Irish singer Maria Kelly has announced a new single and a string of live dates in London and Ireland in early June. ‘Black & Blue’ is a bright and breezy number musically but the lyrics tell a story of vulnerability…
#611 Maria Kelly – Black & Blue
Category: Song of the Day
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#610 The Silver Lake Chorus – From The Snow Tipped Hills
From out of Los Angeles come the Silver Lake Chorus – a group of 20 singers who originally got together back in 2010 covering “everthing from Radiohead to Rihanna”. When Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee heard them perform he had an…
#609 Steve Gunn – Ancient Jules
We here at FFS were big fans of Steve Gunn’s last couple of releases, 2014’s Way Out Weather and last year’s Seasonal Hire, and the early signs – just hit play on ‘Ancient Jules’ above – suggest the upcoming Eyes…
#608 William Tyler – Sunken Garden
Nashville-based guitarist William Tyler will return next month with Modern Country, and it finds him making a significant shift in gears from 2013’s Impossible Truth. While that first collection veered between towering epics and more pastoral folk tunes, Modern Country…
#607 Margaret Glaspy – Emotion and Math
Raw and ready, Margaret Glaspy’s ‘Emotions and Math’ is an unexpected earworm. Its slacker vibe loosely masks an seriously well-honed sound which Glaspy has been developing for several years since relocating to the east coast of the US from her…
#606 Okkervil River – Okkervil River RIP
Don’t panic. ‘Okkervil River RIP’ is not a signal that Will Sheff’s flat-out brilliant project is over. ‘Okkervil River RIP’ is instead the first track taken from forthcoming album Away, due September 9, and a sign they are very much…
#605 Friends and Family – Wyoming
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N4I_Jd1Mgg&w=560&h=315] Athens, GA based band Family in Friends are a hidden gem. Xoxo is the band’s second album and features some amazing tunes, including my personal favourite ‘Wyoming’. The song opens with a drum beat, shaker, and swelling guitar,…
#604 Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
Michael Kiwanuka blew a lot of us away with the accomplished beauty of his debut Home Again, so much so that it’s difficult to believe it was four years ago. But Kiwanuka has not rushed the follow-up, making sure that…
#603 Bob Dylan – Melancholy Mood
In the same week that Blonde on Blonde celebrates its 50th birthday, Bob Dylan is ready to release the latest record of his incredible career. Fallen Angels follows on from Shadows In the Night, and like its predecessor is made…
#602 Benjamin Clementine – I Won’t Complain
Usually I’m against the concept of special editions of albums coming out a few months after the original – a blatant push to get fans to fork out cash all over again for a couple of extra tracks. But if…