Sep 06, 2023 By Mark Redfern

London singer/songwriter and producer Sampha has officially announced a new album, LAHAI, and shared a new song from it, “Only,” via a music video. He’s also announced some tour dates. More

Jun 30, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 23rd Songs of the Week of 2023. This week our writers and editors Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Celine Teo-Blockey, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield all weighed in which songs were best and we came up with the stacked list below. We settled on a Top 14 this week, with lots of honorable mentions. More

Jun 29, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

London singer/songwriter and producer Sampha has returned with his first new solo song in six years, “Spirit 2.0.” More

Jan 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2021. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week. Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the inauguration, it was a week light on compelling new tracks. So this week we chronicle the best songs of the last two weeks, so it’s a Top 12 (and our Top 2 are both super long songs). More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

While it was a very healthy week for new album releases, so much so that we had eight runner-ups for this week’s Album of the Week, it was more of a challenge to find 10 new songs we felt worthy of this week’s Songs of the Week list. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

British singer Sampha Sisay (or just Sampha) has shared a new song, “Treasure.” It is taken from the soundtrack to Beautiful Boy, a new film that’s out today in New York and Los Angeles via Amazon Studios and expanding into other cities in the coming weeks. More

Dec 31, 2017 By Mark Redfern

The majority of 2017’s best debut albums came from female artists or bands fronted by women, from London-based all-female indie-pop teenaged trio Girl Ray and Syria-born singer/songwriter Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) to Australian indie rocker Alex Lahey and New Zealand bedroom pop artist Fazerdaze (aka Amelia Murray). Midnight Sister, Priests, and Charly Bliss are all female-fronted bands as well, on top of other women solo artists on our Top 15 Debut Albums of 2017 list. More

Sep 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British singer Sampha Sisay (or just Sampha) was previously best known for his vocal and production contributions to the likes of SBTRKT (where many listeners likely first discovered him), Kanye West, Drake, and Solange. But back in February he finally released Process, his debut solo album, via Young Turks. More

Jul 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by alt-J, The xx, Glass Animals, Sampha, The Big Moon, Kate Tempest, and… Ed Sheeran. The last one seems like bit of a mainstream choice for The Mercury Prize. The full list is below. More

Feb 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight five albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. There’s also a longer list of albums released in the last month that are also worth checking out. We have also included Amazon links for each album. More

Sep 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Solange Knowles has announced a new album, A Seat At the Table, that’s due out this Friday, September 30, via Saint Records and Columbia. More

Aug 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

SBTRKT recently stopped by Zane Lowe’s show on BBC 1. More

Jan 02, 2014 By Laura Studarus

First aired at the Young Turks New Year’s Eve blowout in Tulum, Mexico, “r u n a w a y” is a new/old song by SBTRKT. More