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Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …
Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records
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Devotion & The Black Divine, the upcoming new album by anaiis
Song of the Day: A slow, sensual, sultry soulful new experimental number, perfect for a hot summer’s day by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter, heralding her forthcoming new album Devotion & The Black Divine, out on 25 September via 5dB Records
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Yazmin Lacey
Song of the Day: Delicious, classy, sprightly soul and RnB by the east London-born, Nottingham based pure-voiced singer-songwriter in a new track co-written with and produced by Eg White & Jonny Lattimer, and out on AMF Records
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Sudan Archives - DEAD
Song of the Day: With her first new music since the 2022 LP Natural Brown Prom Queen, the LA-based American experimental violinist, singer, and songwriter Brittney Denise Parks’ new single is written as an exploration of orchestral Black dance music and the parts of ourselves that are more human than machine, and vice versa
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U.S. Girls’ upcoming album, Scratch It,
Song of the Day: Toronto experimental artist Meg Remy’s latest has rich a fusion of influences from the titular James Brown, Lee “Scratch” Perry to ELO, and this movement themed pop/soul number is taken from the upcoming album, Scratch It, out 20 June, via 4AD
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Hayley Williams and Moses Sumney
Song of the Day: A soulful, stylish, sexy, slinkily smooth new single featuring both the two American singer-songwriters, both impressive intertwining, dynamic vocal performances and lavish, layered production, out on Tuntum Records
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Natalie Bergman, from the video for Gunslinger
Song of the Day: Stylish, smoky, sexy, with a sound that that evokes classic western film scores and vintage soul, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s single heralds her upcoming new album, My Home Is Not In This World, out on 18 July via Third Man Records
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MRCY’s Barney Lister and Kojo Degraft-Johnson
Song of the Day: Powerful, rapturous, soaring as well as darkly candid soul by the British duo of south London singer-songwriter Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield-born producer-instrumentalist Barney Lister, heralding the album VOLUME 2, out 30 May on Dead Oceans
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Obongjayar, from the video for Sweet Danger
Song of the Day: The eclectic London-based British-Nigerian artist aka Steven Umoh returns with a sensual, erotically charged number fusing electronica and afrobeat and his falsetto voice, heralding his new album, Paradise Now, out on 30 May via September Recordings
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Joy Crookes in the video for Pass the Salt
Song of the Day: With a big, meaty, menacing bass and drum sound, the serenely smooth-voiced Brixton British singer returns, following her acclaimed 2021 LP Skin, with a spicy, bitch-back number expressing anger at someone telling lies about her, with added verse by the American rappe
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Brooke Combe - This Town
Song of the Day: Breezy, escapism-themed, uplifting classic soul by the charismatic, golden voiced Scottish singer, heralding her forthcoming album, Dancing At The Edge of the World, out on Modern Sky UK
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Caleb Kunle - Ease Your Strife
Song of the Day: A powerful, soaring, emotional soul number about by the troubles of his brother by the pure-voiced singer-songwriter also inspired by the three cities he calls home - Lagos, Laois and London, as well as words of the great Nina Simone: “Between a few worlds, I do belong.”
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Song of the Day: Celeste - This is Who I Am
Song of the Day: The welcome return of the golden-voiced British soul singer from Brighton feels like another timeless classic – slow falling bassline, soaring coda, powerfully emotive, with piano and orchestra, it comes from the new TV drama version of The Day of The Jackal
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Bartees Strange’s upcoming album, Horror
Song of the Day: Soulful but spooky alternative rock and pop by the Washington DC-based singer-songwriter and producer with single about “this that scare me and being overwhelmed by life”, heralding his forthcoming LP, Horror, out 14 February via 4AD
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MRCY - Angels
Song of the Day: Timeless, uplifting new soul reminiscent of the golden period of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield by the duo of south London singer Kojo Degraft-Johnson and Huddersfield producer Barney Lister with a number “trusting that the universe will be on your side, provided you go for what you want.”
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Summer Pearl - The Creator
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Greentea Peng, another stylishly cool London singer-rapper brings spiritual and political lyrics and female power in hip-hop-jazz-soul number that reminds us that music is a healer and out on Kitto Records
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Greentea Peng is back
Song of the Day: With a distinctive new fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, neo soul, dub, reggae, jazz, and psychedelia, south London artist Aria Wells returns after two years with a stylish number with a dark bassline, tinkling piano, and something of a manifesto about pure expression
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Jalen Ngonda
Song of the Day: After 2023’s beautiful and acclaimed Come Around And Love Me album, a new single of timeless, classic soul with the powerful, pure voice of the Liverpool-then-London based American singer whose style is often compared to Marvin Gaye. Out on Daptone Records
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Michael Kiwanuka - Lowdown
Song of the Day: Peerlessly powerful and serene slow-build soul and psychedelia by much acclaimed British singer-songwriter, in this double-track heralding his forthcoming fourth album, Small Changes, out on 15 November, via Polydor/ Universal
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