You know that we’re big Beautiful South fans here at FFS so it won’t surprise you to hear we have a soft spot for the Housemartins too. Many of their seemingly more gentle tracks – including this 1987 release which…
#328 The Housemartins – Build
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.
#327 Paul Bergmann and the Fair Moans – Sorrow Song
January in the UK means many things, but it always means a heap of TV adverts for holidays in southern California. Sun! Surf! Doom-folk! Wait, what? Okay, so that last one is yet to feature alongside Rob Lowe et al…
#326 Rachel Sermanni – Two Birds
Rachel Sermanni can do little wrong in our eyes at the moment. She follows up the beautiful ‘Everything Changes’ with ‘Two Birds’, continuing the career-best run of form which defines her Everything Changes EP. “So sweet yet so bitter,” is…
#325 Elephant Revival – Remembering A Beginning
One day Dango Rose read the story of two elephants who had lived together for 15 years and then separated by zookeepers. Within days, both of them died. Touched by the sad story, Dango had the name for his band.…
#324 Alister Atkin & The Ghost Line Carnival – Jess’s Song
Alister Atkin made his name by building guitars played by the likes of Richard Hawley, Elbow, Eddi Reader and Graham Coxon. Then, in 2012, he put out his first record In Time and quickly gained an array of plaudits for…
#323 Library Kids – Us
From out of Manila come Library Kids, a two-piece formed by Ridge Tan and Ifrit Rivera. Raised on the likes of Simon & Garfunkel and Nick Drake, and influenced by the Fleet Foxes and Sigur Ros, their rustic music is…
#322 Matthew & The Atlas – Pale Sun Rose
Matthew & The Atlas are gearing up to release their debut album in 2014 and have begun the process of getting everyone’s mouth watering with new single ‘Pale Sun Rose’, which will be released on February 24th. Charlie Cox (Boardwalk…
#321 Withered Hand – Black Tambourine
Withered Hand, the project of Edinburgh’s Dan Willson are returning with second LP New Gods, (not far from being an inversion of the title of debut Good News). The record was produced by Tony Doogan (Mountain Goats, Belle & Sebastian)…
#320 Peggy Sue – Longest Day of the Year Blues
The name ‘Longest Day of the Year Blues’ suggests the second taster from Peggy Sue’s forthcoming album Choir of Echoes might be a bit of a drag. But while it’s a break-up song, maybe not the happiest of topics, the…
#319 Elbow – Fly Boy Blue/Lunette
We’ll temper our excitement just a little given how good ‘Lippy Kids’ was and the relative disappointment of Build A Rocket Boys!, but blimey, this is a bit good isn’t it? ‘Fly Boy Blue/Lunette’, the first material to be taken…