Canadian Tanya Davis earned a level of fame a couple of years back because of this video made by artist Andrea Dorfman, a reading of her poem How To Be Alone set to animation and live action and general goodness.…
#238 Tanya Davis – Art
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.
#237 Kathleen Grace – No Place To Fall
Los Angeles-based jazz/country artist Kathleen Grace has littered her new album with covers of everyone from Duke Ellington to Tom Waits to the Meat Puppets amid the originals. One guaranteed way of catching our ears is to tackle a Townes…
#236 Patch and the Giant – The Sleeping Boat
The brilliant Patch & the Giant are blogging for us at the moment. They’re a London-based 7-piece who play raucous, jubilant folk and the band host a show at the Boogaloo every month. In their show they tell us about…
#235 Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
There are certain songs that catch you at just the right time and shape the way you experience and appreciate music forever. Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2 (XO) is a song that did that to a host of impressionable music lovers…
#234 The Leisure Society – Save It For Someone Who Cares
Well this is not the song we meant to bring you. We’ve spent today trawling the internet for a recording of ‘If God Did Give Me The Choice’ by this same band. And while we’re pretty impressed by this cover…
#233 Basia Bulat – City With No Rivers/Wires
It’s a two-for-one bumper-bonus day here at FFS! Get your folk tunes while they’re hot! ‘Wires’ is the latest single taken from Basia Bulat’s album Tall Tall Shadow. You can hear the single here, but we love this session version of…
#232 Anonymous Choir – Talk to Me of Mendocino
Anonymous Choir is the brainchild of Nona Marie Invie from Dark Dark Dark. Based in Minneapolis, they have recorded three albums: a re-imagining of Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, a selection of Leonard Cohen songs, and II featuring songs…
#231 God Help The Girl – Funny Little Frog
A film of God Help The Girl, starring Sucker Punch actor Emily Browning and Hannah Murray (Skins and Game of Thrones), is due out next year. The project is the brainchild of Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, who launched…
#230 Sukh – Den
New single ‘Den’ is one of Sukh’s favourite songs off his debut album Kings. We know this because he told us himself. “Den [is one of my favourites] because its more of a soundscape and feels rich, warm and inviting…
#229 Lover Lover – Young Free
Lover Lover’s blend of synths and harmonies is a lovely way to welcome the weekend. “If you say it’ll be alright, then I know it’ll be alright,” sings Eleanor Bodenham, as the “young, free” mantra repeats in the background. It’s…