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.
From Melbourne comes Gossling, giving us a shimmering and understated brand of folk-pop. Following on from her UK debut single ‘Wild Love’ last year, Gossling – or Helen Croome, if you want to be less poetic – brings us the…
UK-born New Yorker Sofia grew up in an artistic hothouse of a home, daughter to a Venezualan jewellery-designer mother and a Lebanese songwriter father. Her own songwriting kicked off when she was 13. ‘Mum, I Think I Like a Girl’…
Happy birthday to FFS favourite Johnny Flynn. To celebrate we bring you a live performance of Einstein’s Idea, a lullaby Johnny wrote for his son Gabriel.
Kishi Bashi’s second album Lighght is due out in May on Joyful Noise Recordings, and it’s possible that a label’s name has never been better suited to an artist’s sound. Frankly we would struggle to think of a better term…
‘Mistakes of my Youth’ is a retrospective of the self-defeating choices and actions of Mark Oliver Everett, one of the best people ever in the history of people who can both play guitar and sing songs. With misty, laid-back guitars…
From out of Fayetteville, Arkansas come Little Chief, a band entirely unrelated to and not the little brother of Santa Monica’s Chief. They’ve this week released their debut album Lion’s Den, described as the sound of the band that would…
Look At What You Can’t Have Now from Darren Hayman on Vimeo. Apparently, after Darren Hayman recruited Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa for his new song ‘Look At What You Can’t Have Now’, they decided that the record should sound like…
Bookshelves by Jess Hall ‘Maps’ is taken from Bookshelves, the debut album from songbird Jess Hall. Although she now calls Oxford home, she hails from North Devon, and it is that region’s famed coastline which gives her so much of…
Happy International Women’s Day! If you’re not sure how to celebrate, just be pleased about how fantastically witty, current and alive feminism is in 2014, and watch the shiftiest-looking escaped tiger you’re ever likely to see prowl around a circus…
Cantebury’s Jo Hook has recorded her debut album Silence Surrounds Me with Geoffrey Richardson, 11 tracks of lush folk-pop which can shift gears from the slow and the beautiful to bright and breezy tunes in a matter of moments. For…