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.
Benjamin Clementine has been causing a stir since his surprise appearance on Jools Holland last year, and this week delivered his first record, the Cornerstone EP. The Paris-based London export will be following up the release with a show at…
Who’s ready for some harmonies and banjos? Oxford’s Samuel Zasada are happy to oblige with this track ‘Lifelessly’, taken from their new EP Winter’s End. With urgent, driving banjo riffs and meaty harmonies, the band very much fit the modern…
Samantha Crain’s new album, out today in the UK on Full Time Hobby, is called Kid Face. This is because, Crain explains, she is regularly mistaken for a 16-year-old. “It gives me a great insight into people’s character and plenty…
It’s just beautiful, isn’t it? Sometimes the purest songs come from an unlikely source. This track, taken from French electronica duo Air’s 1998 debut album Moon Safari, came after the equally excellent but wildly different ‘Sexy Boy’ and ‘Kelly Watch…
Listening to Guided By Voices is a bit like going down a very deep mine. Lead singer Robert Pollard has well over 1,600 songs under his name and usually releases at least three albums a year… It’s a frightening prospect…
We love this track ‘Dead City Emily’, taken from Marissa Nadler’s upcoming new album July. July will be coming your way in February – we blame global warming – via Bella Union, so you know it’s good. There’s a purity to Nadler’s…
FFS favourites Patch & the Giant have unveiled the video for their single Daniel, taken from The Boatswain’s Refuge EP. The video was directed by Andrew AB and features fellow folkies Inti Rowland, Lucy Cait, Nick Edward Harris, Andrew Butler…
Praise whichever particular lord you believe in (we’ll probably go for some sort of Nick Drake/Joni Mitchell hybrid deity), Wild Beasts are back with a new single, ‘Wanderlust’. It’s a long way from the glorious histrionics of their debut Limbo,…
After a frank and uplifting discussion at FFS Towers, we’ve decided to come out as massive Beautiful South fans. Don’t even talk to us if you don’t know all the words to ‘Good As Gold’, or every single girl’s name…
Having heard this track on Lauren Laverne’s 6 Music show this morning, we were determined to bring it to you as Song of the Day. We were also keen to bring you lots of useful information about The Drink. However,…