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Song of the Day: Decius - Show Me No Tears (featuring Lias Saoudi & Maggie The Cat)

October 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, part of the Decius project

Song of the Day: Clubby, mesmeric, darkly addictive and laced with the Roland 808 and Chicago house by South London’s Trashmouth Records founders Liam and Luke May, Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London/ Warmduscher) and Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi, taken from the forthcoming Decius Vol. 1.

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In 2022, dance, experimental, electronica Tags Decius, Lias Saoudi, The Fat White Family, Warmduscher, Trashmouth Records, The Leaf Label
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Song of the Day: Orbital and Sleaford Mods - Dirty Rat

October 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Orbital brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll

Song of the Day: A brilliant riposte to the omnishambles of the ongoing British Conservative government and all those voters responsible who blame others, including immigrants, in a no-holds-barred mix of beats by Phil and Paul Hartnoll and incomparably biting delivery of Jason Williamson

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In 2022, dance, electronica, experimental, hip hop, indie Tags Orbital, Sleaford Mods, Jason Williamson, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Young Fathers - I Saw

October 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Young Fathers’ next LP Heavy Heavy is due on February 2023

Song of the Day: A brilliantly striking new single the innovative Edinburgh trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, from their forthcoming next album, Heavy Heavy, released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Movulango - The Peak

October 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Movulango aka Mozes Mosuse

Song of the Day: Dark, mysterious, psychedelic folk and woozy electronica by the Belgian musician and producer Mozes Mosuse aka Movulango from his forthcoming debut EP Mirror In Man, out on Soulwax’s DEEWEE label

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Song of the Day: Fever Ray - What They Call Us

October 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Copy that: the incomparable Fever Ray from the new video

Song of the Day: The first new song from Karin Dreijer since 2017 is a evocative, strange, eerie, haunting, offbeat electro-pop visualised by a goulish office party populated by zombie-like figures and a deadpan reference to National Cinnamon Roll Day

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In 2022, alternative, electronica, experimental, pop Tags songs, song of the day, Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer, Rabid Records
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Songs of the Day: June McDoom - The City / Stone After Stone

October 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

June McDoom

Songs of the Day: Smoky, intense, ghostly and emotional, a double entry today by the New York singer-songwriter with two numbers decorated with guitar, piano, birdsong, and especially her beautiful, breathy voice, heralding a forthcoming eponymous album, out on Temporary Residence

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Song of the Day: Housepainters - Fixed Position

October 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Catchy, funky, enigmatic electro-pop with original twist and elements of krautrock, wave-punk and dub, by the new trio from Amsterdam, written by Marnix Wilmink and Tom Ogilvie, recorded in a bedroom, and out on Les Disques Bongo Joe

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In 2022, dance, electronica, experimental, new wave, pop, krautrock Tags Housepainters, songs, song of the day, Les Disques Bongo Joe
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Song of the Day: Mamalarky - Shining Armor

October 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Mamalarky: Livvy Bennett, Michael Hunter

Song of the Day: Highly original post-punk psychedelic rock with a shiny, dream-pop vocal layer, and distinctive stop-star guitar, bass and percussion by the Atlanta and LA band, taken from their sophomore album Pocket Fantasy out on Fire Talk Records

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In 2022, experimental, indie, pop, post-punk, rock Tags Mamalarky, Fire Talk, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Francis Lung - Midland Hotel II: The Restaurant (Short Stories EP)

September 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The beautifully vivid Short Stories EP by Francis Lung

Song of the Day: Taken from the new EP, Short Stories, this beautifully intimate, vivid, narrative-spoken number that builds powerfully into a dreamy climax by the Manchester artist tells of a widow transported back in time by an onion soup

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Song of the Day: Aircooled - Supermotodisco

September 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The debut LP by Aircooled

Song of the Day: Stirring, infectious, driving momentum with a krautrock- and disco-infused new number by the trio of by Katharine Wallinger, Oliver Cherer and Justin Welch from St Leonards near Hastings, from their expansive recent four-track album St Leopards

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Song of the Day: The Orielles – BEAM/S

September 21, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The Orielles

Song of the Day: Heralding their forthcoming new album, Tableau, some mesmeric, shapeshifting 8-minute, gradual-build celestial dream pop by the Yorkshire trio from Halifax, with an ever wider innovative range

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In 2022, alternative, experimental, indie, pop Tags The Orielles, Heavenly
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Song of the Day: Björk - Atopos

September 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Elemental fusion of opposites: who else, but Björk?

Song of the Day: The iconic Icelandic artist returns, literally with a bang – mixing mighty opposites in a song about how such things may combine – clattering, hammering beats, involving Indonesian experimental duo Gabber Modus Operandi – and clarinets, joining from disharmony into into an eventual frenetic unison

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In 2022, alternative, dance, experimental, pop Tags Bjork, One Little Independent, songs, song of the day
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Songs of the Day: LEENALCHI – Please Don't Go / Tiger Is Coming

September 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival

Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far

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Alice Boman - Feels Like A Dream (featuring Perfume Genius)

September 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Alice Boman

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s song by Daniela Lalita, another beautifully fragile, sensual number, a melancholy dream-pop love song reminiscent of a mix of Kate Bush and Sufjan Stevens, here by the Swedish singer-songwriter, with guest vocals by the American artist Michael Hadreas

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In 2022, experimental, pop Tags Alice Boman, Perfume Genius, songs, song of the day, Play It Again Sam, Kate Bush
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Song of the Day: Daniela Lalita - No Para

September 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Daniela Lalita

Song of the Day: Spooky, sensual, intimate and mysterious, this beautiful new single by the Peruvian, New York-based musician, singer, model and artist Daniela Lalita Czenstochowski is the latest in the a series of eye- and ear-catching releases, using stylish, original samples of her voice and Buchla synths, with echoes of early 80s Kate Bush

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Song of the Day: Nick Hakim – Happen

August 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nick Hakim returns with his smoothly refined sound

Song of the Day: A deliciously mellow, honey-smooth and beautifully refined funk number by the Brooklyn-based musician, taken from his from the forthcoming album COMETA out on 21 October 21 on ATO Records

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Song of the Day: The Umlauts – Another Fact

August 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The Umlauts forthcoming new EP, Another Fact

Song of the Day: “Just another trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis” is how the band describe themselves with their latest catchy, arresting retro new wave electro-rave-pop sung in German

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Song of the Day: Brian Eno – There Were Bells

August 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Brian Eno’s forthcoming new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Song of the Day: A full smooth, rich voice, rarely heard, comes from the artist better known for his instrumentals and ambient tracks. in this strong, delicate and very moving and poignant new number about climate emergency

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Song of the Day: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom - Edge Of The Edge

August 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Panda Bear aka Noah Benjamin Lennox

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Reset, this wonderfully ironic look at the life of staring at screens and mobile technology uses a retro vocal harmony style reminiscent of Beach Boys, with added electronic beeps and a dash of They Might Be Giants

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Song of the Day: Hatis Noit - Angelus Novus / Jomon

July 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Hatis Noit’s new album: Aura

Songs of the Day: Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals

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Dec 18, 2025
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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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