If you don’t know how much we love the Staves, you haven’t been paying attention. You should be able to guess therefore how thrilled we are that there’s a new track for us to drink in. Produced by Bon Iver’s…
#562 The Staves – The Blood I Bled
Category: Song of the Day
A song a day, every day. From brand new tunes to elderly classics. We don’t promise to be constrained by genre, but we promise to recommend brilliant music.
#561 The Bronze – Gun To The Floor
Regular FFS readers will have heard of Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton before. Holly was one of our picks in the 2011 Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition, and we’ve already reviewed some of her releases with Chris. But now it’s time…
#560 Fictonian – Full Circle Influence
Fictonian is a new project put together by researchers at the University of Phoenix in a bid to devise the perfect song. Locked in laboratories day and night with a handful of Fleetwood Mac albums they’ve been trying to determine…
#557 Flowers – Joanna
‘Lovely’. It’s one of those words, only one step removed from ‘nice’ that can seem underwhelming as a term of praise. But some things are just absolutely lovely in the best possible way, and on that list should be Flowers’…
#556 Brooke Bentham – We’ll be Ghosts
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160985830″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”600″ iframe=”true” /] ‘We’ll be Ghosts’, Brooke Bentham‘s latest release via Trellis Records, is a searing, atmospheric expression of hope for a broken relationship. Can something that’s been ruined and emptied out be resurrected if you’re…
#555 Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather
Steve Gunn, formerly of Kurt Vile’s Violators and more recently known for his album with Mike Cooper, returns with his latest solo effort Way Out Weather next month, and from what we’ve heard it should be the one that stops…
#554 Mark Olson – Cherry Thieves
https://soundcloud.com/pindrop-publicity/06-cherry-thieves This is Mark Olson, founding member of the Jayhawks, and he’s making beautiful music just for you. Of the track ‘Cherry Thieves’ he says: “Here is quite a bit of ancient water stored under the granite rocks in Joshua…
#553 Menace Beach – Tennis Court
Menace Beach – “Tennis Court” from stereogum on Vimeo. You wait ages for a great song about a tennis court, then two come along in a relatively short space of time. In truth, we’d never even thought there might be…
#552 Barr Brothers – Love Ain’t Enough
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#551 Bears Den – Above the Clouds of Pompeii
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/165657029″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Long-established in the Bears Den repertoire, ‘The Clouds Above Pompeii’ is a splendid, stirring piece of perfection from a band whose debut album Islands (out 20th October) has spent rather a lot of time…