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.

#78 Natalie Evans – Library Days

Kent songwriter Natalie Evans has just released her second EP Houses, which shows off a style so dreamy that she manages to make a day spent at the library seem like a spiritual pastime. The six-track EP focuses lyrically on…

#77 Dodos – Confidence

A new Dodos track is always something worth taking notice of and ‘Confidence’, the first single from their upcoming fifth album Carrier is a real gem. It has the band’s trademark deep and epic sound, but is more raw and…

#76 The Wood Brothers – Midnight Rider

The Wood Brothers are our second Song of the Day from an artist playing the lovely Wood Festival, which is happening RIGHT NOW. The Wood Brothers are Chris and Oliver wood from Boulder Colerado, and this track is from their…

#74 Penniless Cove – Monsoon Rain

  Well this is a find and a half. Hailing from South East London, Penniless Cove may still be largely unknown on the folk circuit but that should change soon – preferably in the next 5 minutes – if this…

#73 Caitlin Park – Baby Teeth

Sydney’s Caitlin Park is in the UK this week to introduce us to her delightful record Milk Annual, which she released back home in 2011. Her engaging folktronica is given extra life by an array of samples and abstract sounds…

#72 Junip – Your Life Your Call

Hot from the newly-released, eponymous record, ‘Suddenly’ is Junip at their best – futuristic, Kraftwerky synths layered with José González’s delicate guitar picking and a Casio coconut beat. What other band could mix those sounds with such great results? None, that’s…

#71 Joe Innes & The Cavalcade – Fables

Any FFS review, mention or even hint of Joe Innes & the Cavalcade will need to come with something of a disclaimer. You see, our editor, Lynn Roberts, is IN THE BAND. So we’re not going to editorialise, we’d just…

#70 The Melodic – One Day/Reckoning Song

Melodica, Melody and Me have undergone a refit and re- emerged simply as The Melodic. Their first offering in the new syllable-efficient guise shows that while the name has changed, the joy of their simple sound has not. They’ve taken…