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Song of the Day: Lande Hekt - Favourite Pair of Shoes

October 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Favourite shoes: Lande Hekt’s upcoming new album, Lucky Now

Song of the Day: A bittersweet, catchy, jangly mixed emotions, hope-filled indie-pop number by the British singer/songwriter (formerly of Muncie Girls) heralding her new album, Lucky Now, due out 30 January, 2026 via Tapete

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Song of the Day: Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Anna Calvi returns with a powerful interpretation of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy song

Song of the Day: A powerful, smoky, stylish, passionate cover version of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy number by the acclaimed British singer and guitarist, returning with a haunting duet with the US artist, their vocals intertwining in a song about intimacy beyond romance - the quiet, profound love found in friendship

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Song of the Day: Y - Skipper

October 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Y’s Sophie Coppin and Adam Brennan

Song of the Day: Punchy, fierce postpunk by the London collective, heralding their upcoming debut EP with a saxophone laced song addressing class divide and hierarchy in which the rich skip through a world they feel they own, released on on SO Recordings and Hideous Mink Records

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Song of the Day: Stella Donnelly - Year of Change

October 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stella Donnelly’s upcoming album Love and Fortune

Song of the Day: Beautiful, delicate, reflective piano folk-pop about period of separation, difficulty and loneliness by the Australian singer/songwriter heralding her upcoming third album Love and Fortune, out on 7 November via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control

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Song of the Day: Hatchie - Only One Laughing

October 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Hatchie aka Harriette Pilbeam

Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Cocteau Twins, experimental soaring shoegaze and dream pop by the Australian singer-songwriter and musician Harriette Pilbeam, heralding her new album, Liquorice, out on 7 November via Secretly Canadian, and the follow-up to single first single, Lose It Again

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Song of the Day: Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane

October 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Courtney Barnett is back …

Song of the Day: The acclaimed Australian indie singer-songwriter returns with a catchy, but also darkly cathartic new single, produced by John Congleton, and her first new material since 2023's instrumental album End Of The Day, and the follow-up to 2021's Things Take Time, Take Time LP

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Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - One Hand Free

October 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Furman - One Hand Free

Song of the Day: A warm, beautiful, gently witty, if melancholy, species-themed standalone single by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter taken from the same sessions as her 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, out on Bella Union. It is accompanied by a video shot by JJ Gonson featuring Ezra accompanied by an assortment of birds, lizards and myriad other species

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Song of the Day: Austra - Siren Song

October 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Video still from Austra’s Siren Song

Song of the Day: Effervescent, soaring electro-pop inspired variously by ABBA, Ray of Light, The X-Files and Greek mythology in a dreamy plea for connection by the Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, heralding her fifth album Chin Up Buttercup, out on 14 November via Domino

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Song of the Day: Chanel Beads - The Coward Forgets His Nightmare

October 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers with Maya McGrory

Song of the Day: New York-based musician Shane Lavers’ latest single is a mesmeric, textured piece of dreamy digital and analogue experimentalism about memory, accompanied by Zachary Paul on violin and vocals by Maya McGrory, and out on Jagjaguwar

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Song of the Day: Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars

October 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Unclouded, the upcoming album by Melody's Echo Chamber

Song of the Day: Ethereal, luxuriant dream pop full of escapism and optimism by the French musician Melody Prochet, heralding her upcoming new album Unclouded out 5 December via Domino Records co-produced by Sweden’s Sven Wunder

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Song of the Day: Lianne La Havas - Disarray

October 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lianne La Havas

Song of the Day: With her first new music in five years, collaborations and covers aside, a gorgeous, sensitive, intimate, sparse, vocal and guitar number by the soulful, golden-voiced British singer-songwriter, a candid number about mental anguish.

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Song of the Day: Stereolab - Fed Up With Your Job

October 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Stereolab’s new AA side: Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown

Song of the Day: A sprightly, defiant, catchy, classic AA-side release by the Anglo-French avant-pop band, alongside the song Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown, written by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, and out on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records

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Song of the Day: The Fiery Furnaces - Far Away

October 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Fiery Furnaces anniversary edition of Blueberry Boat

Song of the Day: Brooklyn’s brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger and co return with a quirky indie-rock experimental echoing piano and vocal number, an additional track to 20th anniversary edition of their seminal 2004 album Blueberry Boat

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Song of the Day: Art d'Ecco - Video Life

October 6, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Art d’Ecco

Song of the Day: Following the release of their fifth album, Serene Demon, in February this year, further wonderfully warm, catchy, witty indie pop with a touch of glam in this cover of the Chris Spedding number, by the Canadian artist from Victoria, British Columbia, out on Paper Bag Records

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Song of the Day: Juana Molina – Siestas Ahí

October 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Juana Molina – Siestas Ahí

Song of the Day: The acclaimed Argentinian guitarist and pop experimentalist returns with her first single in eight years, making beautiful and extraordinary sounds with her instrument with angelic, otherworldly vocals in a song about dissolving in someone’s kisses, heralding her upcoming new album DOGA, out on 5 November via Sonamos

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Song of the Day: Magdalena Bay - Second Sleep

October 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Second Sleep

Song of the Day: Released alongside another track, Star Eyes, a stylish, dynamic, funk-pop single relating to the subconscious and dreams by the flamboyant Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, with a highly entertaining fantasy video directed by Amalia Irons

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Song of the Day: Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning

September 29, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning

Song of the Day: Following her latest album, Altogether Stranger, out earlier this year, the bright-voiced American indie DIY folk-pop singer’s new single, out on Sub Pop, is a fabulously uplifting bluesy number with vintage drum machine, her signature Omnichord, driving rhythm guitar stylish backwards soloing of her producer and accompanist, Guy Blakeslee

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Song of the Day: Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days

September 27, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days

Song of the Day: Following their debut album Tripla out earlier this year, Miki Berenyi on (originally from Lush), Kevin McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled) return with gently luxuriant, indie-dream-pop “about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen”, out on Bella Union

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Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go

September 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go

Song of the Day: A late-summer splash of catchy, colourful indie pop by the London artist, but one that also critiques AI anxiety and online intimacy “like not being able to tell if your crush sent you a text ghostwritten by ChatGPT”, and, produced by Fraser T Smith and out on BMG, it follows last year’s acclaimed debut album, Starface

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Song of the Day: lucky break - Burning String

September 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

lucky break is newly signed to Fire Records

Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, tender melodic acoustic indie single about pressures over life plans by the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Emma Gerson, whose influences include Fiona Apple and Bedouine, and is newly signed to Fire Records

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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026
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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025
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Dec 18, 2025
Favourite albums of 2025 - Part Three
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

new songs …

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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
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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