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.
Brilliant Glaswegians Butcher Boy released this slice of gorgeous indie pop from album React or Die in 2009. Their record dropped through our mailbox from flawless DIY label How Does It Feel to be Loved? And we were instantly captivated.…
To celebrate the US release of his latest album, Carry On (which has been out in the UK since March), Willy Mason has released this paper-puppet take on The Lion King.* Mason’s warm, husky vocal sails above the beats and pings…
With a voice that sounds like the devil cutting loose in a jazz bar, David G Cox packs a lot of variety into his four-track Bag Of Bones EP, but no track shows off what he is all about quite…
You may have heard Kevin Pearce on BBC Radio 6 Music, but one thing FFS’s favourite radio station cannot do for you is show you this charming video. Pearce’s new song ‘Peaceful Skies’ is about wishing you could take a…
Listening to Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe singing “oh no sir, I must say you’re wrong” on this stunning cover version it’s not hard to convince yourself the lyrics were written specially for him. In fact he has teamed up…
Ridiculously talented Newcastle four-piece Bridie Jackson & The Arbour have had quite a special few days, what with making their Glastonbury debut having won the festival’s Emerging Talent Competition to earn spots on three different stages across the weekend. Well,…
You could be forgiven for thinking we only like Dead Man’s Bones cos it’s Ryan Gosling’s musical project with Zach Shields, but you’d be wrong. Their 2009 self-titled album features an unnerving children’s choir accompanying Gosling and Shields on 12…
It’s hard to imagine their are many FFS readers who won’t be excited, intrigued or at the very least mildly interested to hear new material from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. That the new material comes not from Bon Iver but…
For their first outing post-Foxes!, Adam Bell and Alan Grice appear to have channelled the twin influences of Friedrich Nietzsche and Stephen Malkmus. With their old band on hiatus, Bell and Grice have teamed up with Alan Odgers and Tom Matthews…
Some people think folk music is all men with beards playing acoustic guitars and clapping. These people are idiots, but just to be on the safe side, don’t show them ‘Shed A Little Light’ by Winter Mountain, which is two…