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Song of the Day: Say She She - C'est Si Bon

June 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Say She She - C'est Si Bon

Song of the Day: Written in classic hot summer 70s disco, funk and soul vibe, complete with cheeky tinkly bell, a tribute to that era’s club culture with a flavours of Paris, London and New York’s Chic by the Brooklyn female-led band. Out on Colemine Records

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney – I Drew A Line

June 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Madeline Kenney forthcoming new LP A New Reality Mind

Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Magia Bruta - Biking (Algo mejor)

June 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Magia Bruta’s latest album, Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

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Song of the Day: Snowapple - I, CYBORG

June 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Snowapple’s I, CYBORG

Song of the Day: Innovative, strange, dark and mesmeric, this new single by the Netherlands-based international art collective focuses gender and politics through a cyborg prism with beguiling, gradually building alt pop, art rock, cyberpunk and sonic synth landscapes

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In 2023, alternative, electronica, experimental, pop Tags Snowapple, songs, song of the day, Zip Records
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Song of the Day: Palehound - My Evil

June 5, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Palehound’s next album, Eye On The Bat, is out on July

Song of the Day: Clever, witty, candid, tender, self-detrimental, finely constructed indie by the Brooklyn artist Ellen Kempner with a song of shamefully realising “Yes, you ARE the asshole” from their new album, Eye on the Bat, out Polyvinyl Records in July.

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Song of the Day: CMAT - Have Fun!

June 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

CMAT is back

Song of the Day: The latest single by Dublin singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson is a perky, catchy piece of piano-led pop with a dash of country and is about taking carefree risks for love

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Song of the Day: Holly Walker - How Can I Tell You

June 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Holly Walker

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Margaret Glaspy, another track about feeling uncertain how to respond over a relationship, here with the beautifully haunting voice and melody of London singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Act Natural

June 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Margaret Glaspy’s new album Echo The Diamond is due in August

Song of the Day: Classic songwriting with seamless chord changes, beautiful melody and clever lyrics by the American artist in a number about trying to play it cool when you meet someone remarkable. It comes from her forthcoming new album, Echo The Diamond

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Song of the Day: Joyeria - Death

May 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Joyeria’s EP, FIM

Song of the Day: Killer lyrics on a timeless subject with deadpan delivery, a sprinkle of woodwind and an Elvis reference from brilliant London-based Canadian singer-songwriter, reminiscent of Smog/Bill Callahan and Silver Jews with another great song from his latest EP, FIM, out on Speedy Wunderground / PIAS

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Song of the Day: Raelle - Grace (Bloodlines EP)

May 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Raelle’s new EP, Bloodlines, is out now

Song of the Day: Gorgeous soulful pop with a divinely smooth voice, gentle beats and orchestration by the south London singer-songwriter, taken from her new EP, Bloodlines

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Song of the Day: Ben Howard - Walking Backwards

May 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Things are looking up: Ben Howard

Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?

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Song of the Day: Sylvan Weekends - Every Day

May 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sylvan Weekends - debut EP Outliers

Song of the Day: Perky, jaunty indie folk-pop with fast, slick, clever lyrics presented like a stream of consciousness conversation by the London trio of Matthew, Freya and Daniel in this opening track from their debut EP, Outliers, out on Blythe Hill Records

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Song of the Day: Lawn Chair - Rhoenians Death

May 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lawn Chair’s new EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s new Blur track, more indie, here with with a theme of exhuberent restlessness and a witty, punchy postpunk edge in this excellent second single by the band from Cologne, German, from their EP, Eat The Beans And Wear The Jeans!

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Song of the Day: Blur - The Narcissist

May 19, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Blur’s next album, The Ballad of Darren

Song of the Day: A simple two-chord riff, call-and-response, melancholy reflective lyrics by Damon Albarn, and lovely melody and a rousing chorus? The classic Britpop quartet return with a first single from their forthcoming ninth album, The Ballad of Darren

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Song of the Day: Remi Wolf - Prescription

May 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Remi Wolf

Song of the Day: Turn it up to 11. Soaring vocals, huge horn sounds, classic piano pop with a massive rousing climax? It’s all in this new single from the flamboyant California singer-songwriter, their first new music since 2021’s Juno album

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Song of the Day: ANOHNI and the Johnsons - It Must Change

May 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984

Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity

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Song of the Day: Anna Erhard: Campsite

May 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Clever licks: Anna Erhard

Song of the Day: The title track of the the Berlin artist’s latest album is beautifully crisp, oddball German electro-pop with clever licked, jagged guitars, quirky lyrics and ironic, nostalgic detail about a summer camping trip

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Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

May 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Surusinghe number, a Saturday offering of dynamic and mesmeric electro-house dance music comes from the charismatic Vietnam-born, Cannes-based DJ and producer, who is also the great grandson of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Renegade

May 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue

Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish sci-fi-themed psychedelic glam-rock-pop by the west London singer and rapper accompanied by a highly entertaining space and robot-themed video, out on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Fran Lobo - Tricks

May 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fran Lobo

Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship

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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 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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