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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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Song of the Day: Tierra Whack: Body of Water

December 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Tierra Whack: fluid delivery

Song of the Day: Fluidly innovative, oddball and quick-witted, this new track mixing hip hop with electronica and dolphin noises by the ingeniously mischievous rapper, singer, and songwriter

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Song of the Day: Grace Carter - Dark Matter

December 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Grace Carter

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerful, but gently still, minimal soul number by the London-born R&B soul singer in a thank you letter addressing an absent father, and in turn, religious faith, with lyrical twist

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Song of the Day: Tkay Maidza - So Cold

November 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Tkay Maidza’s EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3

Song of the Day: Superbly slick R&B, hip hop and pop from the summer-released EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by the talented Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper

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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 17, 2025
Picture Parlour: The Parlour
Nov 17, 2025

New album: Following last year’s EP Face in the Picture, a fabulously stylish, smart, swaggering glam-rock-pop debut LP by the Manchester-formed, London-based band fronted by the impressively raspy, gritty, vibratro delivery of Liverpudlian vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and distinctive riffs from North Yorkshire-born guitar Ella Risi

Nov 17, 2025
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Nov 16, 2025
FKA twigs: EUSEXUA Afterglow
Nov 16, 2025

New album: Springing from her much lauded third LP Eusexua, out in January this year, and following a hugely successful and spectacular tour, the innovative British experimental pop artist, dancer and producer extends her palette of ethereal, otherworldly and sensual creations in this new, more carnal, harder, beat-filled parallel release

Nov 16, 2025

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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025
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Nov 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Ellie O'Neill - Bohemia
Nov 30, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poetic finger-picking debut folk single with a mystical, distantly stormy twist by the Dublin-based Irish singer-songwriter from County Meath, out now on St Itch Records

Nov 30, 2025
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Nov 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Danalogue - Sonic Hypnosis
Nov 29, 2025

Song of the Day: A full flavour of future-past with mesmeric, euphoric retro acid house and electronica in this new single by Daniel Leavers, producer and the founding member of The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, out now on Castles In Space

Nov 29, 2025
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Nov 28, 2025
Song of the Day: Cardinals - Barbed Wire
Nov 28, 2025

Song of the Day: Another striking, passionate, punchy, catchy single by the Irish postpunk/indie-folk-rock band from Cork, heralding their upcoming debut album, Masquerade, out on 13 February via So Young Records

Nov 28, 2025
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Nov 27, 2025
Song of the Day: Frank Popp Ensemble (with Paul Weller) - Right Before My Eyes
Nov 27, 2025

Song of the Day: A strong, soaring, emotive, soulful release by the German artist co-written by British singer and former Jam frontman who here sings and plays guitar, the lyrics about witnessing the increasing injustices and demise of the world, out on Unique Records / Schubert Music Europe

Nov 27, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Song of the Day: Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Nov 26, 2025

Song of the Day: Using a musical metaphor, beautiful, crisply rhythmical, soaring piano and atmospheric indie-pop-folk about facing your fears by the Dutch/British singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album The Lighthouse, out on 23 January 2026 on Tiny Tiger Records

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Melanie Baker - Sad Clown
Nov 25, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, candid, cathartic indie-grunge-pop by the British singer-songwriter from Cumbria in a melancholy but oddly uplifting emotional work-through of depression, love and exhaustion, out now on TAMBOURHINOCEROS

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - Die Happy
Nov 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Luxuriant, breathy, femme-fatale dream pop with a dark, southern gothic, Lana del Rey-inspired, live-fast-die-young theme, and stylish video by the 25-year-old British singer-songwriter from Grantham, out on Polydor/Universal

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 23, 2025
Song of the Day: These New Puritans - The Other Side
Nov 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A delicate, tender, and unusually minimalist single, their first since this year’s acclaimed album Crooked Wing, by the Southend-on-Sea-born Barnett twins, here with Jack on improvised piano and George on drums and a soprano register wordless vocal, out on Domino Records

Nov 23, 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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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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