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Song of the Day: Horse Meat Disco and The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Sanctuary

September 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album

Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album

Song of the Day: Wonderfully dance-infectious, catchy retro mix of 70s disco and funk, this new Ray Mang Extended Remix of this title track number from the 2020 album Love & Dancing featuring the NYC band and the London DJ collective

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Song of the Day: TOKiMONSTA feat. Channel Tres – Naked

September 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton
TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres

Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California

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Song of the Day: Desire Marea - Tavern Kween

July 7, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Desire Marea

Desire Marea

Song of the Day: From the Durban artist with an extraordinary soulful voice who is also one half of South African duo FAKA, this single taken from the album Desire fuses club sounds with an operatic falsetto and the Zulu language

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Song of the Day: Gilligan Moss - Special Thing

May 12, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Gilligan Moss

Gilligan Moss

Song of the Day: After recent birdsong-related entries, more avian sound effects, but this time framed in catchy disco-funk-pop by the duo Ben and Evan from Chicago from their self-title debut album

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Song of the Day: Neil Francis - Mr Blue

May 7, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Neil Frances aka Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry

Neil Frances aka Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry

Song of the Day: Hugely catchy disco funk about an inspirational person wearing that colour by the Los Angeles duo of Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry from their new EP Stay Strong Play Long, with bass groove by Greg aka The Wombat

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Song of the Day: SeeMeNot - Rapture (and EP remix version)

May 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
SeeMeNot aka Renee Thompson

SeeMeNot aka Renee Thompson

Song of the Day: With lyrics and vocals by Renee Thompson aka SeeMeNot and co-written with Alberto Cohen, a beautiful, eerie eclectic mix of electronica and disco soul by the New York-based Canadian artist from her latest EP which also includes a remix by Gerd Janson

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Song of the Day: Who Shot Liberty? French Pop Radio Show

April 7, 2021 Peter Kimpton
C’est le pop magnifique …

C’est le pop magnifique …

Song of the Day: Glorying in all things Gallic, the new solo EP project by Dan Synge of Daniel Takes a Train is an joyfully unrestrained embrace of 60s and 70s French pop styles from Gainsbourg to Dutronc, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday

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Song of the Day: Sports - The Look

April 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Sports sport their sunglases

Sports sport their sunglases

Song of the Day: Taken from their EP Take A Good Look Pt 1, this smooth funk-pop number with a nod to Prince, by the duo of Cale Chronister from Christian Theriot from Tulsa, Oklahoma, parodies the culture of male fashion modelling

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Song of the Day: S.A.A.R.A - Forest

March 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest

S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest

Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-theme of horticulture after Billie Marten, plus William Doyle and Chad VanGaalen in the album section, a fabulously catchy new single by the London multi-instrumentalist who mixes funk, disco and electronica sprinkled liberally with flute and saxophone

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Arp Frique: Minin Bem Li

December 1, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album

Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album

Song of the Day: Electro-pop, Chic-era New York City 70s disco vibes, African, Caribbean and Cape Verdean influences are interwoven in this infectious, eccentric newest single by Amsterdam’s Niels Nieuborg, with guest Americo Brito

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Planet Battagon: Wezlee's Disco Inferno

November 10, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping

Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping

Song of the Day: This mind-bending number of brilliant, experimental cosmic jazz-electronica with wonky, twisting sonics and rhythm by London’s Nathan Curran-Tugg is a cavalcade of musical wit, infinite jest and energy from the new album Trans-Neptunia

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Djo: Keep Your Head Up

September 25, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Djo aka Joe Keery

Djo aka Joe Keery

Song of the Day: A fabulous, fizzling, funky Friday number to lift sprits is today’s pick by the artist also known as Joe Keery, and is very much in the style of Parliament and early Prince, with oodles of high vocals, sizzling synth and brass

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The Orielles – Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)

January 28, 2020 Peter Kimpton
The Orielles

The Orielles

Song of the Day: After the retro-funk disco of Róisín Murphy, another new track with a parallel style but a new twist from the young Halifax quartet, who have their own unique blend of fresh, pace-changing indie-dance-funk-pop

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Róisín Murphy – Narcissus

January 27, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Róisín Murphy makes some shapes

Róisín Murphy makes some shapes

Song of the Day: Old-school 70s disco with a fresh twist from the brilliant and eccentric Irish singer-songwriter, producer and art pop specialist, with a video inspired by Italian TV star Raffaella Carrà

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Tennis – Runner

November 25, 2019 Peter Kimpton
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Song of the Day: Anyone for Tennis? No need to work up a sweat, it’s just the latest otherworldly single by the indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, the husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley

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Pregoblin – Anna (Flowers Won't Grow) / Combustion

November 22, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Pregoblin’s Alex, Jessica and friend

Pregoblin’s Alex, Jessica and friend

Song of the Day: The latest single, like the previous by the south London band, fizzes with pop-funk maturity, a piano-led soulful disco number from Jessica Winter and former White Fat Family member Alex Sebley

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Anna Meredith – Paramour / Inhale Exhale

November 12, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS

Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS

Song of the Day: Two numbers from the Scottish composer who has a beguiling ability to mix multiple genres, from classical to pop, and here from her new album FIBS, creates an extraordinary world of beats, electronica and melodies

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Warmduscher - Midnight Dipper / I Got Friends

November 8, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.

Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.

Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.

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Toro y Moi – Freelance

November 20, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Save your work: Toro y Moi

Save your work: Toro y Moi

Song of the Day: Focusing on the difficulties of creative self-employment, this is in an engagingly funky, eccentric off-the-wall new single by the South Carolina songwriter, record producer and graphic designer from his forthcoming 2019 album Outer Peace

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Todd Terje – Inspector Norse

November 19, 2018 Peter Kimpton
It’s Album Time with Todd Terje

It’s Album Time with Todd Terje

Song of the Day: A new, fresh Monday start with a joyously upbeat electro-disco instrumental from the Norwegian songwriter, producer and DJ (aka Terje Olsen) from his 2014 studio LP, It’s Album Time

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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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