Vocal Harmony Music for Film and Ads

These are harmony-led songs with full acoustic backing, not a cappella pieces. Every track features a lead vocal and layered harmonies, but acoustic guitar appears throughout, joined by electric guitar, light percussion, mallets and claps and stomps. If you need unaccompanied choir or pure a cappella beds, this collection is not the right fit; if you want the stacked-voice sound of contemporary folk duos and bands, it is.

None of them are; every track carries a vocal. That is the point of the selection, which gathers songs where singing in harmony is the featured element, from Grow and Twine's Head Games and Give You Me to St. Paul de Vence's Telling Me So and Planes on Paper's The Ruins. If your edit needs music without lyrics, search the wider catalog by instrument rather than starting here.

Lyric-driven tracks compete with spoken words, so use these songs where the vocal can lead: opening titles, montages, transitions and end cards rather than under continuous voiceover. Tracks average about three and a half minutes, which gives room to find an intro or bridge for a talking section and let the harmonies swell once the dialogue drops out. Duck the level rather than cutting the track when a line of narration must come through.

Expect warm contemporary folk, alt-country Americana and singer-songwriter arrangements built on acoustic guitar with stacked voices in the manner of The Civil Wars, Fleet Foxes and Simon and Garfunkel, with Ryan Adams, Lord Huron and Beach House also cited as reference points. Moods lean happy and romantic, with a few dramatic and quirky turns, which is why the songs are tagged for couples, romance, home and country-life themes. Artists include Grow and Twine, St. Paul de Vence, The Banner Days, Torches, Pen Pals, Jetty Rae and Sheron.

These vocal tracks can be used in a client ad or branded video: every track is cleared for commercial use under the license you purchase, including client work, paid advertising, film, podcasts and social content. Commercial plans come in Small Business and Large Business tiers for agency and brand work, and once a license is issued for a finished spot it is perpetual for that piece, so the ad can keep running after your subscription ends. Billing is monthly or annual.