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Song of the Day: The Smile - You Will Never Work In Television Again

January 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The Smile are (right to left) Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner

Song of the Day: This side project by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, brings this powerfully scything rock number that makes a pointed reference to an exploitative media mogul and political figure

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In 2022, indie, rock Tags songs, song of the day, The Smile, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead, Tom Skinner, Sons of Kemet, Self Help Tapes, XL Recordings
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Song of the Day: Enjoyable Listens - A Laugh And A Half

January 17, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Enjoyable Listens? Certainly

Song of the Day: The band with a self-fulfilling name deliver tender, pathos-filled, humorous, country-infused baroque indie pop of shimmery guitars and the velvety deep voice of singer Luke Duffett, here in a serenade about embracing idiosyncrasies

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In indie, pop, 2021, 2022 Tags Enjoyable Listens, Luke Duffett, Fierce Panda Records
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Song of the Day: Honeyglaze - Shadows

January 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Honeyglaze

Song of the Day: Fresh indie single with a dreamy feel, lovely bending bassline and soaring, catchy melody line by the south London trio, newly signed to Speedy Wunderground and produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Crows - Slowly Separate

January 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crows

Song of the Day: The first new music in three years by the London band comes in this blistering burst of post-punk taken from second album Beware Believers, due out 1 April via Bad Vibrations Records

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Song of the Day: Kim Gordon - Grass Jeans

January 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kim Gordon

Song of the Day: “Take me downtown … the darkness downtown …” A first new single since the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman’s 2019 solo album No Home Record, this powerful protest number with thrumming bass and dissonant guitars is a charity abortion rights fundraiser for Fund Texas Choice

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In 2021, 2022, indie, rock Tags Kim Gordon, women's rights, human rights
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Song of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - stabilise

January 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nilüfer Yanya

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming second album, Painless, due in March, an excellent indie single with a whispering restlessness and driving beat by the London-based British artist

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In 2021, indie, pop Tags Nilüfer Yanya, songs, song of the day, ATO Records, Play It Again Sam
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Song of the Day: Ghostbaby - Molly's Got A Brand New Haircut

January 7, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ghostbaby

Song of the Day: Humorous, droll, catchy and full of pathos, this single comes from the four-piece indie-punk band from Paisley and the Glasgow area, their sound reflecting a love of the Pixies (check the Debaser reference), as well as echoes of early Blur and Libertines

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Song of the Day: Sweeping Promises - Pain Without A Touch

January 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sweeping Promises’s Pain Without A Touch

Song of the Day: Thumpingly catchy post-punk about tricky love by the American indie duo of Lira and Caufield who hail from Lawrence, Kansas and Boston, Massachusetts with this recent new single now out on Sub Pop

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Song of the Day: EERA - Falling Between The Ice (from album Speak)

December 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton

EERA’s new album - Speak

Song of the Day: Also addressing climate change like yesterday’s song, the latest single from the recently released excellent album, Speak, by UK-based Norwegian artist Anna Lena Bruland, is beautifully reminiscent of PJ Harvey and Cocteau Twins

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In 2021, alternative, electronica, experimental, indie Tags EERA, songs, song of the day, climate change, Just Dust Recordings, Big Dada, Ninja Tune
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Song of the Day: Hurray for the Riff Raff – Rhododendron

December 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton

On ferlile ground: Alynda Lee Segarra aka Hurray for the Riff Raff

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Life on Earth, a vibrant, climate-change and plant-inspired single infused with a powerful melody and lyrics by the New Orleans-born, Bronx-raised artist Alynda Lee Segarra

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In 2021, indie Tags songs, song of the day, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Lee Segarra, climate change, Nonesuch Records
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Song of the Day: Billy Nomates - Christmas is for Lovers, Ghosts and Children

December 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Billy Nomates aka Tor Maries

Song of the Day: Christmas may be over, but it’s never to late to give to those who need it most, especially by this profoundly moving song by the fabulous artist Tor Maries, with this pay-what-you-like single raising funds for Feed The Homeless Bristol

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Song of the Day: Spiritualized - Always Together With You

December 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Jason Pierce aka J Spaceman of Spiritualized

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, the new single by Jason Pierce and co is a love song with an expansive, Christmassy sound and a space theme, but was inspired by the solitude of lockdown

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Songs of the Day: LYR: Winter Solstice / Cascade Theory

December 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Cascade Theory by LYR

Songs of the Day: On this, the shortest day of 2021, the winter solstice, a poetic pair of songs older and recent by the group composed of poet laureate Simon Armitage and musicians Patrick Pearson and Richard Walters, with Rozi Plain as guest on the second

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Song of the Day: Foals - Wake Me Up

December 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton

And then there were three: Foals

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album

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In 2021, funk, indie, pop, rock Tags Foals, Warner Music, Talking Heads
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Song of the Day: Sprints - A Modern Job

December 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Work ethics: Sprints’ new single

Song of the Day: “This modern hope, that’s all I have.” Brilliantly angry, sharp, ironic postpunk new single by the band from Dublin expressing aspirational frustration through caustic wit, passionate vocals and searing guitar

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Song of the Day: Average Life Complaints - Precious Pressures

December 14, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: With an almost tongue-twisting title and sharp, caustic lyrics, a sample of London post-punk band’s angry, angular attack approach on modern life with guitar work to match, taken from their EP Fish & Chips

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Song of the Day: Loose Fit - Exhale

December 11, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Loose Fit’s new single, Exhale

Song of the Day: Tight, crisp, catchy, rolling rhythm postpunk by the band from Sydney, Australia, featuring Anna Langdon on vocals, Max Edgar on guitar, Kaylene Milner on drums, Richard Martin on bass, and Jonathan Boulet on congas

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Song of the Day: Spoon - The Hardest Cut

December 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Spoon’s forthcoming album Lucifer On The Sofa

Song of the Day: Blisteringly catchy and hard-hitting new single by the veteran indie rockers from Austin, Texas fronted by Britt Daniel, taken from their forthcoming album Devil On The Sofa, due out February 2022 on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Big Thief - Time Escaping

December 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (February 2022), Brooklyn’s Adrianne Lenker and co return with a brilliantly clever, percussive, beautiful new single with an entropy and climate theme

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Song of the Day: Rozi Plain - Silent Fan

December 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Rozi Plain

Song of the Day: A beautifully delicate new single by Winchester-born, London-based artist Rozi Leydon with gentle, stark strings and woodwind, released as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Programme

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New Albums …

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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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