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.

#38 Eels – It’s a Motherfucker

the eels, daisies of the galaxy, it's a motherfucker

Today is the birthday of one of the most melancholy, beautifully-spirited men in the history of the world to date. Singing Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett a merry ditty to celebrate the occasion would be profoundly inappropriate, so instead we’ll…

#37 Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding

Costello’s angry, sad and thoughtful reaction to the Falklands War is simply one of the best songs ever composed. Originally written in 1982 for Robert Wyatt, whose politics and guileless vocals offered rawness and authenticity, it is in Costello’s own…

#36 Flutes – Kilburn

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, and yet we do it anyway. If you were coming into this blind, you might imagine a band named Flutes, singing a song named ‘Kilburn’, might be a group…

#35 The Green Apple Sea – Please Slow Down

The Green Apple Sea – Please Slow Down from medienjargon on Vimeo. Albums from Nurnberg’s The Green Apple Sea never arrive in a hurry – 10 years separated 2000’s debut All Over The Place and LP number three, 2010’s Northern…

#34 The Deep Red Sky – Zombies (Things Don’t Stay The Same)

Zombies (Things Don't Stay The Same) by The Deep Red Sky Drinking whatever is in the same Scottish waters that produced the likes of Frightened Rabbit, the Twilight Sad and Admiral Fallow comes five-piece the Deep Red Sky. Their debut…

#33 Luke Winslow-King – You Don’t Know Better Than Me

From out of the great musical cauldron that is New Orleans comes the fine new sound of Luke Winslow-King, a Michigan native who has been feeding on the Big Easy’s cultural gumbo for the last 12 years and is about…

#32 Mara Carlyle – I do – do not

mara carlyle befalling cover

Mara Carlyle’s latest recording, Befalling, sees her sing a selection of delicate wee songs (some of which are scorchingly brief) by composer Emily Hall, with lyrics from novelist Toby Litt. Delicious, classical (and, by implication, really rather classy), the mini album…

#31 Nancy Elizabeth – Heart

One of Nancy Elizabeth’s many talents is to create startlingly different tracks from familiar sounds. Her latest track ‘Heart’, from her upcoming third album Dancing, does exactly that: it is instantly recognisable as Nancy and yet sounds like nothing she’s…

#30 Kirsty McGee – Sandman

Kirsty McGee’s sultry ‘Sandman’ dates back to 2008 and its appearance on The Kansas Sessions, but its getting a new lease of life and a new release to mark its appearance in Danny Boyle’s new film Trance. But the truth…

#29 Horse Thief – I Am The Bear

“Our music is about more than just the songs we play,” says Horse Thief’s frontman Cameron Neal, “It’s about losing yourself in the sound and creating an experience that sticks with you long after the show is over.” Yeah, they…