I’ve been listening to this obsessively since I stumbled across it. The record is from Nashville-via-Wisconsin band Foreign Fields, formerly known as Flights. Eric Hillman and Brian Holl are the brains behind Foreign Fields. They describe their music as electronic folk and their first album Anywhere But Where I Am is available now. It’s...
Here is everything we know about I Am Oak: - The band is based around a songwriter called Thijs Kuijken - He is from Utrecht in the Netherlands - Their website is here: iamoak.com - You can listen to their albums On Claws and Oasem (promounced “awesome”) as well as a 7″ released earlier this...
With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by it all, so – without wishing to give away our entire shopping lists –...
More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly sourced, decent quality Fairtrade coffee over the dirt cheap instant guff. ‘Responsibly fished’ tuna...
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity or a little dyed in the wool historical heft, search no more. Spillers, which...
We’re happy to report there is more new music from some of our favourite New Bands Panel alums as Tiny Birds and Jonah Maddox bring us new releases. Tiny Birds are offering their new double AA side Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger/Jeff Goldblum as a free download from their bandcamp...
We love pancakes almost as much as music. And that’s a lot. Luckily The Leisure Society, who we love almost as much as music and pancakes, have written a song about it, thereby legitimising this post. We knew they were goodies. Listen here: Team FFS’s recommended pancake toppings: Lynn (editor): “Blueberries, strawberries, banana and maple...
First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLK FANS! I hope you’re reading this full up and content. Secondly, I’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has contributed to, bought and supported For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011. It’s been brilliant. We’re so stoked to have so many of our favourite bands...
Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a chance to clear out our inboxes at FFS and stumbled upon several exciting sounds...
Hello, the internet! And a very Happy Halloween to you. I hope you haven’t been coercered into watchingn – then subsequently jolly freaked out by – a very scary film, like us here at FFS HQ.* On this, the spookiest of days, some of our favourite musicans have taken it upon themselves to help...
#107 Lowland Hum - War is Over Jun 18th, 2013
#106 Nick Mulvey - Fever To The Form Jun 17th, 2013
#105 The Graphite Set - In Your Eyes Jun 16th, 2013
