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Song of the Day: C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song

October 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

C Duncan - It's Only A Love Song

Song of the Day: This beautiful, romantic, melodiously gliding orchestral pop meta-song, flush with swooning strings and yearning, is the title track heralding the Scottish multi-instrumentalist and singer’s forthcoming new album out on 24 January 2025 via Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Father John Misty - She Cleans Up

October 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Josh Tillman

Song of the Day: Josh Tillman’s latest single is a driving, witty, catchy, talky glam-rock stomper packed with religious and female references, and heralds his sixth forthcoming album Mahashmashana out 22 November via Bella Union (UK & Europe) and Sub Pop for the rest world

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Song of the Day: Tiberius b - New Life

October 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tiberius b - New Life

Song of the Day: Strikingly original and new experimental pop by the London-based singer-songwriter who hails from Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada, who born Frank Belcourt. Out on Zelig Records

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Song of the Day: Biig Piig- Decimal

October 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Biig Piig aka Jessica Smyth

Song of the Day: Sensual deep-bass funk and dance music in this latest single by the singer and rapper Jessica Smyth from Cork, Ireland, who also spent time growing up in Spain, and performs bilingually, out on Sony Records

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Song of the Day: Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)

October 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Saya Gray - Shell (Of A Man)

Song of the Day: A beautiful, agile, indie-folk-alt-country new single by the Canadian-Japanese artist, heralding, after previous EPs, her forthcoming debut album, SAYA, due out in February 2025 on Dirty Hit Records

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Song of the Day: Yukimi - Break Me Down (featuring Lianne La Havas)

October 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Yukimi - Break Me Down

Song of the Day: After seven albums with her band, the Little Dragon singer launches a solo project with this beautiful serene but also defiant debut single, joined by the British singer on guitar and also a co-writer, and out on Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Maribou State - Otherside (featuring Holly Walker)

October 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Maribou State’s next album, Hallucinating Love, out on Ninja Tune in early 2025

Song of the Day: The English electronic artists Chris Davids and Liam Ivory return with a sparkling, funky, electro-pop with the fabulous soaring voice of guest vocalist Holly Walker, heralding their forthcoming new album, Hallucinating Love, out on 31 January 2025 via Ninja Tune

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Song of the Day: Cheekface - Flies (featuring Jeff Rosenstock)

October 7, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky engaging indie-pop with clever lyrics and an infectiously buzzy baritone sax bassline by Jeff Rosenstock joining the Los Angeles trio Amanda Tannen, Gregory Katz and Mark Edwards

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Song of the Day: The Weather Station - Neon Signs

October 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Song of the Day: Sublime sounds, yet also perceptive, anxious lyrics come with new experimental folk-pop by the Toronto-based singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, with beautiful piano, percussion, flute and more, heralding her upcoming album Humanhood, out on Fat Possum, 17 January 2025

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Song of the Day: Ela Minus - Broken

October 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ela Minus

Song of the Day: The Colombian experimental dance electro-pop artist returns with her alluring voice and presence, vibrant synthesizers and an infectious beat, but also themes of suffering and resilience, in this new track heralding her upcoming album, DIA, set for release on 17 January 2025, via Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Primal Scream - Ready To Go Home

October 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Primal Scream - Ready To Go Home, from the forthcoming new album, Come Ahead

Song of the Day: A stylishly catchy fusion of 70s funk, psychedelia and rave music in this upbeat contemplation of death by the Scottish cult rockers fronted by Bobby Gillespie, here produced by David Holmes who is also a co-writer for this latest single heralding the new album, Come Ahead, out on 8 November on BMG

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Song of the Day: W. H. Lung - Bloom and Fade

October 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

W.H. Lung

Song of the Day: Stirring, stylish, catchily melodic retro electro-synth pop by the Manchester quintet, with the latest single from the upcoming third album, Every Inch of Earth Pulsates, out on 18 October via Melodic Records

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Song of the Day: Divorce - All My Freaks

October 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Divorce

Song of the Day: Brightly effervescent, sparkling indie pop by the Nottingham band, with a wry, ironic perspective on egos and the music industry expressed through the caricature of an up-and-coming artist, and heralding their debut studio album, Drive To Goldenhammer, out in March 2025 via Gravity/Capitol

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Song of the Day: Samantha Crain - Dragonfly

September 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Samantha Crain - Dragonfly

Song of the Day: A catchy, uplifting, life-affirming new number about how life is a gift to enjoy, by the Oklahoma indie artist, as seen through the metaphor of the beautiful, hovering, short-lived insect species, and out on Real Kind Records

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Song of the Day: Jacob Alon - Fairy In A Bottle

September 28, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jacob Alon: Fairy In A Bottle

Song of the Day: Gorgeous fragility and high-voiced, delicate control with a wonderful melody all come in this exquisite performed debut by the singer songwriter from Glasgow, here produced by Dan Carey, and out on Universal

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Song of the Day: Big Warm Bed - Jackie (Shores I’m Swimming In EP)

September 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Big Warm Bed - Jackie

Song of the Day: A deliciously gentle, subtle, melancholic, lo-fi release with vivid lyrical detail by the Leeds singer-songwriter Jacob Andrews, taken from the brand new EP, Shores I’m Swimming In, out on Dance To The Radio

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Song of the Day: The Cure - Alone

September 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Cure: Alone, taken from

Song of the Day: The first new song released by Robert Smith and the legendary British band for 16 years, this dark, melancholic majestic number heralds their forthcoming album, Songs of a Lost World, out on 1 November

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Song of the Day: Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart

September 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart

Song of the Day: A stirring indie pop ode to blissful solitude, of standing in the desert feeling at one with the landscape, by the Seattle band fronted by singer-songwriter Jessica Dobson, inspired by Tom Petty and Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas

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Song of the Day: Corinne Bailey Rae - SilverCane

September 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Corinne Bailey Rae - SilverCane

Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent socio-cultural Black History-themed album Black Rainbows, the Leeds-born singer-songwriter returns with a bright. sparkling funk-pop track stemming from a dark subject – set before the Tulsa race massacre, a two-day racial massacre which resulted in the deaths of 150-200 Black Americans Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Song of the Day: Our Girl - The Good Kind

September 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Our Girl

Song of the Day: Evocative, serenely beautiful and poetic, this new single by the Brighton band captures that Proustian-type moment of unleashed feelings, senses and memories, in this case hearing Ella Fitzgerald on the radio, and is the title track heralding their forthcoming album out on 8 November via Bella Union

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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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