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Songs of the Day: Stats: Come With Me / Naturalise Me (from Powys 1999)

February 9, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The latest album by Stats

The latest album by Stats

Songs of the Day: Gloriously uplifting, clever dance electro-pop by the band led by songwriter Ed Seed, inspired by his childhood in and recorded in Wales, where the natural environment co-exists with the less so, from farming, forestry, tourism, and military activity

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Song of the Day: Venus Furs – New Inspiration

February 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Venus Furs - debut LP

Venus Furs - debut LP

Song of the Day: From his eponymous debut album, this powerful piece of psych-indie-rock by the Montreal multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Kasner has a ghostly, dark, tragic quality, and a sinister undercurrent

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Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson – Rotting Hills

February 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton
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Avalon Emerson’s EP - 040

Song of the Day: Majestic electronica that builds from beats and scratches into shimmering synth waves by the New York artist from her latest EP, 04), out on the AD 93 label

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Song of the Day: St. Panther – Highway / Infrastructure

February 2, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The talented St Panther aka Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo

The talented St Panther aka Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo

Songs of the Day: Slick rapping, rhythmic laughter, sand a super-tight funk sound are just some of the elements that make the young LA-based singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo a huge talent to watch

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Songs of the Day: Valerie June: Stay / Stay Meditation / You And I

January 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Valerie June’s forthcoming album

Valerie June’s forthcoming album

Songs of the Day: An uplifting triple Sunday special from the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee who mixes soul, gospel, country and blues in this three-track standalone digital release

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Song of the Day: Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard

January 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton
It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard

It’s a stage she’s going through: Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw, from the video for Scratchcard Lanyard

Song of the Day: “Wristband themepark, scratchcard lanyard, do everything and feel nothing.” A brilliant piece of drily delivered indie by the south London band with lyrics that recall Neil Postman’s cultural critique Amusing Ourselves To Death

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Song of the Day: Nation of Language - A Different Kind of Life

January 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Nation of Language

Nation of Language

Song of the Day: “So now we find ourselves in the waiting room of history … holding hands through this absurdity.” Beautifully poignant lyrics for a world in limbo in this new song by the Brooklyn trio their 80s new wave electro-pop

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Songs of the Day: Nancy – Call Me On Your Telephone / 7 Foot Tall Post​-​Suicidal Feel Good Blues

January 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Nancy

Nancy

Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall

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Song of the Day: Jordana – Reason

January 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Jordana

Jordana

Song of the Day: Thrumming bass, crisp drums, strings, piano and an intimate, close-mic vocal are some of the many aspects that make this an attractive indie pop record the solo artist from Kansas

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Song of the Day: Little Dragon and Moses Sumney – The Other Lover

January 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Dark and delicate: Little Dragon & Moses Sumney –The Other Lover

Dark and delicate: Little Dragon & Moses Sumney –The Other Lover

Song of the Day: A deliciously dark and delicate duet between the Swedish electronic band featuring singer Yukimi Nagano and the American who released the album Grae in 2020 – two of the most innovative artists around today

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Song of the Day: Oumou Sangaré – Kamelemba

January 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Oumou Sangaré

Oumou Sangaré

Song of the Day: From her 2020 album, Acoustic, a beautiful rendition of an earlier song by the Malian artist also known as the Songbird of Wassoulou, with a voice loved around the world, with Beyoncé among her fans

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Songs of the Day: Straw Man Army – The Silver Bridge, Option Despair and Age of Exile

January 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
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Songs of the Day: A triple bill of fast and furiously brilliant postpunk by duo Owen Deutsch and Sean from the New York collective and label D4MT Labs Inc, covering subjects such as war and colonialism, taken from the LP Age of Exile

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Song of the Day: Jazmine Sullivan – Pick Up Your Feelings

January 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Jazmine Sullivan

Jazmine Sullivan

Song of the Day: The pick of the songs from the Philadelphia R&B singer’s recently released EP, Heaux Tales, is one that shows off her dynamic range and is among a set of songs that reject male ego and embrace feminine strength and independence

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Song of the Day: I Believe In My Mess – Do Unto Others

January 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess

The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess

Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person

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Song of the Day: Goat Girl – The Crack

January 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton
It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack

It’s out there. Goat Girl’s video for The Crack

Song of the Day: Wonderfully dark and foreboding but also dancey and catchy, this environmentally conscious and woozily strange and otherworldly new single from the south London indie band comes from their forthcoming second album, On All Fours

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Song of the Day: Tierra Whack – Peppers and Onions

January 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Tierra Whack is back

Tierra Whack is back

Song of the Day: Whistles, tongue clicks and super slick vocal delivery make up this clever number by the 25-year-old singer and rapper from Philadelphia who has her own uniquely eccentric and humorous style

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Song of the Day: Fana Hues – Desert Flower

January 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Fana Hues

Fana Hues

Song of the Day: Like its subject, the music and delivery of this perfectly formed song is beautifully simple and delicate by the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Pasadena, California, from her album, Hues, released in December

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Song of the Day – Arab Strap: The Turning of Our Bones

January 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton

Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton

Song of the Day: This macabre but grimly amusing and detailed love story of entwinement of the undead comes with ominous melodies, disturbing narrative and a beguiling beat, and is the first single by the brilliant Falkirk duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton in 15 years

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Gabriels: Love and Hate in a Different Time

December 29, 2020 Peter Kimpton
The cover of the Gabriels EP Love and Hate in a Different Time

The cover of the Gabriels EP Love and Hate in a Different Time

Song of the Day: The title track of a EP released in October recalls the era of Northern Soul, with a wonderful vocal by Los Angeles-based gospel singer Jacob Lusk who makes up the band alongside producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope

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Bob Dylan: My Own Version of You

December 28, 2020 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: This remarkable number from Bob’s 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways plays with the idea of the many ways to perceive and be perceived, parodying his various personas with the Frankenstein metaphor

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New Albums …

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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

new songs …

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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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