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Song of the Day: PVA – Untethered

June 16, 2022 Peter Kimpton

PVA: Untethered

Song of the Day: Fabulously arresting, talky new wave electro-pop with a slightly menacing, dark feel by the London trio of Ella Harris, Josh Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this new single out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

June 15, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Unloved - Mother's Been a Bad Girl

Song of the Day: Given a wider audience by its inclusion on the Killing Eve TV series soundtrack, this fusion of glam rock and electro-pop by the trio of LA’s Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia and Belfast producer and DJ David Holmes is sexy and stylish, and now also comes with some brand new ear-catching remixes including by Horse Meat Disco

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Song of the Day: Donna Thompson – Be With You

June 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Donna Thompson

Song of the Day: With soulful voice reminiscent of Lianne La Havas and Minnie Riperton, this beautiful new number about yearning in a long-distance relationship (especially over lockdown) comes from the London singer and drummer from her upcoming debut EP Something True on PRAH Recordings

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Hi-Fidelity featuring Biig Piig

June 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity

Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP

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Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Hatred Has a Mother

June 10, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jesca Hoop

Song of the Day: From her forthcoming new album Order of Romance, the Manchester-based Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist returns with an enchanting and clever new single about Revolutionary Love, interweaving beautiful vocal harmonies and brass and percussion accompaniment

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Song of the Day: Maja Lena - No More Flowers / Antares

June 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Maja Lena

Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s Regina Spektor nectar collecting song, two beautiful but melancholy floral referencing folk pop numbers, the former brand new and from forthcoming album Pluto, the latter from 2021’s album The Keeper by the half-Swedish and Stroud-based musician Marianne Parrish

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Song of the Day: Regina Spektor – Up The Mountain

June 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Regina Spektor’s upcoming album: Home, Before and After

Song of the Day: Picked a few weeks ago for our playlists for songs about bees, and while not mentioning the insect, certainly within the interpretation, this inventively striking strings-and-brass new single about relentless collection by the Russian-American singer-songwriter is from her forthcoming album Home, Before and After

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Song of the Day: Florist – Sci-fi Silence

June 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Otherworldly and delicate: Florist

Song of the Day: An exquisitely otherworldly, delicate, shimmering folk-pop single with a space theme by the New York quartet featuring singer Emily Sprague, taken from their forthcoming 19-track self-titled album, out on Double Double Whammy

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Song of the Day: Rachel Sermanni – Soak Me

June 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Rachel Sermanni’s forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Seaside Haiku by Laura Veirs, another beautiful shoreline-themed number, by the Scottish signer-songwriter, the first with Courtney Harman, taken from her forthcoming EP Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea, out on Jellygirl Records

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Song of the Day: Laura Veirs: Seaside Haiku

June 4, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Laura Veirs

Song of the Day: Taken from her forthcoming album, Found Light, a beautiful grungey folk-pop number by the singer-songwriter created from haiku poems written on a visit to the cold, windy beach of windy beach in Seaside, Oregon, and about coming to terms with being single

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Song of the Day: Cola - Fulton Park

June 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cola’s album Deep in View

Song of the Day: A thrumming, knotty, crafty, catchy post-punk single with a glam-rock beat by the trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums) from their debut album Deep in View out on Fire Talk

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Song of the Day: Special Interest – (Herman's) House

May 31, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Special Interest

Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years

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Song of the Day: Braxe + Falcon (with Sunni Colon) - Elevation

May 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

DIfferent category: Braxe + Falcon

Song of the Day: Smooth, sublime, electro-funk-pop by the French dance music production pair of Alain and Stéphane Quême, aka Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, joined here by Sunni Colon, taken from their forthcoming Step By Step EP that also features Panda Bear

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Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso: Sunburn

May 28, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Sylvan Esso are Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn

Song of the Day: After Diana Ross’s call for the sunshine yesterday, some after effects with this new catchy, clever, dancey electro-pop track by the North Caroline duo of singer and lyricist Amelia Meath and instrumentalist and producer Nick Sanborn, out on Loma Vista Recordings

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Song of the Day: Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine (Minions soundtrack)

May 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine from the new Minions movie soundtrack

Song of the Day: A shamelessly upbeat summer disco-funk number as part of the soundtrack for the new animated 70s-themed Minions movie soundtrack featuring the veteran Motown singer, and the Australian band

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Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Forever In Sunset

May 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Furman returns with a new album in August

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return

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Song of the Day: Telefís - Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics

May 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon

Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"

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Song of the Day: Rubber Oh - Hyperdrive Fantasy

May 23, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Cover of the forthcoming Rubber Oh album Space Craft

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Space Craft, a psychedelic-pop-rock number of rich riffing and vocal harmonies, dark menace, electronic wobbles and space adventure by Newcastle’s Sam Grant – guitarist and producer from Pigs x 7. Out on Rocket Recordings

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Song of the Day: Crack Cloud - Please Yourself

May 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby

Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry

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Song of the Day: Stealing Sheep - Never Gonna Live Up

May 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Stealing Sheep’s new project, Wow Machine

Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming album Wow Machine, a specially commissioned project taking inspiration from the female pioneers of electronic music, this catchy electro-pop single by the Liverpool trio draws on the acid-era sound of the Roland TB-303

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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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