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Lady Blackbird
Song of the Day: “Before we rise we all must take a fall.” After last year’s acclaimed album Black Acid Soul, a brand new, yet already classic-feel single by the LA-based bouffant-haired classy jazz and soul singer Marley Munroe
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Jiitwam’s latest album, Third
Song of the Day: Dynamic, pacy, multi-dimensional fusion of dance, funk, jazz and hip by the India-born, Australia-raised artist working in London and New York, from his latest album, Third, here with echoes of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream
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Oscar Jerome
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming new album The Spoon, strangely compelling, momentum-building funk and soul with an original twist by the South London’s Norwich-born singer-songwriter and jazz guitarist
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From the video for Lambchop’s Police Dog Blues
Song of the Day: Moving again away from his best known alt-country style, Kurt Wagner returns with an extraordinary experimental fusion of jazz, gospel and soul with this song that imagines a post-apocalyptic world where ex-police dogs roam
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Donna Thompson
Song of the Day: With soulful voice reminiscent of Lianne La Havas and Minnie Riperton, this beautiful new number about yearning in a long-distance relationship (especially over lockdown) comes from the London singer and drummer from her upcoming debut EP Something True on PRAH Recordings
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Some of Kendrick Lamar’s morphed appearances of well-known figures in the video for The Heart Part 5
Song of the Day: The vibrant fifth track in the acclaimed rapper’s ‘Heart’ series that began in 2010, and while also released this week, separate to his latest album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, it powerfully focuses on the problematic portrayal of black so-called culture and violence, and also includes a reworking of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You.
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Karma chameleon: from the video for Léa Sen - I Feel Like I'm Blue
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-run of blue- and other colour-themed Songs of the Day, and following her previous single Hyasynth, a slow, sensual new single by the London-based French singer-songwriter from her forthcoming EP You Of Now Pt. 1, out 20 May 2022 on Partisan Records
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Iraina Mancini
Song of the Day: After BATTS and Billy Nomates, a blue-themed trilogy is completed the London singer-songwriter and DJ in a sparklingly optimistic song co-written with Jagz Kooner inspired by 70s psychedelic soul and decorated with brass, strings and Iraina’s soaring vocals
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BATTS aka Tanya Batt
Song of the Day: A beautiful slow-burning new number suffused grief but also hope, from Melbourne singer-songwriter Tanya Batt, duetting here with Sharon Van Etten, whom she supported in Australia, both voices sublimely complementary
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The cover of Monophonics’ forthcoming album Sage Hotel
Song of the Day: Superior new psychedelic soul by the San Francisco band with emotional vocals and punchy horns, taken from the forthcoming album Sage Hotel with a song and video that captures a place where all the highs and lows of life can be found
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Color Green’s new single covers the full spectrum
Song of the Day: Bluesy, slightly Rolling Stones-y, but above all a timelessly classy though new piece of Americana meets New Orleans-style soul that builds with a soaring voice, by the California pair of Noah Kohll and Corey Madden
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Moses Sumney is one of several guests on the Son Lux soundtrack to Everything Everywhere All at Once
Song of the Day: A gorgeously intimate song from the original motion picture soundtrack of the recently released film Everything Everywhere All at Once, with music by Ryan Lott’s experimental New York band, featuring the Ghanaian-American on vocals
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Poppy Ajudha’s forthcoming album The Power In Us
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album The Power In Us, the latest of several passionate, soulful pop songs about society and politics by the London singer-songwriter, focuses on the damaging system of male control that screws up relationships and pro-choice
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Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta
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Seratones, fronted by AJ Haynes
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming third album Love & Algorhythms, an upbeat, and truly uplifting positive fusion of pop, soul, funk and gospel by the soul-rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Out no New West Records
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Alewya’s EP Panther In Mode
Song of the Day: From the recent EP Panther In Mode, a sensual, powerful fusion of soul, reggae and other roots music by the charismatic London singer, here celebrating her African heritage, out on Because London Records
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Dark Tropics’ new album, Ink
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s entry from Dublin, more beautifully melodious, soulful and vocally strong music from Ireland, this time from Belfast by the duo of singer Rio McGuinness-McCay and multi-instrumentalist Gerard Sands from their recent album Ink
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Ellen Arthur Blyth
Song of the Day: Dreamy and beautifully soulful new number by the Dublin singer who, with a mature voice, has Peggy Lee and Lana Del Rey as influences in this track taken from her forthcoming debut album Nine, a running theme in her life, being the youngest of nine children
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Branching out with new music: Shamir Bailey
Song of the Day: Powerful, heavy-rock guitar rises to impressively soaring countertenor even higher than Prince’s Camille in this recent single wrestling with the constraints of gender definition by the talented singer-songwriter from Las Vegas
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Grace Cummings
Song of the Day: From Grace Carter yesterday to another Grace today, also addressing and questioning the religious idea, with the Melbourne singer-songwriter'’s powerful, gritty, distinctive voice and acoustic guitar, taken from her forthcoming album Storm Queen
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