Bloody unrequited love, eh? It’s a bugger and no mistake. It’s also responsible for a sizeable proportion of popular music, so we can’t be too down on it. To the canon now is added ‘St Lucy’s Day’ by Songdog, a…
#188 Songdog – St Lucy’s Day
Category: Song of the Day
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#187 Sophie Jamieson – Dinah
It’s very hard to talk about The lovely Sophie Jamieson without prefacing her name thus. She is lovely and so is her music. It sounds gentle but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s twee, there’s an intelligence and sonic darkness…
#186 Killing Fields Of Ontario – Cloud
With an album from Killing Fields Of Ontario out next month, ‘Cloud’ makes a welcome reappearance with a striking video which may make you see the song in a new light. While the track itself sounds as urgent as ever,…
#185 Charles Aznavour – I Drink
We first heard this track on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour, when he called Charles Aznavour the “Frank Sinatra of France”. It’s an incredible diatribe from an eloquent, bitter man: “I drink to drive away all the years I have…
#184 Reuben Hollebon – Faces
Charlie Hugall, who worked on both of Florence + the Machine’s albums, gets a producing credit on this new track from Reuben Hollebon and it’s a link that makes sense. It’s a song that starts small, foregrounds some striking percussion…
#183 Robinson – Superlove
Worcester multi-instrumentalist Robinson wrote his forthcoming third album while on sabbatical in the United States and the results have been attracting plenty of attention, not least as they earned him supporting slots with Laura Marling at her recent secret gigs.…
#182 The Barr Brothers – Even The Darkness Has Arms
For Folk’s Sake were lucky enough to come face to face with the Barr Brothers at last year’s Camden Crawl and we quickly fell in love with the gentle sounds that made up their self-titled 2011 debut. Now the Canadian…
#181 Laish – Carry Me
We had the pleasure of catching Danny Green from Laish* at the Gallery Cafe in London last week, and it reminded us of the brilliance of this song and it’s gorgeous animated video. The Brighton-based band – who are members…
#180 The Provincial Archive – Common Cards
There’s a whole lot of Elliott Smith to the Provincial Archive, and that is no bad thing at all. The Canadian four-piece are poised to make a splash on this side of the Atlantic with a single in ‘Common Cards’…
#179 Southern – World Don’t Shine
Turn your diary to the bit marked 2014 and write in big letters: “SOUTHERN ALBUM RELEASED”. There’s no exact release date yet, so you might be best blocking out the entire year just to be on the safe side. Because…