• Themes/Playlists
  • New Songs
  • Albums
  • Word!
  • Index
  • Donate!
  • Animals
  • About/FAQs
  • Contact
Menu

Song Bar

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number
Music, words, playlists

Your Custom Text Here

Song Bar

  • Themes/Playlists
  • New Songs
  • Albums
  • Word!
  • Index
  • Donate!
  • Animals
  • About/FAQs
  • Contact

Saya Gray: SAYA

February 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Saya Gray: SAYA

New album: Ingeniously original, eclectic debut alternative folk-pop debut by the Toronto singer-songwriter and producer, following their QWERTY and QWERTY II EPs, weaving a mix of skilfully played guitar sounds, including country pedal steel and acoustic with electronica into a beautiful vocal landscape of offbeat heartbreak love songs

Read more
In albums, alternative, electronica, experimental, folk, pop Tags Saya Gray, albums, new albums, new releases, Dirty Hit
Comment
music_declares_emergency_logo.png

Sing out, act on CLIMATE CHANGE

Black Lives Matter.jpg

CONDEMN RACISM, EMBRACE EQUALITY
Donate
Song Bar spinning.gif

DRINK OF THE WEEK

Nine Stones Barossa Shiraz

SNACK OF THE WEEK

9-grain bread

New Albums …

Featured
Sam Fender - People Watching - album art.jpeg
Feb 24, 2025
Sam Fender: People Watching
Feb 24, 2025

New album: The likeable, powerful tenor-voiced, 30-year-old singer-songwriter from North Shields has hit mainstream success, especially with his last LP, Seventeen Going Under (2021), and while this continues with a sometimes Springsteen-like style, there’s a lyrical melancholy colouring this third LP, on trappings of fame, music industry, and tales of tragedy within his northern working-class roots

Feb 24, 2025
Saya Gray - SAYA.jpeg
Feb 24, 2025
Saya Gray: SAYA
Feb 24, 2025

New album: Ingeniously original, eclectic debut alternative folk-pop debut by the Toronto singer-songwriter and producer, following their QWERTY and QWERTY II EPs, weaving a mix of skilfully played guitar sounds, including country pedal steel and acoustic with electronica into a beautiful vocal landscape of offbeat heartbreak love songs

Feb 24, 2025
The Murder Capital - Blindness.jpeg
Feb 23, 2025
The Murder Capital: Blindness
Feb 23, 2025

New album: A stormy, passionate, viscerally powerful and intense by the indie-rock Dublin band of James McGovern, Damien Tuit, Cathal Roper, Gabriel Paschal Blake, Diarmuid Brennan fired up by personal and political issues, created with renewed focus, and produced by John Congleton

Feb 23, 2025
Barteees Strange - Horror.jpeg
Feb 19, 2025
Bartees Strange: Horror
Feb 19, 2025

New album: A diversely eclectic, genre-hopping, powerfully emotional LP of soul, funk, hip-hop, rock, indie, country, house and pop by the Washington DC-based artist, produced by Jack Antonoff, with songs facing fears as a young young, queer, black person in rural America, and inspired by the likes of Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young

Feb 19, 2025
The Veleteers - A Million Knives.jpeg
Feb 19, 2025
The Velveteers: A Million Knives
Feb 19, 2025

New album: Blistering second album of glamorous rock by the trio from Boulder, Colorado, fronted by singer-songwriter Demi Demitro, and produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, with powerful numbers about heartbreak, but also the volatile truth of being an artist in the music industry while still clinging to the teenage joy of instruments

Feb 19, 2025
Manic-Street-Preachers-Critical-Thinking.jpeg
Feb 18, 2025
Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The veteran Welsh rockers’ 15th studio album delivers everything you’d expect - direct lyrics on big social and political themes, huge, surging melodies and powerful choruses, variously wistful, playful, angry, sincere, and even includes a slanted dedication to the Smiths with one of their strongest for years

Feb 18, 2025
John Glacier - Like A Ribbon.jpeg
Feb 18, 2025
John Glacier: Like A Ribbon
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The Hackney, east London producer-vocalist and model, who presents a persona as evasive, oddball, deliberately obfuscating “20,000-year old” “alien”, releases an esoteric, at times beguiling debut of offbeat trip-hop, filled with talking, stream-of-consciousness vocals mixed variously with guitar, assorted samples and electronica, also co-produced by Kwes Darko and Flume

Feb 18, 2025
Hifi Sean David McAlmont - Twilight.jpeg
Feb 16, 2025
Hifi Sean and David McAlmont: TWILIGHT
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Twinned with last summer’s LP DAYLIGHT, the duo of Scottish musician and the English soul singer return with the darkside – an absorbing adventure from dusk to dawn, with evocative, cinematic, experimental, old-school synths and electronica and McAlmont’s extraordinary, wide-ranging voice

Feb 16, 2025
Horsegirl - Phonetics On And On.jpeg
Feb 16, 2025
Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Minimalistic, pithy, nostalgically twangy, wistful, undersyated indie-folk-pop by the Chicago/New York trio of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece in this second LP with a refreshing sound produced by Cate Le Bon

Feb 16, 2025
Richard Dawson - End of the Middle - album.jpeg
Feb 15, 2025
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle
Feb 15, 2025

New album: Extraordinary songs about ordinary lives by the wonderful Newcastle alternative folk singer-songwriter – poetic, strikingly detailed, touching, warm, gently humorous, melancholy, original and gorgeously profound, bringing beauty to banality, private tragedies and small joys

Feb 15, 2025
Nadia Reid - Enter Now Brightness.jpeg
Feb 13, 2025
Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness
Feb 13, 2025

New album: Warm, tender, thoughtfully profound, intelligent, finely crafted indie-folk with Laurel Canyon-era and Americana elements by the now Manchester-based New Zealand singer-songwriter on themes of hemes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak

Feb 13, 2025
HONESTY - U R HERE.jpeg
Feb 11, 2025
HONESTY: U R HERE
Feb 11, 2025

New album: Moody, dark, atmospheric, cross-genre inventiveness comes aplenty in this debut LP for Partisan Records by the Leeds-based collective who bring a hard-to-define fusion of ambient, restless electronica, shoegaze, goth, abstract industrial, krautrocky momentum, soulful trip-hop and alt-pop

Feb 11, 2025
Helen Ganya - Share Your Care.jpeg
Feb 9, 2025
Helen Ganya: Share Your Care
Feb 9, 2025

New album: The Brighton-based Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter’s new LP is inspired by the death of her grandmother in 2021, exploring and celebrating her east-Asian heritage in a gorgeously warm, eclectic collection that includes sounds of the Thai dulcimer.

Feb 9, 2025
Squid - Cowards.jpeg
Feb 9, 2025
Squid: Cowards
Feb 9, 2025

New album: Fabulously strange, inventive and and cleverly unsettling third album by the Brighton experimental post-punk, alt-rock quintet with a series of first-person narratives and inner monologues by fictional, disturbing characters - from cult leaders, serial killers, cannibals, sociopaths and arsonists

Feb 9, 2025

new songs …

Featured
Circuit de Yeux - Halo.jpeg
Feb 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Canopy of Eden
Feb 24, 2025

Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records

Feb 24, 2025
Brian D'Addario.jpeg
Feb 23, 2025
Song of the Day: Brian D’Addario: Till the Morning
Feb 23, 2025

Song of the Day: Classic 70s-inspired pop-rock with a fabulously strong melody and basslines, all entirely played and sung by one of multi-instrumentalist siblings, The Lemon Twigs on an 8-track, and co-produced with brother Michael, out on Headstack Records

Feb 23, 2025
Yugen Blakrok Osiris Awakens.jpeg
Feb 22, 2025
Song of the Day: Yugen Blakrok - Osiris Awakens (featuring Mohama Saz)
Feb 22, 2025

Song of the Day: The first single from the new album, an alluring, dark, mystical hip-hop by the charismatic South African rapper collaborating with the Madrid-based psychedelic rock band in a number about awakening a sleeping giant – resistance in the face of tyranny

Feb 22, 2025
Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding.jpg
Feb 21, 2025
Song of the Day: Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (featuring Aldous Harding)
Feb 21, 2025

Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records

Feb 21, 2025
Preoccupations band.jpeg
Feb 20, 2025
Song of the Day: Preoccupations - Focus
Feb 20, 2025

Song of the Day: A pulsating, sharp new number on history’s repeating patterns with a gripping video showing footage of various cults, this heralds the Calgary, Canadian post-punk/ new wave quartet’s forthcoming album Ill At Lease, ou on Born Losers Records on 9 May

Feb 20, 2025
Anika - Hearsay.jpg
Feb 19, 2025
Song of the Day: Anika - Hearsay
Feb 19, 2025

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, further, dark, menacing, alluring, experimental grunge-goth rock, this time by by the Berlin artist Anika Henderson, heralding her upcoming album Abyss, out on April 4, 2025 on Sacred Bones Records

Feb 19, 2025
Peter Murphy - Swoon.jpeg
Feb 18, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Murphy - Swoon (featuring Trent Reznor)
Feb 18, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, smoky, gothy, simmering, bizarre and Bowie-esque, the Bauhaus singer joins forces with old friend and the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, relating to the state of performer and audience, and heralding his upcoming album Silver Shade out on 9 May via Metropolis Records

Feb 18, 2025
The Waeve 2.jpeg
Feb 17, 2025
Song of the Day: The WAEVE - Love Is All Pain
Feb 17, 2025

Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records

Feb 17, 2025
Rebekka Karijord - The Bell Tower.jpeg
Feb 16, 2025
Song of the Day: Rebekka Karijord - Sanctuary
Feb 16, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union

Feb 16, 2025
Japanese Breakfast.jpeg
Feb 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Feb 15, 2025

Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans

Feb 15, 2025
image001 (4).jpg
Feb 14, 2025
Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Grand Mal
Feb 14, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union

Feb 14, 2025
Divorce - Hangman.jpeg
Feb 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Divorce - Hangman
Feb 13, 2025

Song of the Day: A clever, passionate, powerful new single with an extended game metaphor by the Nottingham indie band from their forthcoming album Drive to Goldenhammer out on 7 March via Gravity Records / Universal

Feb 13, 2025

Word of the week

Featured
Coffee gif.gif
Feb 11, 2025
Word of the week: withershins / widdershins
Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025
Chateau Marmont.jpeg
Jan 29, 2025
Word of the week: xenodocheionology
Jan 29, 2025

Word of the week: It’s something in which many of us may indulge during the thick of winter, planning for holidays via booking websites, this noun meaning the study of hotels, extending also to researching their lore and history

Jan 29, 2025
Cupped hands.jpeg
Jan 16, 2025
Word of the week: yepsen
Jan 16, 2025

Word of the week: A timeless noun emanating from Middle English ȝespen and first used in around 1325, meaning a unit of measurement being the amount of that can be held in two hands cupped together

Jan 16, 2025
Gingerbread guitar.jpeg
Jan 9, 2025
Word of the week: zingiberaceous / zinziberaceous
Jan 9, 2025

Word of the week: Two alternative spellings, spicily evocative and colourful, they are adjectives pertaining to the Zingiberaceae family of flowering plants that variously bring that distinctive flavour of, and are a rather fancy way of saying – ginger

Jan 9, 2025
icicles.jpeg
Dec 12, 2024
Word of the week: aquabob
Dec 12, 2024

Word of the week: Sounding like some water-based children’s TV superhero, it’s actually a particularly apt and descriptive word for wintertime, being an 18th-century English Kent dialect noun meaning icicle

Dec 12, 2024
Song Bar spinning.gif