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.

#631 Cherry Head, Cherry Heart – Dark Clouds

Dark Clouds by Cherry Head, Cherry Heart Cherry Head, Cherry Heart is the original-composition project of Naomi Lowe and Andy Johnson who play in the Housemartins/Beautiful South cover band The Southmartins. Whilst their first album Chihuahua was very much in…

#630 John Joseph Brill – Kings

What better vibe for your Monday morning than the realisation that the long ageing process is as unavoidable as death and taxes? Stick with us though, please, as we bring you this video from John Joseph Brill for ‘Kings’, taken…

#629 Shearwater – Quiet Americans

Shearwater play London’s Field Day Festival tonight as they start a European tour in support of Jet Plane and Oxbow, which was released in January. On the eve of the tour they released this lyric video for ‘Quiet Americans’ to…

#628 Cool Ghouls – Sundial

The final destination for so many pilgrimages in the great Summer of Love, San Francisco has long had a special musical vibe, and is the spiritual home to Cosmic Americana. Keeping the flame alive are Bay Area natives Cool Ghouls.…

#627 Bert Jansch – Blackbird In The Morning

For fans who have spent years hunting one of Bert Jansch’s rarest releases, From The Outside, today is your day as the 1985 LP gets a reissue. Originally limited to just 500 copies, a handful of versions kicked around over…

#626 Charlotte Carpenter – Burn

Charlotte Carpenter will release her new EP How Are We Ever To Know? on June 10, and has just dropped this video for the closing track ‘Burn’. The minimalistic track puts Carpenter’s considerable vocal talents to the fore, but given…

#625 Rachel Sermanni – Run

Late on Tuesday evening Rachel Sermanni gave us all a new treat with the release of this video for ‘Run’ – taken from 2015’s Tied To The Moon. Shot near Carrbridge in the Highlands, the video sees Rachel go for…

#624 Emma Russack – If You Could See Me Now

The hazy, laid-back ‘If You Could See Me Now’ is taken from In A New State, the third album from Australian songwriter Emma Russack which is due out next month. Russack first made waves in her homeland at the age…

#623 Laura Marling – The Needle and the Damage Done

Neil Young began his UK and Ireland tour on Sunday night in Glasgow, and given Laura Marling is supporting him throughout we figured this was a fitting one for today. Marling has said she learned guitar strumming along to this…

#622 of Montreal – It’s Different For Girls

Perennial shape-shifters of Montreal will return with their 14th full-length album Innocence Reaches on August 12, and have offered up first taste ‘It’s Different For Girls’. This synthy pop number seems perfect for the sunny day outside our window, so…