Welcome once again to the annual tradition of Song Bar’s favourite album releases of 2023. This is Part 2, and Part 1 was yesterday. There’s no such thing as a chart rundown or ‘best of’ here, and these come in no particular order …
Read moreBas Jan: Back To The Swamp
New album: This third album by the quartet fronted by singer and harpist Serafina Steer, is another wittily droll, darkly humorous collection about love and modern life’s absurdities and mundanities, with influences from The Pet Shop Boys, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Kate Bush, Heaven 17 and even a referential shake of Salt N Pepa
Read moreKendrick Lamar, Big Thief, Fontaines D.C. to Kae Tempest: Favourite albums of 2022 - Part 1
Favourite albums of 2022: Welcome to the first part of a selection for this year, many of which continue to come to terms with pandemic, climate change and other current issues but also show how music can continue to innovate, surprise and entertain
Read moreBas Jan: Baby U Know
New album: Whimsical, humorous, profound, inventive, silly, ephemeral, ethereal – all this and more in the latest LP by the band featuring Serafina Steer and co with talky-singing internal monologues about everything from sex to politics and social media
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