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.
A song featuring handclaps, whistles and a ukulele always had a better than average chance of reaching For Folk’s Sake’s attention. Phox’s ‘Slow Motion’ has a depth and variety that makes it something rather special, throwing in drum solos, oboes…
Maybe you hate the song, maybe you secretly love it, but everyone has an opinion on the definitive one-hit wonder from Chesney Hawkes. Now Ellen and the Escapades are here to change everything you thought you knew about ‘The One…
‘For Gabriel’ was written by Patch & the Giant’s Angie and Luke after a sorry set of circumstances culminating in a lost fiddle. All proceeds from the sale of the song go to buying a replacement for Patch violinist Gabe’s.…
Despite being only 20, Maggie Rogers is already on to her second album, Blood Ballet. It documents her life since moving to New York City to attend the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. We love the oppressive feel to…
Kelly Oliver has brought double BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee Luke Jackson on board for this track ‘Diamond Girl’ and you can see why. The harmonies are the stand-out feature of this folk ballad. The duet is the first…
There’s nothing revolutionary about ‘SoLong’ by School, except perhaps the band’s unusual approach to spacing. It is, however, understatedly and insistently lovely, and that’s good enough for us. If anything it’s a touch old-fashioned, with a kind of 90s indie…
Today’s Song of the Day is The Jungle by Esben and the Witch, though to call it a song doesn’t quite do it justice. It’s a 15-minute epic which sits at heart of their upcoming album A New Nature, building…
Leeds four-piece the Dunwells return early next month with their new EP Show Me Emotion and we’re dead chuffed to be able to let you have a first gander at the new video for the title track. In a bid…
Kathrin deBoer is a singer and bassist worthy or your attention. If you don’t know why she’s worthy of your attention, you probably haven’t clicked play on the little Soundcloud widget above this writing. Click it. Go on… Okay, didn’t…
We’re pretty confident you won’t hear anything else that sounds like this today. Or tomorrow. Or probably ever come to that. The track came about when Canadian Andrew Sisk unearthed a rare antique book called The Passing of the Buffalo…