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Frank Popp and Paul Weller
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
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Fatoumata Diawara enjoys some studio time
Song of the Day: A fabulous, agile, upbeat, energetic blend of jazz, afrobeat, soul and funk as the Leeds-formed London collective join forces with the legendary Malian singer-songwriter on this new single, both a celebration and a lament, out on Strut Records
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Momoko Gill
Songs of the Day: A beautiful free-flowing fusion of jazz and groove soul by the Japan- and US-raised, London-based drummer, producer, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with two songs heralding her forthcoming debut album Momoko, out on 11 January 2026 via Strut Records / K7 Music
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Lianne La Havas
Song of the Day: With her first new music in five years, collaborations and covers aside, a gorgeous, sensitive, intimate, sparse, vocal and guitar number by the soulful, golden-voiced British singer-songwriter, a candid number about mental anguish.
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Mavis Staples
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow, moving, country-style cover by the legendary American soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist of the 1995 song by Sparklehorse written by Mark Linkous (who passed away in 2010), and the title track heralding Mavis’s upcoming album out on 7 November via ANTI Records
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Tyler Ballgame’s debut album, For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: Some voices are once in a generation. The likes of Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley. And now here’s the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter, his truly tremendous tenor soaring supremely on this soulful indie-Americana rock number about how love makes glorious fools of us, and heralding his upcoming debut album For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade
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Yukimi - Get It Over
Song of the Day: Following her debut solo album, For You, earlier this year, Sweden’s Little Dragon singer returns with a beautiful, walking pace soulful number about being lost in your own inner world, unable to find a way out into the real world, and co-written with Canadian singer-songwriter Saya Gray and LD drummer Erik Bodin, out on Ninja Tune
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Alabama Shakes
Song of the Day: Brittany Howard rejoins old bandmates Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell for their first music together in a decade, with this powerful, poignant, soaring soulful number recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios with longtime collaborator Shawn Everett, out on Island Records / UMG
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Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …
Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records
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Devotion & The Black Divine, the upcoming new album by anaiis
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
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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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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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U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,
Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD
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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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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Natalie Bergman, from the video for Gunslinger
Song of the Day: Stylish, smoky, sexy, with a sound that that evokes classic western film scores and vintage soul, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s single heralds her upcoming new album, My Home Is Not In This World, out on 18 July via Third Man Records
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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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Obongjayar, from the video for Sweet Danger
Song of the Day: The eclectic London-based British-Nigerian artist aka Steven Umoh returns with a sensual, erotically charged number fusing electronica and afrobeat and his falsetto voice, heralding his new album, Paradise Now, out on 30 May via September Recordings
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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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Brooke Combe - This Town
Song of the Day: Breezy, escapism-themed, uplifting classic soul by the charismatic, golden voiced Scottish singer, heralding her forthcoming album, Dancing At The Edge of the World, out on Modern Sky UK
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