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Song of the Day: Sirens of Lesbos - Easy

April 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sirens of Lesbos

Song of the Day: “Let’s make this easy you need someone to love you when the leaves come down.” The latest single the Swiss quintet is a beautifully lilting, soulful, mellow love song with a subtle country flavour

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Song of the Day: Meshell Ndegeocello - Virgo

March 25, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Meshell Ndegeocello’s Virgo

Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist

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Song of the Day: Baby Rose - Stop The Bleeding

March 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Baby Rose

Song of the Day: Sublime soulful vocals in this latest single by the Washington DC-born Atlanta-based Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jasmine Rose Wilson, taken from her upcoming album, Through and Through, out on Secretly Canadian

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Song of the Day: Alfa Mist - Aged Eyes (featuring Kaya Thomas-Dyke)

March 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alfa Mist’s new album, Variables

Song of the Day: From his forthcoming album, Variables, and decorated here with the soaring, pure voice of Kaya Thomas-Dyke, the British musician and producer’s latest single is a real beauty, of jazz and soul, piano, guitar and orchestral strings

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Song of the Day: Durand Jones - Lord Have Mercy

March 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Durand Jones

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s great Offering from Gabriels, further fabulous retro and southern soul with Delta grit and uplifting spirituals, here by the Louisiana and Indiana singer, known also with band the Indications, and a single taken from the upcoming album, Wait Til I Get Over

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Song of the Day: Gabriels - Offering

March 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Gabriels majestic singer Jacob Lusk

Song of the Day: Another glorious, gorgeously stirring, defiant gift from the gospel trio of extraordinary singer Jacob Lusk, alongside Ryan Hope, and Ari Balouzian

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Song of the Day: Petite Noir - Blurry (featuring Sampa The Great)

February 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Petite Noir’s forthcoming album MotherFather

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Basquiat-inspired number by ACR, more art, with a powerful, sensual soulful, indie-hip-hop fusion by the Belgian born, Congolese singer Yannick Ilunga, joined here by the charismatic Zambian rapper

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Song of the Day: Debby Friday - So Hard To Tell

February 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Debby Friday

Song of the Day: Breaking out of a harsh, crash-smash electronica opening, this self-chiding number by the Toronto-based singer and rapper morphs into a beautiful, graceful soulful number and comes from her forthcoming album, Good Luck

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Song of the Day: Yves Tumor - Echolalia

February 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The incomparable Yves Tumor

Song of the Day: Pain and pleasure intertwine on this extraordinary new track by the unique American artist (Sean Bowie) of syncopated drums, big bassline and his sensual distinctive vocals, presented video inspired by Gulliver’s Travels as the trapped giant in Lilliput

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Song of the Day: Skinny Pelembe - Like A Heart Won't Beat

November 27, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Skinny Pelembe’s Like A Heart Won't Beat

Song of the Day: From piano then morphing into rock guitar, a stirring crossover of soul, pop and gospel in this new single by the multi-talented Johannesburg-born, Doncaster-raised singer-songwriter and MC, out on Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: Liv.e - Wild Animals

November 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Liv.e and best friend: from the Wild Animals video

Song of the Day: Sensual, smoky, and alluring, comprising jazzy piano licks and ringtone trills, this sexy new single by the Dallas-raised, LA-based R&B and soul singer concerns animal attraction and and self-love, coming from her forthcoming LP Girl In The Half Pearl

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Song of the Day: Röyksopp - Feel It (featuring Maurissa Rose)

November 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Röyksopp’s Profound Mysteries III features another selection of guest vocalists

Song of the Day: From the third collection of numbers and animated in in this year’s Profound Mysteries series by the Norwegian duo Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. a clever, catchy fusion of electronica, dance, soul and rave, here with the American guest singer

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Song of the Day: Nakhane - Do You Well (featuring Perfume Genius)

October 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Nakhane Mahlakahlaka

Song of the Day: A raunchy disco banger by the Nakhane Mahlakahlaka, the South African singer, songwriter, actor, and novelist, and non-binary LBGTQ+ activist, here collaborating with the American musician

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Songs of the Day: June McDoom - The City / Stone After Stone

October 8, 2022 Peter Kimpton

June McDoom

Songs of the Day: Smoky, intense, ghostly and emotional, a double entry today by the New York singer-songwriter with two numbers decorated with guitar, piano, birdsong, and especially her beautiful, breathy voice, heralding a forthcoming eponymous album, out on Temporary Residence

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Song of the Day: Young Gun Silver Fox - Rolling Back

October 2, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Andy Platts and Shawn Lee

Song of the Day: Rolling Back by name, rolling back by nature – lush, smooth, rich 70s-style sun-kissed funk and soul with an entertaining space-themed video by the duo of Andy Platts (of Mamas Gun) and Shawn Lee forthcoming studio fourth album Ticket To Shangri La

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Song of the Day: Willie J Healey - Dreams

October 1, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Willie J Healey: crossing with to new direction

Song of the Day: After 2020’s acclaimed Twin Heavy album, this time the Oxford singer-songwriter returns, this time inspired by funk, Philadelphia soul and R&B, with a still very tuneful new direction with a single from the forthcoming album Bunny, out next year on Yala! Records

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Song of the Day: Lady Blackbird - Feel It Comin

September 24, 2022 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Jitwam - Stranger Danger (In The Streets Of Life)

August 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Oscar Jerome – Berlin 1

August 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Lambchop - Police Dog Blues

July 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

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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New Albums …

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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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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 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
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025

Word of the week

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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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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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