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.

#398 Bridie Jackson & The Arbour – We Talked Again

Bridie Jackson and the Arbour may have handed over their crown as the reigning to Glastonbury Emerging Talent winners to M+A last week, but they’re very much looking forward as they plan their second record New Skin. ‘We Talked Again’…

#397 Thickets – Come Home

Blending sweet harmonies and a rich blend of instruments, London-based alt-folk trio Thickets make a fairly wonderful noise. Rebecca (autoharp), Allanah (cello) and Kieran (drums) come together to make something that sounds fresh and exciting, and something you can hear…

#396 Hayley Reardon – Booze and Blueberries (For Betsy)

It’s not the fact that Hayley Reardon has released the Wayfindings EP at the age of 17 that is remarkable – it’s more the fact that this seven-track collection of songs is her second record after 2012’s Where The Artists…

#395 Yann Tiersen – A Midsummer Evening

For Folk's Sake | Yann Tiersen | A Midsummer Evening

Kicking off like a primary school orchestra warming up for a show, ‘A Midsummer Evening’ is a heart-filling summer song with a sting of fire in its tail. The choral chanting, discordant electronic instrumentation and strange imagining of a land…

#394 Johanna Warren – Both Worlds

Fates by Johanna Warren Whether we realise it or not, most of us already know the voice of Johanna Warren – whether it be from her backing vocals on Andrea Tomasi’s recent record (and their subsequent US tour together), or…

#393 Villagers – Occupy Your Mind

Following on from the success of last year’s Mercury Prize-nominated {awayland} Villagers today release a brand new track ‘Occupy Your Mind’, a fast-paced, mildly menacing number written by Conor O’Brien and produced by James Ford (Haim, Arctic Monkeys).

#392 Heg and the Wolf Chorus – Giant

For Folk's Sake | Heg and the Wolf Chorus | Giant

If Jack and the Beanstalk had featured a crazed-eyed angry woman and the threat of being locked away to dance for eternity in a picture frame, I suspect we’d all have been significantly more terrified as wee children. Heg and…

#391 Michael Kiwanuka – You’ve Got Nothing to Lose

For Folk's Sake | Michael Kiwanuka | 2014

As we watch her prepare to attend her son’s birthday party, flashes of a transgender mother’s dingy home and dingier lifestyle are interspersed with the technicolor gathering she hopes to attend. Director James Cathcart imbues the father-to-son message of Micahel…

#390 Lenzie Moss – Let’s Take The Day Off

Few things beat a Friday off work and as I’ve got one today, what better way to celebrate than by listening to the new single from ex-Teenage Fanclub man Lenzie Moss (AKA Finlay MacDonald). The single is due out at…

#389 Beverley Martyn – Levee Breaks

Beverley Martyn, the former wife of the late John, will release a new album The Phoenix and The Turtle in April. The record reaches back over her long career, featuring a song, ‘Reckless Jane,’ that she started with Nick Drake…