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.

#520 The Travelling Band – Passing Ships

The Travelling Band are coming out of the deep freezer this month. Three years on from the release of Screaming Is Something, they will release their new album, uhm, The Big Defreeze, on August 25th. Passing Ships is here as…

#518 Emily Mure – Mexico

If you’re going to cover a song called ‘Mexico’, you’ve got plenty to choose from. There’s the Staves, obviously, there’s James Taylor and there’s Jefferson Airplane. We applaud New York singer and oboist Emily Mure though for her choice of…

#517 Zack Joseph – Ten Pounds More

Upstate New Yorker Zack Joseph followed the calling to Nashville and has recently released his album All The Time in Music City. Drawing on early rock ‘n’ roll, Cat Stevens and Bob Dylan, Joseph’s strong songwriting and lush sound make…

#516 Rökkurró – The Backbone

Some music begs you to listen to it and says thank you for doing so all the same time. This new track from Iceland’s Rökkurró does exactly that. It’s quite startling in its warmth and its invention, without ever feeling…

#515 Philip Selway – Coming Up For Air

With its brooding, echoing appeal, We couldn’t help but think of John Grant when listening to this new track from Philip Selway. You may know him as the drummer from Radiohead so naturally the beats are all in order, but…

#514 Liance – Treading Water

“Today I released my first EP, which is surprising for someone who still has his email as “penguinsruleok” from when he was ten years old.” So began a message we got from Michigan native James Li, who works under the…

#513 Climbing Trees – If Not For Love

We like a band that doesn’t dawdle. Adelaide pairing Climbing Trees, a collaboration between Paul Antsey and Sonny Taverna, only came together late last year, but they’re already on the verge of releasing their debut album, with Campfire Sky due…

#512 Beck Lanehart – Black Cherry Pearl

A year after first charming us with her song ‘Last Man Down’, London’s Beck Lanehart is back with a new EP. Title track ‘Black Cherry Pearl’ is another country-tinged number but shows off a much grander sound than last we…

#511 Me and the City – The Wild Ones

Imagine living in a town which was named after a beer. Or at least shared a name with a beer. You must be thirsty all the time. Such is the fate of Californian band Me and the City, who come…