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.

#539 The Barr Brothers – Half Crazy

“This song ‘Half-Crazy’ could be described as the tenacious offspring of the North African desert music of Mali/Morocco, and the sweat and electricity of the Chicago and Mississippi Delta blues,” says vocalist Brad Barr. “That music is like a stem…

#538 XING – Fate

https://soundcloud.com/itsxing/fate This track certainly has pedigree. XING’s lead singer is Jack Moore, son of Thin Lizzy’s Jack Moore, while his friend Dhani Harrison – whose dad is some guy called George – also features. That’s interesting, of course, but what’s…

#537 Passport To Stockholm – Imperfections

Having announced themselves with the Chemistry EP late last year, Passport To Stockholm are to return with what counts as their debut single. ‘Imperfections’ will get an official launch with a gig at the Barfly on September 16, but you…

#536 Alexandria – Secret Beach

If yesterday’s unusual Song of the Day was not to your taste, this one might be. Pure melody with hints of psychedelia it should soothe your aches and pains away. The track ‘Secret Beach’ comes from Stockholm quintet Alexandria’s debut…

#535 Brittany Karlson – Zacchaeus

This video comes to us from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, so it’s no surprise that it’s a little out of the ordinary. The track from Brittany Karlson won’t be to everyone’s taste with its diversions into atonality…

#534 The Pictish Trail – Long In The Tooth

I’ve never understood the point of static caravans – a total contradiction in terms as far as I can make out. After all, if a caravan can’t move, doesn’t that eliminate its sole selling point? But Johnny Lynch seems to…

#533 Justin Dean Thomas – Standing In The Door

We introduced you to Justin Dean Thomas back in April with his song ‘The Night Is Far Gone‘. Now the New York artist is back with a stunning new video for the silky sweet ‘Standing In The Door’. And as…

#532 Ultimate Painting – Winter In Your Heart

The Ultimate Painting was an improvised piece put together by Drop City, an artists’ commune which formed in southern Colorado in 1965. And now it is also the name for a new collaboration between Mazes’ Jack Cooper and Veronica Falls’…

#531 Vincent Bella – Bodies

Berlin-based artist Vincent Bella is a friend of and contributor to FFS, so admittedly we might be biased, but we think his latest song ‘Bodies’ is a bit of a delight. With accompanying saxaphone from his friend Rod, it’s jazzy…