Song of the Day: The now Lisbon-based British singer-songwriter returns with an engagingly original song about a “tit-for-tat, under-your-breath half-argument of the kind that happens in public” joined by half of Wet Leg on back vocals and a fabulous video directed by Matt Harris-Freeth
Read moreSong of the Day: Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the highly original London singer-songwriter with a rich crunchy guitar soundscape, ticking beats and echoes of 90s alternative radio with lyrics on the theme of realising the preciousness of time
Read moreSong of the Day: Marta Del Grandi - The Best Sea
Song of the Day: Following last year’s exquisite album, Selva, the Italian singer-songwriter from Milan returns with a beautiful new single with a metaphor reflecting on themes of sisterhood and the evolution of close relationships
Read moreSong of the Day: LYR - Folk Song / Blossom: A CV (Blossomise EP)
Song of the Day: To mark a special project in conjunction with The National Trust, marking the first day of spring, and also World Poetry Day, two beautifully evocative tracks from a new EP by the trio of poet laureate Simon Armitage, with music from singer Richard Walters, and producer Patrick J Pearson
Read moreSong of the Day: Charm of Finches - Middle Of Your Mess
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
Read moreSong of the Day: King Hannah - Big Swimmer (with Sharon Van Etten)
Song of the Day: An immediately arresting, gorgeous indie Americana of poise and elegance by the Liverpool duo of singer Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, joined here by Sharon Van Etten on vocal harmonies, with the title track of their forthcoming album, out on City Slang
Read moreSong of the Day: Iron & Wine - All in Good Time (featuring Fiona Apple)
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
Read moreSong of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Old Ocean
Song of the Day: A fabulously oddball and inventive new aquatic-themed number by the experimental London vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who uses field recordings, human and non-human voices, with an upcoming new album Eye To The Ear
Read moreSong of the Day: youbet - Seeds of Evil
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
Read moreSong of the Day: Anastasia Coope - He Is On His Way Home, We Don't Live Together
Song of the Day: The opening track of the New York singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Darning Women has a beautiful spooky psychedelic folk quality with slinking piano and layered, echoey choral voices before electric guitar entry, expressing a mood of both hysteria and euphoria
Read moreSong of the Day: Ella Raphael - Tangled Love
Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”
Read moreSong of the Day: Maya Hawke - Missing Out
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, pointed folk with country inflections, about ambition and FOMO, by the singer, actress and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman heralding her forthcoming album, Chaos Angel, out on 31 May on Mom + Pop Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Mike Lindsay - Lie Down
Song of the Day: With beautifully crisp bass, beats, woodwind and lyrics, and the additional voice of Anna B. Savage this gorgeous single celebrating “the miraculous in the mundane” heralds the debut solo album of the multi-talented musician and Mercury Prize-winning producer
Read moreSong of the Day: Beth Gibbons - Floating On A Moment
Song of the Day: This hauntingly delicate, yet powerful single heralds the Portishead singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, building through gentle strings and her distinctively beautiful, fragile vocal style
Read moreSong of the Day: Briston Maroney - I Told You So
Song of the Day: Gorgeous, tender, emotive, car-drive themed folk-country by the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Knoxville, Tennessee, with a voice reminiscent of Elliott Smith
Read moreSong of the Day: Real Estate - Water Underground
Song of the Day: Beautiful, perfect simplicity of melody is deceptively hard to achieve, but it flows freely in this new track by the Brooklyn indie-folk band, heralding their forthcoming album, Daniel, out in February on Domino Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Dana Gavanski - How To Feel Uncomfortable
Song of the Day: Heralding her forthcoming next album, LATE SLAP, the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter releases a beautifully disarming, woozily alternative folk single with deliciously droll originality
Read moreSongs of the Day: Dorothy Carter - The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing / Celtic Medley
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
Read moreSong of the Day: Cerys Hafana - The Wife of Usher's Well
Song of the Day: Beautiful, vivid dark ballad folk mixing the traditional and new by the Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist from Machynlleth whose instruments include the triple harp
Read moreSong of the Day: Ugly - Hands of Man
Song of the Day: Rich vocal harmonies, interweaving acoustic instruments and a dynamic structure building to a powerful crescendo come in this mesmeric new single from the Cambridge-formed band
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