“Home Again” by Michael Kiwanuka

"Home Again" was Michael Kiwanuka's first single, the title song of his debut album, and it went out as a UK download on 1 January 2012, with the video already on YouTube since that November. It's a hushed, homespun bit of British soul, and the credits show how hand-built it is: Kiwanuka wrote it, sings it, plays acoustic guitar and bass, and supplies the handclaps and foot stomps himself.

Producer Paul Butler fills in almost everything else, on drums, shakers, percussion, Rhodes piano and cello, with Andy Parkin adding violin, Jon McMullen engineering and David Butler mixing. It entered the UK Singles Chart at 37 and climbed to 29 the week after, a modest start for a voice that sounds like it has all the time in the world.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.