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Song of the Day: Frankie Rose - Anything

January 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Frankie Rose’s new album Love As Projection is out in March

Song of the Day: Shimmering, lush new synth-pop by the longstanding New York indie artist, taken from her forthcoming new album Love As Projection out March on Night School and Slumberland Records

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Song of the Day: Baba Ali - Burn Me Out

January 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baba Ali

Song of the Day: Mixing New York and London post-punk and Berlin electro-dance music influences, fantastically sparky, catchy guitar-riff electro-pop from the New Jersey-born artist’s second album, Laugh Like A Bomb out in April on Memphis Industries

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Song of the Day: Everything But The Girl - Nothing Left To Lose

January 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt

Song of the Day: Heralding the forthcoming Fuse, their first album for 24 years, since 1999’s Temperamental, the veteran duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt return with a beguiling, melancholy electro-pop single of club beats and soulful yearning

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Song of the Day: Peter Gabriel - Panopticom

January 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Peter Gabriel - Panopticom

Song of the Day: With a vibrant, dynamic sound and heralding his first album of completely new material for 20 years, i/o, the singer, songwriter, producer and campaigner’s single is based on the idea of creating an infinitely expandable accessible data globe: the Panopticom

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Song of the Day: Lowly - Seasons

January 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lowly

Song of the Day: Delicate, lush, textured, beautifully building electro-pop by the Danish alternative indie quintet from their forthcoming next album Keep Up The Good Work out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Death & Vanilla - Find Another Illusion

January 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Death & Vanilla’s forthcoming album, Flicker

Song of the Day: Beautiful, dreamy baroque-psych-folk by the Swedish band from Malmö, the first single from their forthcoming new album, Flicker, their first album in four years, out in March via Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Koleżanka - Canals Of Our City

January 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Koleżanka’s next album, set for release in February

Song of the Day: With shades of Stereolab, delightfully tuneful indie by the Brooklyn artist Kristina Moore, a bittersweet number about meeting her first love who then experienced tragedy, taken from her next album, Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes

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Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - Corner Of My Eye

January 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Now you see us: The Lemon Twigs - Corner Of My Eye

Song of the Day: A delicate, tender and gentle new single, their first since 2020 by the Long Island multi-instrumental and high singing brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario which harks back to a Laurel Canyon 1970s sound

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Song of the Day: Daisy The Great - Time Machine

January 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Time Machine By Daisy The Great

Song of the Day: With a new year, a wry, humorous and clever song about the perception of time and quantum mechanics, by the indie Brooklyn duo of Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker complete with sweet vocal harmonising

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Christmas Songs Selection 2022: Laufey, Phoebe Bridgers, Amanda Shires, Rosie Thomas, Sara Noelle, Titus Andronicus, Silversun Pickups/Low

December 25, 2022 Peter Kimpton

So Much Wine covered by Phoebe Bridgers

Songs of the Day: It’s the season where music market is flooded with Christmas songs seeking to cash in with the cheesy, sentimental and traditional. Here, there’s still no shortage of sleigh bells, but from covers to originals this small selection might be worth a listen at any time …

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Song of the Day: Decisive Pink - Haffmilch Holiday

December 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Decisive Pink: Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

Song of the Day: Filled with wonderful modular synth whistles, squeaks, squiggles, plonks and industrial noises, fabulously dreamy old-school-style electro-pop by the New York duo of Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV (Ekaterina Shilonosova)

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Song of the Day: abracadabra - talk talk (shapes & colors album)

December 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Chris Niles and Hannah Skelton of abracadabra

Song of the Day: Clever, quirky, mischievous 80s-style new wave post-punk electro-pop with a dash of Talking Heads by the Oakland California duo of Hannah Skelton and Chris Niles from their forthcoming album, Shapes & Colors, out on Melodic Records

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Song of the Day: Kali Horse - In The Water

December 14, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Kali Horse

Song of the Day: Sensual, mesmerising, liquid, echoey, ethereal, psychedelic krautrock-pop with oscillating drum rhythm, beautiful rumblings, rippling harp and vocals by the Toronto duo Desiree Das Gupta and Sam Maloney

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Song of the Day: Fazerdaze - Thick of the Honey

December 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Fazerdaze’s new EP, Break!

Song of the Day: With a catchy syncopated, fuzzy bass line and melody, tasty indie dream-pop by the New Zealand singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Amelia Murray from her new EP, Break!

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Song of the Day: @ - Friendship Is Frequency

December 12, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The artwork for @’s forthcoming album Mind Palace Music

Song of the Day: A charmingly offbeat acoustic guitar number enriched with vocal harmonies by the US indie duo, band name pronounced "At’, from their forthcoming album Mind Palace Music, out on Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: King Tuff - Portrait Of God (feat. Sasami)

December 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

King Tuff with … Music, Art and Nature

Song of the Day: Colourful, catchy, gentle, philosophical, and warm, the American indie pop-rock singer-songwriter Kyle Thomas paints a portrait that his religion is three things: Music, Art, and Nature. Out on Sub Pop.

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Song of the Day: Caroline Polachek – Sunset

December 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Caroline Polachek

Song of the Day: From her interim EP Welcome To My Island, a sprightly Spanish flamenco-influenced and sunnily beautiful love song by the American singer-songwriter, her voice soaring and warbling, bird-like, in the chorus

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Song of the Day: Jadu Heart - I Shimmer

December 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Jadu Heart’s new EP, Freedom

Song of the Day: From the new four-track EP Freedom, a dreamy experimental shoegaze number reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine by the electro-pop Bristol-formed British duo of Diva-Sachy Jeffrey and Alex Headford

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Song of the Day: Death Valley Girls - What Are The Odds

November 30, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Death Valley Girls

Song of the Day: “We are living in a simulated world, and we are simulated girls!” The four-piece rock band from California’s catchy new single riffs on virtual reality existentialism, and is taken from their forthcoming album Islands In The Sky

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Song of the Day: Nuha Ruby Ra - Self Portraiture

November 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nuha Ruby Ra

Song of the Day: Strangely alluring, eclectic, polyrhythmic electro-art-punk by the London artist imagines herself as a painting and being prodded and stared at by others – “Don’t touch me/ feel me”

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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

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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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