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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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Thee Sacred Souls
Song of the Day: Wonderfully weighted and delicious slow in pace, a beautiful and timeless new track by the Southern California soul band from San Diego, heralding their upcoming second album, Got A Story To Tell, out 4 October via Daptone Records
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Jorja Smith - High
Song of the Day: The silky-voiced singer-songwriter from Walsall in the West Midlands latest single strong, self-healing, soulful, rhythmical dance track, one she describes as “about finding a friend within myself, even through the lows, you have to find the highs”
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Song of the Day: Produced by Danger Mouse and with backing vocals by Inflo, the British soul star and Mercury Prize-winner returns with a gorgeous, soaring, classy single, and his first new music for three years
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Clairo’s forthcoming album, Charm
Song of the Day: Smooth, sensual, wistful pop by the singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, Claire Cottrill, with rippling flutes, piano, mellotron, synths, percussion and organ, taken from her forthcoming album, Charm, out in July on Clairo Records, co-written also and produced by Leon Michels
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Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love
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Galliano return in 2024 after 27 years
Song of the Day: The acid jazz, soul and hip hop band returns after almost three decades with a vibrant new ode-to-dance and spoken number namechecking influential artists, musicians and from Arthur Russell to Andrew Weatherall, and heralds the the forthcoming album Halfway Somewhere, out on Browswood Recordings
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Lady Blackbird
Song of the Day: The opening track of soaring, timeless, passionate gospel-infused soul music and more by the supreme American singer-songwriter, taken from her fabulous new five-track EP, Slang Spirituals, out now
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Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual
Song of the Day: A sensual, funky and stylish new dance number by the London artist, written through the lens of a very personal early teenage story, a song about sexual liberation, but also a critique of the hyper-sexualised society we live in
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Jordan Rakei
Song of the Day: The latest single by the silky-voiced London-based New Zealand-Australian soul singer brings also punchy horns and orchestra in a jazz-funk-Motown-style fusion, and comes from his forthcoming album, The Loop, out on 10 May via Decca Records
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Remi Wolf’s forthcoming LP, Big Ideas
Song of the Day: A new, fabulous funk, soul and pop single with a humorously self-detrimentally twist and entertaining flirty video by the Californian singer-songwriter from her upcoming album, Big Ideas, out in July
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