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Song of the Day: Debby Friday - So Hard To Tell

February 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Debby Friday

Song of the Day: Breaking out of a harsh, crash-smash electronica opening, this self-chiding number by the Toronto-based singer and rapper morphs into a beautiful, graceful soulful number and comes from her forthcoming album, Good Luck

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, dance, experimental, pop, soul Tags Debby Friday, Sub Pop Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Moreish Idols - Nocturnal Creatures

February 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Moreish Idols: Nocturnal Creatures

Song of the Day: Bright, dynamic, beautiful and intricate indie with lovely, crisp guitars and twittery woodwind by the London band, in another cracking single coming out of the unique Speedy Wunderground label, produced by Dan Carey

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Song of the Day: Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again

February 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Depeche Mode’s Ghosts Again, directed by Anton Corbijn

Song of the Day: Basildon’s finest return with one of their best songs for years, the veterans’ newest noir electro-pop number filled with bittersweet melancholy, especially poignant after the sudden passing of bandmate Andy “Fletch” Fletcher in 2022

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In 2023, electronica, pop Tags Depeche Mode, Venusnote, Columbia Records, Dave Gahan, Martyn Gore, Anton Corbijn, Ingmar Bergman
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Song of the Day: Coach Party - Micro Aggression

February 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Coach Party - Micro Aggression

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Dream Wife and a relationship warning, further punchy, blistering, female-fronted indie rock, this time by the powerful quartet from the Isle of Wight, about misguided communication

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In 2023, indie, pop, rock Tags Coach Party, Chess Club Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Dream Wife - Hot (Don't Date A Musician)

February 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Double trouble: Dream Wife

Song of the Day: Caustically humorous, tight, playful and dynamic, the new single by the punk/pop London trio of Rakel Mjöll, Alice Go, and Bella Podpadecabout is arrestingly entertaining on the wrong kind of partner

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Song of the Day: Chappaqua Wrestling - Wide Asleep

February 10, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Chappaqua Wrestling - Wide Asleep

Song of the Day: Powerfully building, anthemic wake-up call indie-pop with a big splash of 90s Oasis-style Britpop and shoegaze by the Brighton quartet from their forthcoming album Plus Ultra

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Song of the Day: Girl Ray - Everybody's Saying That

February 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Drink in the retro disco: Girl Ray - Everybody's Saying That

Song of the Day: “Listen to your heart”. Wonderfully catchy, funky disco pop by the London indie trio of Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss, in a love song inspired by the 70s-style disco revival and the straight-to-the-heart simplicity of the disco greats

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In 2023, disco, indie, pop Tags Girl Ray, Moshi Moshi, songs, song of the day, Róisín Murphy
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Song of the Day: Geese - Cowboy Nudes

February 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cowboy Nudes, the new single by Geese

Song of the Day: Slick, catchy, upbeat, fast, rhythmic, guitar indie by the Brooklyn band, their first since acclaimed 2021 debut album Projector, with a song “about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world” according frontman Cameron Winter

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In 2023, indie, pop, post-punk Tags Geese, Partisan Records, Play It Again Sam, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21 - Ride Out The Storm / Mo Ṣe B'ọ́lá Tán (feat. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly)

February 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Dele Sosumi’s forthcoming album, The Confluence

Songs of the Day: Beautiful, smooth fusion of afrobeat, jazz and pop by the Hackney-born Nigerian artist Dele Sosimi who was raised in Fela Kuti's commune, with two songs about about fortitude, and also acceptance and acknowledgement of individual creativity

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In 2023, African, afrobeat, jazz, pop Tags Dele Sosimi, Sam Duckworth, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Wah Wah 45s
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Song of the Day: Yves Tumor - Echolalia

February 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The incomparable Yves Tumor

Song of the Day: Pain and pleasure intertwine on this extraordinary new track by the unique American artist (Sean Bowie) of syncopated drums, big bassline and his sensual distinctive vocals, presented video inspired by Gulliver’s Travels as the trapped giant in Lilliput

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Song of the Day: Band Spectra and Olugbenga - Walai

February 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Band Spectra featuring Olugbenga - Walai

Song of the Day: Swaggering, twisted, grandiose and catchy electro-pop from musicians Robert Manning and lyrics and vocals by Olugbenga Adelekan (also Metronomy’s bass player)

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Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette

February 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Avalon Emerson

Song of the Day: Beautiful, clever, smoothly orchestrated dream pop by the New York artist in a song about, time, perspective and scale. “Scales of time and how something that seemed so important and defining a long time ago, might not really matter that much now”

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Song of the Day: Clark - Town Crank

February 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clark

Song of the Day: Quirky electro-pop and the first single from new album, Sus Dog, by the longstanding, English eclectic experimental electronica artist and producer Christopher Stephen Clark and mainstay of the Warp label

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, experimental, pop, indie Tags Clark, songs, song of the day, Thom Yorke, Warp Records
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Song of the Day: Unloved - I Did It

January 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Unloved’s I Did It

Song of the Day: Further wonderfully quirky, stylish, groovy, neo-noir electro-pop by the trio of Jade Vincent, Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes who did much of the Killing Eve soundtrack, with a song for their forthcoming next album, Polychrome

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Song of the Day: Helen Ganya - Afterparty

January 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Helen Ganya

Song of the Day: Ethereal, soaringly aria-like, building with strong synths, strings and galloping drums, a beautiful, Kate Bush-reminiscent track taken from the Brighton-based songwriter’s recent album, Polish The Machine, out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Andy Shauf - Telephone

January 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Andy Shauf

Song of the Day: Deliciously beautiful, delicate, high-voiced new number with woodwind, keyboards and bass by the 35-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the forthcoming album, Norm, out on ANTI-Records

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Song of the Day: Billie Marten - This Is How We Move

January 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Billie Marten

Song of the Day: An exquisite new folk number about a relationship out of sync, by the singer-songwriter Isabella Sophie Tweddle from Ripon in North Yorkshire, taken from her forthcoming next album, Drop Cherries' out on 7 April on Fiction Records/ Universal

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Song of the Day: Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are (featuring Kae Tempest)

January 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia

Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith

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Song of the Day: Antony Szmierek - Rock and a Calm Place

January 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From Antony Szmierek’s video for Rock and a Calm Place

Song of the Day: Wonderfully wry, witty, catchy and uplifting fusion of disco and hop hop by the Manchester poet in this upbeat interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus, in which pushing that eternal metaphorical rock up the hill can have benefits

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Song of the Day: JW Francis - Going Home to a Party

January 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Enter JW Francis with a new single

Song of the Day: Quirky, catchy, charming pop by the New York artist in this love song about the fluid nature of home from his forthcoming next album, Dream House, out later this month on Sunday Best Music / Domino

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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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