You might know, because we mention it fairly regularly, how much we loved Nancy Elizabeth’s third album Dancing last year. You might not know that we loved her 2009 album Wrought Iron almost as much. For us it was the…
There may have been a raised eyebrow or two when Paul Thomas Saunders cited Vangelis as a major influence on his new material, although with his growing dislike of acoustic guitars it perhaps isn’t a massive surprise. Anyone who remains…
You know the drill by now, right? Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros made their name through big 60s pop-rock songs with big 60s singalong choruses. There’s no change to the winning formula here – and no need for it,…
‘New York, New York’ may sound like perfect American driving music but it is in reality Swedish through and through. This is the first track to be taken from Underdogism, the debut album from Filip Sundberg – aka Tiger Forest…
Before Inside Llewyn Davis there was O Brother, Where Art Thou?, another music-based Coen brothers film with a soundtrack masterminded by T Bone Burnett. Among the many, many treats that album has to offer, one of the greatest – and…
You know that we’re big Beautiful South fans here at FFS so it won’t surprise you to hear we have a soft spot for the Housemartins too. Many of their seemingly more gentle tracks – including this 1987 release which…
Inside Llewyn Davis – the latest Coen brothers film which is out this weekend – shows the struggles of a 1960s folk musician trying to make it as a solo artist having previously been part of a duo. It got…
We were so blown away when we heard The Drink’s ‘At The Weekend‘ a few weeks back that we just had to make it our Song of the Day immediately – despite the fact we knew nothing whatsoever about the…
Rachel Sermanni can do little wrong in our eyes at the moment. She follows up the beautiful ‘Everything Changes’ with ‘Two Birds’, continuing the career-best run of form which defines her Everything Changes EP. “So sweet yet so bitter,” is…
There’s something about great music that seems to combine the earthly and the earthy with something a bit more ethereal. A truly great track can be as close as we heathens get to a religious experience. And while Samantha Crain…