Song of the Day: congratulations - Fought 4 Love

November 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

congratulations play on the idea of single status in the video for *Fought 4 Love. (*Photo: Josh Armstrong)

Song of the Day: Following This Life, another fun-filled single, here with a floor-stomping glam-style riff, by the Brighton quartet who embrace 80s pop and 90s rock plus a dash of Field Music, Electric 6 and Devo with this stylish anti-love song with entertaining video, heralding their debut LP Join Hands, out on 13 February via Bella Union

Song of the Day: The Wave Pictures - Alice

November 4, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Wave Pictures: David Tattersall (guitar and lead vocals), Franic Rozycki (bass), and Jonny Helm (drums)

Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British indie trio with a soaring, smart, dream-filled number with notes of 60s garage rock, classic 70s rock and 90s US indie, lyrically and inspired by the writings of William Burroughs, and heralding their upcoming album Gained / Lost, due out 27 February 2026 via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - One Hand Free

October 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A warm, beautiful, gently witty, if melancholy, species-themed standalone single by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter taken from the same sessions as her 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, out on Bella Union. It is accompanied by a video shot by JJ Gonson featuring Ezra accompanied by an assortment of birds, lizards and myriad other species

Song of the Day: Ólöf Arnalds - Tár í morgunsárið (Tears At Dawn)

September 28, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days

September 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Following their debut album Tripla out earlier this year, Miki Berenyi on (originally from Lush), Kevin McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled) return with gently luxuriant, indie-dream-pop “about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen”, out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: Midlake - The Ghouls

August 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union

Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Marissa Nadler - Hatchet Man

July 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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

Song of the Day: Modern Nature - Pharaoh

June 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A gentle, clean sounding, krautrock-ish Can-like new single by the Cambridge, UK band with a double-edged theme “about the men we're conditioned to respect and follow and the people who inspire us to think differently”. It heralds their forthcoming new album, The Heat Warps, out on 29 August via Bella Union

Song of the Day: BC Camplight - Two Legged Dog (featuring Abigail Morris)

April 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

BC Camplight with The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris

Song of the Day: The Manchester-based American singer-songwriter Brian Christinzio’s returns with sumptuous Rundgren-esque, witty piano pop, joined by The Last Dinner Party vocalist, and heralding BC’s upcoming new album, A Sober Conversation out on 27 June via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Rebekka Karijord - Sanctuary

February 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Rebekka Karijord’s forthcoming album, *The Bell Tower*

Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Grand Mal

February 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union

Song of the Day: Hannah Cohen - Earthstar

February 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, Earthstar Mountains, out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: Delicate, glistening, smooth, dreamy folk-pop with chord changes of gentle vulnerability in this love song about never really knowing someone, by the singer-songwriter and resident of New York’s Catskill Mountains, heralding her upcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountains, out on 28 March via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Helen Ganya - Fortune

January 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A Thai-dulcimer (khim) decorates this beautiful track by the Singapore-raised, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter inspired by her heritage, her mother, and “all the diasporic mums out there”. It’s the latest track heralding her forthcoming album Share Your Care out on 7 February via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Sophie Jamieson - How Do You Want To Be Loved?

November 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sophie Jamieson’s forthcoming album, *I Still Want To Share,* out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, gut-wrenching, intimate folk and electronica single by the London-based singer-songwriter about trying to find forgiveness when faced with pain, from the upcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on 17 January 2025 on Bella Union

Song of the Day: C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song

October 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: This beautiful, romantic, melodiously gliding orchestral pop meta-song, flush with swooning strings and yearning, is the title track heralding the Scottish multi-instrumentalist and singer’s forthcoming new album out on 24 January 2025 via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Father John Misty - She Cleans Up

October 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world

Song of the Day: Our Girl - The Good Kind

September 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Evocative, serenely beautiful and poetic, this new single by the Brighton band captures that Proustian-type moment of unleashed feelings, senses and memories, in this case hearing Ella Fitzgerald on the radio, and is the title track heralding their forthcoming album out on 8 November via Bella Union

Song of the Day: Father John Misty - I Guess Time Makes Fools Of Us All

August 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Father John Misty’s *Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl,* out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: With a rich variety of allegorical and cultural references, Josh Tillman returns with a sublime piece of timelessly Dylan-esque, catchy, witty, smooth balladic alt-country pop, and heralds his compilation album Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said To Crawl

Song of the Day: Pom Poko - Go

June 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: A fantastic frenzy of a new single about life as a messy to-do list, featuring string harmonics in both guitar and bass played at breakneck speed by the Norwegian indie postpunk band, heralding their forthcoming third album, Champion, out on 16 August on Bella Union

Song of the Day: John Grant - It's A Bitch

March 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

John Grant’s forthcoming album, *The Art Of The Lie,* out on Bella Union

Song of the Day: Catchy funk and 80s-inspired electro-pop get the full phat treatment from the witty Iceland-based American artist in this new single heralding his forthcoming next album, The Art Of The Lie, released 14 June 2024 via Bella Union

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New Albums …

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Dec 5, 2025

Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra

Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word of the week

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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

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

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

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

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