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Natalie Bergman: stylishly retro
Song of the Day: Brand new, but sounding just like classic, vintage style soul and gospel, this is from the forthcoming album Mercy, by the Chicago singer-songwriter who was previously half of the duo Wild Belle alongside her brother, Elliot Bergman
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Gloria
Song of the Day: Who doesn’t love Paris in springtime? So let’s go there for an upbeat fusion of 60s-style French psychedelic pop and Motown by the bandf Gloria from their LP Sabbat Matters, out on Howlin Banana Records
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Anushka are Victoria Port and Max Wheeler
Song of the Day: Hypnotic, bleepy funk and soulful vocals pour into this entrancing jazz-electronica fusion by Brighton singer-songwriter Victoria Port and producer Max Wheeler, released on the Tru Thoughts label
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Pa Salieu with Mahalia
Song of the Day: Released at the tail-end of 2020, this beautifully smooth and soulful hip-hop number with a gorgeous bass line, African instruments and melody is by the British rapper from his EP Send Them To Coventry, named after his home town
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It’s always time for a new Dean Parrish record
Song of the Day: Driving rhythm, funky guitar, powerful horns and unmistakeable voice? The northern soul legend from Brooklyn, and regularly at the Wigan Casino, returns with a majestic new anti-war single, the first for 10 years
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Sixties influences: Iraina Mancini
Song of the Day: With a heavy dose of 60s French pop à la Jacques Dutronc and a dash of Girls Aloud, this new single by the British singer-songwriter and actress has strong melody, clapping rhythm, big backing vocals and driving guitar
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Popp Ajudha
Song of the Day: ‘You are my weakness, all salty and sweetness’. Sassy, sensual, with high voice, taut guitar and dash of Latin cuica flavour, the south London jazz and soul singer’s latest song is a expression of independence meeting melting vulnerability
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The talented St Panther aka Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo
Songs of the Day: Slick rapping, rhythmic laughter, sand a super-tight funk sound are just some of the elements that make the young LA-based singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniela Bojorges-Giraldo a huge talent to watch
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Valerie June’s forthcoming album
Songs of the Day: An uplifting triple Sunday special from the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee who mixes soul, gospel, country and blues in this three-track standalone digital release
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Dark and delicate: Little Dragon & Moses Sumney –The Other Lover
Song of the Day: A deliciously dark and delicate duet between the Swedish electronic band featuring singer Yukimi Nagano and the American who released the album Grae in 2020 – two of the most innovative artists around today
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Jazmine Sullivan
Song of the Day: The pick of the songs from the Philadelphia R&B singer’s recently released EP, Heaux Tales, is one that shows off her dynamic range and is among a set of songs that reject male ego and embrace feminine strength and independence
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Fana Hues
Song of the Day: Like its subject, the music and delivery of this perfectly formed song is beautifully simple and delicate by the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Pasadena, California, from her album, Hues, released in December
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The cover of the Gabriels EP Love and Hate in a Different Time
Song of the Day: The title track of a EP released in October recalls the era of Northern Soul, with a wonderful vocal by Los Angeles-based gospel singer Jacob Lusk who makes up the band alongside producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope
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Nayana IZ
Song of the Day: The latest number by the British-Asian rapper and singer from the London creative collective, NiNE8, is a love song with rich layers of jazz, soul, R&B and Bollywood, with horn and keyboard parts and a strong, smooth assertive voice
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The cover for Arlo Parks’ forthcomign LP Collapsed in Sunbeams
Song of the Day: Smooth, soulful and soul-searching, the latest single from the impressively mature 20-year-old London singer-songwriter Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho examines a difficult relationship fraught by social prejudice
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In Limbo: Max Pope
Song of the Day… But you can see it from here. This alluring recent single by the London singer-songwriter has a smooth, soulful, rich sound, but also beautifully captures a droll sense of personal and universal uncertainty, insecurity and limbo
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2020 sees the very welcome return of Stevie Wonder
Song of the Day: While both began as love songs, these first new numbers in four years by the soul great have a strong multi-layered political element, calling for solidarity in times of rising racism, an election and an epidemic
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Greentea Peng aka Aria Wells
Song of the Day: A beautiful fusion of gentle Spanish, Erykah Badu-inspired soul, bossa nova and psychedelic R&B from the south London artist also known as Aria Wells, inspired by a Mexican-Mayan phrase related to identity
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Ayoni
Song of the Day: Exquisite, soaring lead vocals and harmonies from the Barbadas-born, LA-based soulful singer-songwriter on this acoustic new track that captures the traumas and experience of being a black woman
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Khruangbin – unforgettable
Song of the Day: A delicious sounding, smoothly delivered new track fusing funk, soul dub, African, and psychedelia by the American musical trio from Houston, Texas, comprising Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr on drums
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