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Song of the Day: LoneLady - (There Is) No Logic

April 28, 2021 Peter Kimpton
LoneLady aka Julie Campbell

LoneLady aka Julie Campbell

Song of the Day: A cracking combination of early 80s synth pop reminiscent of Cabaret Voltaire combined with a singing style not unlike Neneh Cherry by the Mancunian electronica solo artist and multi-instrumentalist singer Julie Campbell

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Song of the Day: Sorry - Cigarette Packet

April 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Sorry’s latest EP Twistustwain

Sorry’s latest EP Twistustwain

Song of the Day: Taken from the south London duo’s new EP Twixtustwain, after their previous, this experimental electronica pop number captures smoking’s dizzy addictive rush and comedown through fast, intertwining vocals, thrumming bass and clanking rhythm

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Songs of the Day: Bess Atwell - Co-op / Time Comes In Roses

April 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Bess Atwell

Bess Atwell

Songs of the Day: Two tender, pointed and rather beautiful numbers by the English singer-songwriter, one referring to a song playing in a supermarket and a tricky relationship, the other tracking time and unfolding self-doubt

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Song of the Day: Anna Leone - Once

April 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Anna Leone

Anna Leone

Song of the Day: A beautifully fragile, emotive voice and soaring melody in this gentle but powerful acoustic guitar and piano number by the singer-songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden

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Song of the Day: Lightning Bug - The Right Thing Is Hard To Do

April 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The forthcoming album by Lightning Bug

The forthcoming album by Lightning Bug

Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album A Color of the Sky, a slow, beautifully serene, soft focus, dream-like number by the New York band about time passing and changing childhood perspective

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Song of the Day: Kit Sebastian - Rain (باران)

April 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Kit Sebastian, a rich mix of musical influences including from France and Turkey

Kit Sebastian, a rich mix of musical influences including from France and Turkey

Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-French theme, a new number from the London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, who also move between Turkey and France with refreshing hybrid of French 60s psychedelic pop sound

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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: Gloria - You Had It All

April 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Gloria

Gloria

Song of the Day: Who doesn’t love Paris in springtime? So let’s go there for an upbeat fusion of 60s-style French psychedelic pop and Motown by the bandf Gloria from their LP Sabbat Matters, out on Howlin Banana Records

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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: Julie Pavon - Jealous

March 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Julie Pavon

Julie Pavon

Song of the Day: “I think I might be jealous of my own mind”. Addictively Idiosyncratic, stripped down electronica-funk-pop filled with wonky sounds by the Honduran and Danish artist based Copenhagen, with echoes of Billie Eilish

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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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Song of the Day: Billie Marten - Garden of Eden

March 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Billie Marten’s new LP, Flora Fauna

Billie Marten’s new LP, Flora Fauna

Song of the Day: With intimate, hushed voice and sound, particularly in the verse section that echoes Fiona Apple and Billie Eilish, this beautiful metaphorical single by the British singer-songwriter from Ripon in North Yorkshire comes from her new LP, Flora Fauna

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Song of the Day: Du Blonde - I'm Glad That We Broke Up (feat. Ezra Furman)

March 6, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Du Blonde is back

Du Blonde is back

Song of the Day: With an unstoppable chorus and fuzz guitar style that mixes Ramones with glam rock, this fabulously catchy upbeat heartbreak pop song brings Beth Jeans Houghton together with longtime friend and Chicago indie artist

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Song of the Day: Juniore - Un jour ou l'autre

March 4, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Juniore

Juniore

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s 60s French-style pop by Iraina Mancini, even more authentic recent release from French band fronted by singer/songwriter Anna Jean with extra cool and sexy echoes of Françoise Hardy and some surf guitar

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Song of the Day: Iraina Mancini - Deep End

March 3, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Sixties influences: Iraina Mancini

Sixties influences: Iraina Mancini

Song of the Day: With a heavy dose of 60s French pop à la Jacques Dutronc and a dash of Girls Aloud, this new single by the British singer-songwriter and actress has strong melody, clapping rhythm, big backing vocals and driving guitar

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Song of the Day: The Lounge Society - Cain's Heresy

March 2, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The Lounge Society

The Lounge Society

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Speedy Wunderground release, another from the label and produced by Dan Carey, the latest strong single by the very promising young indie band from Hebdon Bridge in West Yorkshire

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Song of the Day: Brodka and Scottibrains – Wrong Party

March 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
A shoe-in for Brodka

A shoe-in for Brodka

Song of the Day: With taut, rhythmic guitars, a jittery sax and strong melody that builds momentum, a brilliant indie postpunk collaboration between the Polish singer and the band involving innovative producer Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

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Song of the Day: The Umlauts - Boiler Suits and Combat Boots

February 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The Umlauts

The Umlauts

Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”

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Song of the Day: Poppy Ajudha – Weakness

February 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Popp Ajudha

Popp Ajudha

Song of the Day: ‘You are my weakness, all salty and sweetness’. Sassy, sensual, with high voice, taut guitar and dash of Latin cuica flavour, the south London jazz and soul singer’s latest song is a expression of independence meeting melting vulnerability

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Song of the Day: Baby Boys - Duke and the Cash

February 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Close mic threesome: Baby Boys

Close mic threesome: Baby Boys

Song of the Day: A slick fusion of fast country-style guitar, funk, hip hop and pop by the trio from Saint Paul builds momentum with a trumpet finish and comes from their forthcoming album, Threesome

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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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