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Song of the Day: The Clientele - Blue Over Blue

May 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Clientele are back …

Song of the Day: With their first new music for six years, beautifully shiny, polished, twinkling indie pop by the London-based band from the forthcoming ninth album, I Am Not There Anymore, out on 28 July via Merge Records

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - Jetski

April 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius b

Song of the Day: Clever, engaging, energetic experimental pop by the London-based artist, aka Frank Belcourt, from their forthcoming new EP, DIN, out on 30 June via Mark Ronson's label Zelig Music

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Song of the Day: Patrick Wolf - Nowhere Game (The Night Safari EP)

April 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The return of Patrick Wolf

Song of the Day: Taken from his recent EP, The Night Safari, his first release for a decade, the multi-talented south Londoner singer and musician’s dynamic, dark new alternative baroque pop single is a fusion of electronica, viola, violin, Celtic harp, celeste, suitcase organ and bowed psaltery

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Song of the Day: The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

April 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Last Dinner Party

Song of the Day: A polished, catchy, candid and declamatory art-pop-rock debut by the south London five-piece band with chorus that has musical shades of ABBA and Sparks

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Song of the Day: Little Dragon - Slugs of Love

April 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Little Dragon return with Slugs of Love

Song of the Day: Catchy alternative indie-pop by the band from Gothenburg, Sweden with a number about pleasure-seeking laziness in relationships, and in a style they imagine “being played by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colours.”

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Song of the Day: YOVA - Feel Your Fear

April 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Yova’s new single

Song of the Day: Punchy, rhythmic alternative indie pop by the duo of Macedonia-born vocalist Jova Radevska and London-based musician Mark Vernon with penetrative jagged guitar, organ and trumpet parts in a song about tendency to form addictions to alleviate pain

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Song of the Day: Brooke Combe - Black Is The New Gold

April 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Brooke Combe

Song of the Day: Classic soul-pop with a wonderful smooth, gliding voice by Scottish singer-songwriter from Midlothian, taken from her forthcoming new eight-track EP

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Song of the Day: Jessie Ware - Begin Again

April 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessie Ware - Begin Again

Song of the Day: The British singer-songwriter’s luxuriant latest return comes in a wonderfully opulent and upbeat mix of disco, pop, funk, soul and gospel with brass, and heralds her forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled That! Feels Good!

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Song of the Day: Terry - Gold Duck (Call Me Terry album)

April 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Terry: Call Me Terry

Song of the Day: Fabulously catchy and quirky post-punk pop with an electronic twist by the Melbourne, Australia quartet of Amy Hill, Al Montfort, Xanthe Waite and Zephyr Pavey, taken from their brand new album Call Me Terry, out today on Upset The Rhythm

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Song of the Day: Pip Blom - Tiger

April 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Pip Blom

Song of the Day: The amiable Amsterdam indie quartet of siblings Pip and Tender Blom, Gini Cameron and Darek Mercks return with a upbeat, refreshed sound, still with thoughtful lyrics but closer to pop with added electronica

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Song of the Day: Hannah Jadagu - Warning Sign

April 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hannah Jadagu’s upcoming album, Aperture, out on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: Smooth, gentle soul, electronica and rock intertwine in this beautiful new single by the New York-based artist from Mesquite, Texas. It’s taken from her upcoming album, Aperture, out on 19 May on Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: La Féline - Dancing

April 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

La Féline’s latest album, Tarbes

Song of the Day: Smooth, supercool, catchy French disco pop and funk for a Saturday by Lyon’s singer-songwriter Agnès Gayraud, also French philosopher and journalist who graces a range of styles

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Song of the Day: Ursa Major Moving Group - Welcome To The Noosphere

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Reflect on this: stellar work in Ursa Major Moving Group’s forthcoming debut album

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track

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Song of the Day: Lavinia Blackwall - The Damage We Have Done

April 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The new single …

Song of the Day: Beautifully profound but serious melodic psych-folk-pop about eco meltdown and the passing of time by Glasgow’s former Trembling Bells singer from her forthcoming second album following 2020’s fabulous Muggington Lane End

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Song of the Day: Sirens of Lesbos - Easy

April 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sirens of Lesbos

Song of the Day: “Let’s make this easy you need someone to love you when the leaves come down.” The latest single the Swiss quintet is a beautifully lilting, soulful, mellow love song with a subtle country flavour

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Song of the Day: Rahill - Fables (featuring Beck)

March 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Rahill and Beck in the video for Fables

Song of the Day: Beautifully upbeat, fresh, syncopated-beat indie pop with cascading melodies by the Iranian-American singer-songwriter Rahill Jamalifard, joined here by Beck on this new track from her forthcoming album Flowers At Your Feet, on Ninja Tune imprint Big Dada

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Song of the Day: Keaton Henson - The Meeting Place

March 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Where’s your head at … Keaton Henson’s forthcoming album, House Party, out in June

Song of the Day: A slowly building, melancholy but powerful indie-folk love song by the gentle falsetto-voiced London singer-songwriter, and with some comparisons to Villagers, from his forthcoming album House Party, out on Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Alan Braxe - Never Coming Back (featuring Annie)

March 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alan Braxe and Friends - The Upper Cuts

Song of the Day: Sensual, crisp, classic late-70s /early 80s retro-style funk and electro-pop by the French electronica musician and producer Alain Quême, joined here on vocals Anne Berge Strand, from his album The Upper Cuts, out on Smugglers Way

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Song of the Day: Baby Rose - Stop The Bleeding

March 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baby Rose

Song of the Day: Sublime soulful vocals in this latest single by the Washington DC-born Atlanta-based Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jasmine Rose Wilson, taken from her upcoming album, Through and Through, out on Secretly Canadian

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Song of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Barley

March 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: Rachel Brown and Nate Amos

Song of the Day: Highly original experimental pop with oddball, mantra-like deadpan and palpitating, repetitive rhythms by the Brooklyn duo of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos from their forthcoming album Everyone's Crushed on Matador Records

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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 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
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 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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