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Song of the Day: binki: Revolve

August 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Baraka Ongeri aka binki

Song of the Day: A genre-traversing number by the Brooklyn artist Baraka Ongeri from his highly original EP Motor Function mixes electronica, postpunk and synth New Wave punchy sound and a dark bassline with echoes of Young Fathers

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Song of the Day: moa moa - Coltan Candy

August 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
moa moa

moa moa

Song of the Day: With a fabulous shuffle rhythm, bassline, synths and dark lyrics relating to the dubious trade in the African-mined metal mineral coltan, used in the manufacture of mobile phones, this alt-pop single comes via the great production of Dan Carey on the Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: Red Telephone - Happy Man

August 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Red Telephone

Red Telephone

Song of the Day: With influences from Kraftwerk to John Cale, a rich fusion of dark psychedelia and early-80s New Wave synth pop, this latest single from the Cardiff band has a mesmeric melody and melancholic lyric

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Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Aquamarine

August 18, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House

The cover of the forthcoming Hand Habits LP Fun House

Song of the Day: Dreamy electronica, guitar and voice by the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist Meg Duffy, favourably compared to Big Thief and Angel Olsen, and who has played with many other artists including Weyes Blood and The War on Drugs

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Songs of the Day: Alexis Taylor - Dying In Heaven / House of the Truth

August 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven

Deserted: from the video for Dying In Heaven

Song of the Day: The Hot Chip frontman’s new single releases are slow, beautiful but gently apocalyptic numbers that include references to the Covid epidemic and a look at religion through a distant lens. They also heralds his forthcoming solo album, Silence

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Song of the Day: Alice Hubble - My Dear Friend

August 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters

Alice Hubble’s My Dear Friend, a touching recollection of parental love letters

Song of the Day: This entrancing new song of interweaving melodies and shuffling rhythm by the London electronic artist was inspired by her discovering a collection of love letters that her mother wrote to her father around the time that they first got together

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Song of the Day: Asa Moto - Cacao

August 11, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’

Oli and Gilles of Asa Moto. In Japanese the name means ‘male cannabis plant’

Song of the Day: From the latest upcoming EP Martino, the Belgian duo from Ghent’s new single is a Kraftwerk-inspired piece of delightfully catchy, tactile, rich, tasty, rumbling stereo analogue synth

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Song of the Day: Orlando Weeks – Big Skies, Silly Faces

July 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off

Orlando Weeks’s new single takes off

Song of the Day: This gentle, rather beautiful number by the former Maccabees frontman is taken from his forthcoming second solo album after 2020’s A Quickening, and has echoes of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk

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Song of the Day: Meadow Meadow - DNO

July 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Meadow Meadow: Silouettes

Meadow Meadow: Silouettes

Song of the Day: Beautifully fluid, rippling electro-folk-pop with a tragic twist and echoes of Tunng by the London-based duo of James Green and Peter Darlington, taken from their forthcoming EP Silhouettes, out on Practise Music

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Song of the Day: Amon Tobin presents Stone Giants – Best Be Sure (feat. Figueroa)

July 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants

The album by Amon Tobin’s new alias, Stone Giants

Song of the Day: After Emma-Jean Thackray’s Spectre yesterday, a beautiful and whisperingly dreamy, ghostly sound in this unusual acoustic number by the Brazilian musician composer and producer under the his new Stone Giants alias from the album West Coast Love Stories

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Song of the Day: Park Hye Jin 박혜진 - Y Don't U (feat. Clams Casino & Take A Daytrip)

July 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Park Hye Jin

Park Hye Jin

Song of the Day: Posing one of the biggest questions in pop music, this catchy new electro hip-hop single by the South Korean-born, LA-based artist joined by the New Jersey producer songwriter and DJ Michael Volpe and the US duo of Denzel Baptiste and David Bira

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Song of the Day: Skeleton - Live In Another World

July 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon

Skeleten aka Russell Fitzgibbon

Song of the Day: Music that sounds like an invitation - intelligent, catchy, engaging, mesmeric and escapist electro-pop dance music by the Australian DJ, producer and singer-songwriter from Sydney – Russell Fitzgibbon

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Song of the Day: Wanton Witch - The Beautiful Trauma of Being

July 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Wanton Witch

Wanton Witch

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s Witch Fever, a differently bewitching, electronic instrumental piece of shifting, restlessly clever multiple sections by the Borneo island-born Bangkok-based trans artist and DJ

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Song of the Day: Lucie Antunes - LNM

July 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Lucie Antunes

Lucie Antunes

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Myd, more French pop, this time in mesmerically alternative form of non-verbal vocalisations, throaty then moving into full harmonies laid over catchy beats and electronica by the Parisian classically contemporary-trained drummer and percussionist

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Song of the Day: Joviale - Blow!

July 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Joviale

Joviale

Song of the Day: Offbeat, alternative and with a mesmerising melody, this electro-pop-soul single from the London artist includes wonderful chord changes, saxophone and a strong, resonant vocal line

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Song of the Day: Jinjé - Cinétique

June 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Open Unity EP by Jinjé

Song of the Day: A fantasia of mesmerising electronica by Leeds musician Lee Malcolm, from the EP Open Unity, out on the Mesh label, with a kinetic-themed animated video by Lawrie Miller using the artwork of James Lacey

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - Emperor Machine

June 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Manchester’s legends ACR

Manchester’s legends ACR

Song of the Day: Dedicated to the late great Andrew Weatherall, this new single is perfect fusion of dance, postpunk and electronica, by the Manchester band and Andrew Meecham comes from the forthcoming new EP A Certain Ratio vs The Emperor Machine

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Song of the Day: audiobooks - The Doll

June 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Evangeline Ling and David Wrench

Evangeline Ling and David Wrench

Song of the Day: An alluringly dark-humoured, pathos-filled but catchy new dance new number about a small but tragic emergency by the electro-pop duo of producer David Wrench and singer/artist Evangeline Ling – from the LP Astro Tough out this coming autumn on Heavenly Records

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Song of the Day: Museum of Love - Marching Orders

June 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Museum of Love

Museum of Love

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life of Mammals, inspired by the Women’s March and a Don Cherry sound, a brilliantly percussive number by the New York duo of drummer and founding LCD Soundsystem member Pat Mahoney and musician Dennis McNany, aka Jee Day

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Song of the Day: Scotch Rolex - Omuzira (feat. MC Yallah)

June 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Scotch Rolex’s new album Tewari

Scotch Rolex’s new album Tewari

Song of the Day: Stunning electronica and hip hop from the legendary Nyege Nyege Studios and sub label Hakuna Kulala by acclaimed Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg) under the moniker Scotch Rolex joined by Kampala, Uganda’s fiercely wonderful rapper MC Yallah

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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
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Dec 17, 2025
Favourite albums of 2025 - Part Two
Dec 17, 2025

Welcome to the second part of Song Bar favourite albums of 2025. There is also a first part and a third part this week. 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 17, 2025
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Dec 16, 2025
Favourite albums of 2025 - Part One
Dec 16, 2025

Welcome to the first part of Song Bar favourite albums of 2025. There will also be a second and third part this week. 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 16, 2025
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Dec 16, 2025
Juliana Hatfield: Lightning Might Strike
Dec 16, 2025

New album: Personal upheaval, grief, powerlessness, trauma, sudden change inform the title and colour the lyrics of this latest LP by the seasoned Boston indie artist but her songs are packed with brutally honest, candid, concise reflections and warm, catchy, stirring riffs and melodies

Dec 16, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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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
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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

new songs …

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Dec 19, 2025
Song of the Day: DEADLETTER - To The Brim
Dec 19, 2025

Song of the Day: A moody, mysterious minute-long intro with gentle bursts of brass and woodwind veils what becomes a punchy new lead single by the Leeds post-punk band heralding their second LP - Existence is Bliss out on 27 February via SO Recordings

Dec 19, 2025
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Dec 18, 2025
Song of the Day: Greentea Peng - Prisoners Round
Dec 18, 2025

Song of the Day: Following March 2025’s acclaimed album, Tell Dem It’s Sunny, the south-east London artist (aka Aria Wells) returns with another smoky, dark, track with hues of blues, dub and soul and Portishead-esque trip-hop, focusing on the trappings and challenges of modern life

Dec 18, 2025
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Dec 17, 2025
Song of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Miss the Way You Swim
Dec 17, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful modular synths and intermingling orchestral sounds ripple in this work by the American composer, performer and producer in a piece shaped by loss of someone loved, taken from an upcoming instrumental album Thoughts On The Future, out on Nettwerk Music

Dec 17, 2025
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Dec 16, 2025
Song of the Day: The Paper Kites - Change Of The Wind
Dec 16, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, reflective number by the alternative folk-rock band from Melbourne fronted by Sam Bentley, heralding their seventh studio album If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, out on 23 January via Nettwerk Music Group

Dec 16, 2025
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Dec 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Courtney Marie Andrews - Little Picture Of A Butterfly
Dec 15, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful, delicate, fluttering, eclectic, heartbreak folk and Americana by the singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, heralding her forthcoming new album, Valentine, out on 16 January via Loose Future

Dec 15, 2025
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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 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
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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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