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.

#28 Olly Knights – Bitten By The Frost

We loved Olly’s contribution to our For Folk’s Sake Christmas album last year, but a great song is for life, not just for the festive period. So now that ‘Bitten By The Frost’ – which also features on Olly’s album…

#27 Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie

Battery Kinzie Fleet Foxes

With a voice and an outlook older than the universe, Robin Pecknold has somehow managed to adopt a Benjamin-Button approach to ageing. He’s turning 27 today, according to official records, but we can be pretty certain this is nonsense. He’s…

#26 Rosie Sleightholme – Spring Interlude

Spring Interlude by Rosie Sleightholme Whisper it, because just when you think it’s all over, it starts snowing again, but at least officially, spring is here. To celebrate that fact (in, you know, hushed tones) here’s ‘Spring Interlude’ from Rosie…

#25 The Dwells – Queensbury Shuffle

From Boston, Massachusetts comes this lovely slice of Americana from the Dwells, who are readying their new album Don’t Ever Leave Me Like You Do. We’d never thought of Boston as a hot bed of country themes until the Young…

#24 Chloe Foy – In The Middle of the Night

Chloe Foy’s second single does a neat job of showing off her strengths inside the space of three minutes. It begins with a simple sound, basic guitar topped with the occasional keys and horns, but with plenty of space for…

#23 Musical Charis – Sunlight Stalker

‘Sunlight Stalker’ is the closing track to Musical Charis’ most recent record Fool’$ Gold, and the band have now produced a suitably bright and bouncy video to show it off. Our review of the Sacramento group’s album described this as…

#22 The Leisure Society – Fight For Everyone

FFS favourites The Leisure Society release the first track from third album Alone Aboard the Ark today. Nick Hemming wrote ‘Fight for Everyone’ after getting into watching the Olympics this year. It’s a bit of a departure from the Leisure…

#21 Linnea Olsson – Giddy Up

It’s hard to find artists doing something truly original these days, so Linnea Olsson is a breath of fresh air. Armed with only her cello, loop pedal and unaffected vocal, she weaves dramatic, tender tales of love, guilt and the…

#20 The White Album – Season’s End

Danish band The White Album describe themselves as ‘Three danish men with big hearts, big beards and big bellies playing alternative folk music with a hint of Nordic melancholy’. We say they’re a Danish Bon Iver with songs to make…

#19 Leanne Harte – Restless Sleepers

Leanne Harte, singer songwriter

Leanne Harte – Live @ Tamp & Stitch from Bob Gallagher on Vimeo. Dublin-based Leanne Harte already has a list of accolades as long as her rather capable arms, but for some reason her music hasn’t had the best of…