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Song of the Day: C Duncan - Alluvium

December 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton

C Duncan

Song of the Day: More space now, with a song about change from microcosm to the macrocosm, this new single by the composer, singer and musician from Glasgow comes with a sublime melody and a dream-like, cinematic quality

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Song of the Day: Grace Cummings - Heaven / Up In Flames

December 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Grace Cummings

Song of the Day: From Grace Carter yesterday to another Grace today, also addressing and questioning the religious idea, with the Melbourne singer-songwriter'’s powerful, gritty, distinctive voice and acoustic guitar, taken from her forthcoming album Storm Queen

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Song of the Day: Grace Carter - Dark Matter

December 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Grace Carter

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerful, but gently still, minimal soul number by the London-born R&B soul singer in a thank you letter addressing an absent father, and in turn, religious faith, with lyrical twist

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In 2021, pop, soul, R&B Tags Grace Carter, Polydor, BMG
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Song of the Day: Riton, Gucci Soundsystem and Jarvis Cocker - Let's Stick Around

December 19, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Jarvis Cocker - sticking around in the video

Song of the Day: Released to highlight issues around Cop26, a catchy, dancey new club anthem combined with the poignant, profound, whispering delivery of the Pulp frontman seeking a path to a unified way to address climate change

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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: Parks N' Rec - The Year That Everything Changed

December 9, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Celestial perspective: Parks N’ Recs

Song of the Day: Splendidly soaring, wistful new pop single by the Toronto musician Marco DiFelice reflecting on the pandemic, the blessing, curse and recalibration of human behaviour, inspired by travelling through central America then arriving in New York

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Song of the Day: Morgan Harper-Jones - All I Do / Lonely

December 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Morgan Harper-Jones

Song of the Day: A gently soulful, beautifully melancholy and reflective recent number about rewinding the past in the present by the singer-songwriter from Rochdale, out on Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Sasami - The Greatest

November 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Sasami Ashworth

Song of the Day: After Molly Nilsson’s Absolute Power yesterday, another superlative through the medium of power-chord indie courtesy of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth from her forthcoming album, Squeeze

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In 2021, indie, pop Tags Sasami, Domino Records
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Song of the Day: Tkay Maidza - So Cold

November 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Tkay Maidza’s EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3

Song of the Day: Superbly slick R&B, hip hop and pop from the summer-released EP Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 by the talented Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper

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Songs of the Day: Liraz - Hala / Joon Joon

November 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Liraz’s second album, Zan.

Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions

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In 2021, electronica, disco, pop, traditional Tags songs, song of the day, Liraz, Liraz Charhi, Iran, Israel, human rights, women's rights, Glitterbox Recordings
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Song of the Day: Chrysalid Homo - I'm A Prima Donna

November 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Chrysalid Homo’s new single

Song of the Day: Fabulously dark, dancey, catchy fuzzy synth-rich electro-pop by the Manchester artist describing an LGBTQ experience from beginnings on a council estate before their protagonist has a very physical queer awakening

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Song of the Day: Beach House - Once Twice Melody

November 10, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Sumptuous otherworldly dream pop: Beach House

Song of the Day: The title track to the forthcoming album by the Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, their first since 2018, is gorgeous dream-pop with glittering acoustic guitar, vocals and orchestration, and is previewed with further songs – Superstar, Pink Funeral and Through Me

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Song of the Day: Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity

November 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Switched on: Ibibio Sound Machine

Song of the Day: Electronic pop and afro-funk combine in this Hot Chip-produced new single by the vibrant London band exploring the connection between people and the power resource, and through all of life’s complexities, why it’s a simple answer

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Song of the Day: Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul - Thank You

October 31, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

Song of the Day: A clever, heavily ironic riposte to unwanted online communication, this talky-electronica pop number by the French-born Belgian-Caribbean singer and her Ghent-based collaborator is also also co-produced by Soulwax

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Song of the Day: Coco - Anybody's Guess

October 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Coco’s debut album

Song of the Day: A beautiful, serene, dreamlike number with a gorgeous bassline and vocal harmonies, the final track from the self-titled debut album by the NY/LA trio of Maia Friedman (from Dirty Projectors and Uni Ika Ai), Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider)

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Song of the Day: Freya Beer: Beast

October 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Gothic noir: Freya Beer

Song of the Day: With a menacing guitar intro, strong chord changes and a beguiling, dreamlike voice, this number about unleashing primal feelings by London singer-songwriter ideally girds up for a goth-noir Halloween, and is the title track from her debut album

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Song of the Day: Field Music - Someplace Dangerous

October 26, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Field Music’s new EP - another shot follows their most recent album, Flat White Moon

Song of the Day: Taken from the Brewis brothers’ latest EP, Another Shot, a genre-spanning of clever rhythms and vivid lyrics with about change of circumstances and fear of change through the prisms of seemingly ordinary domestic details in a small town

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Song of the Day: The Pictish Trail - Natural Successor

October 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail

Song of the Day: A thumping psych-electro-pop number about the forces of nature conceived during lockdown at his home on Scottish Isle of Eigg heralds the new LP by Johnny Lynch, Lost Map Records founder and delightfully eccentric original

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In 2021, electronica, experimental, pop, psychedelia Tags The Pictish Trail, Johnny Lynch, Fire Records, Lost Map Records
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Song of the Day: Snowy Band - Living With Myself

October 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Snowy Band

Snowy Band

Song of the Day: Mellow, delicate, wry, witty, almost whisperingly gentle, understated, and crisp indie pop with shades of Teenage Fanclub by the band from Melbourne from their album Alternative Endings, which was released over the summer

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Song of the Day: Hayden Thorpe - Metafeeling

October 16, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Hayden Thorpe

Hayden Thorpe

Song of the Day: From the recent new album Moondust For My Diamond, the ex-frontman from Wild Beasts from Kendal in Cumbria brings a shimmering melody and delicate countertenor delivery to this gentle pop songs that has sprinkles of Talk Talk

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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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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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