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Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)

January 27, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

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Song of the Day: Jill Scott - Pressha

January 13, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Jill Scott returns with a new album, To Whom This May Concern, out 13 February

Song of the Day: Classy, smooth, luscious soul and RnB with touches of brass in this second smart, smoky single heralding the lauded American singer and actress’s first album for a decade, To Whom This May Concern, out 13 February via on Blues Babe Records/Human Re Sources/The Orchard

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Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else

December 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

ELIZA - Anyone Else

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

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Song of the Day: Yazmin Lacey - Ain't I Good For You

June 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Yazmin Lacey

Song of the Day: Delicious, classy, sprightly soul and RnB by the east London-born, Nottingham based pure-voiced singer-songwriter in a new track co-written with and produced by Eg White & Jonny Lattimer, and out on AMF Records

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Song of the Day: Sudan Archives - Dead

June 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Sudan Archives - DEAD

Song of the Day: With her first new music since the 2022 LP Natural Brown Prom Queen, the LA-based American experimental violinist, singer, and songwriter Brittney Denise Parks’ new single is written as an exploration of orchestral Black dance music and the parts of ourselves that are more human than machine, and vice versa

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Song of the Day: Moses Sumney and Hayley Williams: I Like It, I Like It

May 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hayley Williams and Moses Sumney

Song of the Day: A soulful, stylish, sexy, slinkily smooth new single featuring both the two American singer-songwriters, both impressive intertwining, dynamic vocal performances and lavish, layered production, out on Tuntum Records

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Song of the Day: MRCY - Wandering Attention

April 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

MRCY’s Barney Lister and Kojo Degraft-Johnson

Song of the Day: Powerful, rapturous, soaring as well as darkly candid soul by the British duo of south London singer-songwriter Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield-born producer-instrumentalist Barney Lister, heralding the album VOLUME 2, out 30 May on Dead Oceans

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Song of the Day: Joy Crookes - Pass the Salt (featuring Vince Staples)

January 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Joy Crookes in the video for Pass the Salt

Song of the Day: With a big, meaty, menacing bass and drum sound, the serenely smooth-voiced Brixton British singer returns, following her acclaimed 2021 LP Skin, with a spicy, bitch-back number expressing anger at someone telling lies about her, with added verse by the American rappe

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Song of the Day: Rosie Lowe - Mood to Make Love

May 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Rosie Lowe

Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love

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Song of the Day: Crystal Murray - STARMANIAK

March 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Crystal Murray

Song of the Day: From the London-based Parisian singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album Sad Lovers and Giants, scintillating, catchy, sexy electro-pop with a fabulous street-scene video. The album is out on 31 May via Because Music

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Song of the Day: UCHE YARA - Yesterday I Was In London / Homesick

February 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

UCHE YARA

Song of the Day: A pair of uniquely stylish yet contrasting numbers about being away from home by the Berlin-based, Nigerian heritage singer and guitarist who has fabulously full and deep range voice – Uchenna Yara Katzmayr

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Song of the Day: Vagabon - Lexicon

September 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Vagabon’s new album, Sorry I Haven't Called

Song of the Day: From the recent third album, Sorry I Haven't Called, beautiful, stripped-back soulful pop by the New York-based Cameroonian-American singer-songwriter Laetitia Tamko and produced by Rostam

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Song of the Day: 15 15 (QuinzeQuinze) - Perfect Heaven

September 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

15 15’s new EP Ataheva

Song of the Day: Unique, mesmeric, spiralling experimental electronica merged with soulful vocals by the Tahitian/Parisian band (also known as QuinzeQuinze), in a “landscape of a marvellous nightmare”, taken from their forthcoming EP Ataheva, out on S76

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Song of the Day: Ego Ella May - Undone

September 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ego Ella May

Song of the Day: An exquisitely crisp, delicate soulful number by the London singer-songwriter inspired by a book about Swedish business who becomes a Buddhist monk in Thailand for 17 years, and is about letting go of control, ditching facades and leaving it all behind

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Song of the Day: George Riley - Elixir

September 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

George Riley’s upcoming EP Un/limited Love, out on Ninja Tune

Song of the Day: Classy eclectic soul, R&B and electronica by the London singer-songwriter taken from her forthcoming EP Un/limited Love due out on Ninja Tune in November

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Song of the Day: Hannah Jadagu - Warning Sign

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hannah Jadagu’s upcoming album, Aperture, out on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: Smooth, gentle soul, electronica and rock intertwine in this beautiful new single by the New York-based artist from Mesquite, Texas. It’s taken from her upcoming album, Aperture, out on 19 May on Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: Baby Rose - Stop The Bleeding

March 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baby Rose

Song of the Day: Sublime soulful vocals in this latest single by the Washington DC-born Atlanta-based Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jasmine Rose Wilson, taken from her upcoming album, Through and Through, out on Secretly Canadian

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Song of the Day: Liv.e - Wild Animals

November 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Liv.e and best friend: from the Wild Animals video

Song of the Day: Sensual, smoky, and alluring, comprising jazzy piano licks and ringtone trills, this sexy new single by the Dallas-raised, LA-based R&B and soul singer concerns animal attraction and and self-love, coming from her forthcoming LP Girl In The Half Pearl

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Song of the Day: Jitwam - Stranger Danger (In The Streets Of Life)

August 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jiitwam’s latest album, Third

Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream

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Song of the Day: Donna Thompson – Be With You

June 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

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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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026
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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025
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Dec 18, 2025
Favourite albums of 2025 - Part Three
Dec 18, 2025

Welcome to the third and final part of Song Bar favourite albums of 2025. There is also Part One, and Part Two. There is no countdown nor describing these necessarily as “best” albums of the year, but they are chosen by their quality, originality and reader popularity

Dec 18, 2025

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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Alexis Taylor - Out Of Phase (featuring Lola Kirke)
Jan 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A crisp, catchy fusion of synth-pop, cosmic country and some NYC-garage odyssey with references to two films by David Lynch from the Hot Chip frontman, heralding his upcoming sixth solo album, Paris In The Spring, out on 13 March via Night Time Stories

Jan 17, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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