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.

#178 Let’s Buy Happiness – Run

Let’s Buy Happiness are putting the finishes touches to their long-awaited debut album and have been good enough to give us a little taste. ‘Run’ is a beautiful track and one which should raise the anticipation levels ahead of a…

#177 Gambles – So I Cry Out

‘So I Cry Out’ by Gambles is as simple as music gets: a voice, a few guitar chords and a bucketload of raw emotion. It’s the sort of track that only an experienced artist could possibly have the self-assurance to…

#176 Country Parish Music – Lady Maisry

Introducing Country Parish Music by Country Parish Music Steve Collins, formerly of the Owl Service, has linked up with Welsh singer Rosemary Lippard for a lovely new project Country Parish Music. With a marriage of sounds that feel made for…

#175 Belle & Sebastian – The Wrong Girl

Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian

Today is Stuart Murdoch’s birthday, and although Wikipedia is more or less adamant that he’s turning 45, we all know that he’s really nineteen, scribbling in exercise books and pining away as he gazes out the window of a Glasgow…

#174 The April Maze – Where Do They Go

Armed with only a guitar and a cello, husband-and-wife duo The April Maze seem to create an out-sized noise which they’ve kept a secret (from us, at least) by hiding out in their native Australia for all this time. Now,…

#173 Mona & Maria – My Sun

It’s a fairly special thing combine the lightest of touches with an epic feel, a trick Mona & Maria pull off on ‘My Sun’. While the melody and harmonies are as delicate as you would expect from a Scandinavian folk…

#172 Will Varley – When You’re Gone

One of those multi-talented individuals who makes you feel embarrassed for every idle moment you ever passed, Will Varley’s new album As The Crow Flies is out next month. The introduction to the latest work from the novelist, film-maker and…

#171 Suntrapp – All The Seas

From up in Newcastle come Suntrapp, whose debut single ‘All The Seas’ is out now. It fills three and a bit minutes of these fading days of summer with rolling rhythms and memories of time spent at the beach, and…

#170 Allysen Callery – Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley from brett davey on Vimeo. American artist Allysen Callery will see her fifth album Mumblin’ Sue get a European release on September 9. The Rhode Island native is heavily influenced by the British folk scene of…

#169 The Woodwards – The Wood

The Woodwards is the brainchild of artist, Dutchman and mate-of-Andy-Warhol, Peter Schuyff. After the release of the eponymous debut album in 2009, Schuyff was joined by designer Stevie Guy, making them possible the best dressed band alive. The Wood is…