyle Carner: Hopefully!
Jun 25, 2025

New album: The acclaimed London rapper, now 30, returns with a fourth LP that brings his nice guy, tender, candidly earnest persona to a whole new level of almost horizontal gentleness, adding a lazy talk-singing style to his oeuvre, in a release centred around being parent with two young children

Jun 25, 2025
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Jun 24, 2025
Isaiah Hull: POCOMANIA
Jun 24, 2025

New album: The Manchester-born performance poet, rapper and self-defined “stand-up tragedian” releases a striking, distinctively styled experimental hip-hop debut with a title inspired by his heritage – meaning the Jamaican folk religion combining revivalism with ancestor worship and spirit possession

Jun 24, 2025
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Jun 24, 2025
Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon
Jun 24, 2025

New album: A third album by the New York indie-rock band fronted by Will Anderson, with rich, meaty, shoegaze fuzz guitars, subtly droll love songs and more of a live band guitar recorded sound rather than the previous studio-created layering of their first two LPs

Jun 24, 2025

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Jul 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Soulwax - Run Free
Jul 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Heralding the innovative electronica and production Belgian brothers Stephen and David Dewaele’s forthcoming first studio album in seven years, All Systems Are Lying, a catchy celebration of their genre for their first studio album in seven years, released on 17 October on DEEWEE / Because Music

Jul 10, 2025
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Jul 9, 2025
Song of the Day: Marissa Nadler - Hatchet Man
Jul 9, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful but chilling single by the American singer-songwriter heralding her upcoming album New Radiations, out on 15 August via Bella Union and Sacred Bones Records

Jul 9, 2025
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Jul 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Hot Chip - Devotion
Jul 8, 2025

Song of the Day: The acclaimed British electro-pop dance band’s new single is a nostalgic, tender, and gradually rousing, catchy love song heralding their upcoming greatest hits album, Joy In Repetition, out on 5 September on Domino Records, part of their 20-year celebrations, with tour dates

Jul 8, 2025
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Jul 7, 2025
Song of the Day: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love
Jul 7, 2025

Song of the Day: The Icelandic indie-folk-rock band’s first single for five years is a dynamic, crescendo building number video capturing the strangeness of an Icelandic summer night and expressing a conversation moving between time and space, past and present, out on Skarkali Records / Virgin

Jul 7, 2025
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Jul 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse Of Everything
Jul 6, 2025

Song of the Day: The return of the dub maestro, producer, and On-U Sound label founder in this classy instrumental and a topical title track of his first solo album in 13 years, out on 22 August on via On-U Sound

Jul 6, 2025
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Jul 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Ganser - Discount Diamonds
Jul 5, 2025

Song of the Day: The latest single from the Chicago band is a dance/ postpunk track with an infectious, edgy, menacing energy, and heralds their new album, Animal Hospital, out 29 August via Felte Records

Jul 5, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Kneel
Jul 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful, textured, luxuriant experimental dream pop by the British artist, taken from her just released EP Dancing Shoes, out on Ninja Tune

Jul 4, 2025
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Jul 3, 2025
Song of the Day: anaiis - Deus Deus
Jul 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A slow, sensual, sultry soulful new experimental number, perfect for a hot summer’s day by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album Devotion & The Black Divine, out on 25 September via 5dB Records

Jul 3, 2025
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Jul 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Tchotchke - Poor Girl
Jul 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Three-part interweaving vocal harmonies, three ironic, mini-sob stories, and a quirky, retro pop sound with shades of Brian Wilson come on the West Coast trio’s latest single, heralding their upcoming sophomore album, Playin’ Dumb, due out on 9 September

Jul 2, 2025
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Jul 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney - Semitones
Jul 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Slow, simmering, mesmeric, intimate, gentle, experimental dream-pop by the Oakland, California artist, heralding her upcoming new album Kiss From The Balcony, out on 18 July via Carpark Records

Jul 1, 2025
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Jun 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Ada Lea - Something in the Wind
Jun 30, 2025

Song of the Day: An ethereally beautiful new single inspired by the non-remembrance of a dream by the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and artist Alexandra Levy, heralding her upcoming third album when i paint my masterpiece, due out on 8 August via Saddle Creek Records

Jun 30, 2025
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Jun 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Mac DeMarco - Home
Jun 29, 2025

Song of the Day: The LA-based Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer returns with a gentle, slow, beautiful Beatles-esque number heralding his upcoming new album, Guitar, self-released on his Mac’s Record Label

Jun 29, 2025

Word of the week

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Jul 10, 2025
Word of the week: mugwump
Jul 10, 2025

Word of the week: This oddly evocative noun might summon in the mind some tactile, earthy image, or a strange childrens’ TV fictional character, but actually pertains to a person who is politically neutral, aloof, or independent, and in 19th-century America, described anti-corruption party switchers

Jul 10, 2025
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Jun 26, 2025
Word of the week: nucha
Jun 26, 2025

Word of the week: A niche, sensual noun for a tactile area, with the related adjective nuchal, meaning related to the nape, or back or scruff of the neck. But where does it rub in music? For some light relief, here’s a variety of neck songs to send hairs standing up for different reason in this anatomical area

Jun 26, 2025
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Jun 4, 2025
Word of the week: olecranon
Jun 4, 2025

Word of the week: This is the large, thick, curved bony area of the elbow that sticks out at the arm joint – the proximal, posterior end of the ulnar bone which, alongside the radius, is the lower arm, and marks the point of the ulnar nerve, or in other words – the funny bone

Jun 4, 2025
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May 21, 2025
Word of the week: perruquier
May 21, 2025

Word of the week: Taken from the French language, this appropriately ornate noun pertains to makers of perukes, wigs or hairpieces, a trade that has variously gone in and out of fashion over the centuries. But what about these hair pieces in song?

May 21, 2025
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May 8, 2025
Word of the week: quelea
May 8, 2025

Word of the week: It’s the name of the genus of small African passerine birds, part of the weaver family Ploceidae, small, sparrow- or finch-like, they are highly gregarious, nomadic, chattering birds, with bills adapted to eating seeds, and the red-billed quelea is said to be the most numerous bird species in the world

May 8, 2025
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